Colin Powell a Republican? Are You Kidding?
How can a man who endorsed Barack Obama for president, probably voted for him, and praised him for his "fresh ideas" still be considered a Republican?
So President Obama promised to close Guantanamo but didn’t quite think through how this would be accomplished. Details. Details. Cheney notes the obvious:
On his second day in office, President Obama announced that he was closing the detention facility at Guantanamo. This step came with little deliberation and no plan. Now the president says some of these terrorists should be brought to American soil for trial in our court system. Others, he says, will be shipped to third countries. But so far, the United States has had little luck getting other countries to take hardened terrorists. So what happens then? Attorney General Holder and others have admitted that the United States will be compelled to accept a number of the terrorists here, in the homeland, and it has even been suggested U.S. taxpayer dollars will be used to support them. On this one, I find myself in complete agreement with many in the president’s own party. Unsure how to explain to their constituents why terrorists might soon be relocating into their states, these Democrats chose instead to strip funding for such a move out of the most recent war supplemental.
It is more than a little amusing that HuffPo reporter Nico Pitney compares and contrasts the speeches calling the president’s speech “serious and wide-ranging” (read: boring and vague) with Cheney’s “vicious and personal” (read: plain-spoken and factual) speech.
President Obama’s moderate rhetoric hides his liberalism. Colin Powell and other moderates like John McCain and Florida’s Charlie Crist all share the same moderate rhetoric that obscures the same liberal leanings. If the new “titular head” of the Republican party is Colin Powell, there will continue to be little reason to vote Republican.
Vice President Dick Cheney’s star rises because he offers a contrast. Republicans win because they’re smart, sensible, and stick to their guns. Waffling, emotional, vague and empty platitudes win elections for Democrats. When Republicans act like Democrats, they lose. Let’s hope Colin Powell doesn’t hold the titular head mantel for long.
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1. WhyamInotsurprised?:Thank God for Dick Cheney! Even liberals know when someone speaks plain truth cutting through all the doublespeak. BHO was a stumbling, bumbling fool in his efforts to blunt Cheney’s address to the AEI. By “calling a spade, a spade” Dick hit BHO and liberals right between the eyes. That is the reason they are going berserk.
With Cheney’s leadership success in both public and private sectors, even if he doesn’t run in ‘12, I’m sure he knows plenty of conservative talent that can be brought into the realm. Men like him know talent and spend time developing and mentoring it. I wait to see who surfaces to run. It is time to clean out the “usual suspects” and fish in fresher, cleaner waters. There will be talent out there that is capable of talking-the-talk and walking-the-walk.
And like Cheney, they will also be smart enough to know that “a rose called by any other name, is still a rose,” no matter what kind of doublespeak comes from the messiah’s pie hole. And they will have the courage and eloquence to call him (and liberals) on it.
It is time for all RINO’s to heed the call of the wild and go retire somewhere. If they won’t do it willingly, then they should be forced out. The rest of republican leadership needs to grow a pair of big brass ones and take a lesson from a master. Time to act is now!
His health aside, I’d gladly support him as the undeniable head of the republican party. He is a “mince no words,” no non-sense, “take no prisoners” kind of guy. My kind.
Thanks Dick for coming to the rescue when your country needs you.
May 22, 2009 - 1:05 am 2. BPT (Australia):Thanks for reminding me of Rush’s excellent talking points on the Republican leadership. I listen to him all the time. Very funny.
May 22, 2009 - 1:07 am 3. Confused in Virginia:I have never really liked Cheney all that much, but he would definitely be better than Colin Powell. It is not surprising that a large majority of African-Americans voted for Obama just because of his skin color, but I thought that people with a higher intellect would see past skin color. Obviously, I was wrong.
There is no way that someone who supported Obama, when he could have just kept quiet about it, can be the head of the Republican party. Although, even if that were something that could be forgiven, Powell has never really been a leader (maybe when he was in the military). He has always seemed to me to be a follower, going along with things that he things are not right, and then whining about it.
There may be a new Republican party, but it does not need individuals who don’t seem to know that if you want to be considered a leader in one party, you don’t endorse the opposition party’s candidate and then vote for him. Cheney has at least always been consistent, so you know where you stand with him.
May 22, 2009 - 1:59 am 4. Gary Ogletree:Cheney shines when he rises to the defense of our country but he was a big supporter of massive spending with Bush. Correct me if my memory is faulty, but wasn’t he also a die hard supporter of South African apartheid? Regardless, it’s refreshing to see him slice and dice our Mussolini wannabe. Barack don’ like dat. He wa’ dissed.
May 22, 2009 - 3:17 am 5. marsouin:Powell recently condemned right-wing “hate speech”, but made absolutely no mention of the almost daily vitriol and smears from the socialist side (”civil rights” and church leaders, Rev Wrights etc., Progressives, the press, etc.). It’s pretty obvious where his sympathies lay. What good would a moderate social democrat do for anyone but the Democrat Party?
May 22, 2009 - 3:33 am 6. cedarhill:Powell is a funny guy. Reminds me of Pat Paulson’s run for President when he was on the old Laugh In TV show. Actually, imho, he’s a lot funnier than Paulson ever was since he seems so sincere about his one-liners.
Hope he collects them into a book so we can all enjoy them at our leisure.
May 22, 2009 - 4:24 am 7. SAF:Powell was never a republican except for the label. His heart and soul have always been for the democrats.
Perhaps there will be an awakening among those republicans who thought Powell was one of them.
Personally I think this is an unimportant topic, Powell can’t help republicans and I think there is limited damage he can do. His time has come and gone.
May 22, 2009 - 4:49 am 8. David Thomson:“Vice President Dick Cheney’s star rises because he offers a contrast.”
It is very unfortunate that Dick Cheney had to play second fiddle to the politically correct and too often inept George W. Bush. The former president does not possess half of his intellect. Cheney’s poll numbers plummeted primarily because he was unable to respond to the vicious attacks of his enemies. Many Americans mistakenly thought this silence was somehow an admission of guilt. Cheney is now unleashed—and able to be a true leader.
May 22, 2009 - 5:07 am 9. EMF:Colin Powell and Charlie Crist are just plain old tired RHINOS who need to go away to retirement farm to watch the grass grow. We need true conservatives to lead our country back to what our founding fathers envisioned for our “freedom”. Rhino’s are just kite liberal Democrats, who loss elections because they do not stand for anything.
May 22, 2009 - 5:14 am 10. David Thomson:It just dawned on me that I didn’t even mention Colin Powell in my previous post. On a gut level, I simply don’t take him seriously. He is intellectually mediocre and merely places his wet finger into the air to see which way the “elite” winds are blowing. Why even bother spending any significantly time discussing Powell? We have better things to do.
May 22, 2009 - 5:16 am 11. Northern Light:Let’s see, one guy has a radio show, is a former drug addict, a person who coulod have served his country if he had a simple opperation to remove a cyst but chose to use it to get out of military service, and chose to attack Michael J. Fox during an election campaign.
The other guy is a military hero, a four-star general, a former Secretary of State, and a man who has a reputation of holding onto his beliefs even when they are not popular with his party.
I wonder if Powell chose to run for the Republican nomination for a senate seat if Rush would have the grapefruits to run against him in the primaries. Probably not, Rush may have a gut, but he has no guts.
May 22, 2009 - 5:26 am 12. WR Jonas:Will he finally get some “fire in his belly” and run for the GOP nomination in 2012 ? A living ,walking straw man !
