I give Powell some small credit for being less gung-ho on the war but it takes more then that to be a conservative. We weren’t just discussing his foreign policy in this thread. And the fact that he didn’t resign over the war at the time says a lot about him. Powell is easily the most overrated public figure the US has seen in some time. I’ll add that Powell endorsed Obama in large part because of the color of his skin. The rest was just the typical blather about the messiah being a transformational figure.

I am not Powell’s biggest fan by any means, but he did try to argue Bush out of invading Iraq, which makes him a more genuine conservative than most of the Bush administration, in my book. Conservatives are supposed to be prudent about the use of government power, not go ginning up wars for vague pseudoidealistic crusades. Didn’t you make that very point in another thread? Was that a different G. Clark?

Oh well. I suppose at some level you realize you have lost and you are just preparing to unleash your endless stream of crap on the Obama administration, just as you did to the Clinton administration. Look how well that worked out. You damaged him, for sure, even got him impeached, but even with all that going on his time in office looks about a thousand times better than that of his successor. You think people can’t remember that far back?

My prediction is that Obama will move the crazies (that’s most of you people) to even greater heights of slander than Clinton, but it will get less traction in the media and the public. People are waking up and getting serious — nothing like a looming economic crisis to do that.

Intrade is listing McCain contracts at around 15.5 today. That means if you are convinced of his victory, you have an easy mechanism for getting six times your money.

Still a stupid bet. If McCain wins, I’ll be happy to earn money through old-fashioned hard work rather than gambling. But if Obama wins, I’m going to need every last penny to survive the economic disaster his “well documented” tax plan, and other policies, will create.

Um, Roger, have you ever heard of payroll taxes? Gas taxes? You know, the kind that fund Social Security, Medicare, roads, etc.? Are you really this dumb? (Well, you do blog for pajamasmedia.com, so that answers itself.)

All of the flights of fancy are on the Republican side this year. You can’t keep repackaging the same failed fairy tale, especially in these times, and selling it to the little guys, whose votes you need but whom you wouldn’t want to sit next to on the subway. Even they figure it out every 8 years or so.