Condi! Condi! Condi!

I'm with this guy:

By temperament and intellect, by experience and expertise, Condoleezza Rice is more qualified than anyone in national politics to serve as our next president -- and I say this as a diehard Rudy Giuliani fan. She lacks only a campaign track record, and no one disputes that she's a quick study. Her nomination as the Republican candidate would dissolve the reflexive liberal equation of conservatism and racism and thus drive a stake through the heart of the Democratic Party -- which might pave the way for an intellectually coherent oppositional party. So I reiterate: Condi in 2008 is a natural choice both for Republicans and for America.

FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, from a tactical standpoint, the nomination of Condi should be a no brainer because she'd peel away a substantial portion of the black vote from the Democrats. A recent, unscientific poll conducted by the popular NiaOnline website, the self-described "pre-eminent internet destination for African-American women," found that 41 percent of respondents predicted Rice would do a good job as secretary of state; only 30 percent predicted she wouldn't. Given the animus the majority of blacks feel towards the Bush administration, and given that Bush himself carried less than a tenth of the black vote in 2004, if the NiaOnline numbers have the slightest validity they are nightmarish news for whatever Democratic candidate would oppose Rice in '08 --including Hillary Clinton.