Quotes of the day
posted at 10:30 pm on May 5, 2009 by Allahpundit
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“Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.”
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“You simply MUST be vocally and passionately on the side of REFORM.”
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Proof positive that George Soros signs his paychecks these days.
fred5678 on May 6, 2009 at 3:46 AM
wow….you guyz are sad.
even Juliette.
Colin Powell defended the Fulda Gap.
What have you ever done?
Powell is just speaking the truth.
Part 1– 365 electoral college votes to 173 electoral college votes.
A difference of 192 votes.
You lost every demographic except married white christians and old people.
How on earth are you going to make that difference up?
Part 2– Your memes are not competitive in this environment…..people WANT healthcare, people WANT gov’t help right now.
I just don’t know if we are right for each other, Juliette.
I really thought you were smarter.
;)
But let’s dance anyways! I bet you are a lovely dancer.
O.o
Skrillex!
strangelet on May 6, 2009 at 4:25 AM
:-(
lanesmerge on May 6, 2009 at 4:32 AM
It doesn’t matter what people “WANT”. This is not a Democracy. This is a Constitutional Republic, and that Constitution says that people cannot have everything they want, unless they change the Constitution.
You are a political savage.
progressoverpeace on May 6, 2009 at 4:43 AM
“Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.”
Powell is completely nuts!
GFW on May 6, 2009 at 6:35 AM
If Powell is correct, America is in deep trouble.
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country,” indeed.
eforhan on May 6, 2009 at 6:50 AM
wow….you guyz are sad.
even Juliette.
Colin Powell defended the Fulda Gap.
What have you ever done?
If you insist on knowing – S. Korean DMZ; 1st Gulf War; Kosovo; Somolia; assorted other shitholes of the planet. How about you jackass?
Powell is just speaking the truth.
Part 1– 365 electoral college votes to 173 electoral college votes.
A difference of 192 votes.
You lost every demographic except married white christians and old people.
How on earth are you going to make that difference up?
Part 2– Your memes are not competitive in this environment…..people WANT healthcare, people WANT gov’t help right now.
Then what are you worried about? Why should you care? We’ll just stick to our principles. Based on what you tend to spew, its quite apparent that its a concept you’re not overly familiar with.
Drunken Angry Clown on May 6, 2009 at 6:51 AM
Yet another example of Liberal statism and overgeneralization. Libs simply thro out blanket statements without a shred of empirical proof and are accepted as oracles. Conservatives make a statement about a single entity and are tarred as racist, redneck, bigots and hate-mongers. Need examples? Quoting from ABC News webpage:
Powell kind of forgot to mention that last little caveat, huh? 4 in 10 (my math is shaky, but I think that is 40% an a decided “minority”) don’t want it if there are waits and limited choices. Been down to the Registry of Motor Vehicles lately? So a social conservative says that PARIS HILTON is an a**hat…read again, not ALL GAYS are a**hats, and are labeled as a one of history’s worst bigots. A larger point is where are the voices on the right charasmatically informing the public on the perils of socialized health care? Why are they not trumpeting back every time some gay-rights advocate accuses them of bigotry that they merely follow the lead of our president and the right-leaning state of California. Our side has all the factual arguments on our side, but we never hear them except via the internet. Where are our supposed leaders?
Huckabye-Romney on May 6, 2009 at 6:52 AM
Colin Powell is a liberal and a creature of Washington D.C.. He showed a demosntrable lack of character concerning the Valerie Plame matter, knowing that it was his Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage who told Bob Novack about Plame but saying nothing to his bosses, the President and Vice President, while they got pilloried in the press about the “leak.” So, ignore Powell. That is how you treat someone like him.
Phil Byler on May 6, 2009 at 7:00 AM
People are not going to look for more Government in their lives when they see what happens under Obama. People, seeing the hyper-inflation, the taxes and the intrusions in life, will say that we can’t afford it and we don’t want it. Powell, being a liberal, doesn’t understand that.
Phil Byler on May 6, 2009 at 7:03 AM
I just wish these people would stop calling themselves Republicans. Follow Specter and take the McCains with you. (And I’m allowed to criticize him since I was in the Military for 11 years and did stuff).
