SPECULATION about Condoleezza Rice as a possible vice presidential choice for the GOP ticket in 2004 has reached the proverbial tipping point. Everyone’s talking about it, from Eleanor Clift on the left, to the good folks at National Review Online on the right, to Andrew Sullivan on the . . . well, wherever he is (the gay-Tory-Catholic center-right?). The Weekly Standard’s own William Kristol has mentioned Bush-Rice 2004 as a serious possibility in several recent TV appearances, and lately the blogger realm has analyzed it in its own endlessly self-referential fashion.
It’s easy to see why the idea is so appealing. A Bush-Rice ticket in 2004 is the Democrats’ worst nightmare. And what Republican isn’t tantalized by the possibility of being the first party to elect a woman and a minority vice president (and possibly president)?
