ABC News is reporting that Condoleeza Rice has been “actively courting the Vice Presidential nomination.” Some are already complaining about a third Bush administration and how horrible that would be because Bush has destroyed the United States.

Nonsense. Bush inherited a recesssion and a stock market that had crumbled because of the dot-com meltowon. Not even nine months after he was sworn we had the largest terrorist attack on the United States ever.

Bush’s tax cuts revived the economy, unemployment soon reached and stayed at the lowest points ever in American history. The rich actually pay a higher percentage of taxes than during the Clinton administration. Don’t believe me, look it up for yourself. Bush actually fought the enemy who attacked us instead of lobbing a couple of missiles to hit camels and then declare victory, as his predecessor.

Bush went wrong with defending the borders, not stopping pork, and signing into law such horrendous bills as McCain-Feingold.

There are some things I want to know about Condi before I would actively campaign for her. She seems to be soft on the Palestinian situation and a paper reported several years ago that she was mildly pro-choice. However, McCain-Rice is world’s better than anything the Democrats have to offer.

The Democrats would outright betray the Jews and, with Justices Steven and Ginsburg holding on only to the next election, any Supreme Court nomination would have a horrible impact for decades to come.

Unlike Obama, Condi has been through the black experience. She was the victim of the discrimination laws in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. One of her best friends was killed in the KKK bombing of a nearby church:

I remember the bombing of that Sunday School at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963. I did not see it happen, but I heard it happen, and I felt it happen, just a few blocks away at my father’s church. It is a sound that I will never forget, that will forever reverberate in my ears. That bomb took the lives of four young girls, including my friend and playmate, Denise McNair. The crime was calculated to suck the hope out of young lives, bury their aspirations. But those fears were not propelled forward, those terrorists failed.

- Condoleezza Rice, Commencement 2004, Vanderbilt University, May 13, 2004

RIce used to be a Democrat (so did I) and had this to say at the 2000 Republican Convention:

The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

I joined for different reasons. I found a party that sees me as an individual, not as part of a group. I found a party that puts family first. I found a party that has love of liberty at its core. And I found a party that believes that peace begins with strength.

Imagine Condi giving that speech on the campaign trail: “A party that sees me as an individual, not as part of group.” Things like that resonate. Obama and Hillary’s heads will explode because the Democrat party likes to put people into little special interest pigeonholes and convince them that they’re discriminated against.

Given that the Democrats are running on the theme of either a woman or a half-black man running the country, Condi would destroy that theme.

There are some things that I’m not sure about about Condi but, the more I research her and write about her, the more I like her.