A Bush-Rice ticket?

Well, that would be revolting.

And horribly, horribly inspired.

The question is, would the gain be worth the loss of the very conservative wing of the Republican party? After all, black, female, unmarried ... you couldn't ask for someone more designed to make the archconservatives flee to the Reform Party of Pat Buchanan, or wherever he winds up hanging his little neoNazi hat next time.