Rush to Colin Powell: Become a Democrat, please
posted at 9:27 pm on May 6, 2009 by Allahpundit
Isn’t he a Democrat already? He voted for Obama and thinks it’s time for big government. He’s a Republican at this point the same way Andrew Sullivan is.
On the other hand, why is Rush telling people what to call themselves? I thought he’s always fancied himself less a voice for Republicans than for conservatives. If Powell and Meghan McCain want to label themselves Republican, terrific; the Limbaugh mission, or so I’ve assumed, is to ensure that the GOP’s platform and leadership are each appropriately conservative. If Colin Powell can help attract people to that platform, why purge him? Granted, it’s not going to happen today, but who knows how it’ll shake out in 2012?
For more red meat, try this snippet from Greg Hengler of Rush saluting Palin. For what it’s worth, I told Andy Levy today that I wished he’d become a Republican — just so Rush could kick him out of the party. Click the image to watch.
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So, why wouldn’t the same logic apply to the other Confederate states?
Upstater85 on May 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM
I’m sure if she asks real nicely Obama will re-write history and geography for her.
doriangrey on May 6, 2009 at 10:54 PM
She might even end up being born in the US…
Isn’t all of that “Marcy-Bocup” Europe part of the US anyway??? ///sarc
Upstater85 on May 6, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Powell was a political general, i.e. an opportunist. If a Democrat – Carter or someone else – had been elected Prez in 1980, 1984 and 1988, Powell would have sucked up to and kissed the ass of that administration as well.
If we’d had a different Chairman Of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff back in 1990-91, we wouldn’t have called off the pursuit & destruction of Hussein’s Iraqi Army out of some misplaced sense of squeamishness. Powell called for an early cessation of hostilities, allowing Hussein (Saddam, not B.H.O.)to scamper to safety with a sizable portion of his army intact, free to continue a further decade of misery and thuggishness towards the Iraqi people.
CatchAll on May 6, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Perfect analogy.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM
California? “Second-most-southern?” How?
Hawaii, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, New Mexico, Arizona — all extend farther south than California. Heck, even South Carolina extends slightly south of southernmost CA.
Or do you mean something else by “second most southern?”
I mean, not that it affects your argument a bit, but….
notropis on May 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Well, there was this:
ROFL…oooooh, that dirty, below-the-belt McCain campaign! And heck, most of the people who post on this blog were more prepared than Obama to be president.
ddrintn on May 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM
By the way…I’m feeling naughty…I’ll say it…Meggie McCain sux :-)
AUINSC on May 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Can’t top that one.
Les in NC on May 6, 2009 at 11:07 PM
POWELL has demonstrated he doesn’t know what the hell is going on under his own nose; So, any news on this bum is only sensationalization of the MUNDANE, and BORING.
Cybergeezer on May 6, 2009 at 11:08 PM
ROTFLMAO…. You do know that California extends all the way down to the tip of Baja California right…. ;p
doriangrey on May 6, 2009 at 11:11 PM
the Limbaugh mission, or so I’ve assumed, is to ensure that the GOP’s platform and leadership are each appropriately conservative. If Colin Powell can help attract people to that platform, why purge him?
Uh… Because Powell is trying to make the GOP less conservative?
Duh.
cs89 on May 6, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Computer’s acting funny, sorry for no “quote” above.
cs89 on May 6, 2009 at 11:17 PM
“second most southern state in the nation”
“California extends all the way down to the tip of Baja California right”
Which nation you talking about? I mean, there are plenty of “Californians,” like the La Raza folks, who maintain that California extends all the way UP to Oregon…. But then, I don’t think their ancestors sympathized with the Confederacy….
notropis on May 6, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Just FYI, I’ve been all over the country but the two most racist places I’ve been to are Northern California and Chicago.
baldilocks on May 6, 2009 at 11:18 PM
“Just FYI, I’ve been all over the country but the two most racist places I’ve been to are Northern California and Chicago.”
Baldi, sometime I’ll have to take you up to the Iron Range in northern Minnesota….
notropis on May 6, 2009 at 11:21 PM
It makes perfect sense to drop potential leaders like Powell, if indeed “moderate” policies such as the failed Bush/McCain/Kennedy amnesty bill and the Bush response to the econimic crisis are responsible for the current position the Republicans are in.
FireDrake on May 6, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Well, I suspect you don’t doubt it. I don’t.
AUINSC on May 6, 2009 at 11:35 PM
No, Allah.
It just is not.
And I say that as someone who is, politically, pretty much to the LEFT of Meghan.
