Powell should stop pretending to be a Republican.
pretended to be a leader, pretended to be a republican, now he is pretending to be black
Hell, he should stop pretending that he ever was a Republican. He merely used the label once upon a time to get an affirmative action appointment.
Any white guy in a Republican administration who'd ever used his position of power to stop a war which we were clearly winning and guaranteed that we would have to go back later with a far greater cost in blood and treasure would have been banished to the same historical ash heap shared by Neville Chamberlain.
The GOP should stop pretending that Powell is or ever was a republican.