It's not like they have many other options right now
Seriously though, she won't get the nod. I hope by 2008 even the republicans will be sick of this administration (especially when their economy crashes and they only have Georgie left to blame).
Yeah, but how many voters from the Deep South would stand for it? You can barely get a black woman voted into City Hall below the Mason-Dixon line. The Republican heartland probably don't mind Rice where she is, but the prospect of having her as a President would have them choking on their moonshine.