May 22, 2009 - 5:30 am 13. sheesh:Dick Cheney supports and defends the Republican party. Colin Powell supports and defends America. No contest.
May 22, 2009 - 5:34 am 14. David Thomson:“Powell recently condemned right-wing “hate speech”
Colin Powell never seems to mention any specific examples of such “hate speech.” To be blunt, he is something of a cheap shot artist. Also, does anyone know what Powell stands for regarding foreign policy and economic matters? He doesn’t hesitate criticizing conservatives—but his own beliefs are rather vague to say the least except for abortion.
May 22, 2009 - 5:35 am 15. RedHeadedTexan:#11 Northern Light:
May 22, 2009 - 5:40 am 16. sheesh:Typical liberal BS…sling personal insults and avoid the issues. I’ll bet you’re a PERFECT physical specimen and please post a copy of your DD214 so we can see how you served your country. *crickets chirping*
Republicans – the big tent party, unless you’re a veteran with:
Defense Distinguished Service Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters)
Distinguished Service Medal, Army (with Oak Leaf Cluster)
Defense Superior Service Medal
Legion of Merit (with Oak Leaf Cluster)
Soldier’s Medal
Bronze Star
Purple Heart
Air Medal
Joint Service Commendation Medal
Army Commendation Medal (with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters)
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Presidential Citizens Medal
Oh, and national security advisor for Ronald Reagan . . . and Secretary of State.
What an effing loser. He’s never done anything for this country. He has no sense of sacrifice or service or commitment. He can’t hold a candle to Rush Limbaugh. Kick him to the curb.
As for that mysterious missing hate speech, it’s all right here at PJM.
May 22, 2009 - 5:50 am 17. sheesh:Better yet, let’s really put our commitments where our mouths are. Let’s determine the next couple of elections on one issue: Rush or Colin. Put em both out there and say to the American public – it’s all or nothing. Do you want an America led and represetend by Rush Limbaugh or Colin Powell?
Yeah, not so committed now, are you?
May 22, 2009 - 5:54 am 18. sheesh:15. RedHeadedTexan… I look forward to reading YOUR DD214.
May 22, 2009 - 5:55 am 19. Rusty:The idea that Powell would run for anything is bogus. He had a political job. HE QUIT. He was handed the SofS job because Bush valued his experience with Iraq. Since quiting his cabinet job, he could have run for a variety of open senate seats, but he instead makes money on the lecture circuit and writing books.
May 22, 2009 - 6:12 am 20. sheesh:Rush needs to pick someone else to promote as the new head of the Republican Party. Maybe some junior senator who only has a year or so tenure, who relies on a telepromter, and speaks like a southern Baptist preacher. He or she doesn’t have to be smart, just through around some buzz words and cock their heads to the side and smile.
19. Rusty: . . . sounds like Bobby Jindahl. If you had said “cock their heads to the side and wink” I would have thought you meant Sarah Palin. I think either would be great – for the Democrats.
May 22, 2009 - 6:17 am 21. sharon:I’ll take Rush.
May 22, 2009 - 6:17 am 22. sheesh:21 sharon . . . and you’ll lose . . . again.
May 22, 2009 - 6:26 am 23. D-wah:Sheesh–if yo’re fur ‘im, ah’m agin’im. So typical. You sound particularly angry today. Wassup? Didn’t get your check from dur Fuhrer?
Oh, and thanks for that false choice in 17–aren’t we clever. You really slammed that one home. Careful, getting pretty smug agreeing with yourself so much.
May 22, 2009 - 6:30 am 24. Bohemond:Sheesh:
So by your standards, you voted for Captain John McCain, right?
And you never, ever shrieked for Powell’s head over the Iraq war and his UN speech, right?
Give me a break. Powell is a lifelong Democrat. He remained personally loyal to the House of Bush (for a while) because George I passed over several more senior generals to make him CJCS. Otherwise, he’s pure liberal. (Which is why now you little Soros mouthpieces are praising his military record, when ordinarily of course you hate and despise military men).
May 22, 2009 - 6:30 am 25. elvis:Sheeesh is a moderate on the subject of anal retention. hahahahaha.
Now telling us what is on Powell’s uniform. We have all followed his career sheesh. Of course you do see that Powell is an opportunist and is buddying up to one of his own kind now.
That’s ideology sheesh; before you go on autopilot and gasp out in your best try to act indignant, your favorite word “racism”.
We don’t want democrats in the Republican Party that vote democrat. You know that sheeesh. Just like we don’t want you.
Let’s talk about how the democrats have a big tent party, and how much REAL diversity is in this party of collectivists! Forget the party that made Powell what he is. He will suffer from history as all turncoats do.
Where is the big tent in the Obama administration?
May 22, 2009 - 6:42 am 26. sheesh:23. D-wah . . . “Oh, and thanks for that false choice in 17–aren’t we clever.”
That’s not my choice, D-wad, it’s Rush’s. He is the guy who resigned as the titular head of the Republican party and turned it over to Colin Powell. Try to keep up.
24 Bohemond . . . Nope. You see, it’s not about strict adherence to a narrow ideology for me. I respect the individual. I didn’t vote for John McCain, but I respect him. I didn’t agree with what Powell did at the UN, and I think he should have come forward with the facts behind that charade and maybe even resigned in protest, but I respect that he stayed with it out of respect and commitment to the troops. I don’t expect you to understand that, because you don’t understand the irony of Republicans throwing Powell overboard after a lifetime of service because he voted his conscience instead of the party line . . . yet another example of conservatives’ empty claim of commitment to principles like courage, service and loyalty.
May 22, 2009 - 6:56 am 27. sheesh:25 elvis . . . Obama just appointed a Republican Mormon to be Ambassador to China. How much diversity do you want?
May 22, 2009 - 6:58 am 28. G-man:No one is questioning Gen. Powell’s prior service to his country. But what does that have to do with what he is saying and doing now, today?
May 22, 2009 - 7:00 am 29. JACKH:In all honesty, how can Mr. Powell claim to be a Republican at all, just because that is what it might say on his voter registration card? It seems to me that if a person endores a Democrat for President, then goes out of his way to support the most radical of that Democrat President’s agenda items, he can’t honestly claim to be a Republican anymore.
I remember the way the Larry Flynt made a pornographic movie of Govenor Palin and the no one condemned it, not even Colin Powell.
I remeber when Gov Palin was hung in effigy in California and no one condemned it, not even the General.
I remeber when left wing protestors showed up outside McCain rally’s with “Sarah Palin is a Whore” T-shirts and no one, not even St. Colin, condemned it (McCain didn’t condemn it either, maybe he was listening to Meaghan at the time).
Yet Colin Powell re-inforced the Democratic/media conventional wisdom the the McCain campaign was the ugly one, right during a crucial time in the campaign.
If there was a whore present in the campaign last year, it wasn’t Govenor Palin.
May 22, 2009 - 7:05 am 30. sheesh:28 G-man . . . I’m imagining a meeting between you and Colin Powell, a chance for you to confront him face to face . . . I think it would go something like this:
G-man: “General Powell . . . I demand to know, are you a Republican or a Democrat?”
CP: “I’m a soldier.”
And then he would turn away to address someone of more substance, leaving you to shuffle off trying to hide the spreading pee stain in your pants.
May 22, 2009 - 7:14 am 31. savage24:Having served in Korea and Vietnam, I can’t see how any vet could become a democrat. I still hate communist and will until I die. That’s why I can’t stand Obama or Powell.
May 22, 2009 - 7:33 am 32. TOhio:Colin Powell served his country honorably in the military but this doesn’t automatically make him a worthy spokesperson for the Republican Party.
