Condi Rules Out the VP Spot

I was always skeptical about the report that Condi Rice was secretly campaigning for the VP spot on the McCain ticket, and now she's pretty much ruled it out:

“I do not want to be, don’t intend to be, won’t be on [McCain’s] ticket,” she told the Associated Press in an interview in Alabama today where she received an honorary degree from Air University at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base.

“It’s time for me to do something else,” she added, saying she would return to Stanford University after the Bush administration leaves office next January.

Rice praised Sen. McCain, of Arizonia, as “an amazing man” with “great intellect” but said the last time she spoke with him was last month after his passport file had been breached…

“We’ll see in a few year’s what I do. But I — this is not the time for me,” she told the AP.

While she would have made an dynamic choice, she's never run for public office and probably woudn't enjoy it too much. I think she'd be much happier returning to teach at Stanford or embarking on a lucrative speaking career.