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Colin Powell: ‘I Want to Continue to Be a Republican Because It Annoys Them’
PJ Media ^ | 10/01/2015 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 10/01/2015 8:50:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who endorsed President Obama in 2008 and 2012, told the Washington Ideas Forum that there’s a special reason why he doesn’t change his party affiliation.

Powell confirmed that he’s still a registered Republican. “I want to continue to be a Republican because it annoys them,” he quipped.

“I think the party has shifted much further right than where the country is and it should be obvious to party leaders that they cannot keep saying and doing the things that they were doing and hope to be successful in national-level election in the future, not just in 2016,” he added.

Powell cited “pockets of intolerance” within the Republican Party that the GOP “had better figure out how to defeat.”

He also said that immigration rhetoric within the party is an Achilles’ heel.

“I think most Republicans understand that we need immigration, we are an immigrant nation, it is in our best interest to do it,” he said.

“…If I was around Mr. Trump — Donald, who I know rather well — I would say, ‘You know, Don, let’s see what happens — let’s tell all the immigrants working in Trump hotels to stay home tomorrow. Let’s see what happens.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colinpowell; hotels; illegals; powell; republican; trump
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To: SeekAndFind
“I want to continue to be a Republican because it annoys them,”

Political sociopath.

41 posted on 10/01/2015 9:03:15 AM PDT by gasport (Immigration reform means arriving in air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Does he imagine anyone thinks about him?


42 posted on 10/01/2015 9:03:22 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: SeekAndFind

To be honest I don’t pay much attention to colon bowel.

I’ll bet that’d annoy him.


43 posted on 10/01/2015 9:03:38 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind

This party needs a flush handle.


44 posted on 10/01/2015 9:03:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind
Them???

Them and us!

45 posted on 10/01/2015 9:03:49 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: SeekAndFind
owell confirmed that he’s still a registered Republican. “I want to continue to be a Republican because it annoys them,” he quipped.

Republicans are not annoyed, Colon Blow. They are liberal too.

We conservatives have already left that train wreck of a party.

46 posted on 10/01/2015 9:03:54 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: cripplecreek

Traitor to the people who helped him

Traitor to the United States

Great legacy there.


47 posted on 10/01/2015 9:04:09 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: SeekAndFind
“I think the party has shifted much further right than where the country is …”

Uh, Colin … it’s not the party that shifted, it’s the country under the leadership of the Dems and the media that has shifted WAY TO THE LEFT!

48 posted on 10/01/2015 9:05:23 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No, it doesn’t.

You are perfect for the Repulic*nt Party, General Colon Pole.


49 posted on 10/01/2015 9:06:46 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Powell is the poster boy for “The Peter Principle”


50 posted on 10/01/2015 9:07:10 AM PDT by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: SeekAndFind

He voted for the negro community organizer from Chicago. Blackness trumps the political welfare of the entire nation.


51 posted on 10/01/2015 9:07:12 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: SeekAndFind

Interesting. Powell doesn’t know the difference between immigrants and illegal aliens.


52 posted on 10/01/2015 9:09:00 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: SeekAndFind

faker, liar, back-stabber. Just to name a few of his qualities.


53 posted on 10/01/2015 9:11:07 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: SeekAndFind

His still being a Republican is the least of my annoyances with the party.

We all have much bigger pigs to roast.


54 posted on 10/01/2015 9:11:58 AM PDT by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: SeekAndFind

One of West Point’s left wing PC failures.


55 posted on 10/01/2015 9:12:18 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Ain't Trump concernment great? Ignore fake concernment & vote Trump/Cruz 2016/2020, Cruz/? 2024/28!)
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To: wardaddy

Many FReepers have a long history of chucking their panties on the stage of the latest political superstar to come along. It almost always guarantees a disappointment in the future.

Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Chris Christie, and on and on and on. So far the only one who seems to have proven to be consistently conservative is Sarah Palin and she doesn’t seem to have any interest in getting back into the political arena.


56 posted on 10/01/2015 9:12:28 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Did he take retarded pills?


57 posted on 10/01/2015 9:13:31 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jeb! would certainly have a cabinet position for him...possibly even VP...


58 posted on 10/01/2015 9:13:31 AM PDT by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're yelling "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Who admitted he voted for zero for ‘historic’ reasons, not qualifications, thinks the GOPe should rein in the 72% of the base who feel betrayed by their leadership but are mysteriously now missing their Speaker of the House.

Hated this true Affirmative Action hire since ‘08. We should start calling him General Token to return the insult.


59 posted on 10/01/2015 9:13:46 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Who admitted he voted for zero for ‘historic’ reasons, not qualifications, thinks the GOPe should rein in the 72% of the base who feel betrayed by their leadership but are mysteriously now missing their Speaker of the House.

Hated this true Affirmative Action hire since ‘08. We should start calling him General Token to return the insult.


60 posted on 10/01/2015 9:13:46 AM PDT by txhurl
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