Colin Powell is no Republican

[Dedicated Mind]

Originally Posted by TRFrance

What a disgrace. I know hindsight is 20/20 , but I think GW Bush choosing to bring this man into his administration was a big mistake.

Colin Powell is an American hero! George Bush needed CP back in the day to moderate his right wing administration and try to make ammends for a stolen election. Al Gore won in Florida and the supreme court gave bush the election by stopping the recount ordered by the florida supreme court. Haven't you seen the movie "Recount"?

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Antipas

And McCain has? lol

McCain and Powell have both been mavericks who bucked the party line. The only difference is that McCain has sold out to win an election....Powell is still willing to buck the party line.

You can't have it both ways - - is McCain a maverick who bucked the party line or is he the same as GWB?

[Antipas]

Here's something I find funny. I firmly believe that if Powell would have pandered like McCain and would have become the Republican Candidate....most partisian conservatives bashing him would be marching right behind him cheering what "conservative" elements he brings to the election in comparison to Obama.

It's hilarious. lol

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

Colin Powell is an American hero! George Bush needed CP back in the day to moderate his right wing administration and try to make ammends for a stolen election. Al Gore won in Florida and the supreme court gave bush the election by stopping the recount ordered by the florida supreme court. Haven't you seen the movie "Recount"?

I've seen "Bruce Almighty", but that doesn't make Jim Carey God.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Ferd

I think I already did?

North East Republicans like Rockafeller and more recently Lincoln Chaffey represent a strain in the party of much more liberal thinkers.

Conservatives are a much more recent group that only gained a voice with Ronald Reagan.


they tend to be social liberals with a view of taxation and spending that falls well left of conservatives but not quite so extreme as liberal democrats.

Powell represents that pretty clearly in my mind anyway.

Thanks.

[Antipas]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

You can't have it both ways - - is McCain a maverick who bucked the party line or is he the same as GWB?

You see life in snap shots...I see it in streaming video. McCain was very much a maverick who bucked the party line. But since 2000 McCain has become one of Bush's pandering lap dogs, and right now the same special interests that support Bush are teaching McCain how to fetch and roll over. People change. McCain realized in 2000 that he couldn't be himself and win the Republican nomination because Conservative Republicans have never been thrilled with him. For the past 8 years McCain has re-imaged himself for political expediency. It's sad really. He looks so desperate to be President.

[DividedThigh]

here is something i find funny, the fact that anti and ded mind, think i care about there lib opinions, lol

[Antipas]

Originally Posted by DividedThigh

here is something i find funny, the fact that anti and ded mind, think i care about there lib opinions, lol

Hey, more power to ya bro. Don't let the facts get in the way of your partisian loyalty.

[scotty]

Originally Posted by Antipas

Hey, more power to ya bro. Don't let the facts get in the way of your partisian loyalty.

I knew something was missing from all of this immaturity..

[SecretWarrior]

Traitor!