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.

Sultry Beauty on May 6, 2009 at 10:01 AM

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.

Colin Powell defended the Fulda Gap.
What have you ever done?

…plan for and train to execute operations behind the Fulda Gap, once Colin and his mates were bulldozed.

Next question?

…people WANT healthcare, people WANT gov’t help right now.

strangelet on May 6, 2009 at 4:25 AM

…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?

Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.

Was Powell sitting in a landspeeder and waving his hand at a stormtrooper when he said this?

strangelet

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)

I didn’t leave the GOP, they left me.

I say good riddance to Specter. But coupling Specter with McCain is very wrong.

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.

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

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.

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….

Sultry Beauty on May 6, 2009 at 10:01 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.

Woah. Tough guy, picking on Juliette.

TinMan13 on May 6, 2009 at 8:21 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.

athensboy on May 6, 2009 at 7:25 AM
Dave Rywall on May 6, 2009 at 7:55 AM

W”We won so shut up,” they explained.

wow….you guyz are sad.
even Juliette.
Colin Powell defended the Fulda Gap.
What have you ever done?

strangelet on May 6, 2009 at 4:25 AM

Are you asking for a DD Form 214? Because I have one and, therefore, have certainly done more than you.

After reading a few pages just now, I must say that what I said the other day…..??? …. Well, double that.

What did you say the other day?

Want to go fishing?
(Joking…. but not by much. ;-)

LegendHasIt on May 6, 2009 at 3:42 AM

Is that like a date? Well you were joking, but thanks for making me smile. They are rare these days.

Powell also criticized other GOP leaders, for bowing too much to the right.

He blasted radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, saying he does not believe that Limbaugh or conservative icon Ann Coulter serve the party well.

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?

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.

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

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!