Colin Powell is not a Republican. He doesn’t espouse any of the conservative views of true Republicanism.
He voted and supported Obama. No real conservative Republican would have ever done this given Obama’s radical background and limited experience. When Powell openly supported Obama, he basically became a Democrat and he knew this.
However, now that Colin Powell been with the Democrats long enough to smell the stench he wants to come back to the Republican Party but make it Democrat-lite. NO WAY!
May 22, 2009 - 7:37 am 33. Self-hating Boomer:Fresh ideas, indeed. He couldn’t even wrap his mind around Franks’ plan. As SoS, he tried to argue with Franks on strategy. The dude’s just mentally over the hill.
May 22, 2009 - 7:42 am 34. sheesh:25 elvis . . . “That’s ideology sheesh; before you go on autopilot and gasp out in your best try to act indignant, your favorite word “racism”.
I didn’t mention race. Perhaps you have me confused with #1 whyaminotsurprised who evoked “calling a spade, a spade” . . . take it up with him.
May 22, 2009 - 7:46 am 35. Ms. Attitude:Sheesh, thanks for the laughs this morning! You are on a roll…bada bing!
You gave us a choice now here’s yours: Rev. Wright or Bill Ayers for the leader of the Democratic Socialist Party?
May 22, 2009 - 7:58 am 36. Ms. Attitude:hahahahahaha…you are so funny!!! That saying has nothing to do with race….
May 22, 2009 - 8:00 am 37. SAF:29; JackH: well said.
May 22, 2009 - 8:18 am 38. Dave McGinley:Sheesh: No question, in a political contest of Limbaugh or Powell, I would vote for Limbaugh every time. I certanly honor General Powell’s military service to our country, but when it comes to his political ideoology, I disagree with him. And, since I disagree with him, I would not vote for him. Just because someone was/is a soldier does not mean they get my vote.
May 22, 2009 - 8:35 am 39. Aleena:sheesh,
May 22, 2009 - 9:05 am 40. Ms. Attitude:Debate means that you support your ideas with facts. You seem to think that because you say something it must be true and that vulgar, immature language is cute. This is twisted and childish reasoning. If you make an assertion, back it up with facts, or are you just playing the Alinsky game?
30. sheesh: . . . I’m imagining a meeting between you and me, a chance for you to confront me face to face . . . I think it would go something like this:
Sheesh: “Hey babe, you wanna go have unprotected sex so we can make a baby and you can go get an abortion?”
Me: “I’m a lady.”
And then I would turn away to address someone of more substance, leaving you to shuffle off trying to hide the spreading pee stain in your pants.
Mine is more realistic!
May 22, 2009 - 9:26 am 41. Fantom:Colin Powel is just another affirmative action black hire. If he were white, I doubt he would have been anything more than a second lieutenant.
May 22, 2009 - 9:40 am 42. SAF:This article isn’t about whether Colin Powell is brave, competent, deserving worthy etc. Its about whether he is a republican or not. He isn’t and its irrelevant.
to whom? Everybody
May 22, 2009 - 10:20 am 43. Middleman:Some of the comments on here are truly incredible. Powell has done nothing, but serve this country. He put his credibility on the line and was left out to dry after stating the case for the Iraq War at the UN. He took the hit, not Bush or Cheney.
For you people to belittle this man because he isn’t marching in lockstep with a political party and people he stood by aas they let him be the fall guy is pretty dispicable and I think it reveals more about your own integrity than Colin Powell’s.
May 22, 2009 - 10:37 am 44. Geoff:1/4 of the posts on this thread are by a single person, which is just sad. Did your parents not tell you that you were special often enough?
May 22, 2009 - 10:54 am 45. Oscar Wao:“Is Colin Powell a good face for the Republican Party?” Like John McCain, it’s assumed he is a good face for the party because he’s just like them. Well, he’s just like them until someone more like them runs for office — say, Barack Obama.”
What do you think?
From Rasmussen:
“Monday, August 25, 2008
It’s a good thing for Republicans that Colin Powell is still one of them.
Powell, the popular former secretary of state and chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, handily beats Republican presidential candidate John McCain in a one-on-one match-up. This comes at a time when Barack Obama holds a very slight lead over McCain in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.”
According to a poll released today by CNN, about 55% of Americans dislike Cheney. Limbaugh, of course, is disliked by about 80% of Americans dislike Limbaugh.
Your stupidity is getting to the point where its actually cute. I love you people. Please don’t change.
May 22, 2009 - 11:28 am 46. G-man:sheesh, have you ever heard of an ad hominem attack? Well that is what you launched on me. You didn’t address my statement at all, you attacked me as somehow unworthy to ask a question of a fellow citizen and public figure.
And just to let you know I too am a veteran of of the armed forces of the USA just like General Powell and I should tell you, if he were still a Soldier he would not, by law and tradition, be allowed to express the opinions, or any opinions on the subjects at hand, in public, that he has to date.
May 22, 2009 - 11:31 am 47. Delia:44. Geoff:
1/4 of the posts on this thread are by a single person, which is just sad. Did your parents not tell you that you were special often enough?
~
Not enough ((HUGS)) from Mum either.
May 22, 2009 - 11:37 am 48. fred:My reading of Colin Powell, from his own rare pronouncements, his book, and (most importantly) the unofficial information about him and his career is that he has always been about Colin Powell. He was that way as an Army officer. He got pulled into the Reagan administration, I believe, not on the merits. He was the perfect staff officer, which means he was very good at planting his lips in places most of us would never go to. Now, he’s part of the celebrity circuit in D.C. and New York, and when you are on their invite list it means you have been vetted as “one of them.” That means he is a lot more to the Left than most people realize. He gets his view of the world from that incestuous party circuit. It’s a bubble, and he’s not the only one in it, just so you know I’m not picking on him alone.
The military guys I’ve conversed with who know him or know of him all say he was very good at getting his ticket punched. He did just enough command assignments satisfactorily to get him to the next rung, which more often than not was as a staff officer. Staff officers are often yes-men. They are very good at reading the personality and views of their superior officers and then making sure that they conform themselves accordingly. And he still does it with the mainstream media people. That is who he is. He is comfortable in that role.
While I didn’t vote for him and I don’t like him, I’ll grudgingly give Obama more credit than I will give any to Powell. At least Obama is willing to stick his neck out and put skin in the game.
May 22, 2009 - 11:45 am 49. fred:Delia,
David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are hiring a lot of these people to troll conservative blogs to distract, deflect, and demoralize. One of the reasons why I don’t respond to them is because what they write can be distilled from the talking points put out by the mother ship. So, I now regard them as pests and I pass them by.
May 22, 2009 - 11:48 am 50. Oscar Wao:David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are hiring a lot of these people to troll conservative blogs to distract, deflect, and demoralize. One of the reasons why I don’t respond to them is because what they write can be distilled from the talking points put out by the mother ship. So, I now regard them as pests and I pass them by.
If it comforts you to think that, I don’t begrudge you the fantasy. The polls tell a different story. Your ideology is discredited, and your party marginal and growing smaller daily. After eight years of war and trampling of the constitution, and the most intelligence-insulting lies imaginable, people are just sick of you people. And rightly so. Its even worse as you point the finger at everyone else–your party is supposed to represent the individualist, the person who can do. But your little more than a bunch of spoilt and chronically trembling whiners.
Finally, I’m not even a Democrat. I registered as independent. I find the Democrats slightly less dishonest and corrput, and voted for Obama to send a message to your party. Whine all you like; the mess is of your making, you don’t have to blame it on Democratic boogymen.