Vyce on May 6, 2009 at 11:46 PM
You repugs are hopeless. You elevate a fat draft dodging AM radio clown over a true war hero. General Powell was fighting communists in the jungles of Nam behind the barrel of a gun in the heat and muck. Something you namby-pambys would never do. No wonder your party is a joke.
robertnyc212 on May 6, 2009 at 11:48 PM
I’m still waiting for any of my 4 or 5 detractors to refute any of my points.
jgapinoy on May 6, 2009 at 11:49 PM
“robertnyc212 on May 6, 2009 at 11:48 PM”
Remind me, again, why a fat, draft-dodging Bill Clinton deserved your vote over the true war heroes George H.W. Bush and/or Bob Dole?
No wonder you are a joke.
notropis on May 6, 2009 at 11:51 PM
didn’t vote for Clinton, try again
robertnyc212 on May 6, 2009 at 11:52 PM
and Bush was no war hero, loser
robertnyc212 on May 6, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Look at what you’ve written. Although she’s a RINO at least Ms. McCain voted for the man on the Republican ticket. Powell voted for
Obama. He aint no RINO either. He’s a Dmoroncrat.Yitzchokm on May 6, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Ok stud…who’d you vote for?
AUINSC on May 6, 2009 at 11:54 PM
So you’re saying a war hero can’t be wrong & Rush can’t be right about anything?
jgapinoy on May 6, 2009 at 11:54 PM
a war hero is a true patriot not a fat poseur
robertnyc212 on May 6, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Seriously? HW was no war hero…fought in WWII…was shot down? A sissy maybe? How about you try again?
AUINSC on May 6, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Unlike yourself, of course.
AUINSC on May 6, 2009 at 11:56 PM
robertnyc212 @ 11:48 PM
Powell was in Saigon in the officers club with the whores while the “true war heros” were in the jungles behind the barrel of a gun in the heat and muck. What were you doing? Were you even born then?
Powell is an opportunist who used his race just like he is doing now.
Vince on May 6, 2009 at 11:56 PM
(Rush worshipers who earlier mocked my views on him are now gasping at my 11:54 comment)
Fair & balanced.
jgapinoy on May 6, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Guess you weren’t old enough.
If you use the term “repugs,” you’re sort of announcing your bias, or at least your immaturity.
notropis on May 6, 2009 at 11:56 PM
HW was a wimp, where have you been
robertnyc212 on May 6, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Not it in the bong pipe like you dude…btw, how many battles in WWII did you participate in again? I missed it the first time you mentioned it, I guess.
AUINSC on May 6, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Vince was an incredibly ignorant statement about Powell’s service. You should be ashamed but that would require honor.
robertnyc212 on May 6, 2009 at 11:59 PM
No, he’s admitting that calling Limbaugh a fat poseur draft-dodger is easier than refuting anything Limbaugh actually says. Ad hominem is all the lefties have.
ddrintn on May 6, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Hint…your disjointed commentary is not working. You are losing badly now…try again.
AUINSC on May 7, 2009 at 12:00 AM
robertnyc212
Screw you. I was there.
Vince on May 7, 2009 at 12:00 AM
“and Bush was no war hero, loser”
Man made over 100 carrier landings, flew over 50 combat missions, got the Distinguished Flying cross in WWII, risked his life to ensure that your sorry pasty fat ass could play video games in Mom’s basement, and you have the nerve to say he was no war hero?
Crawl back under your rock, slime.
notropis on May 7, 2009 at 12:00 AM
If you are seriously defending Rush at the expense of General Powell you are deluded or stupid. Powell is a real Patriot. Fat boy is a clown getting rich off you idjits.
robertnyc212 on May 7, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Isn’t it past your bedtime?
baldilocks on May 7, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Yeah, I guess we’ll just take your word for it…your cred here is so powerful and all.
AUINSC on May 7, 2009 at 12:03 AM
he was an eastern bred pansy, look it up
robertnyc212 on May 7, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Brilliant closing argument, Perry Mason.
Pasalubong on May 7, 2009 at 12:05 AM
keep worshipping at the feet of Jabba. How’s that working out for ya?
robertnyc212 on May 7, 2009 at 12:05 AM
“look it up”
I did.
But I didn’t need to. I already knew that about him. Comes from not being a totally ignorant fool.
notropis on May 7, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Murtha is a Vietnam veteran as well. Yep, nice model of integrity there.
ddrintn on May 7, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Dennis Miller made a good point tonight. He thinks that Powell is still upset that he made the case for WMD at the U.N. and when none turned up he felt his legacy had been tarnished. So attacking conservatives is his way of re-establishing his credibility.
Cindy Munford on May 7, 2009 at 12:08 AM
getting shot at doesnt make you a hero
robertnyc212 on May 7, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Oh, he’s not done yet…many more non-sequiturs to spew and so little time he/she/it has.
