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Colin Powell: 'I can no longer call myself a fellow Republican'
The Hill ^ | Jan 10, 2021 | Marina Pitofsky

Posted on 01/10/2021 6:34:12 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that he no longer considers himself a Republican in the wake of the riot that broke out at the Capitol building last week.

Asked by CNN's Fareed Zakaria whether he believes "fellow Republicans" who have not criticized President Trump "encouraged, at least, this wildness to grow and grow," Powell responded that "They did, and that's why I can no longer call myself a Republican."

"I'm not a fellow of anything right now. I'm just a citizen who has voted Republican, voted Democrat throughout my entire career, and right now I'm just watching my country and not concerned with parties," Powell said.

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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Colin Powell: 'I can no longer call myself a fellow Republican'

Well it's about time because we stopped calling you a fellow Republican years ago...

81 posted on 01/10/2021 6:54:37 PM PST by Iscool
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
You never were a Republican. You describe yourself as a "fiscal conservative, and a social liberal."

Go F yourself Colin.

82 posted on 01/10/2021 6:55:09 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Hahahahaha...gulp..... cough.....hahahaha. This so called man is beyond pathetic. Never a Republican other than when it advanced his career. He is a pathetic shame. And now an official socialist / Marxist.


83 posted on 01/10/2021 6:55:32 PM PST by DAC21
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Does it gwt dark at night?


84 posted on 01/10/2021 6:55:50 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

After voting for the Kenyan from Indonesia, no one thought he was a Republican.


85 posted on 01/10/2021 6:56:04 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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The problem IS these people overflowing in the Republican Party that despise the base.

If you have these peeps, they’ll do what they did to the Tea Party and Trump.

And now the Dirty GOP Senate is saying they’ll call for an Investigation of Biden, finally when they have no power and know it will never happen.

One side votes as a bloc, and the other side works to serve the opposition.

Time for change.


86 posted on 01/10/2021 6:56:08 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

He hasn’t been a Republican since GW II.


87 posted on 01/10/2021 6:56:10 PM PST by Starcitizen (Thank you to the Senate for passing S.386, turning the US into the third-world shithole of India. )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

You beat me to it.


88 posted on 01/10/2021 6:56:12 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: Lera

“He gave the right to call himself a Republican when he voted for and supported Obama”

He had to support O’Bunghole. He was half white, 43.5% Arab, and 6.5 percent black, and lived an oppressed childhood


89 posted on 01/10/2021 6:56:16 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This Rat has no business having a thread dedicated to his dumb ass perspective on this site.


90 posted on 01/10/2021 6:56:16 PM PST by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents )
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To: dfwgator


LOL


91 posted on 01/10/2021 6:57:22 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

You POS!! You have NEVER been a member of the GOP!! Only a member of the “promote Powell” team!!! TRAITOR TO AMERICA.


92 posted on 01/10/2021 6:58:13 PM PST by Elkiejg
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This is great....finally we’re seeing who was who. They’re bold enough now to admit it. The purge by DJT has been highly successful.


93 posted on 01/10/2021 6:58:33 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

You never could, you slimy POS.


94 posted on 01/10/2021 6:58:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: tennmountainman

many are leaving the republican party due to lack of interest and weakness in defending the president, and some politicians and communicators interpret this as turning their backs on the president, somehow they must know that they are wrong and that who we reject is the party


95 posted on 01/10/2021 6:59:02 PM PST by californian by choice
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

How embarrassing for him.


96 posted on 01/10/2021 6:59:04 PM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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How about that Midget, Scalisse?

The cloistered MFERS that are so willing to sacrifice themselves for Nancy and Chuck,


97 posted on 01/10/2021 6:59:09 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"Oh my God! Who the hell cares."

LOL!! My youngest son has that sound bite set for his emails on his laptop. Thank God he lives 16 hours from me, but I have to put up with it when I visit him. I have to sleep on an air mattress in his living room, and he doesn't power down his laptop at night. The first couple of times I stayed there, I kept getting woke up by that, and had to get up to turn the volume down. He finally got the message.

98 posted on 01/10/2021 6:59:25 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

commie commie commie


99 posted on 01/10/2021 7:00:28 PM PST by angelcindy (FOR THE PEOPLE )
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“Colin Powell: ‘I can no longer call myself a fellow Republican’”

I’ll call you a fellow traveler you disgrace to the uniform.


100 posted on 01/10/2021 7:00:41 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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