The ultimate trump card

With all the hoopla surrounding the impending Democratic presidential nominee of either a black man or a woman, adding a black woman on the bottom-half of the Republican ticket certainly would diminish the demographic implications of the Dems minority header. On comes Condoleeza Rice.

On Sunday, Dan Senor, a Republican strategist and former spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority that governed Iraq after the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion, said Rice was courting conservatives for the job.

"Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for this," Senor told ABC's "This Week" program.

Rice fueled speculation when she attended a meeting at the end of March with conservatives from an anti-tax lobbying group run by conservative activist Grover Norquist.

The first obvious attack against her is going to be the ad hominem, Aunt Thomasina approach, which probably won't work. However, her close ties to the Bush Administration certainly won't help in a general election.

I don't see this happening, because, frankly, when it comes to domestic issues, she has been essentially out of the loop the past few years. Her perceived strength is foreign policy, which also happens to be John McCain's. While Rice might be tempting, I just don't see her as a good match for McCain.