AUINSC on May 7, 2009 at 12:09 AM
No one’s worshiping except the O-bots. How’s it working out? Remains to be seen. The wheel hasn’t gone round yet.
ddrintn on May 7, 2009 at 12:09 AM
robert… You are so far out of your league! Go to bed.
Vince on May 7, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Just like saying so in a comment blog doesn’t make you credible or relevant. Plus, you are off-topic…but I’m sure that doesn’t bother you at all.
AUINSC on May 7, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Agree with Rush 100%. Powell has never articulated a coherent policy on anything other than the Powell Doctrine. By all accounts he appears to be a liberal. McCain was the exact kind of candidate that he claims he would be for and threw him under the bus.
echosyst on May 7, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Regardless though, it’s apparently working better for me than for you. At least I don’t have to troll on lefty blogs.
ddrintn on May 7, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Your party is no longer relevant…looks like its working out just fine
robertnyc212 on May 7, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Don’t make me come in there little man.
Vince on May 7, 2009 at 12:13 AM
And as proof, you came here just to tell us that…good job! You are converting hundreds with your well-reasoned arguments. What a credit you are to your party. Please, keep talking…really, I mean it!
AUINSC on May 7, 2009 at 12:14 AM
It’s not a purge when they’ve already jumped.
Jim Treacher on May 7, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Oooohhh…. SNAP! They don’t get more street than that!
Soo.. Robbie… NYC, huh? Disgruntled Brooklyn hipster lib with a stack of Urban Outfitter coupons, or disgruntled pseudo-intellectual Upper West Sider?
Pasalubong on May 7, 2009 at 12:15 AM
hundreds? more like half a dozen nitwits
robertnyc212 on May 7, 2009 at 12:15 AM
“getting shot at doesnt make you a hero”
So what made Colin Powell a hero, then? Killing bad guys? Risking his life to complete his mission? Doing what his country asked of him? Going above and beyond the call of duty? What’d Powell do that Bush didn’t, besides attacking Rush Limbaugh?
Aaah, why do I waste my time.
Log off, your mom needs to use the phone line.
notropis on May 7, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Oh noes…really, the nitwits love you! If you can’t trust me, who can you trust?
AUINSC on May 7, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Be patient Allah. It’ll be clear enough very soon.
csdeven on May 7, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Colin Powell not supporting McCain = Democrat
Rush Limbuagh not supporting McCain = Republican
YYZ on May 7, 2009 at 12:18 AM
seriously? your not comparing jungle fighting with lobbing missles from thousands of feet in the air, idjits
robertnyc212 on May 7, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Colin Powell endorsing Barack Obama = Democrat.
I teach remedial math. Maybe I can help you with your sums….
notropis on May 7, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Colin Powell voting for Obama = democrat
Rush Limbaugh voting for McCain + Republican
Vince on May 7, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Jungle fighting? Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
Vince on May 7, 2009 at 12:21 AM
If the Republican Party is no longer relevant, and conservatives are no longer relevant, then WHY do liberal trolls consistently pop in here to try to push us aside?
There can only be one explanation.
Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 12:21 AM
uh, yeah
robertnyc212 on May 7, 2009 at 12:21 AM
“lobbing missles from thousands of feet in the air, ”
You really haven’t read anything about WWII, have you? Bush lobbed missles [sic]? Bush flew his missions from “thousands of feet in the air?” (Might not hurt to learn to spell “missiles,” either.)
notropis on May 7, 2009 at 12:21 AM
LOL, time to give up, Vince. “How Obama Got Elected” and all.
ddrintn on May 7, 2009 at 12:22 AM
I’m here b/c you idjits are so easy to pick off when you sing the praise of a drug addicted blow hard.
robertnyc212 on May 7, 2009 at 12:22 AM
so easy I’m only using half my brain tied behind my back
robertnyc212 on May 7, 2009 at 12:23 AM
I’m going with the Urban Outfitter coupons… I think even pseudo-intellectuals know how to use Wikipedia.
Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Haven’t checked the clip yet, but I think it’s because they KNOW they’re going to screw up royally. And they know we know…and we know they know we know… LOL
ddrintn on May 7, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Heh…. I like all your “hard core” talk about “‘Nam”. What, did you just come from an Apocalypse Now screening?
Dude, YOUR party was busy getting stoned and throwing crap and blood and spit and God kbnows what else at me and my fellow veterans. You were all busy sucking up to Liveshot Kerry and his pack of Winter Soldier lies, and telling everyone how EVERYONE who served in Vietnam was a monster.
Got you story straight, boy. Powell can’t be a hero to you leftists, since you’ve already branded him a baby-killer and a race traitor in your own literature.