Youngs98 on May 6, 2009 at 7:05 AM
strangelet, you look at the results in a vacuum as your ilk prefers to do. You are very superficial as is your god, hussein.
Fact is, your side and the media shoved McAmnesty on us by crossing over in the primaries and screwing the election. And 10 percent of conservative voters stayed home.
Not much of a win, when you have to cheat like dogs to get it.
Fact is, you all would lose in a real straight up fight and you know it.
dogsoldier on May 6, 2009 at 7:09 AM
Even a blind man could see that the intolerant neocon movement represented by Limbaugh and Hanitty is a sick cult. Any critique of it sends the cultists in a angry screed as they pound their chests that someone would voice a different opinion than their own. They can’t figure out why more Americans don’t join their cult, as they get pounded election after election.Thats the point that their pseudo-conservatism has reached, anyone who questions them is attacked. That means their numbers keep shrinking. But Rush tells them their right, why would he care, he makes millions telling his sheeple how great they are. They are nothing but an angry mob now, the big teapartiers, organized by Fox, probably financed by Murdoch, and then they call it grassroots. Because in their minds, if they tell each other how mighty they are, they keep believing in their little fantasy. All the while the Democrats continue to gain strength as the moderates and independents run away from the gop, because they know how crazy it has become. But keep on believing your little fantasy, its good entertainment.
athensboy on May 6, 2009 at 7:25 AM
Boilerplate for trolls….trollerplate?
ElectricPhase on May 6, 2009 at 7:31 AM
I like my health care just fine the way it is now & I want less government in my life.
Pepole need to stay away from the Kool aid.
annoyinglittletwerp on May 6, 2009 at 7:39 AM
Any move toward the center is a move toward “moderate” Republicanism, which is akin to “moderate” Democratism. Only the Democrats own the term and get away with it by virtue of their total lack of principles. People expect Republicans to have (and hold to) principles, which is why they are more apt to get into trouble when they fall short of them. When Republicans move toward the center they are identifying with their Democrat rivals. Because the Democrats own the term and do it better, people are not likely to trust the Republicans who are Dem-lite. They will opt for the real deal, not the wannabe. I’m just an average guy and I figured this out (with help from 20 years of paying attention to Rush). Why the hell can’t Republican politicians figure this out? They are all so much smarter than me, right?
SKYFOX on May 6, 2009 at 7:40 AM
I recall Mr. Powell waited late into the 2008 election to give his political endorsement. Which way is the wind blowing today Colin?
diogenes on May 6, 2009 at 7:47 AM
The only ones inserting “a kind of nastiness” into our public lives are the dems and their supporters. The things the libs say in public, on blogs, on MSM goes beyond the pale, for doing nothing more than holding a different opinion you will get verbally ripped and slashed, if you’re a woman, you will be verbally raped on the public airwaves. I’ve seen it with my own eyes and it’s repulsive. So don’t tell me Rush and Coulter are the ones inserting the nastiness.
4shoes on May 6, 2009 at 7:51 AM
This, athensboy, sounds like you’re talking about your own “progressive” party. If we get “pounded election after election”, why did we have the White House the last 8 yrs? That’s ok, you don’t have to answer.
4shoes on May 6, 2009 at 7:55 AM
What you need is competent government that does what you want it to do. If that means you need a smaller government, then have a smaller government. If it means have a bigger government, then have a bigger government. Then stfu.
Dave Rywall on May 6, 2009 at 7:55 AM
More government intrusion,in this particular case involving
Obama,is no accident,the Liberals have had this planned,for
a long tine!
Ayers,designing Obamas rise to Presidentcy,is again no accid
ent,and the ‘Manufactured Crisis’of the economy,where their
Social Engineering finally caught up to the economy,and its
quite serendipity for the Liberal Party,to scare the living
h#ll out of American voters right before the election!
And,well over 50-58% of the vote did not support Obama,so
again,Hopey’s supporters are spreading the lies once again
through Perception/Deception,that all Americans want govern
met help,such a crock of doo doo!!
