Dick Cheney must go.

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Agreed.  The Dems have done an excellent hatchet job on Cheney.  He's now a drag.  If Bush picked Condi Rice this election would be over.  Bush seems to not want to take the easy path.  He seems determined do things the hard way.  Why, I don't know.  Loyalty I guess.

What good is loyalty if you are going to spend the next 4 yrs in Crawford, Tx?

Rice would raise his percentage of the black vote from 6 to 10.  He'd raise his % of female votes by 3 or 4%.  That would be enough.

I don't get it.

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Don't get me wrong.  I like Cheney also. I think he's done a good job and I respect him.   However, my admiration for Cheney is overridden by two words - President Kerry.

Condi wins this thing for Bush.  I have no doubt.  The liberal media would have a very tough time attacking a black woman.  I don't even think they could pull that off without there being a backlash.

Alas, I think you are right.  It would have already been done by now.  Pitty.

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Good luck to the Dems trying to make that flimsy connection.  

Her credentials are impressive to say the least.  They wouldn't lay a glove on her.  She is Kerry's worst nightmare.

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Powell would be my first choice.  He just wouldn't do it.

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I don't dispute that.  However, we have to win this thing.  A Kerry presidency would be a disaster for this nation.

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In the end you may be right.  Certainly, the last VP to make a difference was LBJ in 1960.

However, this is close and I'm reluctant to take a chance.  With the liberal media providing a steady drumbeat of anti Cheney stories I'm worried.  It won't have any effect on your state or mine.  Ohio could be a different story and that would be the straw that breaks the camal's back in a close election.  I don't want to risk that.

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No doubt the media would spin it that way non stop.  A downside for sure.

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I wasn't aware of that poll.