Below The Beltway

The WaPo’s Glenn Kessler reports on Secretary of State Rice’s response this morning to reports of her interest in the Vice-Presidency:
After her spokesman yesterday said “If she is actively seeking the vice presidency, then she’s the last one to know about it,” a reporter today pressed the issue and asked why Rice has not “made [...]

Chris Cillizzza details the reasons why Condoleeza Rica is not a smart Vice-Presidential pick:
First, and most importantly, Rice has NEVER expressed even a passing interest in elected office. Before serving as National Security Adviser and then Secretary of State, Rice was the provost of Stanford University — a far cry from the positions in the [...]

Well, it sounds like Dan Senor may not have know what he was talking about after all:
Condoleezza Rice wants it known: She is still not interested in being vice president.
Sean McCormack, her spokesman, today tried to dampen speculation that erupted Sunday after Dan Senor, a GOP political operative, claimed on ABC’s “This Week” that Rice [...]

From The Weekly Standard, a fairly concise explanation of why Condoleeza Rice will not, and should not, be McCain’s Veep nominee:
1) It is the perfect way to make the general election an endless re-hash of the Bush Teams many mistakes in Iraq. By picking her McCain would endorse those epic fumbles.
2) She would pull exactly [...]

Apparently, President Bush’s Secretary of State has higher ambitions:
ABCNews’ Mary Bruce Reports: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is actively courting the vice presidential nomination, Republican strategist Dan Senor said.
“Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for this,” Senor said this morning on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
According to Senor, Rice has been [...]