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Powell Still Doesn’t Get it

Once upon a time I believed Colin Powell was a great leader and had the potential to lead the GOP and become the first black president of the USA. Then he turned socialist and threw his cards in with Barack “Dances with Terrorists” Obama. Today, in an article in the National Journal, Powell proves once and for all that he is completely out of touch with the Republican Party, the American People, and reality. I never thought that I would see the day when a former General would be receiving a Moonbat Award, but that day has come, just in time to help commemorate “100 Days of Idiocy in the White House”. Even my mother used to like Colin Powell. Used to.

Powell said the GOP is “getting smaller and smaller” and “that’s not good for the nation.” He also said he hopes that emerging GOP leaders, such as House Minority Whip Cantor, will not keep repeating mantras of the far right.

Okay so far. The GOP is getting smaller, and sure, that’s not good for the nation. (Conversely, the Democratic Party getting smaller would be a good thing for the nation.) I know nothing of Congressman Cantor, but to say we should “not keep repeating the mantras of the far right,” what does he mean by that? We should begin to support abortion? How about taxes? Limited government? Winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Securing our borders and enforcing our existing immigration law? Stop the bailouts? Privatizing Social Security? Keeping government out of our health care? Those are all right-wing ideologies. And he thinks pushing those agendas is a bad idea?

But wait, it gets better:

“The Republican Party is in deep trouble,” Powell told corporate security executives at a conference in Washington sponsored by Fortify Software Inc. The party must realize that the country has changed, he said. “Americans do want to pay taxes for services,” he said. “Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.”

What rock has Colin Powell been living in for the past month? Hundreds of thousands Americans came out across the country on April 15th to protest taxes and out-of-control government spending. Did he miss that? Is he saying, “well, gee, I know they’re out protesting taxes and obscene spending and bailouts, but hey, deep down, they really love big government and backbreaking taxation.”

Message to Colin Powell: General, sir, most Americans hate seeing so much of their hard earned money seized by government and then pissed away bailing out businesses and individuals who made bad choices. We hate government waste, whether it is $1600 for a hammer that the Air Force paid back in the ’80s, or the billions to AIG, which shipped much of that to payoff foreign creditors. General, sir, the GOP isn’t getting smaller because it is drifting to the right and scaring off moderates; it is drifting to the left and pissing of Conservatives, and it’s the Conservatives who are leaving the party.

Powell described the 2008 GOP candidate, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, as “a beloved friend” but said he told him last summer that the party had developed a reputation for being mean-spirited and driven more by social conservatism than the economic problems that Americans faced.

Okay, reality check: Liberals think anybody who doesn’t agree with them as being “mean-spirited.”

Powell also criticized other GOP leaders, for bowing too much to the right.

He blasted radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, saying he does not believe that Limbaugh or conservative icon Ann Coulter serve the party well. He said the party lacks a “positive” spokesperson. “I think what Rush does as an entertainer diminishes the party and intrudes or inserts into our public life a kind of nastiness that we would be better to do without,” Powell said.

I’m not a big fan of either Limbaugh or Coulter, but the fact is, on the issues, they are right on the money. Whether or not they help or hinder the party is debatable. Quite frankly, though, I think their impact is more neutral. Yeah, the party does lack a positive spokesman. Michael Steele is proving to weak for the job of party leader, McCain choked in the election and has too many negative points (Campaign Finance Reform and “the Gang of Fourteen”) to be that spokesman. Palin gets slammed by the Left for being a woman (has Oprah had her on the show yet?), and, let’s face it, anyone who espouses Conservative views is going to be considered “negative” by the media and the Left.

He also said that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain’s running mate last year, is “a very accomplished person” but became “a very polarizing figure.” He said the polarization was created by Palin’s advisers.

What, Obama wasn’t “a polarizing figure”? Reality check: Obama was the most polarizing candidate in my life time, and for all of the wrong reasons (Hey, man, I don’t look like those other presidents and I have a funny name).

Powell has proven, once and for all, that when it comes to politics, he is a lightweight, and should stick to military matters. Although with his statement about the military and a new command to combat cyberwarfare, “take it slow, make sure you get it right,” I have to wonder about that. We’ve been taking cybersecurity slow for way too many years. If they can’t get it right by now, then they never will. “Take it slow?” How the heck did you get to be a general with an attitude like that?

So, for Powell’s Moonbatting about the state of the GOP and the American desire to pay taxes, the General has become the latest winner of the Moonbat Award.

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