Quotes of the day
posted at 10:30 pm on May 5, 2009 by Allahpundit
“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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Or my favorite Powell Depiction
*warning—content (or what ever your supposed to say when something isn’t PC)
http://www.harpers.org/media/image/art/cartoons/mrfish/ColinJob_576x816.jpg
Ladywolfnl on May 5, 2009 at 11:02 PM
remember this theory?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_effect
not exactly happening for us
jp on May 5, 2009 at 11:03 PM
We tried that for a long time… it produced the Powells, McCains, and Specters of the “big tent”
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Maybe if these centrists* remarks don’t woe us to the moderate side, The RINOs could jump up and down 3 times.
* In my opinion, these remarks are far from centrists. They are the road to fascism. If we sacrifice small government values and social conservatism, what’s left?
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Sickles generaled in blue and Stuart in grey. Both were nincompoops.
Limerick on May 5, 2009 at 11:07 PM
I love all the advice people who didn’t vote for the Republican Party want to give it!
Maybe we can take advice from Sean Penn and Dan Rather next!
therightwinger on May 5, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Dingbat63 on May 5, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Yo mama couldn’t have chosen a better name for you, sir.
PrincipledPilgrim on May 5, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Can’t wait to hear Rush tomorrow!
PrincipledPilgrim on May 5, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Is the WH on Phase 2 of the “Let’s rip Rush” campaign. It seems like they’ve delegated it to the Republican poseurs now though. You know, to make it look more authentic.
PrincipledPilgrim on May 5, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Yeah, then Powell will become a hero for the democrats…
Who’s the next Bushy to beg for forgiveness from Teh One?
I’m thinking Condi… Any thoughts?
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 11:11 PM
When they get Dick Cheney to tote Barry’s water then, and only then, will hell freeze over and I’ll ask for a jacket.
Limerick on May 5, 2009 at 11:13 PM
I’m just wondering when Powell is going to start ripping into Prejean… Some of us have already guessed that it will take Obama 1 month (= 30 Plastic Press Conferences) to make a snide remark about Prejean…
Maybe Powell will do it jointly with Obama – now that would be HISTORIC!
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 11:13 PM
…in national affairs, that’s a trap.
Remember: Jeremiah Wright, Charlie Rangel and Tim McVeigh all served well and honorably. It’s for what they did after leaving the service that we remember them. Heck, even Adolf Hitler served honorably…and was relatively highly decorated for a junior enlisted person….
I say this as a veteran, married to a veteran, with two kids currently serving. Thank them for their service, then take ‘em apart if they step into the public arena and say something selfish, foolish or just plain wrong.
Veterans are no more apt to be noble, patriotic or selfless (or, rather, agenda-less) than non-veterans. To say that they are would be to impugn the honor of those who did not choose to serve over these last few decades when national circumstances didn’t make a rush to the colors a’la 1941 necessary.
Clearly, Mr. Powell is talking out of his fourth point of contact, and needs to be called on it. It’s time he lost his halo.
Puritan1648 on May 5, 2009 at 11:13 PM
count me in on that wager.
upinak on May 5, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Hahaha
Good one
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 11:14 PM
So sad; I used think very highly of Powell. I still thank him for his service, as with McCain – but also as with McCain, he’s dead wrong, and the sooner we set him adrift (with McCain, Jeb Bush, et al), the better.
Midas on May 5, 2009 at 11:15 PM
He didn’t know what it meant to being a conservative/Republican, so he was unable to tell other black people why they should be the same (To be fair, I don’t think that this was/is his job.) He just joined the popular ‘club’ to move up in the military.
baldilocks on May 5, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Bingo.
And thank you and your entire family for your service. :)
Midas on May 5, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Not the creditors for Chrysler. Not those at AIG. The bank who’s name escapes me that paid back the TARP money with a penalty. 1,700 DC school kids are getting kicked out of their schools are wondering wondering “why”.
Hog Wild on May 5, 2009 at 11:16 PM
…allow me to suggest a corkscrew…same job…more satisfying (for the surgeon)….
Puritan1648 on May 5, 2009 at 11:18 PM
It would stop that vile leakage coming out of his mouth.
Who wants to appoint Powell as Permanent Ambassador to, uh, well somewhere that has a HUGE government…???
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Agreed.
The reform that’s needed is to get government out of health care!
