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Ooh, touchy. You hand-waved her mediocre record as SoS away as being mostly irrelevant, so I took the liberty of pointing out that she has in fact played another role in shaping foreign policy during the GWB years. I mean, we were talking about her record in government, right?
I was talking about how most Sec of States actually are PR people as much as anything. This goes for both sides and has for years. That is the role a Sec of State plays in todays game. I certainly am not supporting her, but the point period and the original topic was: what % of the black vote would she have gotten? It is really a moot point at this time, she didn't run and she has no intentions of running. She basically doesn't like politics. No, I am not touchy. I just don't like it when anyone, either side spins postings or tries to play with what someone says, by claiming that person said something they did not. There are posters here that do this all the time. You did it when you insinuated I supporter her or suggested she was a good sec...Am I wrong about that?
I think that the GOP should have gotten her to run. At minimum, they should have gotten Romney to choose her as VP just to get her feet wet on the whole POTUS election stuff.
The problem is the GOP primaries. The GOP candidate with the best shot at winning the 2012 election was Jon Huntsman and the party more or less completely ignored him. I think the same thing happens to Condi if she ever runs.
First of all, you could be right about Huntsman, but he didn't have the appeal the GOP was looking for and that has to be considered...secondly, what everyone is forgetting: Condi has said, more than once, she doesn't even like politics. You can't force someone to do something they do not want to do. She wouldn't have considered VP either, I don't think. Would she have done better in the primaries than Huntsman? Of course she would have, if nothing else, she had name recognition. He did not. It is awfully hard to win primaries without that.
Which means she would've won the election right, if all the other voting stayed the same?
You assuming that the percentage of White-American, Asian-American, or Hispanic-Americans voters would have remained the same. Thats' not a valid assumption, especially when discussing issues like immigration, same-sex marriage, abortion, and foreign policy.
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