"*You're* the one sounding like a liberal DemonRAT -- intolerant of dissent, of any other opinion -- that's the RAT line, not ours, man, *not* ours"
Colin Powell is'nt dissent'ing... he's "man pleasing"... he a man please'er... a wuss.... unless hes actually a stealth demo... a ringer.... hard to tell... hes very good at NOT being straight forward. "candid".... Hes a scary unopened box thats "ticking"..... does the fact the RINOS "love" him speak anything to you... as to being tolerant of dissent, you must've missed my point, most of the Republican Party, at least many are RINOS already, dissent is what I WANT...
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It's not easy to take the democrat out of the party BUT it is damned near impossible to take the democrat out of the democrat. All you end up with is a RINO{Republican in NAME only}- Himself
Now you're sounding like Harry Belafonte. ;-) Colin Powell is a diplomat. Do you know any diplomat who ISN'T a "man-pleaser"? (I don't like typing that phrase for some reason, heh)
Hes a scary unopened box thats "ticking"
Oh, c'mon. :p He's a guy who's wife won't let him run for higher office for the moment. :-) A ticking time bomb? Hardly.
does the fact the RINOS "love" him speak anything to you
Yeah, that he's far too liberal for my taste to be President. ;-)
dissent is what I WANT
Obviously a lot of us are looking to discourage RINOs running for Congress, but this thread started as a debate on Harry Belafonte's remarks regarding Colin Powell. The fact that a bunch of conservatives who, I will wager, agree on any gazillion number of issues, yet get irked by Colin Powell (either direction, pro-Powell, anti-Powell, whatever) -- we need THIS kind of pointless dissention before the elections? If you want to use this as a platform to point out some RINOs in Congressional races that people should avoid, go for it, but other than that, this is *unproductive* dissention ("dysntery among the ranks", to borrow a line from TV :P).
Reality suggests that the argument we started on is yet another example of the Hollywood elite out of touch with mainstream America...I'd rather discuss capitalizing on that in key races, if we're going to get all tangential here.
--KL