Former Secretary of State Colin Powell joked that he identifies as a Republican to annoy the GOP’s right-wing.
“Yes, I’m still a Republican,” he said about his party affiliation during the Washington Ideas Forum in Washington, D.C., according to the Daily Mail.
“I want to continue to be a Republican because it annoys them,” Powell quipped to host Walter Isaacson.
“I think the party has shifted much further right than where the country is and it should be obvious to party leaders that they cannot keep saying and doing the things that they were doing and hope to be successful in national-level election in the future, not just in 2016,” he added.
Joking or not I have little doubt that Colin Powell really does frustrate and irritate many Republican politicians because he is one of the few members of the Bush administration who came out with most of his reputation intact and he has not been shy about criticizing both his former administration and his current political party.
I remember that there was a time when the Republicans were pushing Powell to run for President.
Oh how times have changed.
Several years ago I was fortunate to hear Colin Powell speak at an annual meeting for the corporation I was working for. His best line referred to Bush talking about looking in Putin's eyes and seeing his soul. When Powell looked in Putin's eyes all he saw was KGB.
ReplyDeleteNot good enough. He should call a press conference, announce that he is leaving the party and why. I thought he was braver than this. After promiting the Iraq war while knowing that the reasons were based on lies, he could begin to show some integrity.
ReplyDeleteReading at the pee pond, the 3rd graders at c4p refer to him as "Colon Bowel". Oh, those conservative CHRISTIANS are a hoot! Their senility has them on the playground of their youth, complete with simplistic reasoning, constant name calling, bullying and a fear of the big, bad world.
ReplyDeleteThere isn't enough tin foil in the world for that mark1955 dude.
DeleteI am and always will be a Democrat but 'Colon Bowell" is much more clever than "Cletus the Fetus". Talk about name calling and bullying and no, I am NOT Bristol.
Delete9:43. I'm with you there. Whoever keeps trying to get their little "clever" moniker to catch on here doesn't realize that the reason it hasn't is that it is incredibly juvenile and showed ZERO creativity....worse than third grade rhyming
DeleteI dislike both names, but get your point.
DeleteI agree with you 9:43. Cletus the fetus is very childish and juvenile.
DeleteI disagree. I think Cletus the fetus is hilarious and fits a Wasillabilly baby perfectly.
DeleteTroll are prolific regardless of their political leanings. I, for one, can't imagine going over to c4p for any reason. They simply are not offering anything that I want to buy. I didnt know the site existed until I began reading here.
DeleteO/T but this is a chilling comment from the gunman in Oregon:
ReplyDelete...He reportedly wrote: "I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are.
"A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day.
"Seems the more people you kill, the more your're [sic] in the limelight."
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/609395/Chris-Harper-Mercer-shooter-Oregon-Umpqua-Community-College
Yeah, take notice of this media, because it's not likely that he's alone in that thought and ultimate quest for fame. Just sayin'.
I still have respect for Colin Powell
ReplyDeleteWhen all is said and done, in my opinion there is defending what the republican party has become. Vote for principles.
ReplyDelete66gardeners
"NO defending"
Delete66gardeners
Think about it, specifically, how it is worth being boastful about being a republican?
ReplyDelete@7:27
ReplyDeleteI say we have a conversation with Virginia Gentleman through these blogs by relating to each other way he has said lately. Who's up for it?
"what he has said lately"
Delete@7:55 "Yeah, take notice of this media, because it's not likely that he's alone in that thought and ultimate quest for fame. Just sayin'."
DeleteHopefully, that is snark. Are we not to discuss it? Really?
66gardeners
8:27, I am "7:27" and I read at c4p daily. Vg's comm3nts about refraining from name calling was directed to the other C4Pers, to behave with one another. I am pretty sure outsiders, Democrats and moderates would-be eaten alive! But, if you want to wander over, II can and do occasionally post there.
DeleteVirginia Gentleman is a name caller just like the rest of 'em. He just prays it away at night and starts all over the next day.
Delete9:31, yep and he rests easy, knowing he will see God's face....
DeleteHow the hell he can be so sure of that is beyond me. I have known good, true Christians who would not assume that they would make the cut.
Yes, 9:31. You're right. He loves to use words like My Lady and Kind Sir when responding to his cohorts. And talks about no infighting...yet just the other day he was talking about Putin and Obsma and said Obama probably bent over, spread his cheeks, and "took it." Yep...such gentlemanly images
DeleteAnd now "the boss" posts, too. Barf!
Delete8:27 here
DeleteI also and too wander over to c4p to see what their strategy it these days. I believe VG is a paid poster (scammer) and made-up character whose job it is to keep the commenters in line. If you notice he goes from dying to militant mode in minutes.
Let's provoke Virginia gentleman who engage us, shall we?
Delete8:27, even when his mother-in-law and later his wife were thought to be having strokes, VG took the time to post the news on c4p, PRIOR to heading to the hospital with them! Nothing stops him or asses, for that matter, from posting their drivel....nothing.
DeleteOT-Backpedal:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/2015/10/02/the_vatican_confirms_that_pope_francis_was_ratfcked_into_meeting_kim_davis/
But this is what he said."I can’t have in mind all cases that can exist about conscience objection. But, yes, I can say the conscientious objection is a right that is a part of every human right. It is a right. And if a person does not allow others to be a conscientious objector, he denies a right.Conscientious objection must enter into every juridical structure because it is a right, a human right. Otherwise we would end up in a situation where we select what is a right, saying ‘this right that has merit, this one does not.’ It (conscientious objection) is a human right. It always moved me when I read, and I read it many times, when I read the “Chanson de Roland” when the people were all in line and before them was the baptismal font and they had to choose between the baptismal font or the sword. They had to choose. They weren’t permitted conscientious objection. It is a right and if we want to make peace we have to respect all rights."
ReplyDeleteI have ZERO respect for Colin Powell. He whitewashe My Lai with his misleading report about it. He pushed the Bush Administration's lies about Iraq's supposed WMDs to the UN. Powell proved he had no integrity whatsoever, but will do and say whatever he knows his bosses what him to, even when he himself know it's a lie.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans can have him. He's their kind of guy. A lying opportunist.
This is the depth to which the Republican party has sunk. Our potential new Speaker of the House makes a foreign policy speech and sounds like that bad beauty pageant contestant (no, not THAT one although there are startling similarities) from South Carolina talking about "the Iraq and such". If he is elected Speaker, it would place him next in line to the Presidency after VP Biden.
ReplyDeleteAnd THAT will give me nightmares.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rachel-maddow-kevin-mccarthy-speech-english-language_560d5a35e4b0af3706dfc389