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2009&month=03
jgapinoy on May 5, 2009 at 11:20 PM
That is awesome!!
baldilocks on May 5, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Powell is a political soldier. He’s been in his dress blues too long and needs to get out with the troops. All I hear is a parrot mimicking what he hears at the DC parties.
Vince on May 5, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Goodbye General P…I’m so done with you.
RobCon on May 5, 2009 at 11:23 PM
And there it is! Thank you and good night!
Jim-Rose on May 5, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Some here just don’t see it. All this RINO, DINO, Rushbashing, Palinbashing, bibleclingingruntotingbitterfolksbashing is meant to provoke us. They believe they are driving the game from the thicket so the hunters can gut ‘em. They believe, passionately, they they will win.
While they are beating the underbrush we need to climb into the branches. As they pass you know what to do.
Limerick on May 5, 2009 at 11:27 PM
This is not inconsistent with his professional career. He is an extreme beneficiary of affirmative action, and has spent his entire working life in government.
He doesn’t know anything else but subordinates doing his bidding and bringing his tea. Powell understands government power, but apparently has no philosophical understanding of freedom. Which I find richly ironic.
Jaibones on May 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Hey HawkDriver………
………. copy and save this thread when you can add your $0.02.
Looking forward to it……..
Seven Percent Solution on May 5, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Actually, I don’t think they even know what winning would look like. They only know that they hate conservatives, just like the left does.
Jaibones on May 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM
I’ll just reiterate what’s been said about Powell before – I’ll start taking his advice about how the GOP should run when he actually, you know, votes for a Republican. Or supports a Republican. Or, you know, even advocates a SINGLE Republican idea / ideological viewpoint.
Until then, you can stuff it, Colin. I respect your service to our country, but jesus, just shut the f*** up already.
Vyce on May 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Bing.
Jaibones on May 5, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Limerick on May 5, 2009 at 11:33 PM
…thank a policeman, next time you see one. They do what soldiers are trained to do, and some have to do it every day.
…thank a fireman, and for the same reason.
…thank an EMT technician, and I hope you see the next one you see socially….
…thank your boss the next time he hands you a signed paycheck for work honorably accomplished. He kept his part of the bargain.
…thank your neighbor for keeping an eye on your place…thank the barber or the beautician or the boxboy or the locksmith the next time he or she does a good job.
…thank the kid at the McDonalds who gets your order right. He has a sucky job, gets paid squat, and is thought a fool unable, by age but often more commonly by lack of anything to recommend him, to get a better gig.
…thank the truckers, farmers, construction workers, lawyers…well, not lawyers, I guess…and all the others who go about the business of this country…which Mr. Coolidge rightly pointed out is business….
…don’t gush over the soldiers, or the sailors or marines, et. al. Someone did that to me once, on returning from some overseas tramp, and I can assure you that it was damned humbling…and not in a good way.
Want to thank a service person? Elect people — like Mr. Reagan, under whom I had the privilege of serving, among others — who realize just what sort of hair-on, rough-shod, back-alley, take-no-prisoners world it is we live in, and who’re saavy and bad-ass’d enough to use the military cleverly, economically, and well. People in uniform are there to follow orders…elect people who’ll send them where their contributions won’t be inordinately costly, and their efforts won’t be wasted.
…and, next time you see one of those “MoveON”, “Give-peace-a-chance”, “America’s-always-wrong” morons wrestling his oversized papier-mache puppet down the boulevard, registering his disapproval of a free market, the franchise, and freedom in general…well, thank him for me by tickling his tonsils with your pinky and his bridgework with your wrist.
It’s citizens who make a country. Thank them. They’re who soldiers, sailors, marines, and for that matter policemen, firemen, EMT techs and the rest all do their special self-sacrificial thing for.
…ask Janeane Garofalo…can’t be a comedian without an audience….
Puritan1648 on May 5, 2009 at 11:33 PM
All this stuff that Colin Powell, the Perfumed Prince, says about Americas wanting move government in their lives, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to be independent. All real Americans love to stand on their own. When you were kids, did you dream of growing up and becoming independent or did you want to stay with your mommy forever? Real Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a dependent loser. Real Americans play to be independent all the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who was dependent on the government nanny and cried while watching Oprah. That’s why real Americans have never been dependent, and will never become dependent on a nanny government ..…because the very thought of being dependent on a nanny government is hateful to real Americans.
