Decision 2008 or Lack Thereof

Hillary's Plantation
Hillary Clinton reveals her fear of Condi Rice.

Of course Hillary Clinton's recent claim that Republicans run the House of Representatives like a "plantation" was old-fashioned political and racial pandering. After all, she uttered this remark at what certainly would have been a prime venue for her husband: a largely black audience on Martin Luther King Day. So, clearly, she was looking to connect with this most loyal Democratic constituency. But Mrs. Clinton is possessed of a tin ear precisely where her husband is all deftness and charm. Black audiences are beyond her. The room of black faces that brings her husband alive, freezes her in overbearing rectitude.

On an emotional level, many blacks will hear Hillary's remark as follows: "I say Republicans run the House like a plantation because I am speaking to Negroes--the wretched of the earth, a slave people--who will surely know all about plantations." Is this a tin ear or a Freudian slip, blacks will wonder? Does she really see us as she projects us--as a people so backward that our support can be won with a simple plantation reference, and the implication that Republicans are racist? Quite possibly so, since no apology has been forthcoming.

Go over to the WSJ and read it all here

  More interesting 2008 stuff here from the superior Right wing News

Right Wing News emailed more than 230 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send  a ranked list 1-5 of the candidates that they would most like to take the Republican nomination for President in 2008 and the 1-5 candidates they'd least like to see as the Republican nominee in 2008. Representatives from the following 58 blogs responded...

Aaron's CC, Absinthe & Cookies, The American Mind, The Anchoress, AtlanticBlog,
Atlas Shrugs, Backcountry Conservative, La Shawn Barber, The Baseball Crank, Betsy's Page, BlameBush!, Boi From Troy, Byrd Droppings, Commonwealth Conservative, DANEgerus Weblog, Dodgeblogium, Dr. Sanity, Eckernet, Euphoric Reality, Gateway Pundit, GayPatriot, Generation Why?, GOP Vixen, Guardian Watchblog, Hog Haven, The House of Wheels, Hud's Blog-O-Rama, Inside Larry's Head, Iowa Voice, The Jawa Report, ~Jewels~of~the~Jungle~, Jihad Watch, JunkYardBlog, The Key Monk, Knowledge Is Power, Multiple Mentality, My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Newmark's Door, A North American Patriot, The Nose On Your Face, The Patriette, The Patriot Blog!, Peaktalk, Damian Penny, The Pink Flamingo Bar & Grill, QandO, Red-State, Right Side Redux, Right Wing News, Isaac Schrödinger, Sister Toldjah, Slobokan's Site Of Schtuff, Solomonia, Stop The ACLU, Suitably Flip, Toys in the Attic, WILLisms, Wuzzadem

Most Desired Nominee For 2008

15) George Pataki (5.5)
15) Mike Huckabee (5.5)
15) Sam Brownback (5.5)
14) Bill Frist (6.0)
13) Bob Ehrlich (7.5)
11) Tim Pawlenty (10.5)
11) Haley Barbour (10.5)
10) John McCain (13.0)
9) Mark Sanford (13.5)
8) Jeb Bush (19.0)
7) Tom Tancredo (19.5)
6) Mitt Romney (24.5)
5) Dick Cheney (26.0)
4) Newt Gingrich (32.0)
3) George Allen (42.0)
2) Rudy Giuliani (58.0)
1) Condoleeza Rice (65.5)

Least Desired Nominee For 2008

14) Rick Santorum (6.5)
12) Tom Tancredo (7.5)
12) Tom DeLay (7.5)
11) Condoleeza Rice (8.5)
10) Tom Ridge (15.0)
9) Newt Gingrich (15.5)
8) Mitt Romney (16.5)
7) Rudy Giuliani (17.0)
6) Dick Cheney (20.5)
5) Jeb Bush (22.0)
4) George Pataki (33.0)
3) Bill Frist (43.5)
2) Chuck Hagel (55.5)
1) John McCain (74.5)

Also see:

Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The Most & Least Desired 2008 Republican Nominee (2005 edition)

Can't even imagine Pataki being in th mix. He' s a pinhead. I live in New York and Pataki could never outfox  Sheldon Silver. And while I admit Silver is the quintessential corrupt evil fixer, it is safe to assume the demons one faces in the White House are Silver exponentially and too numerous to count.

My picks?

