Comments on: Magical Realism: Colin Powell 2012

By: Jeff from WI

Jeff from WI — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:57:26 +0000

I’m lost. Powell through off his party to vote FOR Obama. Now an idea that Powell would run AGAINST Obama. How idiotic, since his running against Obama MUST show he’s a poor judge of people for endorsing him in the first place. A no winner.

By: Colin Powell for President? | PAWaterCooler.com

Colin Powell for President? | PAWaterCooler.com — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:58:25 +0000

[...] HotAir links to a suggestion that Colin Powell should run for President in 2012 as the Republican candidate. [...]

By: Midas

Midas — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:51:28 +0000

When hell freezes over.

By: Lanceman

Lanceman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:31:32 +0000

Maybe Powell as Palin’s VP!

CK MacLeod on July 14, 2009 at 5:46 PM

If THAT happens, I’m outta politics forever!

By: CK MacLeod

CK MacLeod — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:46:52 +0000

He’d draw some of the black vote off Obama, and no right-thinking conservative would vote for him. This makes it possible for Palin/Cheney to run as a third party and win.

Daggett on July 14, 2009 at 2:36 PM

What you’re talking about would be reminiscent of the 1850s – back when turnout in the U.S. was in the mid-high 80%’s and everyone loved politics so much they decided to fight a war over it, while parties mutiplied electoral college votes. It’s also reminiscent of Weimar, Germany.

Just talking about de-stabilization of the political system, not trying to suggest any underlying parallels.

I don’t think that Colin Powell cares enough to go down to flaming defeat for the broken Republicans as the Conservatives fought for a plurality, with their best performance concentrated regionally, in the South.

But a LOT can happen between now and 2012. There’s no absolute guarantee that Obama will even be running for re-election. If you’re going to start getting serious about speculative unconventional scenarios – e.g., Obama not running or extremely weak, yet a split on the right, all taking place amidst deep political/economic/etc. crisis and violent disagreement over what to do about it – you have to start thinking about the electoral college: Once upon a time, forcing the election into the college was a major tactical consideration, not just a fun what-if? scenario.

The thing is, the weaker the Dems look, the more incentive the opposition will have to unite.

Maybe Powell as Palin’s VP!

By: hawkman

hawkman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:25:33 +0000

General Powell is a BIG FAT WEASEL. HE WILL NOT HAVE MY VOTE. HE BETRAYED ME WITH THE ENDORSING OF THE SOCIALIST HUSSEIN.
GIVE ME LIBERTY. OR GIVE ME DEATH. : )

By: Sapwolf

Sapwolf — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:09:08 +0000

Powell would be the PERFECT republican candidate.

He’d draw some of the black vote off Obama, and no right-thinking conservative would vote for him. This makes it possible for Palin/Cheney to run as a third party and win.

Daggett on July 14, 2009 at 2:36 PM

That actually makes a little sense.

By: Sapwolf

Sapwolf — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:07:30 +0000

If the GOP runs Powell, then I am 100% for a new party (I’d be for secession outright, but that’s another thread).

Nobody could convince me otherwise.

By: Sapwolf

Sapwolf — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:05:20 +0000

OK. I have now found the GOP candidate that will convince me to campaign vigorously for O.

Dusting off the Mao jacket now.

By: JustTruth101

JustTruth101 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:40:11 +0000

Please oh please let Powell be the republican candidate, with someone fantastic like Charlie Crist or John McCain as VP.

Then let Palin/Romney run on a 3rd party ticket. As long as the republicans lose again, that’s what I want. I am starting to hate the GOP for abandoning me, it is because of their big spending that we now have Obama destroying my country.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:26:20 +0000

Don’t be surprised if DuhOne picks him to replace Plugs Biden. Hillary will have jumped ship by 2012.

SouthernGent on July 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM

Your comment predictably makes lightyears more sense than this bizarre post and the idiotic story behind it. Powell couldn’t get elected Alderman as a Republican, and if he was actually serious about running as one, it would only be to guarantee O’Bonehead a second term.

By: CynicalOptimist

CynicalOptimist — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:18:25 +0000

Powell could be exactly the presidential candidate Republicans need.

Like a hole in the head.

By: BobbyDank

BobbyDank — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:06:38 +0000

The way things are going, Hillary could run as a Republican and win in 2012. Just imagine all the campaign ads of Obama’s broken campaign promises we will be seeing in 2012.

By: fogw

fogw — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:04:25 +0000

thebrokenrattle on July 14, 2009 at 3:50 PM

And then there’s that other military expert senator who served in Vietnam. I heard that somewhere. Yeh, I’m sure. He did serve in Vietnam. For four months. LOL.

By: Lou Budvis

Lou Budvis — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:57:06 +0000

Advancing Powell’s and Noonan’s careers was the worst thing President Reagan ever did.

By: thebrokenrattle

thebrokenrattle — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:50:23 +0000

For someone with a distinguished military background he sure has trasnformed himself into a limp noodle.

Guys like him, Murtha, Cleland, Scowcroft and even McGovern prove that enlisting and serving don’t make you all-knowing on military matters. Call me a chickenhawk if you want but I know bettah than the lot of them.

