Guess logic is simply too much for the former weak-kneed pussy-footing "Secretary of Snakes"...who is clearly not GOP...sounds like it could really use a "membership committee"...
Posted on 05/25/2009 6:56:50 AM PDT by NoPrisoners
In the latest round of the increasingly heated intra-GOP feud, former Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday defended his Republican credentials and fired back at radio host Rush Limbaugh and former Vice President Dick Cheney, saying the party had to expand beyond its conservative base.
“Rush will not get his wish and Mr. Cheney was misinformed – I am still a Republican,” Powell said in a much-anticipated interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” two weeks after Cheney suggested on the same show that the retired general had left the party by endorsing Barack Obama last fall.
Powell outlined his party bona fides, noting his votes for and services under a string of Republican presidents, and said it was not up to Cheney and Limbaugh – the radio host has kept up a steady drumbeat of criticism since Powell's cross-party endorsement last year – to determine who belonged in the GOP.
“Neither [Cheney] nor Rush Limbaugh are members of the membership committee of the Republican Party,” Powell said...
[Tom] Ridge also split with Cheney on the vice president's claim that Obama's policies were making Americans less safe. "I do not" agree with that, Ridge plainly told CNN's John King, adding, "Yeah, I disagree with Dick Cheney."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Powell has it all wrong. The Republican party swayed to the left and forget about its conservative base. The last straw was putting up a candidate such as McAmnesty.
However I will agree with Powell on the fact that our country was deliberately given false intelligence about WMD.
A Republican who votes for Democrats. Such a contradiction shows that he has mush for brains.Since he is no longer credible, the rats deserve him.
“I will agree with Powell on the fact that our country was deliberately given false intelligence about WMD”
Hi DOC. Powell chose to use all of the bad information in the all nighters he pulled with the State Dept. & Tenet before the U.N. speech. It was ultimately his decision on what to use.
Here is some legit intel:
False and Flawed Logic (anthrax & Ivins)
Part II
The Raven’s Pestilence
Shortly before the first anthrax attack letters were made public, a newspaper owned by Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein, ran a long front page rant. Buried deeply and near the bottom of the page was a quote. It said, “The Raven’s Pestilence Is Harassing The Motherland, But At Last, Pestilence Comes To The Raven’s Nest”, it also went on to say “At First, The Virus Will Be Susceptible To Anti-biotic“. This, according to Richard Spertzel, the former head of the biological weapons section of UNSCOM, and who was a member of the Iraq Survey Group, was more than a mere coincidence. It was a clue.
The definition of “pestilence” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word as ”a contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating, or something that is destructive or pernicious”. Although anthrax is not infectious disease as in being spread from human to human contact, Mr. Spertzel believed it was a reference to the anthrax attacks.
Today, the FBI released some of the circumstantial evidence they built against Mr. Ivins. I asked Mr. Spertzel if it changed his views in any way. Nope, he said. “there are not any details” and “you can’t make anything out of it” referring to the selectively released documents, some with partial information only, like the emails.
Mr. Spertzel thought it was ridiculous that Ivins was being accused of making the weapons grade (weaponized) anthrax. “It is impossible for any one person, to have made the weapons grade anthrax, at least without anyone else knowing about it, or being part of it“.
I have always believed that the anthrax attacks were from Iraq. So I asked Mr. Spertzel what he thought and he believes the weapons grade anthrax itself was a product of a joint venture between Syria and Iraq, noting the agreement between the two countries for the development of chemical and biological weapons starting in 1994, as he testified to before the U.S. Congress.
The 2001 anthrax attacks had all of the hallmarks of Iraqi intelligence operation, it was the way they operated, Mr. Spertzel said..
http://www.thexreport.com/false_and_flawed_logic_(anthrax_&_ivins).htm
He votes for Obama and parrots Pelosi by saying he knows which direction the GOP should head.
Exactly. So much for that retirement he was always looking forward to. Now he just won't go away and get off my TV.
When the Republicans desperately needed Powell to endorse McCain in a heated battle with Obama, Powell betrayed the party and endorsed Obama for President.
The Republican Party made Powell what he is today. Powell returned the favor and “cut and run” when needed. Expel him and ask him to join the Democrats where he will have friends to “cut and run” with.
His claim to fame is he's capable of taking orders from others and not giving them out himself. Whether it was under the command of Stormin' Norman, or inside the White House under various administrations, he's never issued an order just taken them.
With all due respect to the General on this Memorial Day, just because he says he's a Republican doesn't mean that he is.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that as General Powell says, he's a Republican.
Fair enough. Now that he's a Republican he cannot be a General, for if he was, he'd have never aimed friendly fire at Cheney and Limbaugh and instead targeted his fire at the "transformational figure" he endorsed for President.
Case closed on Powell as far as I'm concerned. Thank you for your service to our country Mr. Powell, but a Republican you clearly are not.
He's largely irrelevant, since his appeal only appeals to the moderates in this country. When he endorsed Obama, it wasn't exactly earth-shattering news to most people. His reasons for supporting Obama ranged from supporting the first viable black candidate to agreeing with Obama's policies.
I will guarantee you, his endorsement didn't create a lot of converts toward Obama. His endorsement was just weeks before the election, and by that time, people's minds were already made up.
Powell may still be a Republican and if so, why in hell doesn’t he plead mercy for getting Scooter Libby hung just to get even with the Bush adminstration at any cost. The guy is the worst kind of loser and would be more at home with the Democrat party that is populated by perverts and losers.
The exact same thing is true of KlanRAT David Duke...a lying racist in the Sheets Byrd tradition.
How do Bowel and Duke get along? I repudiate them both.
Powell Fires Back at Cheney, Limbaugh
NewsMax | May 20, 2009
Posted on 05/20/2009 6:26:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2255150/posts
Ego inflated blowhards? Absolutely!
They are what we in America have these days, parading around as politicians.
They will say or do anything necessary to be electable. They have straddled the fence so much that even they don't even know which side of the fence they belong.
I used to like Ridge and Powell both. But now that I have seen them for what they really are,........not so much.
Just what does the Republican party stand for now?
With people like McLame,Ridge, Grhamnesty, and Powell, as some of it's most visible members; I'm not sure that I want to be associated with it any longer.
Guess logic is simply too much for the former weak-kneed pussy-footing "Secretary of Snakes"...who is clearly not GOP...sounds like it could really use a "membership committee"...
Pretty much nothing except, "We Suck Less Than They Do."
He has been teetering on that edge for some time now too. Somebody needs to tell him to make up his political mind which way he wants to go, and get there fast!
Rinos are welcome to financially support the GOP and vote for GOP representatives, but there is no way they should set policy. If Colon Bowel supported Carter over Ford, there is no way he could convince ANYONE of his “move the GOP to the left” strategy.
Of course you're not out of the party, General. {spit}
You're the defacto HEAD of the GOP now, not Rush.
Get with the prooooogram, General. {spit}
"...in a much-anticipated interview on CBS’s 'Face the Nation'..."
*Much* anticipated??
BWWWWWHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
The *Politico*, geshhhhh.
You cannot be a Republican and endorse Obama; just as you cannot be a Catholic and be pro-abortion. End of argument. Next topic, please.
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