SCENARIO: SURGING DEMOCRATS MAKE CONDI PRESIDENT-- IN JANUARY 2006 !

Paul Bedard has some interesting speculation in U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT today. I want to take it a step further. Since it now appears that Cheney's role in the Plamegate scandal was that of mastermind and that he well may be indicted (and forced to resign), tongues are wagging all over DC that Bush will name his former tutor and failed National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, to be vice president (...of the United States).

Bedard quotes one delusional Bush insider as saying, "It's certainly an interesting but I still think highly doubtful scenario. And if that should happen there will undoubtedly be those who believe the whole thing was orchestrated-– another brilliant Machiavellian move by the VP." Of course brilliant and miserably failed Mayberry Machiavelli will by then be the hideously disgraced Machiavellian ex-vice president, hoping his presidential pardon covers all crimes, not just this particular one.

One neo-Nazi Senate staffer's first thought was absolute horror, asking "Isn't she pro-choice?" (Presumably this isn't someone who will be supporting Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney in his party's primary.) But Bush could make her the first woman VP and the first African-American VP. And if the Democrats win big enough in 2006, they will make her the first woman president and the first African-American president. (Darth Cheney has always been the biggest impediment to even the thought of impeaching Bush!)