If Powell had been nominated in '96, he would have been called all the same epithets that Bush and Romney and Trump were. He would have been called a token and an oreo and a traitor to his race, the same as they do to Clarence Thomas.
I remember the election of '96 and was elated when Powell decided not to run because I knew then that he was a liberal republican and would be no good.
The left always remembers dead republicans fondly, especially backstabbing dead republicans.
Colin Powell took out the establishment’s dirty dagger and stabbed Republicans in the back. He shall not be missed by me.
I remember it as well. I agree it would likely have ended badly, but I think, as I did at the time, that he would have had a fair chance of beating Clinton. Certainly a greater chance than Bob Dole. Good old “next guy in line” GOP politics. The next time it happened, in 2008, Powell was happy to put the shiv right in his “good friend” John McCain’s back
I hate to hear of his passing today. Even more than that, I hated to see him dwindle in character over the years. Long before we had the term "man crush" it was easy to respect him as the general in charge of Operation Desert Storm. I recall the media hating the so-called "Powell Doctrine" of using disproportionate force against your military enemy to hurry up and win the war.
His testosterone levels seem to decline as he got into politics.
Someone was paid to write this.
If somehow, Colin Powell were elected as POTUS, you can bet he would have acted the same way Michael Steele did when he became the national Chairman of the GOP.
Colin, like Mike Steele would have been a TOTAL RINO or Assistant Democrat, apologizing for all the Republican Party stands for. “I am appalled, disgusted and fully ashamed of my Party’s history in relationship with black voters!”
Hey presstitute, PUT THE PIPE DOWN, you should try to stay Sober during Normal Business hours so you don’t sound so frikkin STUPID. Colin Powell was the epitome of a RINO.
The future of the GOP was a Demonrat Derp State traitor. Good thing Trump saved us from the fate of Colon Blow.
I wrote Kemp-Powell ‘96 in the dirt on the pickup window right after Clinton took office. But they nominated another upside-down ticket.
Yeah, yeah. So was Chris Christie.
So, the “future” of the GOP is now in the hands of duds like Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney? Yahoo! “News” is for yahoos.
“Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who sadly passed away from COVID complications,”
his family noted that he’d already been double vaccinated.
FAT LOT OF GOOD THAT DID HIM! RIP!
People say stuff like that a year before the election. It doesn't necessarily mean Powell would have won, and it certainly doesn't mean he would have been that great a president. He would have been more or less like Bush/Cheney, though maybe less personally motivated to take down Saddam Hussein. Looking at today's generals, there isn't much reason to want one to become president, and that goes for Powell, too.
Let’s be clear. Colin Powell was NOT a Republican. He belonged to the Uni Party, and voted for Barak Obama. Let not history forget this.
Life long republican here.
Had Colin ever become leader of the party I’d have quit.
Always a RINO, colin was always crappola.
Powell would easily have been on the 1996 ticket if he expressed the slightest interest.
Matt Lewis has been a Bush League Republican propagandist for years.
He pines for the good old days when we could be duped into voting for Assistant Democrats.
Once his public service career was over he quit pretending and began endorsing Democrats.
Powell knew who had informed the press about Valerie "007" Plame, who was his #2 at State, but he stayed quiet and let Scooter Libby go to prison on manufactured evidence by a corrupt disciple of Robert Mueller. Powell was a man without honor IMHO.
He was a lefty.