- “Channeling” General George S. Patton
MB4 on May 5, 2009 at 11:34 PM
I refuse to let another black man with a chip on his shoulder lecture me about my values. Go to hell.
D2Boston on May 5, 2009 at 11:35 PM
I wish that Tommy Franks would challenge Colin Powell to a cage match.
MB4 on May 5, 2009 at 11:37 PM
I wish General McMaster would wear butternut.
Limerick on May 5, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Tommy Franks – American Soldier
Colin Powell – The Perfumed Prince (that is what he was called at the Pentagon)
MB4 on May 5, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Powell would have joined the Dims if they weren’t entirely anti-military in the 70s and 80s. Now that they are sorta hawkish again, he has no reason to pretend.
Speedwagon82 on May 5, 2009 at 11:39 PM
…WrinklePalooza I! The grudge-match that “the stars fell on”….
…somebody alert McMahon and the WWE to stock up on folding chairs…a profit-monster just hove into view….
Puritan1648 on May 5, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Lowballing again?
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 11:40 PM
I wish that General William Tecumseh Sherman would come back from the dead and burn Washington to the ground.
MB4 on May 5, 2009 at 11:41 PM
SCREW POWELL – HE’S A PIECVE OF CRAP.
HE FAILED TO DO AWAY WITH SADDAM IN THE GULF WAR.
HIS CRONY ARMITAGE WAS BEHIN THE PLAME LEAK TO NOVAK, YET HE AN POWELL LET SCOOTER AN CHENEY AN BUSH TWIST IN THE WIND FOR YEARS.
HE WAS A LOUSY SEC OF STATE WHO SUCKED UP TOP ARAFAT.
SCUM.
REAGAN MADE HIM, AND REAGAN WAS MORE RIGHT-WING THAN ANYONE OUT THERE TODAY.
POWELL SHOULD JOIN SPECTER AND CHAFFEE.
DON’T THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT.
BTW: I’M A REGISTERED DEM – BUT A HAWK AN A PATRIOT FIRST.
POWELL IS MORE FOR POWELL THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
EFF HIM.
reliapundit on May 5, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Nope and nope. People are for health care reform until they hear the details. We don’t have the money for any more government, Powell is an idiot.
echosyst on May 5, 2009 at 11:43 PM
If the Perfumed Prince won’t accept any cage match challenge from Tommy then Tommy should challenge him to jark, up and back, Medicine Bluff 4 at port arms.
Loser has to spend the night with Helen Thomas.
MB4 on May 5, 2009 at 11:47 PM
25% of the country is retarded, so gotta play it safe ;)
lorien1973 on May 5, 2009 at 11:47 PM
Afghanistan.
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Quite simply, Powell is full to the brim of stinking liberal, hypocritical, and yes, racist shit.
I lost 500% respect for that jerk when he not only supported 0bama, but cried like an friggin baby when he won.
I don’t give a frack what his opinion of the GOP is now, as I’m sure he’s just saying this to legitimize the left wings minimization of anyone at all that labels themselves conservative.
And he’s full of shit times 10 when he says Americans want more taxes. Have a heart to heart talk with a low or no income person. They do not want more taxes, they just want more for free, with YOU paying.
STFU Powell, and get your fat old ass off the stage.
Spiritk9 on May 5, 2009 at 11:49 PM
I have no idea, but wherever it is, he’s dressed to the nines.
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 11:50 PM
Not as much trouble as you would like us to believe, …..You can keep your donk lack of standards, meanwhile, ours will continue to grow…lol, like anything this sell out says has any merit w/Americans.
christene on May 5, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Sounds like Colon has become a mouthpiece for Obama. Evoke your own visual image.
Paul-Cincy on May 5, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Egads, man! I don’t like the quote that gave rise to this thread any more than you do…but Godfrey Daniels!
I wouldn’t wish a night gettin’ squishy with the Gorgon of Capitol Hill on Hitler!
…well…OK…Hitler…and Barney Frank, ’cause he’d find it distasteful for more reasons than one…but there the list ends….
…I’m gonna have to go now…wash my brain out with Clorox…Helen Thomas nekkid…the horror….
Puritan1648 on May 5, 2009 at 11:54 PM
…Right.
Only because many Americans have been fooled into thinking that more government is either benign or amazingly that paying more taxes is a net gain.
