Rice has said she would never consider the job.

She is currently knocking $150,000 per speaking engagement. Why would she give up that kind of coin?

She also is not considered anti-abortion enough by the hard right, so even some of those folks would come out against her.

Plus Romney has been taught his entire life, and as a Mormon Bishop taught others, that women are vastly inferior to men. If Romney is worried about his religion becoming a topic of the election then all he needs to do is put a woman on the ticket with him and religious nuts would be coming out of the woodwork.