WorldNetDaily: Condi to replace Cheney next year?

And how would this happen, you ask? The better question is "why." And the answer? The same reason why Dick Cheney was and is never expected to run for President to succeed Bush: his heart can't take it. Mr. Jack Wheeler passes on the already-flying rumors that Cheney will not last a year--and that Condoleeza Rice is the obvious choice to replace him as Vice-President.

Is the United States ready for a woman President? Yes, I know--no one is talking about Dr. Rice becoming President soon. But Dick Morris has made it abundantly clear in article after article that he wants Dr. Rice to stand for President in the next election--and that her likely opponent will be Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY). I fully agree with those who suggest that Dick Morris would like nothing better than to manage Dr. Rice's Presidential campaign--and pour contempt upon Hillary Clinton by defeating her after letting her and her husband use him for so many years during the Clinton Administration.

So the question remains: Are we ready to elect a woman President? If Dick Morris is at all correct, we might not have a choice, because the two major parties will each nominate a woman. And Condi Rice is not only female, but black, too. Except for one thing: to a liberal, she might as well not be black (again quoting Jack Wheeler) because she didn't get where she is today by playing the race or gender cards. Those two jokers aren't even in her deck, as far as I can see.

So let's face the issue squarely. This country has been talking about whether a woman could be President practically since women won the vote in 1920. In the middle of the last century, not even all prominent women wanted to see a woman attain that office. I quote Nathaniel Branden on Ayn Rand's opinion on the subject:

This may sound like a trivial example of what I mean, but it's an example that has always annoyed me personally. I would love to hear some loyal follower of Ayn Rand try to argue logically and rationally for her belief that no woman should aspire to be president of the United States. This was one of Rand's more embarrassing lapses.

Rand's reason for that position was that for her all politics was sexual because all anything was sexual--and her notion of male/female relations precluded having a woman in what would be the Most Powerful Job in the World. What she would think, furthermore, of a candidate who has never been married--and one who, therefore, would instantly become the Top Catch of the World--I can scarcely imagine.

On the other hand, if you ask any prominent liberal feminist today, who spoke so eloquently of their desire to elect a woman President, not one of them would have Condi Rice in mind. Because not only did she rise to her positions strictly on the merits of her mind--something Ayn Rand might have appreciated if not for her obsession with the politics of sex, or the sexualization of politics--but worse than that, Rice has a reputation as a social conservative and a deep religious believer--a reputation that appears to be rock-solid. (Interestingly, she says that the destruction of the World Trade Center reminded her of a church bombing in Birmingham, AL, that killed one of her classmates--a blast that shook the ground whereon she was standing at the time. And that she identified the Muslims as no better than those who planted that church bomb, and did not identify them as any friends of hers. That's probably--I say that with eighty-percent confidence--what liberal black leaders resent most of all.)

If, therefore, Dick Cheney resigns his office and lets Condi Rice replace him, that would be the first step toward getting her the nomination in 2008. And then, perhaps, we shall see whether Dick Morris is really serious.