And the best part,is the Liberal Party and its Moonbat opera
tives who still are and were the Party of Crazies,are trying
to spin the tables as the Party of the Normal!
canopfor on May 6, 2009 at 7:55 AM
To Youngs98 re your post on May 6, 2009 at 7:05 AM: You must be listening to Rush for your information about John McCain. What Rush is not telling you is that John McCain has as conservative a voting record this year in the Senate as any Republican. McCain voted AGAINST tax cheat Geithner to be Treasury Secretary, AGAINST ultra-lib Kagan to be Solicitor General and AGAINST radical pro-abortion to be HHS Secretary. McCain has voted AGAINST every Obama budget and bailout bill. McCain has denounced the Obama Adminsitration for wholly irresponsible deficit spending, calling it “generational theft” — a phrase used by Sean Hannity frequently correctly attributing it to John McCain. So how in the world does this put him in the same category as Senator Specter who made the Obama budget possible? It doesn’t.
Earlier this year, Rush, cribbing from a column written by Santorum, predicted that McCain would be Obama’s lapdog. Well guess what? Santorum and Rush have been very wrong.
I say good riddance to Specter. But coupling Specter with McCain is very wrong. And I have not even begun discussing foreign policy, military matters and national security — subjects that McCain knows better than anyone. We are in for some really bad times in foreign policy, military matters and national security; and when you know what hits the fan, you will want McCain on our side — the guy who was for the surge in Iraq before it was implemented and who was the key man in stopping the Democrats from losing the war in Iraq.
Youngs98, you say you are a miitary veteran. Consider this: I remember how lonely a position McCain seemed to occupy when he supported the Iraq War in 2007 because was determined that this country not lose a war. When McCain stood loyally to our troops in harm’s way, one of those troops was my older son, then a U.S. Army First Lieutenant infantry platoon leader in his first tour of duty in Iraq (earning a Bronze Star and Valor Medal) and now a U.S. Army Captain in his second tour. I know how McCain knows his stuff concerning foreign policy, military matters and national security; he was very qualified to be Commander in Chief. We are going to be paying for the foolishness of electing someone to be POTUS who is not competent to be Commander in Chief.
Phil Byler on May 6, 2009 at 7:55 AM
I think that Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter can be fairly criticized on some points, but as I indicated in my 7:00 AM and 7:03 AM posts, Powell is not someone to whom we need to be listening.
Phil Byler on May 6, 2009 at 7:58 AM
I love how the media makes Specter, Frum, and guys like Powell as the real conservatives and the rest of us are nuts. Its a joke, this clown never has and never will be a conservative in any sense of the word.
lavell12 on May 6, 2009 at 8:01 AM
about nationalized healthcare: many poor people who make just a tad too much money to be on medicaid or people who simply have to forego health insurance to keep their house & food on the table, will welcome socialized medicine.
these people want to see any doctor.
kelley in virginia on May 6, 2009 at 8:01 AM
I have a few hereditary medical problems.
I don’t want the government telling me that I can’t get the care that my doctor ordered.
annoyinglittletwerp on May 6, 2009 at 8:05 AM
Its simple,Liberals are trying to define the Republican Party,and with countless hit pieces,like CNN,and other
MSM shows,and op-ed pieces,and from RINO’s!!
Just another political day in the on-going Liberal
War against the Right!
Question for Liberal Operatives,just come clean,and
admit that the real enemy,isn’t the Jihadys,but avera
ge hard working Conservatives,that threatened your
vision,of your America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on May 6, 2009 at 8:09 AM
I think the dims are scared. nobama is not as enchanting since the sheeple started figuring out that nobama has lied to all of them and is trying to shove socialism down their throats and that the msm is nothing but a PR firm for the libtards. The msm is doing a pretty good job at telling the sheeple what to think but more and more are getting tired of being told that what they saw and heard was not really what they saw and heard, let us explain to you what you saw and heard with your own eyes, then you’ll understand.
DougDavis on May 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Follow the money – Follow the money.
Powell’s income (outside pensions) comes entirely from liberal organizations.
Colin (that name!) Powell – has become a useful idiot.