May 22, 2009 - 12:02 pm 51. Dave:“Waffling, emotional, vague and empty platitudes win elections for Democrats. When Republicans act like Democrats, they lose. Let’s hope Colin Powell doesn’t hold the titular head mantel for long.” On this, I absolutely agree except that Powell has little influence in the GOP and less with conservatives. Colin Powell is the titular head of the Colin Powell fan club and not the base of the GOP.
The lefty posters love him only because he is filling the roll that McCain once held – useful idiot. Were he to take up some of his previously stated conservative principles (that he obviously only holds when convenient) and try to run for political office as a GOP candidate, the lefties that are loving him now would turn on him instantly like they did McCain.
He is a small part of the reason we have one of the worst possible administrations at the worst possible time and I have zero trust in his judgment.
May 22, 2009 - 12:12 pm 52. Войска ПВО:Look, folks, this is not rocket science. General Powell uttered some remarks that indicate he’s not in touch with the great unwashed. Several weeks ago he told us that he felt people did not mind paying a little more for government services then — BAM! — the most liberal state in the country had one quarter of their voters shutdown five out of six of the liberal tax propositions by almost a 2-1 margin. Three quarters of the voters in California stayed home because they were either the mindless Obamabots who felt it was not important or they were people who felt that their vote did not count, that government was not listening.
So Powell and McCain and other Rinos are out of touch and will get passed by if the Tea Party revolution continues and the anger continues to build. But it continues to be ignored and mischaracterized by Obama, the MSM, and the mouth-breathers on the Left. The Rinos are no different that that skank Gerafalo (ugliest woman in the world — both inside and out) or the others on the Left who attribute this to racists and right-wing tantrum throwers.
The most important thing is that Powell, McCain, Arlen Sphincter, et all are being marginalized.
All the while we are assailed here by the keening and juvenile mindless remarks of people like sheesh who seems to have a diaper-full recently and got a refreshed contract from Soros for about 50 cents a post.
Persevere, folks. Like Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
May 22, 2009 - 12:32 pm 53. "progressive"watch:Do you know why Vice President Dick Chaney is speaking so well? He is not speaking as a politician,but from his heart as an American.
Barak Obama’s rhetoric is hiding more than liberalism. There is hardly a de facto liberal left in the Democratic Washington elite. Leftist crowd out liberals. They will be stopped or they will crowd out conservatives too.
May 22, 2009 - 1:06 pm 54. elvis:Actually sheeesh I need real diversity in the democratic party.I would like them to embrace some of us that know that partial birth abortion is torture…..
Sending a mormon who claims to be republican to china means nothing to me.
That’s tokenism.
After reading you and your other aliases you go by for awhile…. you’re all about calling people racist.
However the only reason you and others talk about an average general like powell constantly is because of his race.
As I said before … there are some real generals who are warriors and not kiss ass politicians like powell.
May 22, 2009 - 1:09 pm 55. Well Educated Cad:Powell is the consumate chameleon politician- his ideals are the same of whoever is his boss that week.
May 22, 2009 - 1:40 pm 56. Oscar Wao:He is a spineless weasel and became a general thru Affirmative action only. The Dems can have him.
“He is not speaking as a politician,but from his heart as an American.”
You could say the same about Adolf Hitler. Do you have a point?
May 22, 2009 - 1:48 pm 57. Marine1:As someone who served under the general (and yes I use lower case), he was a twit and if it hadn’t been for the real General Norman Schwarzkopf, Saddam would still have Kuwait and gas would be $12 a gallon. Powell was/is the reason we had to go back to Iraq a second time. It should have been completed in the first mission not left to some United Nations “monitor”. Real generals finish the war with decisive and overwhelming force. Powell has no idea what that means. Powell was an affirmative action, post Vietnam general who was neither a hero or a soldier, he was a manager who was in the right place at the right time. Schwarzkopf and Petraeus are leaders of men and hero’s… not political hack generals…..
May 22, 2009 - 1:58 pm 58. Charvakan:Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s star is rising, according to CNN, and he may well become the real new titular head of the Republican Party.
Hope he does. Obama is guaranteed another 4 years if he does. Funny how conservatives are suddenly rushing to embrace Cheney. During the last election the wanted to get as far away as possible from Cheney and Bush.
May 22, 2009 - 2:15 pm 59. Oscar Wao:“Powell was/is the reason we had to go back to Iraq a second time. It should have been completed in the first mission not left to some United Nations “monitor”. Real generals finish the war with decisive and overwhelming force. Powell has no idea what that means. Powell was an affirmative action, post Vietnam general who was neither a hero or a soldier, he was a manager who was in the right place at the right time.”
Meeting you ninety percent of the way and believing that you’ve ever served anything besides a happy meal, are you really so dumb as to believe the decision was Powell’s to make? That has to be the dumbest thing I’ve read here, and there was a lot of competition in that race, I can assure you. Speaking of affirmative action; how’s your national chairman doing?
May 22, 2009 - 2:35 pm 60. David S:Colin Powell represents what the Republican Party could have been if it had stuck to the rule of law and properly administered the government. That opportunity was wasted, but driving him from the party is nothing but a gift to the left. He was one of the few principled and respected Republicans left – that’s why he could not endorse McCain-Palin.
Independents are the only way to win elections – if even Colin Powell cannot be accorded a conscience, then woe be to the party. It will indeed be a long road home.
Peace.
DS
May 22, 2009 - 2:43 pm 61. David Thomson:“During the last election the wanted to get as far away as possible from Cheney and Bush.”
They only wanted to get away from George W. Bush. This may surprise you—but most voters hardly paid any attention to Dick Cheney. In many respects, he is a new face! Some people are starting to pay attention to Cheney, his wife, and daughter, who barely knew that they previously existed. And please note that I’ve added the spouse and daughter. The family is comprised of effective advocates speaking on behalf of conservative values. They are true winners.
May 22, 2009 - 2:55 pm 62. Schwarzkopf's ghost:Why is it that every one of you nancy boys that wants to go after Powell has to bring me into it. What do I know from jack? The guy was my boss. I haven’t been this disappointed in people since I found out my dad helped frame the guy who got executed for snatching Lindbergh’s baby. Do you know how that feels? The guilt? Oh why am I complaining to you schmoes, you wouldn’t know truth from your own a-holes.
May 22, 2009 - 3:12 pm 63. stuggo:#49 Fred…right on brother..I have made a habit of scrolling past the web brownshirts.
They have an agenda, paid or not, just like every other left-wing cretin.
May 22, 2009 - 3:50 pm 64. Fantom:48. fred: and @ 49.
I agree.
As far as colin powels military service… I note Benedict Arnold held rank too.
In doing what powel did during this last election, that is trying to do as much damage with his endorsement as possible to R’s and mclaim, he showed his true racist, socialist colors.
In my book powel was never a bright or intelligent man, now he is racist scum as well.
As to the second post. Replying to the lefts paid posters.. the sorro’s monkeys posting here. Reading, much less replying to such worms is like stepping in dog DoDo.. avoid it.
May 22, 2009 - 4:01 pm 65. myth buster:SAF, General Powell earned his rank and performed well in all the jobs he earned. Of course, that does not imply by any stretch of the imagination that anyone should listen to him for political advice. The Republican party should no more ask the political opinion of Colin Powell than of General Petreus (who is likewise an excellent officer, but he is nonpartisan to the point of not even voting).
