Condoleezza Rice leads potential 2016 U.S. Senate hopefuls in California

[Roland99]

Source: Reuters

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice polled at the head of a crowded pool of potential candidates to succeed long-time Senator Barbara Boxer, according to a Field Poll released on Wednesday.

The poll showed that when likely California voters were asked whether they would vote for or against 18 prominent possible candidates in 2016, 49 percent of likely California voters said they would be inclined to support Rice, a Republican.

Rice's support was significantly stronger among likely Republican voters, with almost three-quarters saying they would back her. The next closest Republican candidate, former State Senator Phil Wyman, saw only 51 percent support from Republicans.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who is a Democrat and the only person listed in the poll who has formally announced they are running, saw the most support of any Democrat, with about three-quarters of likely voters in her party saying they would back her.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/18/us-usa-politics-california-candidates-idUSKBN0LM1AT20150218

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Best campaign ad against her are her own words to the 9/11 Commission (to whom she also lied through her fugly gap-toothed face) when the families of 9/11 victims gasped in horror when she read the title of that infamous PDB.

Can't believe this lying POS is being considered for the halls of the Senate instead of being thrown before the mercy of The Hague.

[libodem]

1. Barking at the ants

[billhicks76]

38. Disgusting 911 War Criminal

She knew and was part of a conspiracy to let it happen. She deserves to be punished.

[billhicks76]

39. And I Blame Spineless Democrats

Who are more concerned with appearances and image than the truth for allowing her and her gang of imbeciles to scare us into letting them walk free. Pathetic really. The crime of the century and we were more concerned with looking kooky than pursuing justice.

[Xipe Totec]

2. High Lies

(With apologies to John Gillespie Magee)

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of truth,
And cast my lies from crimson-lipsticked lips;
Onward I've lied, and weaved a rambling myth
Of grateful crowds ...and claimed a hundred things
You have not swallowed...weaved, demurred and spun
Fading into sullen silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting media along, and flung
My eager crap through endless streams of wind.
Up, up, the false, delirious flaming lies
I've topped the biggest ones with easy grace
When neither Rove, nor even Cheney could.
And while with soiled, uplifted heels I've trod
The pure untrespassed sanctity of truth...
...put out my hand, and poked the eye of God.

Oldie but goodie

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=412012&mesg_id=412036

[onecaliberal]

3. I don't buy this poll at all.

Maybe Orange and silicon loves them some war criminals but not the rest of us.

[n2doc]

4. Name recognition and a lot of fluffing

If she does run, expect a lot of voters to be brought up to speed on the war criminal.

[joshdawg]

5. kindasleazy rice belongs in jail with cheney, bush, wolfowitz, rumfeld and all the other foreign

affairs advisors of jeb bush.......er, george bush.

[riversedge]

8. I believe jeb bush hired Wolfowitz as a foreign policy advisor just

this week--if memory serves me right. Actually--he hired lots of George's old staff.

[joshdawg]

26. yep, and that's why I did the "er" thing.

Like brother, like brother.
Gee, why am I not surprised.

[VanillaRhapsody]

6. "who could have predicted"

Use her own words against her...as it was HER job to predict!

[on point]

11. Worse yet, she either lied or admitted to not reading footnotes

About terrorism as member of NSC. That means she lied, or is incompetent, or cavalier. All disqualify her for any serious office, public or private. Lay on top her role in Iraq war crime, and her role in torture review and approvals and this lady needs to spend rest of her life in prison

[L0oniX]

7. WTF California?

[LeftyMom]

46. CA republicans are dysfunctional and usually broke.

Usually they run somebody with enough money to self-finance. This last term they ran somebody nobody'd heard of who didn't have any money, and come election he still had lower name recognition than First Corgi Sutter Brown.

I wouldn't worry about them actually running Condi- there's zero chance of winning and she doesn't seem all that interested in politics these days anyhow.

[fredamae]

9. What do they have to lose?

hahahahahahaha...

CA losing it's collective mind?

[paleotn]

10. Primarily on name recognition alone....

...as only 1 Dem has announced and if CA is like my state, few people have any idea who the state Attorney General is. Hope that's not whistling past the graveyard, but Rice does come with significant baggage. You know, 9/11 and that whole Iraq thing.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/open-government/news/2004/04/08/719/claim-vs-fact-rices-qa-testimony-before-the-911-commission/

Come on CA! It's unfortunate, but you have to offset some of the idiocy in much of the rest of the country. We're counting on you.

[Enrique]

17. exactly

I wonder how many people even know what position she held in the Bush administration, they just know she was on TV all the time.

[KingCharlemagne]

12. In a head-to-head matchup between Kamala Harris and Kinda-sleezy, Harris

will chew her up, spit her out and do to her what Jerry Brown did to Carly Fiorina. No way CA elects Conda-liar.

[frylock]

40. word up

[LibDemAlways]

13. CA pretty reliably send candidates with a "D" after

their name to the Senate. They must have taken that poll in the OC because overwhelming majorities of voters in LA and SF would never vote for Kinda Sleazy. We've got this.