It’s moderates who put us in this situation and its moderates who are working to keep us here.
Conservatism isn’t a DNA constituent, we have to teach it.
Speakup on May 5, 2009 at 11:57 PM
wrong. wrong. wrong.
sheesh on May 5, 2009 at 11:57 PM
I have to strongly disagree Tommy. Powell was an affirmative action hack from the begininning. He was a lousy general who was always too cautious and had to be prodded into action by his superiors like McClellan. He always wanted to keep talking instead of ever fighting. He was promoted through the ranks like a rocket because he was a “well spoken” black man who’s career took off when affirmative action overtook the military, which it still does today. He has never been a conservative, no matter what he claims.
Bikerken on May 5, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Given all his comments before and after the election, I’m convinced Powell only called himself a Republican to advance his career in the military.
Christina_M on May 6, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Powell says people want more government rather than less. But, sometimes people want what is not good for them. If your teenager wants whiskey, do you give it to him because he wants it and you want to seem like a friend/nice guy. Giving people more government at the expense of the next generation that has to pay the tab is not only unhealthy for those who are made dependent on government but for the young who will be enslaved to the debt. Fortunately, kids don’t get to vote Good Dads out of office. Unfortunately, they can vote responsible leaders out of office. Thus, the Democratic majority.
KW64 on May 6, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Every day, for you and those whom you love.
Loxodonta on May 6, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Thank God for the Doctors of Hot Air, or I’d never graduate from medical school.
Loxodonta on May 6, 2009 at 12:07 AM
I have some naked pictures…………..
……… think NBC would be interested?
Right back at ‘ya Lox……..
Seven Percent Solution on May 6, 2009 at 12:14 AM
You should be extradited to Spain for even proposing such torture.
Loxodonta on May 6, 2009 at 12:17 AM
I’ve been reading Ronald Reagan, A Life in Letters. He wrote a wonderful note to General Powell upon his retirement from the Army in 93. Reagan thought the world of Powell.
It is certainly disappointing to hear the recent positions of General Powell, but like anyone else that spends too much time in Washington, eventually they tend to get corrupted. If not ethically, then philosophically.
juanito on May 6, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Great! I finally catch up and the thread is already dead.
Loxodonta on May 6, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Rush today was talking about all the people who just want to be on the winning team. IOW, no principles.
PrincipledPilgrim on May 6, 2009 at 12:21 AM
Hey, Colin…Specter awaits, go ahead…join him.
purgatory on May 6, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Bad company corrupts good morals. I Cor 15:33
PrincipledPilgrim on May 6, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Wrong. Objective tests are still such. His rose because people wanted to raise up a black man, yes, but that had not to do with AA.
True indeed.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 12:23 AM
That’s because liberalism is not genetic. It’s a viral disorder. The stunted sexual reproduction of its hosts doesn’t necessarily prevent its transmission. In particular, it latches on to immigrants who almost always arrive in big cities and are at the mercy of the liberal virus carriers. It is also a factor in the re-education of healthy conservative youth as they arrive at liberal infested post-secondary education institutions.
Darth Executor on May 6, 2009 at 12:28 AM
The obligatory you Republicans have to be more like us quote from an Obama voter.
And Luntz’s comment is a perfect lead in for Glenn Beck’s One Thing tonight. One of the reasons Sarah Palin is so popular is she doesn’t seem to need a focus group to talk!
Christian Conservative on May 6, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Why? Will he mention Savage? Doubt it. Nothing like circling the wagons, hey Rush? And Fox News is just as bad.
Ugly on May 6, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Who is Powell?
aigle on May 6, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Someone actually said that? With a straight face?
I don’t think I know anyone who wants to pay more taxes. And I don’t know anyone who wants more government in their life.
Alana on May 6, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Who wants to appoint Powell as Permanent Ambassador to, uh, well somewhere that has a HUGE government…???
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 11:20 PM
The United States of America?
heshtesh on May 6, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Officers are not promoted on tests… its all about the FITREP.