May 22, 2009 - 4:24 pm 66. Lori:Powell ceased to be a Republican the moment he endorsed Obama. He’s a self-serving figurehead who projects gravitas on a stage and looks imposing in military gear.
Dick Cheney’s latest display of courage and patriotism has been heartening in this uncertain time. At a time when no one acts without consulting polls first and everyone falls all over themselves apologizing for the least thing so as not to give offense, Cheney has shown he doesn’t give a damn about being popular, he cares about what is best for this country. He’s been heroic.
May 22, 2009 - 8:18 pm 67. fred:I think Colin Powell’s support for Obonga because of the Usurper’s blackness is completely phony. I would be the entirety of what remains of my retirement account that Powell would never, ever support black thinkers like Alan Keyes, Walt Williams, or Thomas Sowell. Not in a million years. Why? Because their views are not to his liking.
Powell is left of Center, not a “moderate Republican.” Not even moderate Republicans favor higher taxes and massive new government spending. Much as I have issues with McCain, he did not support those. Powell is really a Democrat, and don’t let anyone tell you any differently.
May 22, 2009 - 8:23 pm 68. CapitalistforChange:Reading some of the comments, it’s clear what’s REALLY at the core of the GOP’s “diversity problem”…Several people have dismissed Powell’s gravitas as a military pro because he backed Obama. In fact, Limbaugh himself dismissed Powell’s support of Obama as him being insufficiently grateful to the Republicans (Bush, Reagan) who “made him who he is”….Now THAT’S the reality of “diversity” as it exists today in the GOP. “Diversity”, from a Republican standpoint, is typically gained through APPOINTED positions (ex. Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condi Rice)…Appointments can easily be dismissed as figureheads representing some form of affirmative action…The GOP will not become TRULY diverse until it develops representation via ELECTED positions. Elected officials reflect the people’s choice. If Powell held elected offices, the “Convservatives” would not be able to dismiss his accomplishments so easily…The patronizing view of Powell (and more broadly, diversity) helps to crystalize SOME Republican’s deep resentment toward Obama. See, for all who oppose Obama, there’s one fact that can not be refuted. Nearly seventy million Americans voted for Barack Obama. Nobody can take that away from him. For the GOP to “broaden” it’s appeal, they need to learn that true “diversity” means, no “appointment” necessary.
May 22, 2009 - 9:53 pm 69. Robohobo:sheesh, ? wao and the other leftist trolls are here at the behest of their masters, the Dhimmicrat Party. Folks, do not waste your time engaging them. That is what they want. To be able to divert the true conversation among the adults in the room by shouting loudly – ‘Look at ME!’ Otherwise, why would they be hanging out here? Trying to discourage us or sidetrack the conversation?
As far as Powell, he is what I call a RINOcrat. He, Chris Buckley, Kathleen Parker and others are not conservatives. They are the reason that the GoP lost the last election – they and their ilk had convinced the party machine that being more like the Dems would help them win. Mostly they just wanted to be able to hang out with the cool kids for once. They could not have been more wrong. As we are finding out.
What everyone seems to miss, at least those on the Left, is that Rush was poking fun at them by ‘resigning’ as the head of the Republicans. He never claimed it. The Left did and loudly and repeatedly to try and derail the real discussions.
May 22, 2009 - 10:26 pm 70. trangbang68:Fred, Marine1, Good take on Powell. His service in combat consisted of being an advisor to the ARVN (only real combat leadership-knowing most ARVN units, it probably didn’t consist of much real combat) After that he was a staff officer in the Americal Division, the perpetrators of the My Lai
May 23, 2009 - 7:43 am 71. Sebastian Shaw:massacre and generally considered the worst American infantry division. Other than that, his military career did include lots of political promotions at a time the army was rightly overturning years of institutional racial bias.
So when Sheesh the savant and other leftwing provocateurs try to herald his service they are really exploiting something they know little of.
Colin Powell–like many other RINO’s–seeks the spotlight while the same spotlight is for a rectal exam or prostate exam by a doctor (MSM). Why do the RINO’s torture themselves to be popular? I don’t get it. The RINO’s control much of the Congress, yet in the past 2 election cycles these same RINO’s were wiped out by having Conservative Democrats take their place. Smart move.
Colin Powell endorsed a Socialist Democrat in Senator Obama, yet he has the gall to say he is still a Republican??? Or the Republicans are “evolving.” Excuse me, Colin Powell, your doublespeak is just garbage.
May 23, 2009 - 8:09 am 72. shaui-jan:s.g.”I haven’t been this disappointed in people since I found out my dad helped frame the guy who got executed for snatching Lindbergh’s baby. Do you know how that feels?”
yes,a little…..my dad helped fake the moonlanding..not as bad as yours,but i sometimes cry myself to sleep thinking about it.
May 23, 2009 - 8:13 am 73. sheesh:39. Aleena: . . . “Debate means that you support your ideas with facts. You seem to think that because you say something it must be true and that vulgar, immature language is cute.”
This is not debate, it is commentary and opinion, just like your statement . . . and these comments, all from this thread:
By “calling a spade, a spade” Dick hit BHO and liberals right between the eyes.
I simply don’t take (Powell) seriously. He is intellectually mediocre.
The dude (Powell) is just mentally over the hill.
Colin Powel is just another affirmative action black hire.
He is a spineless weasel and became a general thru Affirmative action only.
So, Aleena, I know it hurts to be skewered by a mind as quick and brilliant as mine. And I know you’re oblivious to the situational ethics and hypocrisy you bring to this PJM experience you call “a debate.” But for now, let’s just call it a draw so you can go back to whining about the rules every time you lose.
May 23, 2009 - 8:41 am 74. johngaltrules:Colin Powell, a republican of convienence when it helped his military career(political hack general,Schwartkopf was right about him all along, as was Tommy Franks), again disgracing the uniform worn so proudly by warriors such as Audie Murphy, Chesty Puller, Lt Marcus Litrell, George Patton, and Douglass Mcarthur. Real men for whom duty, honor,country actually meant something. Unlike Colon Powell, who these days seems to think kissing George Soros ass is the most important thing in the world.
May 23, 2009 - 9:54 am 75. Blackwater:When Powell said something like “The Republicans are out of touch. Americans want more government in their lives…” I couldn’t believe it. I’ve never heard a more un-Republican statement in my life from a Republican. Besides what Ron Pauls supporters say atleast. He’s contorting himself like a pretzel in order to justify why he betrayed his party and his close friend McCain. You gotta love how he criticized the Republican Party saying it has gone too far the right and needs to support more moderate leaders and then he goes and backstabs McCain. Probably the most moderate of moderates in the entire country. What a joke.
May 23, 2009 - 9:55 am 76. Middleman:If Powell stayed as a good little step’n'fetch boy to the Republican Party’s far-right I doubt any of you would be belittling him as you are now.
Instead he did the smart thing and snubbed those who snubbed him and now you’re calling him everything but a nigger. You might as well just go and call him that too because it’s probably on the tip on many of your tongues.
I’ll still take him over any of the armchair generals and latrine scrubbers on here.
May 23, 2009 - 10:03 am 77. Fred Beloit:“Instead he did the smart thing and snubbed those who snubbed him and now you’re calling him everything but a nigger. You might as well just go and call him that too because it’s probably on the tip on many of your tongues.”
Muddleman, you enraged me when you dropped this fetid and stinking stool here. I was about to insult you. But that really isn’t necessary. Your bigotry and prejudice against people you don’t know speaks for itself. The race card…the last resort of the ineffectual.
