As someone who has followed republican politics longer than Rush Limbaugh, please let me weigh in on Colin Powell. In a way he can’t be blamed for who he is. It was the Republican party that elevated him in the vain hope that to do so would impress black voters. It didn’t work then, and it isn’t working now. Oh, it worked for Powell; in spades. Powell had the inoculation of skin color to keep the press at bay. (The previous two sentences are for the New York Times types, who would swear those catch phrases were implied, even if not there.) He had a cushy career, and it could be argued that it would not have been as brilliant or lucerative had it not been for the great hopes and efforts of the republicans of several administrations. He even became a darling of the press, but always with the disclaimer that he was a republican, as if to reinforce their belief that no republican could be so saintly.
Powell was not above sticking his finger in the eyes of his patrons on occasion, as if to say to his buddies in the press and on the left, “We all know what this dance is all about..” and anyway, just who was being hurt by it? Certainly not Powell.
Give me real conservative black republicans and I, and we, will back them with all our hearts and wallets, as we have done for years. As for those who think the government owes them a living, let’s see what happens when the money runs out.
Powell is, and always has been, a liberal. To curry favor with the media and Blacks, Republicans promoted him to the general officer rank, to National Security Advisor, and then to Sec’y of State - all for political reasons. With few exceptions, he has been a purely political animal, and a royal pain to the Republican Party that created him.
Powell has to know about B. Hussein’s domestic terrorist associations and about the Odinga connection. I would have thought he loved his country too much to do this.