A few days ago, we had the news, and I’m sure you heard it, too, that Condoleezza Rice was actively pursuing the vice presidency with Senator McCain.

He didn’t know anything about it. Elisabeth Bumiller in the New York Times says, “Is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice campaigning to be John McCain’s running mate? If so, Mr. McCain… said on Sunday that he had not noticed. ‘I missed those signals,’ Mr. McCain told reporters…”

Condoleezza Rice says, “I don’t know what this is about. I don’t want to be anybody’s vice president.” She’s always said that.

Do you know what I smell here? I smell the Obama campaign. I smell the Obama campaign passing a rumor of Condi being the GOP VP to certain media to scare the Democrat voters and the superdelegates that if they don’t put Obama on the ticket, the Republicans will get to have the first black person on the presidential ticket.

That’s what I suspect, because I’ve never heard her say she’s interested. In fact, I’ve heard her say the opposite, that she is not interested in this. But then after I thought about it…

Maybe it was the Clinton camp that let it out to scare the superdelegates and primary voters that the Republicans could have the only woman on the ballot this fall. Then I decided that either case is plausible, and then I came to the conclusion that nobody on the Republican side leaked it.

It had to have come from someplace on the Democrat side.