Me bad, I’m confusing the Chevron oil tanker, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
There are rumors that McCain may pick her as a Vice Presidential pick.
I find this unlikely for a number of reasons:
- She is much too closely tied to Bush. It’s clear that she has a sort of fawning adoration about him, and the VP nominee needs to be McCain’s man, not Bush’s
- Republicans won’t vote for a woman.
- Republicans won’t vote for a black woman.
- The are consistent rumors regarding her sexual orientation.
I do no know, nor do I care, whether Condoleezza Rice is a lesbian, but it appears that a number of people in Washington do, or at least are very careful not to discuss this issue.
When the Washington Post decided not to kill 6 days of strips from Aaron McGruder’s strip The Boondocks, in which Huey and Riley decided that Rice needed to find a good black man, it published its reasons using remarkably circuitous language:
That was too much for the Post, which announced it would skip “The Boondocks” this week. “We had no way of knowing whether Mr. McGruder’s assertion that Condoleeza Rice had no personal relationship was true or not,” explained a Post spokesperson.
Emphasis mine
These rumors have dogged rice for some time, so absent her getting a beard (Yes, I know that this is the term for a gay man who marries a woman to cover up, but I don’t know the converse), I do not see her being on the ticket.
Of course, if you look at who seems to be McCain’s attack dog right now, which is generally the campaign role of the VP, and so would seem to have the inside track on the position, it’s Lindsay Graham, who has had rumors swirling around him for years.