Sexual Politics

Tristero asks:

Well let's just say Cheney does resign (be still my beating heart!). Who do you think Bush would choose to replace him?

Now unfortunately, the link Atrios chose mentions my first choice, Condoleeza Rice. So for those of us who say Condi as the new Veep, I don't want you to be left out of all the fun and games. Here's a question for youse (as we used to say back in Jersey):

If Condi becomes the Veep, how many hours/weeks/months/hours will it take for Bush to resign, Condi to become president, and all the Democratic hopes for a weak opponent in 2008 to be dashed?

There is absolutely no reason why a Bush resignation/Rice caretaker presidency ought to give Democrats the heebie-jeebies. I know that Republicans love to play Gregg Stillson [/The Dead Zone] only instead of babies, they use token women and minorities as human shields.

The very same Republican who decry "identity politics" on the part of the "Pacifica Left" aren't above using the same tactic when it suits their interests. If we oppose Harriet Miers or Priscilla Owen, it's because we hate women. If we oppose Janice Rogers Brown, it's because we hate black women. If we oppose Condoleeza Rice, it's not because she's a horrifically incompetent Secretary of State, it's because she's black and a woman.

There's no reason Democrats have to cower in the corner if faced with a black, female candidate for President. As far as I'm concerned, if they just play over and over again Rice's remarks about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and her appalling testimony in front of the 9/11 Commission, that says all we need to know about Condoleeza Rice.