How about Rice-Bush?
But I've had a bad day. Never mind.
Unless Cheney bows out relatively early in the game, and voluntarily, I don't see why Bush would change the ticket. As I have said before, though, I'd vote for Rice for president in 2008 in a New York Minute.
As far as confounding the Democrats, I doubt it. As we have seen many times, they have no problem at all in politically disemboweling women, blacks, Latinos, gays, or any other so-called "minorities" that leave the Socialist Reservation. Which, of course, shows their true colors when they are talking about diversity: "different packages, same contents."