[Renew Deal]

14. Would she run?

[abelenkpe]

15. I can't see Rice replacing Boxer here

but thousands of VFX workers and animators who mostly vote for democrats have recently left the state since our work has moved to places like Canada, the UK and New Zealand due to offshoring. Hopefully won't make a difference though.

[jwirr]

16. Please God, not another bushie.

[KansDem]

18. Say it ain't so!

I plan to retire to California in two or three years, and I sure as Hell wouldn't want Dr. "Smoking Gun Becomes Mushroom Cloud" to be a senator!

[Myrina]

19. Why don't these people ever fucking GO AWAY?

She's got her Presidency of Stanford or WTF-ever she wanted ... now stay there and leave the rest of us ALONE!

[FiveGoodMen]

23. We need to PUT them away

Their ambitions to take over the world -- not sarcasm or hyperbole, that's what they're after -- will not just die down on it's own.

[yeoman6987]

35. I think this is media driven

She never said she was interested in the Senate.

[NV Whino]

20. What the poll doesn't take into account is...

There are more registered Democrats than there are Republicans. 3/4 Democrats = more than 3/4 Republicans. Harris is enormously popular.

[demwing]

21. Here's more info on the poll:

http://www.field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2495.pdf

Respondents were read a list of 18 "candidates" (not all on the list have declared, or even expressed interest). The list included 11 Dems, and 7 Republicans. Respondents could give their preference on as many names as they wished.

Rice had the highest response, followed tightly by all 11 of the dems, who were then followed by all of the Republicans.

This was basically a question of "I'll read a list of names, who has the most well known name?"

The truth is that Rice has not shown any interest in running, and even if she did run, she would face overwhelming preference for ANY Democratic opponent.

[Mr.Bill]

22. Was this one of those polls where they phrase the question

something like this:

"Would you rather vote for Condoleeza Rice or stick hot needles into your eyes?"

[Roland99]

24. uh-PAR-ently!

[tabasco]

43. Close call

Hot hot would those needles be?

[Cal33]

25. If she should run, Democrats should keep on bringing up the point that Condoleezza Rice

is looked upon as a war criminal in Europe and other parts of the world.

In Malaysia, GW Bush & Co. have actually been tried in absentia as war criminals, and found guilty. If
she should go to Europe, she'd be arrested and sent to The Hague for trial. If she should go to Malaysia,
she'd probably be sent to prison.

http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/fraud/gw_bush_ghw_bush/news.php?q=1337443036

[SoapBox]

27. OMG...terrifying.

And I can see the Impotent Media falling all over itself to support her!

G...O...T...fucking...V!

[LibGranny]

28. What is wrong with these people? Sleazy Rice should be

in prison alongside her cohorts - Shrub, Cheney and Rummy!

[Rozlee]

29. I don't think she'll run.

The Republican establishment isn't gelling behind her. There isn't any movement of major cash donors knocking on her door. I may be proven wrong, I often am. But, I don't see any excitement in the establishment or formal organization starting to form around her. It's early days yet, but you'd think the needle would be moving regardless.

[olddots]

30. I think they toss this out with no intention of running her

then run someone slightly ( very slightly ) less repulsive.

The parasites do alot of this bait and switch before elections and now just about everyday now they own the 5 media outlets .

[denbot]

31. Not a fucking chance will she win in Cali

Utter bullshit!

[laserhaas]

32. What a crock. This is the babble we get as News, when RWNJ own stations

And Mitt won CA, MI, OH, VA and FL too...

I think that "news" report was in by noon - on election day.

[brooklynite]

33. People DON'T vote "for or against"...

...they vote FOR a candidate from among a series of choices.

[colorado_ufo]

34. I hope to heaven this is contrived for publicity.

I hate to think that anyone would be stupid enough to consider the mushroom-cloud-shoe-shopper for the Senate.

[Jack Rabbit]

36. California has come a long way since Republican misrule

We remember those dark days of Reagan, Deukmejian and Pete Wilson.

Having a war criminal representing us in the Senate would be a major setback.

[olegramps]

37. She is the epitome of what is wrong with our nation.

That lying bitch should be in prison. She and her henchmen are dripping in the blood of the innocent victims of their greed. I thought that it was sickening when she was admitted as a token female member of Augusta, but again it could be expected from the multimillionaire oligarchs who own the club to reward one of their most predominate supporters. But when I saw her playing in the AT&T pro-am in California, I knew that our sense of justice had hit rock bottom. When professional golfers, who are supposedly noted for their integrity, welcome her into their midst you realize that things have gone straight to hell in a hand basket. They didn't utter one word of protest, but again they have become just a pack of money grubbers just as have the rest of professional athletes. Yes, some throw a million or two into a charitable cause to get their names on plaques at glitzy formal dinners, but in reality they see it as an investment that will reap them millions in return.

[Arkana]

41. Yes, I'm sure her Bush administration ties in a reliably blue state

will be an asset to her in an election against an immensely popular state official in Kamala Harris.

[wheniwasincongress]

42. Is this really appropriate?

"her fugly gap-toothed face"

[Helen Borg]

44. Yeah, we need more of her!

[Politicalboi]

45. Without Kamala Harris

California wouldn't be so pot friendly. Rice will oppose ANY marijuana. That shit won't fly in Ca.