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Republicans Consider A Token Nomination for Condi Rice
April 9th, 2008
So the talk of Condi Rice for vice president has revved back up lately.
The problem is, the primary reason why Republicans are mullion over someone one who’s never held elective office for the position is primarily because of her race and gender. Secretary Rice certainly has the intellectual acumen for the job, something her current boss after 7 years still doesn’t have; and the academic background; but being president isn’t an academic position.
Republican’s primary reason for looking at Rice is as a strategy to insulate themselves from a Black or Woman Democratic candidate
Do Blacks or Women want to be Tokens?
I know that as a Black man I’m not interested in being white folks political token; but that’s me. Condi is a republican, and Black republicans seem to relish being trotted out as tokens, so who knows.
Geraldine Ferraro admitted that she was nothing more than a token pick by Walter Mondale for vice president in 1984. Doesn’t seem very feminist to me to be some man’s token woman; but then Ferraro also claims she isn’t racist.
As far as I’m concerned they can have Negroes on both ends of the ticket, as long as they’re carrying this warmongering policy there’s no way I’m voting for a Republican unless Jesus Christ of Nazareth heads the ticket.
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I remember hearing her say that she had no interest in being President.
Somehow, I don’t see her doing it. Why would she bother? For her own sake, I hope she doesn’t do it.
she IS way smarter than maken, s i ask u who is the token
Yeah, that’s what she says, doesn’t mean its true, though. People say often that they’re not interested in an offer right up until the moment they except it.
If she wants to be back in the White House … she should run for President in 2012. She has the skill-set and she can use the 4 years in between to get some chops in areas like the economy.
I understand she plans to head back to Stanford University…
This issue was one of our topics today on NPR News & Notes…
peace, Villager
You’re right. Hillary said for a long time she was fine being Senator. Look what she is doing now…
Rawdawg, who’s smarter has nothing to do with the issue one way or the other.
McCain will be at the top of the ticket because he won the nomination contest. The republicans are considering promoting Rice for the bottom of the ticket, as I state; for insulation based on her race and gender. That’s the very definition of tokenism.
Does she pass the basic acceptability test for vp qualifications, sure. Is that why they want here to be their vp nominee; NOPE. Would they be discussing her if they didn’t want to use her gender and race for their own political benefit; NOPE. Selecting her for her gender and race is tokenism.
And even on the basic acceptability point, she’s only then crosses that threshold by unconventional means because a person who has never held elective office is almost never put on either end of the ticket in modern politics; only Ike that I can think of.