His past service to this country is exemplary – but he is still a tool in today’s world.
jake-the-goose on May 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM
You first have to accept the premise that government can be competent. Can you name a government that performed the tasks assigned to it competently?
DFCtomm on May 6, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Woah. Tough guy, picking on Juliette.
Typical dim talking point. You got nothing on the issues, just ad hominem.
But not so much when you look at total votes, but you wouldn’t want to upset your narrative, right sweetie?
Oh, you mean taxpayers.
‘O’ is fixing that for us as we speak.
Again, tough guy? You’re an awful lot like Perez Hilton.
TinMan13 on May 6, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Most people want bigger gubmit? What planet is Powell coming from? He must be angling for something from the Obamanoids.
Besides, who actually cares what Colin Powell thinks, other than MSM and the Georgetown cocktail party set.
petefrt on May 6, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Makes sense. They use him as their token Republican, I imagine.
petefrt on May 6, 2009 at 8:26 AM
This is so absurd I don’t even know how to respond. All I can think of is that Powell must have trolled the streets of all the inner cities asking “Who wants more free stuff from the Gubmint?”
Seriously. I am dumbfounded.
anniekc on May 6, 2009 at 8:31 AM
I’m sorry. Were you saying something?
/sarc
bluelightbrigade on May 6, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Palin’s polarization was caused by her advisors?
That’s odd. I was sure it was the media that was responsible for that.
bridgetown on May 6, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Ummm, weren’t Palin’s advisers those “ultra-right” McCain people??
Gen Powell, thank you for your service to the country. Now do as Gen MacArthur said and just fade away.
TugboatPhil on May 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM
strangelet on May 6, 2009 at 4:25 AM
Yes, You won! However it’s not too hard when the media is 100% behind your guy and the uneducated voter hears what they want. I think they now see it was a sham. Look at the liberal newspapers and video outlets. All post loss of readers/viewers. Oh yes REAL change is coming.
From the Alexandria Va Gazette:
THE ALEXANDRIA DEMOCRATIC Committee suffered a stunning setback Tuesday when two of its incumbent candidates were ousted by voters on Election Day. Republican Frank Fannon and independent candidate Alicia Hughes each won a place on the City Council. Incumbent Democrats Tim Lovain and Justin Wilson will step down from their seats this summer, when Fannon and Hughes will be installed as the council’s newest members.
Alexandria is ALL Democrat! They even kept re electing that crook Moran. Oh yes change is coming, slow but steady.
faol on May 6, 2009 at 8:54 AM
After decades of the Statists’ monopoly on the educational system, raising generations of Americans from K thru college, and with television & Hollywood filling in the cultural gaps, I’m not surprised that a great many Americans are looking for more government in their lives.
But even if it’s a true statement, that doesn’t make it a good idea.
It just means that most/many Americans have foolishly believed or lazily embraced the utopian lies of the statist Left. And enough Americans will change their minds about the efficacy of the government in time to reverse America’s march into De Tocqueville’s “soft tyranny” before it becomes a hard tyranny — or they will learn first-hand the value of their lost liberty.
Colin Powell is a Statist, and has been for as long as I’ve known about him. Let’s not pretend he’s anything other than what he is — a good soldier, a mediocre politician — or that his comments carry more weight than they do.
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Oh, and please stop feeding the trolls, folks. If you don’t feed them, they’ll go away. Someone needs to post that troll list again so that everyone knows who to starve out.
Harpazo on May 6, 2009 at 8:54 AM
So Republicans should move to the center? Is that what Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Shumer, Dodd, Frank and their ilk are doing? Moving to the center is code for compromising your principles. I suppose that would mean moving to the center and vote to enslave our children to a lifetime of debt and control by the imperial federal government.
Maybe Powell can explain to us where the middle of the constitution is. He’s already sold his soul…he reminds me of a religious fanatic desperately trying to sell his faith to others in order to validate his own beliefs. Thanks anyway Mr. Powell, but some of us will stick to our principles and sleep well at night.
orlandocajun on May 6, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Powell was not a member of a political party when he was in the military. Now he’s an expert on what the Republicans need to do to become Democrats-lite.