May 23, 2009 - 10:54 am 78. ReConUSMC:With all the heavy thinking and breathing going on over “what it means to be Republican,” let me provide some light thinking and breathing on the subject. With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy. (But not to Colin Powell.)
If you supported, endorsed and voted for the Democrat for President, you might not be a Republican.
If you supported, endorsed and voted for the Democrat with the most liberal voting record in the Senate, even to the left of self-described socialist Bernie Sanders, you might not be a Republican.
If you refused to vote for the Republican, a war hero and former POW who had 26 years experience in Congress and one of the more liberal voting records among Republicans in the Senate , because he was too conservative, you might not be a Republican.
If you think we have nothing to learn politically from the Republican who won 49 states and the most electoral votes for President ever in US history, all just 25 years ago, you might not be a Republican.
If you think the trouble with the Republican who cosponsored McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform, McCain-Leiberman global warming legislation, and McCain-Kennedy comprehensive immigration reform is that he is too conservative, you might not be a Republican.
If you think the trouble with the Republican President who signed McCain-Feingold, supported McCain-Kennedy, championed and signed No Child Left Behind, championed and signed prescription coverage under Medicare and increased federal spending over President Clinton’s levels across the board, is that he is too conservative, partisan and ideological, you might not be a Republican.
If you think a Republican with published SAT scores that imply an IQ of 125-130, or smarter than 95% of the population and in the range of Lincoln, Rousseau and Thackeray, and who graduated from Yale and then earned an MBA from Harvard is stupid, but a Democrat who has not released any of his education records is the smartest President ever, you might not be a Republican.
If you think the Democrat with 11 years in elective office has more experience than the Republican with 12 years in elective office, you might not be a Republican.
If you think the experience of voting “present” 129 times, writing a second autobiography while in office, never holding an executive position and beginning a run for President just one year into a first Senate term is more impressive than being mayor of a city, oil & gas commissioner of a state that provides up to 20% of the country’s oil and gas, and governor of that state while enjoying a 90% approval rating, you might not be a Republican.
If you think a presidential campaign revolving around “hope”, “change” and “yes we can” is the mark of intellectual gravitas, you might not be a Republican.
If you think the man who called his own grandmother a “typical white person” has transcended race, you might not be a Republican.
If you think a $459 billion deficit under a Republican is irresponsible, but a $1,845 billion deficit under a Democrat is responsible, you might not be a Republican.
If you are against tax cuts, for more government spending, in favor of Kyoto and global warming treaties, for government-run health-care, are generally in favor of most things in the Democratic platform and against most things in the Republican platform, you might not be a Republican.
If you think the way to win votes is by imitating John McCain (who lost) and Arnold Schwartzenegger (who helped put California $21 billion in the red), but eschewing the examples of Ronald Reagan (who won twice, once with 49 states) and the Newt Gingrich congress (who won the House for the first time in 40 years), you might not be a Republican.
If you think the way to win more votes is to imitate the Democrat Congress, the most unpopular Congress in polling history, you might not be a Republican.
If you think a Democrat who made a $34,000 mistake on his taxes is the best man for the job of running the IRS and Treasury, you might not be a Republican.
If you think it is OK for a Democrat President to kill a wanted terrorist by dropping a cluster bomb on him and those around him, including civilian women and children, all without any kind of hearing or tribunal, but a crime for a Republican President to authorize that a terrorist be yanked by his shirt collar to learn how to avoid civilian deaths, you might not be a Republican.
If you switched parties from Republican to Independent (e.g., Jim Jeffords), or from Republican to Democrat (e.g., Arlen Specter), you might not be a Republican.
If you haven’t publicly supported a Republican in over 20 years and you make a living criticizing Republicans in the New York Times, on CNN, etc., you might not be a Republican.
If you think Rush Limbaugh preaches hate and Jeremiah Wright doesn’t, or that Wanda Sykes is funny but Ann Coulter isn’t, you might not be a Republican.
Randall Hoven is a former member of Dick Cheney’s secret special death squad. He was involved in the assassinations of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, among others. He is ready to confess all, for a seven figure book deal. He can be reached at randall.hoven@gmail.com.
May 23, 2009 - 1:44 pm 79. Middleman:Fred,
How many posts on here basically accuse Powell of reaching his position due to Affirmative Action?
The race card has well been in play, pal. Don’t get on me for stating an observation.
May 23, 2009 - 2:39 pm 80. shaui-jan:middleman.”Fred,How many posts on here basically accuse Powell of reaching his position due to Affirmative Action?The race card has well been in play, pal. Don’t get on me for stating an observation.”
affirmative action is not some abstract principal,it is a real goverment mandated policy.if someone thinks powell got ahead due to lawfully instituted race preferences….the worse you can accuse them of is being incorrect…..but being accurate,logical or even cognizant isn’t your style is it?
May 23, 2009 - 5:18 pm 81. Pat J:your a hater chump…that’s it.don’t suddenly pretend to be something you’re not…
Colin Powell is more of a man than both Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh combined.
May 23, 2009 - 7:07 pm 82. Oscar Wao:Middleman…I doubt anyone here is bright enough to make the connection. Here they are accusing Powell of being an affirmative action hire. Now, help me remember, who’s the chairman of the Republican party? I mean it wouldn’t be a guy who was elected simply because he was black, right? I mean, the coincidence that the first Democratic black president, is accompanied by a black Republican GOP chairman is just that. A complete coicidence. I mean, the Republicans are about valor and ethics; they wouldn’t elect a black chairman just because its politically expedient, would they? I mean, cause that’s not only hypocritical, that’s actually stupid.
May 23, 2009 - 7:59 pm 83. Sgt Hulka:Colin Powell did more for this country than Dick “get rich through military contracts” Cheney ever has. What’s more Powell would whup Cheney, Limbaugh and Hannity in a fair fight and make them cry for the mommies. However, judging from their recent appearances, making them cry for mommy is not something very difficult to accomplish.
May 23, 2009 - 8:42 pm 84. ReConUSMC:83. Sgt Hulka:
Colin Powell did more for this country than Dick “get rich through military contracts” Cheney ever has. What’s more Powell would whup Cheney, Limbaugh and Hannity in a fair fight and make them cry for the mommies. However, judging from their recent appearances, making them cry for mommy is not something very difficult to accomplish.
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Your knowledge of History is about as stupid as your Points .I hope your not a Sgt. in my beloved USMC !!!!!!!
May 24, 2009 - 6:39 am 85. Oscar Wao:Colin Powell told Bush 41 to stop at the Border of Iraq back in 1991 when we could have gotten Saddam easily …then there would have been no need for Iraq Two . POWELL wrote ”the Peace Treaty with Saddam allowing 219, 000 Kurds and Shiites to be murdered with first the H.Copters and then” “armed thugs and 21,000 TO BEING GASSED LATER .
Next he went before the UN Twice and Congress 3 Times and said Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction …HE HADS SEEN THE PROVE HIMSELF .
Next he would not Tell Bush that his Senior man in the State Dept. Richard Artimage told Robert Novak Valerie Plan-Stupid was a CIA Agent allowing Scooter Liddy to be prosecuted unjustly .
Your Boy Clinton ”gave “”Haliburtion “” when Cheney was The President there the ENTIRE 80 BILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT IN BOSNIA …. THEY ARE STILL THERE TODAY DUMBO .CLINTON SAID THEY SAVED AMERICA MONEY SINCE IT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED 244 DIFFERENT COS RUNNING ALL AROUND . CLINTON WANTED ONE QUARTERBACK .
