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Colin Powell, Republican Strategist?
American Thinker ^ | July 29, 2009 | Henry P. Wickham, Jr

Posted on 07/29/2009 10:08:00 AM PDT by jazusamo

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Henry Wickham recounts the backstabbing of George Bush by Colin Powell and recounts it well. It's a story of a fiasco that should be repeated whenever Colin Powell's name arises in the same sentence with the word Republican.

Colin Powell is neither a Conservative or Republican!

1 posted on 07/29/2009 10:08:01 AM PDT by jazusamo
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Whatever happened to the goold old days when we hanged traitors from the yardarms?


2 posted on 07/29/2009 10:09:08 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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Please bump the Freepathon and donate if you haven’t done so!

3 posted on 07/29/2009 10:09:55 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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He’s also in support of Bloomberg’s “divine right of kings” strategy.


4 posted on 07/29/2009 10:10:12 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The revolution IS being televised.)
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Do you think Colin is bitter about going before the UN with the anti-Iraq messsage and CIA data?

Just curious if this was caused him to jump the shark.


5 posted on 07/29/2009 10:11:00 AM PDT by TSgt (I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
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“His “New York Times” piece flatly contradicted his own prior report to the government, where he had said that Saddam Hussein was in fact seeking yellowcake uranium in Niger.”

Not entirely tue, he reported that they met and that since this was the only thing Niger had, it was DEDUCED it was the subject. Just setting the record straight, not defending the lying bastard.


6 posted on 07/29/2009 10:11:28 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
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He can call himself “The Queen of the May” if he chooses.

Colin Powell is a Democrat and a Socialist...whether he chooses to acknowledge that fact or not.


7 posted on 07/29/2009 10:11:28 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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McCain was everything Powell says he stands for (which is really more Repub/Dim-lite than Conservative) and does Powell endorse the man who proved himself in battle? No. He endorsed the muzzie who hates America.

stfu Powell.

8 posted on 07/29/2009 10:11:44 AM PDT by libs_kma (F.U.B.O.)
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If it was up to the media the Repubs would have a Colin Powell/Megan McCain ticket in 2010.


9 posted on 07/29/2009 10:12:00 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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Powell’s reasoning is simple minded. He supports Democrats, a radical Marxist for president, and says he is a Republican because he wants to be. Rush could switch to the Democratic Party, and claim he is a Democrat because he wants to call himself one. Powell is another Affirmative Action embarrassment, a one man comedy act who is too cowardly to admit he is a Democrat.


10 posted on 07/29/2009 10:14:00 AM PDT by pallis
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It's a tossup to determine who has less credibility as a GOP "strategist": 'Colon' Powell or Meghan McCain.


11 posted on 07/29/2009 10:14:38 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Powell's response to King was defiant, "I decide what party I am going to be in."

David Duke, ex-KKK, ex-Democrat politician, ex-Independent politician said the same thing. He didn't become a national figure until he ran as a Republican.

12 posted on 07/29/2009 10:15:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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13 posted on 07/29/2009 10:16:55 AM PDT by Sloth (Irony: Freepers who call Ron Paul a "nut" but swallow all the birth certificate conspiracy crap.)
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Colin Powell is a Dem mole. Always has been, Always will be.


14 posted on 07/29/2009 10:17:36 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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>>If it was up to the media the Repubs would have a Colin Powell/Megan McCain ticket in 2010.<<

Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.


15 posted on 07/29/2009 10:17:56 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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He speaks with forked tongue. What a sick man who needs to get honest with himself.


16 posted on 07/29/2009 10:22:27 AM PDT by bushfamfan (United States of America: July 4, 1776-November 4, 2008)
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As a conservative I never suggested Powell leave the party.
What a petulant comment from a man who wishes to obfuscate rather than answer a simple logical question.

Explain why you stay in the GOP, since you voted for Obama who is the antithesis of conservative ideals domestic and foreign, and a poster child for the ideals of the hard left.

Why not embrace the democrat party, General Powell? What is your reluctance to do so?

Frankly, Sir, you remind me of a guest at a dinner party who criticizes the host, the menu, and the entertainment. Why do you stay?


17 posted on 07/29/2009 10:22:41 AM PDT by silverleaf (If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
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Exactly! I couldn’t agree more.


18 posted on 07/29/2009 10:25:37 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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"Do you think Colin is bitter about going before the UN with the anti-Iraq messsage and CIA data?"

One should not underestimate the grandiosity that tends to envelope many flag officers - not all, but many. And, I've known more than my share of flag officers over the years and I can promise you it's not an uncommon phenomenon. For years, Powell has exhibited signs of a substantial aura of self-importance.

My guess is that he was more than a little put-off when it may have seemed to him that his opinion was discarded in favor of the likes of Cheney and Rumsfeld. Resentment, in my opinion, is the strongest and most corrosive of human emotions. It's that resentment, which was probably amplified by the incident that you mention at the UN, that fixed Powell's position of conflict with Bush and his White House.

19 posted on 07/29/2009 10:26:32 AM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: Sloth

Outstanding satire! Great post. These two, along with their idiotic ‘strategy’, should be forever linked.


20 posted on 07/29/2009 10:28:59 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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