“Mimic your enemy, be as much like him as you can, only with less conviction,” -Von Clutzwitz.
Akzed on May 6, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Phil Byler at 7:55 AM
I understand your defense of McCain. The problem is people remember McCain for campaign finance reform that was passed, the attempt at immigration reform and his behavior toward fellow republican senators and his big lie that the reform wasn’t amnesty. I think he called waterboarding tortue. He’s voting against all the things you stated now when it means nothing. His lack of support or any positive statement about Sara Palin now is classless and he needs to shut up his brain dead daughter. I was not happy he was the republican candidate and figured I would hold my nose and vote for him. Palin gave me some joy.
Cheryl from Texas on May 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM
“Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.”
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Americans are looking for less government in their life, not more.
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See, I can General-ize too.
PaddyJ on May 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Don’t get too cocky. By my math a difference of only a little more than a million popular votes in key states would have swung the election to McCain.
I find myself agreeing with Rywall, apart from his glossing over the real differences in what people want their governments to do. My problem with Republicans is that they let a reasoned argument about what government can and cannot do devolve into reflexive hostility and an apathy towards competent public management.
DrSteve on May 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Wow, he sure hid his agenda when he was climbing the republican ladder. Yet another phony piece of garbage.
marklmail on May 6, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Why the Republic is in trouble. I WANT an all-expenses-paid trip to Venice… but SOMEBODY has tp pay for it.
The question I was asking on my blog to all the lefties who bogged it down with “wants” and “emotions” was “HOW IS WEALTH CREATED?”… for which I received exactly zero responses. They want to redistribute wealth… but they have no idea how it is created and what will continue to create it.
OK… then what? We all starve together as “equals”?
mankai on May 6, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Luntz is a putz.
Powell is a howl.
csdeven on May 6, 2009 at 9:40 AM
You know, conservatives asked for this. We supported Collin and Condi because they were articulate, attractive, black people on our side. We never really researched and vetted them fully. They never opted to run for any political office where they would get vetted. We took them at face value and loved it because we thought it proved to the world that we weren’t all those mean and nasty things those outside the GOP would say about us.
It happened in CA when we voted for Arnold because we thought it would make Hollywood say nicer things about us.
It’s the same when we give up and vote for a RINO because some in the party worry that they have to justify and validate their good nature than stand on principals. Whose defining our Party? Who defines what we stand for and our character? Look around. It’s not other conservatives. It’s the oppostion or a far better term: The Enemy! And if you haven’t figured out now that the enemy has infiltrated our ranks and continue to tell us what we know in our gut to be false and lies, then that is why we will remain here in shambles. You are either conservative or you are not. Principals, values, ideologies, and philosophies do not change.
You cannot worship Hindu Gods, believe in reincarnation, and rub red ink on the middle of your forehead and call yourself a Muslim. You can say it all you want. Believe it all you want. It does not make it so. The truth of the matter will always be The Truth.
Sultry Beauty on May 6, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Powell was always a closet liberal but lacked the fortitude to and desire to challenge his conservative benefactors. The rat goes where the cheese is.
rplat on May 6, 2009 at 10:06 AM
As Joe Biden might say, “Look behind you, Colin. No one is following you.”
NebCon on May 6, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Then pack up their parasitic butts and send them to China . . . and buy a ticket for yourself.
rplat on May 6, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Most Prom Kings and Queens are popular too.
Most of them are also A-hats of the 1st Order.
catmman on May 6, 2009 at 10:19 AM
I voted yesterday for the 4 new people running, 2 independent, 2 republicans, I didn’t even care who they were, I just wanted anyone but the incumbent dems!
4shoes on May 6, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Collin Powell is the epitome of affirmative action
Bevan on May 6, 2009 at 10:39 AM
You first have to accept the premise that government can be competent. Can you name a government that performed the tasks assigned to it competently?
DFCtomm on May 6, 2009 at 8:18 AM
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No. No I cannot.
Governments operate from C- to F. All you can do is try to push for the C-.
America is so huge there’s no way on earth you’ll ever get your government and its enormous bureaucracy to function much better than it already does. The end.