1) Dick Cheney

2) Rudy Guiliani

3) Condi Rice

4) Newt Gingrich

5) Jeb Bush

UPDATE: Thanks Mark, got it.  Iread the results in descending order. Feeling better

Comments

[Mark G]

I think you got it backwards. Condi Rice, not Pataki, is the winner. Your top 5 are in this poll's top 8. The gratifying thing to me is that those polled share my dislike for McCain.

[CHRIS DICKSON]

I'm sorry, but the most important name is not on your list: Mike Pence !!!

[nikkolai]

I gotta lean with some combination of Condi/Rudy/McCain. We need to field our very best team.

[Captain Kirk]

Although I personally like both Guiliani and Gingrich, you can forget about any future jobs for them other than Fox commentators.
You see, both of them had the misfortune to be dating other women before they were a) legally divorced, or: b}their wives were dead.
You say it may not matter in either NYC or
the Left Coast, but..........here in the heartland forget it. Case in point, my mother & my aunt--life-long Republicans voted for Salazar because....they just found those Coors Twins commercials so offensive!
Yep, that's my wind guage. All those focus groups don't add up to a hill of beans compared to downright reality.

[nikkisma17]

Run Condi Run! Hey McCain...what side are you on anyway?

[Expat Swede]

We need a conservative who IS a conservative and not just TALKS like a conservative. As much as Cheney is a great guy and more than capable vice president, he is not a convincing conservative on domestic issues. This current administration has opened more than one door for big government, and quite frankly it will take 15-20 years to close them.

Gingrich has a track record in this sense and has done good things on health policy. But he has also praised Hillary as a smart health policy thinker. That scares me. Giuliani is a mini-Cheney. Make him secretary of homeland security instead. I don't think Condoleezza Rice knows what leg to stand on in domestic issues, but she could make a great #2 pick on the ticket.

Pataki is just a pork fed rino.

Of those mentioned here I am leaning toward George Allen. But if you really want someone who can slam the brakes on government, pick the Arizona congressman Jeff Flake. You might also want to take a look at our rep from upstate NY, John Sweeney, although when if you want someone from NY, Peter King is definitely a keeper. He actually represents the CONSERVATIVE party.

Mark Holzman, president of University of Denver and aspiring gubernatorial candidate in Colorado, is a conservative comer. Keep that name in mind.

[neverforget]

Are you aware George Allen backstabbed President Bush by saying if he was president he would have met (again) with Cindi Sheehan, discounting all of her anti-American, anti-Israel, and pro-terrorist comments as being just a manifestation of her "grief?" No, thank you. He is a lightweight.

[Expat Swede]

No, I had not heard that about Allen. It certainly deserves attention. My interest in him as a candidate is from a fiscal standpoint, but I have in no way made up my mind. Again, I think the list of names provided in the blog was too narrow and focused on the names that are being tossed around in media. Holzman, e.g., is a really interesting candidate. He worked for Reagan even before he was out of college. He may need some executive experience, but in 2012...

The main problem with GOP today is that there are too many McCain-ish types at the top who lean toward the aisle rather than their values. This has repercussions downward. An example: There is an open House seat in the 7th district in Colorado. The incumbent governor wants one of his cronies on that seat, a real rino who would tax his neighbor through the roof if the party asked him to do it. Mark Paschall, comptroller in Jefferson County, wanted to run on a truely conservative platform. Paschall had endorsement from a ton of conservative groups with a solid base in traditional American values. The Washington GOP leadership declared that they would consider the seat lost if Paschall won the primary, and thereby effectively let the Democrats grab it.

This is just one of many stories of the same kind. There ARE good conservatives in the party, but they are being suppressed by tax-and-spend happy "moderates" inside the Beltway.

[neverforget]

"The main problem with GOP today is that there are too many McCain-ish types at the top who lean toward the aisle rather than their values."

Well said, and I agree, although I'm not sure they have values.

Senator Jon Kyl from my state of Arizona is someone I could definitely support.

[Iceman 1955]

Thank goodness that people have realized what a horrible candidate the "fence sitter" John McCain would be. I also think that Newt would be a terrible choice. Too much baggage, all talk and no action. He is not a closer.
I have always felt that the first woman to be either President or Vice President would be a conservative minority woman, not a rich white liberal woman. Condi in '08!!