Condoleezaa Rice as a Presidential Candidate?

I'm putting together a timeline with a different 2000s, but was wondering if Condi Rice was ever a serious Presidential candidate? Or if she wasn't what could make her become one? And how would such a candidacy or Presidency play out?
 
She was talked about as a vp choice in 2008 but she was not interested.

If she had been interested in running for President, probably would have been hard to get the nomination as I believe she is pro-choice.
 
That's a shame, looks like without ASB she probably wouldn't run. She would have made an interesting candidate for sure.
 
I've seen I Like Rice campaign badges.
There doesn't seem to be a 'base' for Rice. She's a noted foreign policy expert but that is all she is known for: no domestic issues. She's never run for office nor spoken up on economic or social matters as far as I know. She is unmarried too which would be an attack line on her personal character in an election.
 
Perhaps she could run in 2016 if she keeps herself relevant between 2009 and 2015. You could have her get elected as a Congresswoman in the 2010 US House of Representatives Elections to give her an electoral career. Even then, she would suffer the same fate as Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, and Jeb Bush in the 2016 Republican Party Presidential Primaries, due in part to Trump's populism resounding with Working Caucasian voters and her association with the Bush Administration.
 
For the no domestic experience issue: she was probvost at Stanford, so that gives her a really, really good public finance background that most Presidential candidates lack. While this isn’t going to answer the question of domestic issues, she’d certainly be one of the most qualified Presidents ever from a public administration standpoint. It’s still the association with Iraq that will hurt her in an OTL candidacy.
 
Perhaps she could run in 2016 if she keeps herself relevant between 2009 and 2015. You could have her get elected as a Congresswoman in the 2010 US House of Representatives Elections to give her an electoral career. Even then, she would suffer the same fate as Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, and Jeb Bush in the 2016 Republican Party Presidential Primaries, due in part to Trump's populism resounding with Working Caucasian voters and her association with the Bush Administration.
I am among those who believe the seed of Trump Presidency was planted back in 2008 with the Great Recesion. And the non-PC outsider becoming the president due to frustations and disappointments of voters was when, not if. But let's save that for a chat.

For the no domestic experience issue: she was probvost at Stanford, so that gives her a really, really good public finance background that most Presidential candidates lack. While this isn’t going to answer the question of domestic issues, she’d certainly be one of the most qualified Presidents ever from a public administration standpoint. It’s still the association with Iraq that will hurt her in an OTL candidacy.
Could I say that the weight of domestic issue counted against international issue at two-to-one ratio? If true, that would be too much for Rice to overcome.
 
I am among those who believe the seed of Trump Presidency was planted back in 2008 with the Great Recesion. And the non-PC outsider becoming the president due to frustations and disappointments of voters was when, not if. But let's save that for a chat.


Could I say that the weight of domestic issue counted against international issue at two-to-one ratio? If true, that would be too much for Rice to overcome.

2008 was still pretty foreign policy heavy during the primaries, but I’d agree with your framing of the 2016 race. The other massive issue for her, especially in a crowded 2016 field is that she can’t exactly light a convention hall up with a hell of a speech.
 
Like Giuliani in 2008 (and like a hypothetical Powell candidacy in 1996) she'd have started off with a lead in the polls and then declined until a drop out after the early primaries.
 
I am among those who believe the seed of Trump Presidency was planted back in 2008 with the Great Recesion. And the non-PC outsider becoming the president due to frustations and disappointments of voters was when, not if. But let's save that for a chat.
I agree with that. Perhaps the same soil the seed was planted in became fertile in 2000. Although George W. Bush was part of the Republican establishment, he defeated McCain and Gore in part by arguing that both of them were D.C. insiders, while he ran from Austin.
 
1. I don't think she's ever had the ambition or desire to do it.
2. Change circumstances or background to lead her to have a pro-life position such that she's "moderately pro-life"

Those two are kind of essential to get her as a Republican POTUS candidate. I suspect you'd need a Bush loss in 2000 and her deciding to run for Congress in 2002. Then becoming a Senator several years later. At that point, a nationally prominent Condi Rice becomes a strong candidate in 2012 and possibly even 2008.

For reference, she's just 64 now, so there'd be lots of time to get her equipped as an electoral juggernaut, if that's where her ambitions took her.
 
She could define mildly pro-choice as "Safe, legal, and rare" perhaps and say that she hates abortion with a passion.


The issue is it doesn't look like she ever sought out the presidency. Cheney offered to step down for the reelection campaign, so perhaps Dubya asks her to be the running mate. Then when VP, she opts to go for the presidency.
 
In Bob Woodward's book "Fear", the famous Presidets's writer says that, after Trump sex tapes scandal, there was a plan to replace Trump himself with his running mate Mike Pence. In this scenario Condoleza Rice would be Pence's running mate. This could happen and then Pence could win instead Trump. A VP Condy will be very near to the Presidency.
 
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