Dave Rywall on May 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM
And now Limbaughs ratings are thru the roof. More, and more are leaving the MSM’s behind, and embracing tea parties, and other methods, to fight against the government take over, of every aspect of our lives.
What is Colin Powell doing, but giving interviews, to anyone who will listen now. The Democrats didn’t embrace him, I assume the way he thought they would, and he’s discredited, within the Republican party. His words mean squat.
The evidence is there. Why else would strange come here, and post in such a defensive manner?
capejasmine on May 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM
What did you say the other day?
Is that like a date? Well you were joking, but thanks for making me smile. They are rare these days.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Are you asking for a DD Form 214? Because I have one and, therefore, have certainly done more than you.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 11:07 AM
W”We won so shut up,” they explained.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Thanks for coming to my aid but strangelet is just a little girl who spouts about concepts she does not understand. She’s also a refugee from other blogs where the inhabitants got tired of the thick-headedness. Pity her–as long as there is cyberspace between you and her.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 11:18 AM
So this dimestore general and clueless Secretary of State who voted for Obambi is now the newest expert on what the Republican party should do? Hells bells.
Percy_Peabody on May 6, 2009 at 11:20 AM
When conservatives are not adhering to and articulating conservative philosophy and are distancing themselves from those who do, what is to be expected? Those who adhere to opposing philosophies will come in to fill the vacuum.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 11:22 AM
So Americans want more government, huh? Say what? I take this as a challenge to turn out more and more people to the July 4 Tea Party. Y’all come now, y’hear?
Christian Conservative on May 6, 2009 at 11:26 AM
phil byler:
I live in az and have had to put up with McLame for a lot of years because he gets coverage from the local liberal rag – the AZ Repulsive (down another 5% in circulation for the last quarter). The fact that he was a POW hasn’t a thing to do with anything except he was there and he survived. He is currently running for re-election, and when he does, the year before the election, he’s always “Mr. Conservative”….but in the off years, he reverts to his Washington cocktail-liberalism and works to remove our freedoms…like McCain-Feingold, Like McAmnesty, like his gun show regulations, etc etc. He is a RINO and needs to be shown the door, which, God willing, will happen in this election cycle. I hope JD Hayworth or someone else with the qualifications (and a true Conservative) runs against him…..otherwise, he will become Obama’s 61st vote in the senate..like he has always done….
colonelkurtz on May 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM
I agree, because McCain made no secret that he’s a believer in global warming. pfffffft. I have no doubts, regardless of his stance on drilling during the campaign, that he’d be a firm advocate for the cap and trade being bantered around.
capejasmine on May 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM
It is difficult to describe how much I have always distrusted Collin Powell, who makes alliances while very publically holding his nose.
He is promoting the new RINO ‘redefiniing the GOP’ strategy which is using slight of hand to tranform disgust with the RINO GOP into proof that conservatives are dying out.
Conservatives have had a terrible time remaining affiliated with the GOP for many election cycles. From Dole to McCain the imperial RINO imprint has been painful.
Conservatives have been told for years, accept the pain or die. Why should conservatives self exterminate?
The RINO strategy is toast. Stick a fork in it.
The clue is Arlen Specter’s great escape. If RINO was the winning formula he would stay to rule as an overlord.
The rat has left the sinking ship. No need for lifeboats. Swim you rats
entagor on May 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM
I’m sure someone has said this in previous postings but we ran a guy who was centrist against another guy purporting to be centrist and look what we got in the White House? I don’t think we gave people a clear choice for POTUS so they voted “history making” and “white guilt” and “hope and change” instead. My own opinion is, don’t take advice from the enemy. ESPECIALLY don’t take advice from defectors. Arlen (The Ghost) Specter and Colin (Outlived his purposes) Powell just need to concentrate on being the Democrats they now appear to be. (I say appear because I’m not quite sure they’re sure what they are.) Forget what all of the “politcal strategists” say. Find people who will ACTUALLY support and defend the Constitution. (All you trolls out there: that won’t be a liberal. Recent history tells me so.)
