Colin Powell (D) Whines About Rush And Cheney
His stern words threatened to widen a rift within the party that was laid bare last week when Mr Cheney became the most prominent foreign policy critic of President Barack Obama, to the chagrin of moderates and to the delight of the Right.
Mr Powell, a moderate who publicly announced just before last year’s presidential election he that would vote for Mr Obama, the Democratic candidate, rather than his old friend John McCain, insisted: “I am still a Republican.”
Let me get this straight: Powell endorsed Barack H. Obama, surely voted for Barack H. Obama, perhaps the most liberal Senator ever, and he has the audacity to claim he is still a Republican? What part of the Republican Platform turns you off, C man? Would it be standing up for the lives of the unborn? Perhaps it is letting the People keep more of the money they earned? Standing strong for national security and believing in the greatness of America? Wanting to keep the U.S. military strong? Never apologizing for our greatness? Limiting the size and scope of the federal government? Keeping the federal government of out our private and business lives? You know, all things Obama is 100% against, among others.
Is it that you do not like that the Republican Party treats people as people, rather then as members to be placed in a box? I suppose you would rather the Republican Party act like Democrats and treat women shabbily when they get in the way or do not toe the line, and patronize Blacks then show them where the bus tires are, right?
The former Gulf war commander lambasted Mr Cheney for saying that he believed “Colin had already left the party” and Mr Limbaugh for saying that he’d supported Mr Obama “solely based on race” and should become a Democrat.
He told CBS television they were “not members of the membership committee of the Republican Party” arguing that the party needed to build a broad base of support rather than falling back on conservative principles.
Granted, one does not have to be a Conservative to be a Republican. But, again, if one is endorsing extraordinarily far left politicians, then one has joined the Democrat Party by default. Man up, Colin. Admit it.
Being Democrat Lite has gotten Republicans nowhere. It’s about damned time that they man up and stand up for the values that made the Republican Party what it was.
On a similar note, Robert Stacy McCain
…..henceforth propagation of false understanding by Republican commentators must be identified and denounced as nothing but what it is: Aid and comfort to the Democrats in the electoral showdown that is now less than 18 months away.
Many of the readers and commenters at The Other McCain are also bloggers, and therefore I ask that they join me in enforcing this policy. The 11th Commandment was never intended to be a shield behind which cowardly fools could hide in safety, merely because they had an “R” beside their names or declare that they are loyal Republicans.
You betcha!
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Posted by William Teach on May 24, 2009 8:13 pm
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After reading some of your blog entries, I have to say you are one of the most bass-ackwards person I’ve ever encountered. Your oversimplifications are misleading and the title of your blog (Stop the ACLU) is pretty ridiculous. The ACLU has to be one of the most important organizations of lawyers who care about civil rights out there. If your rights are being violated,they are an important check against the corruptions in our judicial system. You say things like “the government is taking my money” and fail to realize that without your money you wouldn’t receive Police, Fire, or other public services. You support wasting our money on an already bloated military budget but don’t seem too intent on paying for the education of all the illegitimate children that anti abortionists keep creating. You want drugs to be available for children, as evident by your drug war rant. I know I can’t change your opinions, I just hope that people learn to take what you write with a grain of salt.
Ben,
Thanks for coming down from your usual low orbit around Neptune to bless us with your rant.
Let me address just one item in your screed:
“…an already bloated military budget…”
Defense spending as a percentage of the FY2008 budget: 21%
Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security spending as a percentage of the FY2008 budget: 44%
Defense spending in 1944 as a percentage of GDP: 37.8%
Defense spending in 1968 as a percentage of GDP: 9.4%
Defense spending in 1999-2001 as a percentage of GDP: 3%
Defense spending in 2008 as percentage of GDP: 4.6%
Even if you take into account off-budget funding for our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is appropriated in the form of supplementary spending bills, not to mention “black budget” items, we’re still proportionately spending way less than we did at the height of World War II and, very likely, even Vietnam.
I suppose we could significantly reduce defense outlays by going back to the draft, but, hey, the minute Lord Obama proposes that idea he might as well start raising funds full-time for his presidential library because he’s political t.o.a.s.t.
People like Colin Powell are so immersed in the “Washington” sphere of politics they have a hard time understanding common sense politics and party identity.
They have been blended into “bi-partisan baloney” for so much of their lives they honestly do not know what independent thinking really is or what a political party is supposed to be.
Powell is so institutionalized by liberal thinking he can’t see the dishonesty in his claiming to still be a Republican.
Anything of substance to offer on the post, Ben? I thought not.
When did the right become so whiny?
That’s not the right whining – it’s the left projecting.
Colin Powell can say what he wants. I think Obama is screwing up the country just as fast as he can. The fact Powell judged Obama to be the best candidate, and given the fact that Powell thinks Americans all want higher taxes and big government, what Powell says holds no credibility with me.
I believe that decisions are best made by responsible people for themselves. Having a large central government practice social engineering with taxation and income redistribution is the antithesis of that. If believing that makes me a close minded, right winger, then I’ll wear the label.