Time to turn on your night lite, kiss mommy goodnight and go to bed, little boy. You are up WAY past your bedtime.
AW1 Tim on May 7, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Did Andy laugh at you for such a stupid suggestion? Seeing how you do not get it. Better yet will this post make it into his halftime report?
Go back to humping robots, let Ed provide the insight.
F15Mech on May 7, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Oh, and if you actually do care, google “chichi jima” and see how safe those bombing runs were.
notropis on May 7, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Heard he’s also into porn and eats babies for breakfast… you might want to write that one down…
Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Obama?
ddrintn on May 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM
And so the other half is lodged up your hiny then?
AUINSC on May 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Hon, I hope that you’re really young.
baldilocks on May 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM
csdeven on May 7, 2009 at 12:17 AM
I will let the cat out of the bag…because Rush, and so many others, want to take back our party so that we can take back our country. Glenn Beck thinks it will take a third party…I would prefer cleaning house in the Republican party since its already established.
Conservative Voice on May 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Obama’s ____ is occupying that crevice.
Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Don’t be an age-ist… stupidity comes in all ages.
Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:28 AM
But it’s harder to grow out of the older you get, due to the increasing stubbornness.
And I’m a lot older than you, so don’t argue with me about this!
Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Yes, sir!
Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Rob, unless you are snorting some really good stuff, you should be on here dishing it out to us Rushobites!
Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:33 AM
I’m just summarizing for my own benefit, here:
Getting shot down, while flying a bombing mission, makes you a cowardly elitist east-cost effete snob.
Getting shot at, while your feet are on the ground, makes you a hero.
Falling from 1000 feet to near-certain death is nothing.
Falling six feet into the mud is scary.
I’m happy my country never called on me to do either; and I’ll readily give “hero” status to both of the above, but I’m just trying to keep my juvenile lefty talking points straight. I may have to eat lunch in the faculty lounge tomorrow.
notropis on May 7, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Eh, nevermind… didn’t know they uploaded the most recent Napolitano pics
Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:37 AM
That’s always fun… and mind
meltingempowering!Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:38 AM
The troll was imitating Bucky the Cat, except Bucky is a conservative. Liberals can’t do anything right.
Feedie on May 7, 2009 at 12:39 AM
People should wake up to the fact that we have a two-party system, not a parlimentary system. This will probably always be the case thanks to the electoral college which mandates that the president-elect have a majority – not a plurality – of the electoral votes. That fact forces people of competing interests to form no more than two parties capable of carrying a majority. Third parties usually do not last long becaue they cancel out the impact of a second party leaving one party rule. For example the Whigs did not last long once the Republican Party was formed.
In a parlimentary system the ruling government is formed by the coalition of parties and those parties do not always agree on matters of public policy. In our system, each of the two parties must itself act as a coalition of different interests but largely common interests.
I like Rush, but we also have to realize that the Republican party in order to be successful must form a coalition of different types of candidates. The Democrats understand this and thus were able to elect a colleciton of blue dog Democrats from traditionally conservative states. While they blue dogs do not control policy the fact that they are allowed to represent the Democrats has made the Dems the ruling coalition of this country.
I do not see how one can grow the party by kicking people out of the party.
PackerBronco on May 7, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Why are people calling themselves something they’re very clearly not? Why are they giving ammunition to those who are trying to change this country into something less?
Jim Treacher on May 7, 2009 at 12:47 AM
And yet, Powell insisted that the Republican Party would be better off without Rush.
And Arlen Specter, just before (or after) he switched, insisted that the Republican Party would be better off without the social conservatives.
I’ll repeat my challenge to the Powell-Snowe-Parker-Frum wing of the Republican party: Tell me clearly what, in your minds, differentiates you from the Democrats. The right wing of the Party is not shy about staking out its ground. The closest I’ve heard from the other side was some nonsense by either Collins or Snowe last week, talking about fiscal conservatism. This from one of the porkulus backers. Gotta make the distinction a little clearer than that.
notropis on May 7, 2009 at 12:50 AM
On the other hand, why is Rush telling people what to call themselves?
Why are people calling themselves something they’re very clearly not? Why are they giving ammunition to those who are trying to change this country into something less?
Jim Treacher on May 7, 2009 at 12:47 AM
This calls for a HA first – an old Yiddish joke! (as told to me by my Romanian grandmother)
A guy goes out and buys himself a boat. He takes his mother out on his boat, puts on a captain’s hat and says “Hey ma, look at me! I’m a captain!”
His mother shrugs and says, “look, darling, to me, you’re a captain, to you, you’re a captain, but to a captain….?”
TexasJew on May 7, 2009 at 12:54 AM
YYZ on May 7, 2009 at 12:56 AM
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