Driefromseattle on May 6, 2009 at 12:35 PM
The lazy ass’d dregs of our society and the entitlement addicts are looking for more government in their lives. The self sufficient independent Americans want freedom. Government control ulitmately equates to loss of freedom…put that in your crack pipe and smoke, it you smelly hippies.
Wyznowski on May 6, 2009 at 12:44 PM
I have to agree with that. McCain’s biggest problem IMHO is that he puts the collegiality of the senate above almost anything else. It’s a common disease among those who have been in the senate too long. See for example, Orin Hatch.
PackerBronco on May 6, 2009 at 12:45 PM
No wonder the GOP is in so much trouble.
I didn’t leave the GOP, they left me.
StevenPD on May 6, 2009 at 12:57 PM
You live in such a nice little world . A Utopian way of thinking. A little like..well…a child.
“Universal Health care” …where are these things paid from and how are they paid for?
Why is it such a mess wherever this is practiced?
What it WILL do is cause everything to be run like a lower income health clinic. For EVERYONE. The waits. The less experienced doctors (FOR EVERYONE!).
Medicines that wont be as easily obtained. FOR EVERYONE.
As for colin powel. Yes..he’s done good things. But he has made himself a joke when he endorses someone for the highest level of office..someone who has no grasp of the workings of the world. No grasp of the threats in the world. No military understanding or respect.
When things crash..and they will. Colin powel will have to answer for it as well.
(yes I know I’ve misspelled powels name. Its on purpose. I don’t respect him so it doesn’t really matter to me)
Handel on May 6, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Was Powell sitting in a landspeeder and waving his hand at a stormtrooper when he said this?
Crusty on May 6, 2009 at 1:56 PM
…plan for and train to execute operations behind the Fulda Gap, once Colin and his mates were bulldozed.
Next question?
…people also WANT drugs…ask the man on the street in Colombia or Bolivia. Do we, then, give them government subsidized drugs?
…people also WANT porn…sure, we can blog, check the weather, trade files on the Internet…but porn pays…again, government subsidized vice?
…people also envy and WANT to squash the very people who carry the overwhelming majority of the tax burden. Do we trundle out Madame La Guillotine and give them their pound of flesh by sending execs from AIG and Chrysler to the scaffold?
People want a lot of things, and will take home a week-old dead fish if they can get one for free and its wrapped attractively…and if some slimy politician tells ‘em that it’s their due, and that some rich guy or other is trying to keep it from them. There he’ll be, John Q. Public, tottering off home, dead fish under their arm, smelling to high heaven. Still, he’ll have his due.
Democracy doesn’t mean that everybody gets what they want, when they want it. It means that citizens can choose and organize what they want to do for the common good. A republic means that they choose representatives to do that choosing and organizing for them, allowing them to get on with the business of life.
…civics lesson, but apparently necessary….
What we have now is citizens choosing from a very narrow field of morons, who, after election, will go about selling their constituents — like you, evidently — on the notion that they, the government, are Santa Claus, and can give them all their dreams on a silver platter…”free of charge”….
That’s not democracy. It’s creeping tyrrany on the one side…and a lazy electorate on the other.
Next question?
Puritan1648 on May 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM
I have to disagree. Speaking for my own point of view, I’ve always considered Powell to be a moron (since the first Gulf War, at least) and thought he wasn’t fit to walk dogs, professionally. I liked Condi, a lot, when she was the NSA, but that was only because I was assuming that she was taking positions that she wasn’t. The minute she became SecState and showed what a moron she was, I was exceedingly disappointed and never wanted to see or hear from her, again. She was a disaster. But then, Bush showed himself to really be a liberal in his 2nd term (aside from some conservative views that came via his Christianity).
As to their blackness, I very much appreciated the fact that Bush never made a big deal about them being black. That was the correct approach, as I had always assuemd that their being black was not the reason they got their jobs. Bush liked Condi’s views, I think (as they shared leftist fantasies about the world) and he liked Powell’s “reputation”. Of course, that changed later in his 2nd term, when GOPers started talking about Rice’s and Powell’s race to show that the GOP had been fairer to blacks than the democrats, which is true and didn’t really need to be stated explicitly.
progressoverpeace on May 6, 2009 at 4:58 PM
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