Why do people like Condi?

[TheFarseer]

She was one of the top candidates in a poll on popularity among potential 2008 candidates. What's up with this?

[TAPat]

1. 2008 candidates going straight hell?

What poll? Linky? :)

[TheFarseer]

5. here you go. this is certainly not the first time

I've seen something like this. She's consistently high in things like this.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/28/likability.poll.reut/index.html

[Island Blue]

17. That poll was obviously taken

in the men's room at a GOP fundraiser in NYC. How else can the results be explained?

[saigon68]

9. Because she has a Nice Smile LIKE THIS

[unhappycamper]

31. She's such a sweetie

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. ...they didn't ask me. Can't stand her.

[twilight_sailing]

3. Mabye it's her straightforward honesty. ;)

Maybe it's those tall black boots. ;)

Maybe they like the way she looks straight at the camera and lies like a trooper.



Beats me.

[evilgenius602]

4. because she's a stupid person's idea of a clever person

[Ron Green]

7. Bingo! Welcome.

[warrens]

11. Yeah, an expert on a country that no longer exists

She was just a professional student with good connections. As anyone who has tasted grad school knows, it's a game that any idiot can play.

[EFerrari]

22. As a former professional student, I take exception to your

taking exception to professional students.

[Imagevision]

35. Rice is a female ken Mehlman, nothing but smile with little content!!

[EFerrari]

38. Mehlman without the credibility!

:rofl:

[spillthebeans]

52. She's lesbian? nt

[Demeter]

18. Good One! nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. Love your sig line! I totally concur.

[Jacobin]

49. After having read all the responses in this thread

Yours is the only one that makes any sense.

[Redbear]

6. People who do not know about her role in WMD lies etc.

Think she is smart, principled, and nice.

No way she could ever run given the things she has been involved in. In 2008, she will join a think tank or back to academia.

[orpupilofnature57]

8. Who the hell took that poll ? Kkkarl generated I'll bet.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. Don't you know?

BDSM is the new substitute for happiness.

[ecstatic]

12. Well one explanation might be that people don't want to seem racist

That's what a strategist said when talking about the high popularity numbers of Harold Ford in TN versus the poll numbers a day or two before the election. I don't know.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

15. exactly. and anti-sexism. Just like the NY press refused to attack

Hillary, even on issues that needed flushing out, the national media refuses to even consider that she is an absolute failure and a walking disaster area for America

[ecstatic]

25. oh come on... Hillary is not that bad!! nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

27. LOL. I meant C O N D I ! really!

jeez. I needed a laugh. thanks.

[Forrest Greene]

21. Now That's

...never been a problem in this country before!

[TheFarseer]

24. That would be my guess as well

People THINK they are SUPPOSED to say they like her.

[WI_DEM]

13. people don't really know her, but the media slobbers over her and

that is where most people get their opinions.

[valerief]

14. Tainted poll. No one likes her. nt

[Cleita]

16. If there is a goddess and if the rumors about Bush being Condi's,

uh husban....., please let there be video out there to catch them flagrante delicto. It would be a miracle.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

19. ??? She disappears for lengths of time(doing lord knows what )and now she is

America's wonder woman according to the MSM. :puke:

[dogday]

20. They like her choice of shoes nt

[NewYorkerfromMass]

23. because they believed planes could not be crashed

into buildings as weapons, and never believed it was possible.
She was the greastest national security director ever!

[madrchsod]

26. cause she`s so pretty

[John Gauger]

28. How come every four years they give us

a list of horrible candidates to vote for? Why does the corporate media decide who we can choose from? Why don't we get to decide who is on the list of candidates on these polls?

[cwydro]

29. I don't. /eom

[chelsea0011]

30. Because like Laura(with her high ratings) she has not ever had

to face the music with an election. Few really pay her much mind. You get away from here and the public has blinders on. I bet half the country doesn't even know who she is. How many people in this country do you think can name the Secretary of State? I would be surprised if 25% can. And never mind asking the same public what she did before the war, daddy. The public answer would be less than 1% that they have any idea. It's like Laura Bush. How the fu%k can she have approval ratings of 70%. WTF has she ever done? NOTHING! The public could care less about her. Condi, also. Sad but true.

[Imagevision]

32. The majority of the people do not "like" Rice!! - she's a failed NSA director

[sniffa]

33. because she reminds them of..

the adorabLe spongmonkey

[Parche]

34. condo

Because all she wants for Christmas is her 2front teeth..........

[calimary]

36. Beats the hell outta me.

She was one of those who screeched - "We've GOT to have a war!!!"

When she speaks, she sounds like she's being goosed from behind, or driving over a washboard or something. Or maybe just a plain ol' Nervous Nellie.

She'd be 199th on my list of 50.

[vote 4 democracy]

37. By the time '08 comes around

Her crimes & lies will be common knowledge because we're finally investigating. By then, nobody will want any variation of the neocons.

[newyawker99]

46. Hi vote 4 democracy!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Imagevision]

39. Correction: Rice was voted most powerful , Hillary was voted most popular for 2008 election

[xchrom]

41. she's the ultimate conformist.

[Berry Cool]

42. A lot of people who don't know much about her just look at her and see

an African American woman of high achievement. Not just African Americans, either, and not just women. People of both sexes, regardless of skin color, point to her as some kind of role model.

They don't trouble themselves to think about anything she's actually DONE, or the consequences thereof.

[xchrom]

45. in a weird way -- she is the perfect representation of

the incompetence that has accompanied this admin from day one.

and yes you're right about her -- people aren't thinking about her and her actual achievments.

and again you exemplify an endemic problem with the citizenry who appeciate the visual approximation of their ideal -- and not the real deal.

[Left Is Write]

43. I can't imagine. She has always grated on my nerves.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

44. Well, here's what I noticed when I watched the 2000 Republican convention

After Condi gave her speech, two nouveau riche matrons were interviewed and asked their opinion of her speech. "Oh, we just love Condoleezza Rice," they gushed. "She's so well-dressed and articulate."

In other words, she's the opposite of their stereotype of an African-American woman (i.e. slovenly and unable to speak standard English), so she confirms their notion that there's obviously something seriously wrong with what they think of as the average black woman.

Besides, she's a black Republican, and therefore a rare bird.

[Marie26]

47. People need to like someone, I guess.

And she's probably the least disgusting & evil-looking member of this Administration. Which isn't saying much. Consider the competition here.

[Ilsa]

48. Because she's the President's "wife". (Well,

since she considers him her husband, anyway.)

[Orsino]

50. Because they've never met her. n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

51. Because She Makes White Conservatives Feel Better About Themselves

eom

[The Count]

53. That poll is Abramoff's patent of push poll. We're told who we like.

Are you going to buy it???? Do you like Giuliani? Joementum? McCain?