You are a very stupid man Sgt, Hulka
Me ?
Captain USMC ReCon Mos 03 0321 .
Two and Half Tours in Nam … 2 PH.s One Bronze Star .
UVA Grad.
Recon
“Your knowledge of History is about as stupid as your Points .I hope your not a Sgt. in my beloved USMC !!!!!!!”
This was excellent. Please keep it coming. My cable is on the fritz, so I need the entertainment. One word of advice, if you’re going to call someone stupid, make sure you don’t write like a blind five year old. Also, I hope you’re still not in the Marines; they still have don’t ask, don’t tell. At least belove civilians; its less likely you’ll get caught.
May 24, 2009 - 9:31 am 86. Oscar Wao:Please kick Powell out of the party. We have no use for any Republican, elected or appointed, who actually served in the military.
May 24, 2009 - 9:38 am 87. Houdini:Personally I always considered him to be a RINO. No true conservative could possibly think of voting for socialistic policies and bigger more inefficient government, nor acting like a democrat.
May 24, 2009 - 9:55 am 88. ReConUSMC:85. Oscar Wao:
Recon
“Your knowledge of History is about as stupid as your Points .I hope your not a Sgt. in my beloved USMC !!!!!!!”
This was excellent. Please keep it coming. My cable is on the fritz, so I need the entertainment. One word of advice, if you’re going to call someone stupid, make sure you don’t write like a blind five year old. Also, I hope you’re still not in the Marines; they still have don’t ask, don’t tell. At least belove civilians; its less likely you’ll get caught.
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You nothing but a spoiled child cheap shot hot-dog ! So your Hung up on Gay Pride are ya ? Sick !
Now Me …….
Captain USMC ReCon Mos 03 0321 .
Two and Half Tours in Nam … 2 PH.s One Bronze Star and Mention Navy Cross(70) . -68 -69-70-71 .
Neidon ( English .. Second degree Black Belt in Judo ) . All Marine Judo team 200 lb. World Marine Champion .. 65-66-67- . Hobby ……. Playing and Teaching MMA and drinking Beer around my 5 acres Bass pond on the Front Lawn of My estate with other Marines .
Taught “Quick Kill ” to ReCon Marines and Special OOP’s Marines recently at Q CO .
UVA Grad. KA …. MBA Business 3.77 and a Minor in Micro Economics . 3.67 .
UVA Football Team …… 62-63-64 . Starter outside linebacker all 3 years in the 4 -3 .
I was the Nickel in the Dime and in the Tampa Two .
President Sealy {Posturepedia ) of Canada ..USA Furniture Div. {Retired }
Very Rich and own and Estate here in race horse Country of VA .
And you ? Meaningless at best !
A Five year old would understand that So get some help from and adult or a real Marine !
May 24, 2009 - 5:35 pm 89. elinor stickney:One suspects No Marine would want anything to do with your kind of far Leftism .
I agree with him on Limbaugh but I cannot forgive Powell’s support of Obama. A lot of hate speech does come from the far right. Their position always is “my way or the highway”
May 24, 2009 - 8:16 pm 90. L-A-Chuck:I keep hoping the Republicans will return to being a conservative party with no involvement on social issues other than support of the Golden Rule and pro law and order. I’m tired of people being called baby killers…if that’s not hate sspeech I don’t know what is. Stay our of the gay issues orher than asking for a national referendum.
Grampa Rush says: “Colin Powell represents the stale, the old, the worn-out GOP that never won anything. ”
Remember 2000? in the election, “W” visited Powell many times. Many speculated that if if won the nomination, Bush would pick Powell for his VP. After Bush anointed Cheney, most assumed, rightly so, that Powell would be Secretary of State. Powell was pivotal for the Bush in 2000.
Grampa Rush says: “The party of Gerald Ford… and those types of people. ”
May 24, 2009 - 9:34 pm 91. fred:Ford pardoned Nixon and got us Cheney, Rumsfield, Wolfowitz and for the CIA – a former Texas congressman named George H. W. Bush. Okay, 3 for 4 was pretty good!
ReConUSMC,
On this Memorial Day weekend I want to say a special thanks to your Marines up in I Corps during the Vietnam War who made the ultimate sacrifice, as did their brothers did in the Pacific in WWII (Korea too!). You guys did a terrific job up there. I’m not a Vietnam War vet, but my service dates kind of slip me in there as “Vietnam Era Veteran” (kind of cheap if you ask me, because I don’t belong in the same room with you guys). I’m an Army vet (non-combat MOS)who would be ashamed to have a Sgt. Hulka type as my boss.
The comments I made earlier about Colin Powell were not meant to be denigrative. Just sayin’ that he was primarily a staff officer who pretty much had his ticket punched throughout his career. His job was to make others look good. His two tours in Vietnam were as a staff officer. Never had a line command of a platoon, company, or battalion. These are just facts.
At the conclusion of Operation Desert Storm and Gulf War I many of us were pissed that the job was not finished. You don’t fight wars this way and really win. You crush his windpipe and then kick his corpse. Part of the blame for that command brain fart goes to President Bush I and Brent Scowcroft and the rest of the jizya-paying, Muzzie-lovin’ elites. We would have discovered a lot sooner what Saddam had in the pipeline, thanks to our enemies the Russians. In fact, they would not have enough time for their Spetznaz operators to get the stuff out of there, like they did before the launch of OIF. And by not presenting those facts of the Russian WMD removal program to the American people GWB cooked his own goose. We had the goods on Operation Sarindar, but somehow feared putting the information out there.
May 24, 2009 - 9:57 pm 92. ReConUSMC:91. fred:
ReConUSMC,
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May 25, 2009 - 5:42 am 93. sheesh:Thank You Fred from the bottom of my Heart .
Just for the record it takes 21 None Combat support Troops even Civilians from those working Hard behind Us who are in the Bush . Not to mention from our Country supporting us as well .
Napoleon found he had no Food or clean water so disease set in while he was in Russia.
Russia didn’t beat Napoleon , not having support from France did ….. Any Army travels no faster than its on its stomach with adequate supplies .
Without Support we Win or Fight no Wars .
We Marines didn’t lose Nam .since We were well supplied ……The Far left Liberals in America won it for Communism there .
Along with the 2.2 Million Marched off to “”Re-Education Camps and Murdered when the moronic clueless left made us leave Nam . The Left never mentions those cold fact ever even now . There was “” No Civil War in Nam . It was Marxism against Capitalism .Hence Pol Pot full blown Commuminist Murdering another 2.1 Million a year later because of the outcome in Nam.
Of course we Marines knew when we left Nam , the North would massively Slaughter those not Communist in the South .
This is what Obama is doing today but only here in America creating Radical Socialist Re- Educaton Camps sadly .
ReconUSMC
Here’s how it works – a little something I learned from Fox News . . . first I say “Thank you for your service” which makes me look all thankful and patriotic, and then I say “in your resume you forgot to list ‘raging lifelong bigot.’ ”
THAT’S how the right wing treats our military who dare to speak out against the war or the treatment of our soldiers or the policies of Republicans. Who do you respect more, a returning Iraq war veteran who is a Democrat or 5 deferment Dick Cheney?
May 25, 2009 - 7:41 am 94. fred:sheesh,
How much they payin’ you to write the crap you post here? That’s some gravy train. But you know, even if the same kind of “service” were available to us conservatives to go over to DailyKos, Huffpost, MoveOn, and DU and be pains in the asses, OUT OF HONOR I WOULD DO NO SUCH THING. Nope. Wouldn’t do it if you paid me to.