By: thebrokenrattle

thebrokenrattle — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:43:59 +0000

I want to like Reihan Salam, he’s a young fresh face to our side, but this is moronic at best.

By: fogw

fogw — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:33:34 +0000

Our presidential candidate in 2012 will have a last name that starts with a ‘P’, but it won’t be Colin. For someone with a distinguished military background he sure has trasnformed himself into a limp noodle.

Go hang with your bro Obama, we don’t want you.

By: Mr A

Mr A — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:27:49 +0000

I think it is crystal clear that Powell intends to run in 2012. That that is why he supported radical leftist Obama against the middle-of-the-road Republican McCain. 1. He could not, as a republican, have run against McCain in 2012. But he can run against a democrat. 2. It allowed for the glass ceiling of a black man becoming president to be broken, and has now opened the door for all of those people who voted for Obama for racial reasons to feel guilt-free in voting for a second, ‘more moderate and less radical,’ black candidate. 3. Powell can run as the more competent candidate.

As the economy worsens and Obama’s foreign policy fails we will begin to see Powell taking gentle shots at Obama – he already has criticized the spending excesses and debt. The gentle shots will sharpen over time and he will begin to say things like, “I didn’t know they would go so far to the left.” and “Clearly President Obama’s policies have been the wrong moves.” and “Unfortunately President Obama has taken the country in the wrong direction.” etc.

He will also use similar tactics at Obama’s foreign policy.

Powell has been playing a very Machiavellian game all along.

By: juanito

juanito — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:16:20 +0000

If the GOP runs Powell in 2012, it will be the first time I won’t cast a Presidential ballot since I first voted for Nixon in his 1972 landslide. I will vote for all other offices and if the appropriate candidate runs a 3rd party I would cast a ballot there. chemman on July 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM

You mean, for HER.

By: juanito

juanito — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:15:16 +0000

So he’s going to run against the incumbent President that HE ENDORSED?

Got it!

By: chemman

chemman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:13:35 +0000

If the GOP runs Powell in 2012, it will be the first time I won’t cast a Presidential ballot since I first voted for Nixon in his 1972 landslide. I will vote for all other offices and if the appropriate candidate runs a 3rd party I would cast a ballot there.

By: SDarchitect

SDarchitect — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:10:36 +0000

for WHAT party?

By: exceller

exceller — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:04:57 +0000

Powell has a better chance at winning the Democratic nomination that the Republican nomination where he has zero chance.

By: tsj017

tsj017 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:00:37 +0000

Clearly, the best move for the GOP is to nominate a guy who endorsed the other party’s candidate in the last election.

Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

Nominating Powell after McCain would be an undeniable sign that the GOP has a death wish.

By: Caiwyn

Caiwyn — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:57:18 +0000

Criticisms of the man himself aside, I can’t imagine Powell’s official endorsement of Obama last year would lend any credibility to him were he to run against Obama in 2012.

By: Winebabe

Winebabe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:56:42 +0000

Not just NO….but F*CK NO!!!!!!

By: Renascent

Renascent — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:55:09 +0000

So many RINOs, so little time.

By: jbtripp

jbtripp — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:53:52 +0000

Powell would be the PERFECT republican candidate.
He’d draw some of the black vote off Obama, and no right-thinking conservative would vote for him. This makes it possible for Palin/Cheney to run as a third party and win.

By: marklmail

marklmail — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:53:48 +0000

Oh yeah. That’s why he’s been backpeddling. No doubt in my mind. Now if you don’t vote for a “”"”main stream”"” “”"moderate”"” black guy, you are RACIST!!!! Jesus H, this guy stands for nothing, and his core is closer to Obama than to Cons.

By: farright

farright — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:53:38 +0000

No way, he lost all my respect when he supported obama and big government/taxes. He should convert to the dumdocrats.

By: WhatsRight

WhatsRight — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:53:01 +0000

Powell and Meghan McCain on the same ticket!!!

By: tickleddragon

tickleddragon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:46:27 +0000

F, f’in, NO!

By: Spiritk9

Spiritk9 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:46:06 +0000

No RINOs thanks, we did the McCain thing already.

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:43:16 +0000

Powell could be exactly the presidential candidate Republicans need.

That’s quite a misspelling of “Democrats.”

By: darwin

darwin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:39:47 +0000

Powell could be exactly the presidential candidate Republicans need.

I want to laugh. I want to shrug this off … but I realize this moron is serious.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:38:35 +0000

Powell 1996? Yes. Powell 2000? Yes. Powell 2008? Yes. Powell 2012? No. Once Powell started hawking big government solutions to protect Obama from his GOP critics, that was the last straw for me.

By: elduende

elduende — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:37:00 +0000

I despise the air Obama breathes but I’d rather vote for Obama than EVER consider voting for Powell.

By: Daggett

Daggett — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:36:30 +0000

Powell would be the PERFECT republican candidate.

He’d draw some of the black vote off Obama, and no right-thinking conservative would vote for him. This makes it possible for Palin/Cheney to run as a third party and win.

By: SouthernGent

SouthernGent — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:26:00 +0000

Don’t be surprised if DuhOne picks him to replace Plugs Biden. Hillary will have jumped ship by 2012.