Would Colin Powell Please Just Go Away?
May 7, 2009
Our sentiments exactly. He represents what people think Republicans ARE. He is NOT. He is a Democrat in Republican clothing. He needs to really retire or change parties and speak for the other side. We don’t want him! – FedUpEditor
GOPUSA – Just when you think retired Gen. Colin Powell has really “retired” from the public scene, he reemerges long enough to grab a bit of the lime light, before returning to the depths of obscurity. Usually, when he does pop out to make a comment the media is all too willing to hear it because it likely means he will be bashing Republicans.
His latest rant is right in line with his standard M.O. In a recent speech, Powell took swipes at Rush Limbaugh, Gov. Sarah Palin, and made his usual claims that the Republican Party has moved too far to the right. Give Powell credit, when he sees an opportunity to be opportunistic, he seizes it. The problem is that he is completely off track and would be much better suited joining Arlen Specter and the Democrats.
In a speech given this week, Powell said, “The Republican Party is in deep trouble.”
Powell added that the party must realize the country has changed. “Americans do want to pay taxes for services,” he said. “Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.”
Of course, as the story notes, Powell criticized GOP leaders for “bowing too much to the right.”
What in the world is Powell talking about? Over the last eight years, the Republican Party gave the country the massive prescription drug entitlement (big government); it continued practices of earmarks and pork (more spending); it tried numerous times to push amnesty through Congress (rewarding lawbreakers). And Powell thinks we moved too much to the right? It’s so easy to throw out a comment like that when he knows the media are listening. How about telling the truth some time? When you contrast the issues upon which Republicans ran and won and the situation today, it’s easy to see that we are losing because we abandoned our conservative roots. Not the other way around.
It would be interesting to analyze Powell’s statements line-by-line but that would imply that there is an intelligent debate to be waged. In reality, Powell is simply trying to score media points, and his endorsement of Obama in the presidential race is living proof.
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What does Colin Powell know, anyway. He’s the nominal “Republican” that endorsed Obama, then re-assured us all that he was “qualified to be Commander-in-Chief” the week before the Russians caught Obama completely asleep-at-the-wheel and nabbed the Krgyzstani air-base that we use to fly-in most of our supplies to Afghanistan.
I don’t trust Powell an inch, he apparently feels guilty about promoting the Iraq war (but shouldn’t) and is trying to make amends.
Powell’s advice and a quarter will get you a cup of coffee at 7-11 (small). Who cares what he thinks, Obama’s programs are a guaranteed fail- and that’s all that matters in the end. There’ll be no hiding the damage Obama is doing to the county in a year or two. I love how these critics of the GOP assume everything will just work out great with trillion dollar deficits and a pacifist foreign policy-
When their pork-n-welfare spending orgy fails to create any real economic gains -but stokes vicious inflation and crashes the dollar instead- the Democrats face a bloodbath in 2010.
Barack can kiss 2012 goodbye, no matter how hard he attacks the GOP and has the MSM plant BS stories and manufactured “scandals”. His foreign policy is headed straight for an iceberg, as well.
Ironically, Powell and W did a lot of damage to the GOP brand… but Obama-Pelosi-Reid will be the ones to fix it all-up for us- already as good as done. Funny how life is.
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