I earn more crankin’ out spreadsheets, writing reports, talking to CFO’s, and discussin’ prospects with my portfolio/fund manager. I’m a proud capitalist (former Marxist) who helps our firm’s clients make rational investment decisions. But, a big F**K YOU to Obonga for helping to tank the markets with his January and February speeches about the policies he will put in place that will be so investor-friendly. We can thank his promises for higher taxes via the income tax code and the upcoming cap and trade boondoggle. And for prospectively putting the government’s share of GDP close to 40%. That’s what I call a big prosperity killer.
Socialism stinks; it never worked and never will work. As a former comrade, I can attest to countless conversations among other Marxists who said that socialism would work if only we had the right people running it and gave it a chance to succeed. Which, according to Hayek, only leads to tyranny – to Joe Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez.
May 25, 2009 - 8:19 am 95. Oscar Wao:“At the conclusion of Operation Desert Storm and Gulf War I many of us were pissed that the job was not finished. You don’t fight wars this way and really win. You crush his windpipe and then kick his corpse.”
I suppose you share something with Osama Bin Laden in this respect. If the point is simply to have a war, if the justification is beside the point, then there’s nothing seperating you from him. Unless, of course, you think everything the US does is right. That’s pretty stupid.
May 25, 2009 - 8:24 am 96. sheesh:94 fred . . .”I’m a proud capitalist (former Marxist) who helps our firm’s clients make rational investment decisions”
Yeah, what was you advice a year ago? What’d you tell me back in September 08?
May 25, 2009 - 10:27 am 97. fred:In September of ‘08 I had no “buy” recommendations. But you misunderstand my role. I am not, strictly speaking, an investment adviser. I do equities research under people who actually manage portfolios. They are licensed to give advice. I merely screen for possible situations that may make sense, then do company analysis, putting over the company analysis an industry forecast, and then rendering a value for the company based on intrinsic value, which, in my case, involves a net present value of the company’s free cash flow over, say, a ten year horizon.
Quit the sarcasm and mockery of my profession, you imbecile. Of course I have my own “take” on what blew up the sub prime mortgage lending industry and the credit default swaps derivatives business that spun out of the risk-management of having to hold portfolios loaded with junk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, backed up by the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 and the Justice Department’s interpretation of it, compelled the banking industry to swallow. My profession had absolutely nothing to do with the 1995 decision by Janet Reno and Jaime Gorelick to pretty much dispense with any decent underwriting standards altogether.
Go ask your fellow homo Bawney Fwank what that was all about.
May 25, 2009 - 10:59 am 98. ReConUSMC:93. sheesh:
ReconUSMC
Here’s how it works – a little something I learned from Fox News . . . first I say “Thank you for your service” which makes me look all thankful and patriotic, and then I say “in your resume you forgot to list ‘raging lifelong bigot.’ ”
May 25, 2009 - 11:15 am 99. sheesh:_________________________________
Too greatly Dislike and not Respect Far Leftist Anti Americans like you is not Bigotry at all .It is that I well know who America’s real Enemies friends are …… and it is your sissy cowards and Pacifist Kind .
You B******* Care more about Suicide Bombers and their beheading needs that those they beheaded and suicide bombed . Your no more that a today College morons of the 60.s backing the Cong Communist .
Just for the record Jerk off there is no such thing as a far leftist ReCon Marine because it is field tested beyond any thing your weak butt could ever imagine .
If we found out he was .avery stupiid far leftist like you …… Fill in the blanks since we would know better than to Trust Him caught in and Ambush ,
97 fred, fred, fred . . . You’re frustrated, I understand that. You’re part of an industry that has lost its credibility. But I offered no “sarcasm and mockery” of your profession. I simply asked what advice you dispensed a year ago. Now, if you prefer to focus on the only openly gay member of Congress, that’s fine. I understand why you prefer to evoke him rather than, say, Lindsay Graham or Mitch McConnell or Patrick Henry or David Dreier. I believe they were all in Congress during this unfortunate economic meltdown. (There’s something else that connects them, but for the life of me I can’t recall it right now.)
Take a deep breath. Your industry has a terrific opportunity to rebuild its reputation. Be a man, take advantage of it.
May 25, 2009 - 11:16 am 100. G Alston:Melissa –
Seems Newt Gingrich and Tom Ridge are backing Powell. Your ideological purity tent is getting smaller by the day.
May 25, 2009 - 12:39 pm 101. sheesh:98. ReConUSMC . . . From the depths of a confused and bitter mind your ravings come, dressed in fantastical camo, blackfaced. longing for the gorydays of dispensing death with impunity but relegated to the bass pond with the rest of your belt-stretching has-beens congratulating each other on how ignorant the rest of the world is, unable to know but even in knowing not man enough to admit the far brave and more accomplished battle blood in my veins, no, you would if you could but you can’t so you won’t, leaving nothing left but small times for small minds.
May 25, 2009 - 1:55 pm 102. ReConUSMC:101. sheesh:
May 25, 2009 - 2:54 pm 103. sheesh:98. ReConUSMC . . . From the depths of a confused and bitter mind your ravings come, dressed in fantastical camo, blackfaced. longing for the gorydays of dispensing death with impunity but relegated to the bass pond with the rest of your belt-stretching has-beens congratulating each other on how ignorant the rest of the world is, unable to know but even in knowing not man enough to admit the far brave and more accomplished battle blood in my veins, no, you would if you could but you can’t so you won’t, leaving nothing left but small times for small minds.
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At Least we all did “”Something ” for this Country You and Obama never did …. We put our Lives on the Line for your Sorry Chicken S**T Butts .
My Bass Pond was not and Obama entitlement ……. it was a dream of mine when I was dead Broke and Shot by the Cong almost dyeing twice in the Portsmouth Naval hospital .
Ok Prick ……. Here goes I am Sam Moore the very Famous Internationally well known Furniture Designer .
Brains matter ….. So kept up Your weak bloviating .
Maybe Mom has her Milk Gland ready for your Supper then a bed e bye .
You have no idea how I served my country, whether I fought in Vietnam or Kuwait or Korea or anywhere else.
“Ok Prick ……. Here goes I am Sam Moore the very Famous Internationally well known Furniture Designer”
You say that like it’s supposed to meaningful. And you call that design? Faux leather swivel chairs and half-baked Stickly fakes? I’d be a lot more impressed if you were Sam Moore, very famous singer and one half of Sam and Dave. THEN you could claim some cultural significance. As it is, you don’t even know enough to pick the right stuff to knock off. here’s a clue: Next time copy the stuff that looks good. Your better off, and so are we, with you in the bass boat and away from the pencils.
May 25, 2009 - 5:53 pm 104. fred:Oscar Wao at #95
That snarky answer contains absolutely no understanding of history, warfare, or nature of acts of jihad. Back to the drawing board with you. You need to get your brain in gear and de-program yourself so you could (theoretically) read about how war should be fought.
Your kind have been politically successful at compelling our government to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory since the conclusion of the destruction of the North Vietnamese Communists in the Spring of 1972.
I predict that the “progressives”/socialists/Gramscian Marxists will in the coming decade perhaps reap the whirlwind when the people have had enough of it. Spread the word among the Left: you guys better obtain and learn how to use weapons. Because even if you take that advice seriously you are in deep, deep trouble.
Long live the Conservative Underground!
May 25, 2009 - 6:42 pm 105. sheesh:102/103 . . . I’m just messing with you, Sam. The furniture is fine. Really. Wish I had a house full of it.
May 26, 2009 - 6:41 am