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Colin Powell: ‘Elements’ in GOP ‘Demonize People Who Don’t Look Like the Way They’d Like’
Mediaite.com ^ | Noah Rothman | February 7th, 2014

Posted on 02/07/2014 12:27:07 PM PST by TexasCajun

Appearing on MSNBC, former Secretary of State Colin Powell savaged the Republican Party of which he says he is still a member for catering to “elements” that are overtly hostile to people of other races or nationalities. Powell told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that there are groups within the GOP who “demonize people who don’t look like the way they’d like them to look.” He added that, for this reason, he believes the GOP needs him more than the Democratic Party needs him.

He said that even senior-level Republicans continue to make “statements about women” and “minorities” that make the party look “less tolerant than it should be.” Powell specifically cited voting laws which he said are designed to restrict minority access to the polls.

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TOPICS: Government; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: colin; colinpowell; gop; gopestablishment; liberalracism; obamasupporter; powell; rino
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Colin Powell, who voted for Obama twice, thinks the GOP needs him more than he needs the GOP!

...just change parties and be done with it mister!

1 posted on 02/07/2014 12:27:07 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

You’re projecting again, Colon.


2 posted on 02/07/2014 12:27:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The only way women can "have it all" is if men aren't allowed to have anything.)
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To: TexasCajun

Just go away, colin. Your 15 minutes of affirmative action are up.


3 posted on 02/07/2014 12:28:25 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: TexasCajun

I’d hate to look like a colon.


4 posted on 02/07/2014 12:28:42 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: TexasCajun

the problem with Powell isn’t his appearance (indeed, he is a reasonably handsome man, YTMD of course). The problem with Powell is his left-wing (and racist) politics.


5 posted on 02/07/2014 12:28:50 PM PST by faithhopecharity (C?d)
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To: TexasCajun

the GOP needs a Colin cleanse.


6 posted on 02/07/2014 12:29:15 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: TexasCajun
Ugh. He's such a girl.

Wonder what he's paid to mouth this crapola?

7 posted on 02/07/2014 12:29:29 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: TexasCajun
“elements” that are overtly hostile to people of other races or nationalities."

Please get specific Colin. Who are these mysterious "elements" you speak of? If you can't identify them and back up your statements you are just another lying race baiter. Put up or shut up.

8 posted on 02/07/2014 12:30:17 PM PST by circlecity
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To: TexasCajun

Race card much, General? Of course you do; that’s how you got where you did.


9 posted on 02/07/2014 12:30:27 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
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To: TexasCajun
I can honestly say that never in my life have I ever voted for a person because of their skin color. It has never once even been a small fraction of my decision making process.

Can you say the same General Powell?

10 posted on 02/07/2014 12:31:20 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Paladin2

: ?


11 posted on 02/07/2014 12:31:24 PM PST by mountainlion
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To: TexasCajun

Repeating the Big Lie.


12 posted on 02/07/2014 12:31:40 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: TexasCajun

Elements in the democrat party demonize people who don’t think like them.


13 posted on 02/07/2014 12:31:41 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: TexasCajun

The GOP already has plenty of security leaks, we don’t need anymore.


14 posted on 02/07/2014 12:32:16 PM PST by Zathras
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To: mountainlion

Leftists are stupid. They know it is about ideology.

Leftists believe that all minorities should think like them or they are uncle toms


15 posted on 02/07/2014 12:32:26 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: mountainlion

Do you want to look like a colon?


16 posted on 02/07/2014 12:32:31 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: TexasCajun

ps:I meant to type “left-wing and/or racist politics”

I wouldn’t care if Powell wore a purple dress, if he fixed up his politics I’d be happy to vote for him. However, so long as Powell supports Obama over and over and over again,
he is not going to get my support.
This country is going straight down to Hell and after 5 years of this trashing of Amerika from the WH.... Powell or anybody else has no excuse anymore to support more of this destruction of our nation and our peoples’ lives


17 posted on 02/07/2014 12:32:41 PM PST by faithhopecharity (C?d)
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To: TexasCajun

What kind of parent would name thier kid Colon? That’s like naming your kid a**hole.

As is typical with all race-baiters, Colin didn’t name anyone specifically, did he? Just a blanket statement.


18 posted on 02/07/2014 12:32:59 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: TexasCajun

Idiots who say things like a raped woman’s body shuts down from pregnancy don’t make R’s look good. But they are a tiny percentage.


19 posted on 02/07/2014 12:33:13 PM PST by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: TexasCajun

Colin Powell has long ago lost any claim of relevance. Anyone stupid enough to vote for a communist because he happens to share physical characteristics with ones own tribe is not a person worthy of attention.

Go away Colin, you’ve given us enough stupid advice.


20 posted on 02/07/2014 12:33:26 PM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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