Romeo13 on May 6, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Powell just really doesn’t understand the limits of his credibility. He is going to be a laughing stock in future history books.
progressoverpeace on May 6, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Yes I know. That was my point.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 1:00 AM
I’m so sick of hearing this BS about how the GOP needs to “move back to the center”. The political center-of-gravity is what has moved far left – IT needs to be pulled back to the center.
swash_plate on May 6, 2009 at 1:03 AM
Romeo13,
The person I was answering made it read as if the entire military had gone AA and I pointed out that it hadn’t–that areas measured by objective testing (enlisted promotions, technical training, etc.) had not.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 1:03 AM
Exactly. We did everything last election Powell says we should do, yet he endorses the (half) black dude simply because he’s a (half) black dude. Burn in hell, Powell.
SouthernGent on May 6, 2009 at 1:05 AM
Why would Republicans take the advice of a two faced backstabber like Powell? No one I know gives a sh*t what he thinks anyway. He prostituted himself last October and should be thrown out of the party if he won’t go willingly.
litebrite on May 6, 2009 at 1:09 AM
Most Excellent Post.
————————————————–
Back on topic:
Colon Powell (spelling intentional) Take yourself, John & Megan McCain, Jeb Bush et.al. and all take a long walk off a short pier.
If you had any guts you would all finally declare your true philosophies and join the liberal democrat party.
LegendHasIt on May 6, 2009 at 1:16 AM
You’re right: Sergeants run the Army, with the cooperation of officers. Officers are in charge, but a good officer with bad NCOs won’t get much done.
Officers who only interact with other officers are in a World of Their Own
Powell was a master of Working the System, using race only when it helped and not as a Cross
Janos Hunyadi on May 6, 2009 at 1:17 AM
I thought the president, that Powell endorsed, was going to fix everything on not the GOP, and since when did wanting something make it worthwhile. A three year old wants to play with the car but that doesn’t make it a good idea.
DFCtomm on May 6, 2009 at 1:26 AM
Powell is a turncoat and I’ve long considered Luntz and his Fox focus groups a waste of o2. The more these RINOs speak the stronger we true conservatives, we Constitution-loving patriots become.
The RINOs are creating a Statist-eating monster and I’m proud to be a part of it.
Anyone else smell blood?
pugwriter on May 6, 2009 at 1:26 AM
so why should I care what Colin Powell has to say about the republican party again?
Ampersand on May 6, 2009 at 1:30 AM
STFU trader, W should punch this jackass in the face for stabbing him in the back.
lavell12 on May 6, 2009 at 1:44 AM
Liberal POV = Lots of new stovepipes
Conservative POV = Less bloat
General Powell has become a very conflicted person, let’s hope he can fight off those lefty demons before he submits fully to the dark side.
Sailfish on May 6, 2009 at 1:46 AM
Back on topic:
Colon Powell (spelling intentional) Take yourself, John & Megan McCain, Jeb Bush et.al. and all take a long walk off a short pier.
If you had any guts you would all finally declare your true philosophies and join the liberal democrat party.
LegendHasIt on May 6, 2009 at 1:16 AM
lavell12 on May 6, 2009 at 1:48 AM
Very yes.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 1:54 AM
So when did Powell become a Commie?
ktrush on May 6, 2009 at 1:59 AM
Great points all, and thanks to you and your family.
carbon_footprint on May 6, 2009 at 2:05 AM
One has to admit that Obama is only being the socialist he promised he would be.
JohnJ on May 6, 2009 at 2:18 AM
Quiet Token.
omnipotent on May 6, 2009 at 2:22 AM
Thanks Collin, but I think I’ll speak for myself about what this American wants. And it ain’t what you said.
Scrappy on May 6, 2009 at 3:08 AM
General Powell you chose sides with the Socialist and the hate mongers so since you are no longer (if you ever where) a Republican please stop flapping your lips at us and put them back on Obama’s ars where they belong.
Bluehanky on May 6, 2009 at 3:20 AM
In 10 years, the media will be asking the GOP to move from the Center to the Center Left, while the Democrat Party is on the far left.
V-rod on May 6, 2009 at 3:20 AM
Colin, time for you to be a good soldier,,,,, and begin fading away!
Since the parameters of left and right have shifted so far left, center is now firmly on the left.
Enjoy your parties, Colin, don’t expect conservatives to listen to you again.
LewWaters on May 6, 2009 at 3:29 AM
Oddly, I never more than glanced at your blog before. After reading a few pages just now, I must say that what I said the other day…..??? …. Well, double that.
Want to go fishing?
(Joking…. but not by much. ;-)
LegendHasIt on May 6, 2009 at 3:42 AM
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