As of last night, I thought Powell was positioning himself to run for President as a Democrat.
However, I developed the following thought this morning while listening to news and to Rush.
I believe McCain and Powell will try to team up as an independent ticket to ensure a Republican defeat and victory for McCain's pal, Hellary. This depends, of course, on how delusional McCain is, how much he may still believe he could or could not get the Repub nomination.
Revenge against GWB/RNC is the name of McCain's game. Period. He is extremely bad for the country. Powell's game? I'm not sure, but there seems to be "no love lost" between him and Dubya since he resigned State.
It's too obvious that this one/two ticket is trying to hijack the Republican Party and probably will shoot for an Independent bid when they get rejected.
I would guess that McCain and Powell are delisional enough they they could each exceed Ross Perot's 19% and come in somewhere in the 40%+ category. In times of plurality elections, 40 something could win, but their tandem would not likely get 40.