Powell Says Shrinking GOP Should Return To The Center (also lashes out at Rush; MEGA barf alert)

CongressDaily AM ^ | May 5, 2009 | Chris Strohm

[kimoajax]

One of the silver linings for Conservatives that came with the big Zero winning is that, like roaches coming out of the walls at night, closet dems like Powell and Specter felt comformatable taking off their masks and coming out in the open.

[BillT]

What the GOP needs is a LEADER!

They can only follow around anyone who assumes command, like Pres Obama.

Sad and pathetic!

[guns_for_liberty]

Powell is making a simple mistake when he says that people want to pay more taxes. He’s thinking that because people want more services from the government then they are also willing to pay for them. Tsk, tsk...Silly, huh?

The problem now is that most people want social security, medicare, presciption drugs, the world’s biggest military, public schools, interstate highways...but they want their taxes reduced at the same time. Any politician who has the temerity to point out that this cannot be done will not be elected. So we keep running these huge deficits and passing them on to the next generation.

We need a return to the Republican party that gave us the Contract with America. It’s time that the Republican party became known once again as the party of fiscal responsibility.

[wardaddy]

Didn’t Powell support Obama???

he supported another mullato is what he did...typical narccisist

Watts (not a mullato)) also tacitly supported Obama

race is a big pull for anyone nonwhite

[Always Right]

That’s what I took it to mean. But I was thrown by who said it, Gen. Powell. I for one didn’t think he really cared.

Powell did not mean it that way, but that is the truth.

[VideoDoctor]

“Americans do want to pay taxes for services,” he said. “Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.”

Mister Powell,

I heartily invite you to take a flying f*** at a rolling donut.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

There is an old saying that you never ask a merchant about a bargain. Why are all the Democrats and the people like Powell who are backing Obama, giving us all the advice on how to win again? It’s a giant ploy to turn us all into Arlen Specters. They are scared to death of real conservatives. That’s who can beat them. The problem is that when the Republicans toughen up, they win and then they soften up and disgust the people who elect them. They listen to the mental softies in the party and try to get along. We don’t vote for them to get along. We vote for them to be partisan and to represent integrity and decency.

When Powell speaks about what the party should be, I question why the Democrats are not like that then. If that were the winning strategy, that’s what the Democrats would be doing. If I have to back abortion, Embryonic stem cell funding, gay marriage and the like, I’d rather lose.

[St. Louis Conservative]

And how did Powell “serve the party”?

Well, he did it by endorsing Barack Obama and timing that endorsement to inflict the maximum political damage upon McCain - his friend.

John McCain is the kind of candidate that Powell wants - a “moderate”, someone who “reaches across the aisle”, someone who accepts liberal premises on things like global warming and immigration, etc. And yet, when when we got the EXACT candidate that Powell wanted, what does he do? He jumps ship.

I have lost a LOT of respect for Colin Powell.

[bilhosty]

What the Republican party needs to be is responsive. It needs to be responsive the centrists and to conservatives as both are needed. Because, the Bush country clubbers were only responsive to the people who paid the bills they left everybody angry and blaming everyone else. When conservatives find an administration that shows no interest in any conservative reforms and just spends money then they feel stabbed in the back and have to wonder what the F is going on. They will naturally strikeout at moderates who they perceive (wrongly) to be the problem. Most people in between conservatives and liberals feel something needs to be done about health care and its costs and they want attention to other problems that are important to them. Again when an administration does nothing and is not responsive to them what do they think. They think they should leave the party and that is what they have done.

Everybody I know including moderates felt they were stabbed in the back when so many Repub’s supported amnesty for illegals. I know lib males who wear dresses who were angry about that. they just had to take care of their country clubbers who wanted cheap labor. Stabbing conservatives in the back is not the way to make the party more attractive to centrists it is the way to get the centrist thrown out because of the angst felt by many on this board will cause just exactly that.

You have to do something, you have to have a platform that you can believe in and one that is right for the times and big enough that it includes moderates and centrists who are needed as well as conservatives. Dead skunks and yellow stripes do not attract moderates nor conservatives. you have to believe in something that is right for the times and attracts a majority of the people.

[TC Rider]

If Powell wanted someone further to the left than McCain, the Republicans should have nominated Hillary.

[cubreporter]

Agree... we have too.