Given the penchant of Bush Republicans to promote those who fail most spectacularly, it wasn't surprising to see the wignnut-o-phere promoting Condi as their party's top choice for 2008.
I mean, she ignored an intelligence report titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S" in the month leading up to 9-11. That would've ended the career of a lesser mortal, but the woman who called Bush her "husband" gets the benefit of the doub -- nay -- she gets Republican bloggers pinning for her presidential candidacy.
But alas, Condi is not a politician, as her performance on the 9-11 commission (among other places) showed. She'd get eaten alive in a primary battle by the more experienced politicos. And really, she has no natural constituency inside the Republican Party primary electorate.
She knows all these things, apparently, since she's emphatically saying no to a run.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ruled out a run for the presidency yesterday, damping grass-roots efforts to draft her for a 2008 election campaign.
"I don't have any desire to run for president, I don't intend to, I won't do it," she said on ABC's "This Week." "I don't know how many ways to say 'No.'"
Too bad. They'll have to settle for McCain, Santorun, Hagel, Allen, or Frist.
Update: To add to that list -- Giuliani and Romney. And I know there are others I'm forgetting.