Note to Colon POWELL & all 3rd wayers/no labels: Rethug Party canNOT change/be other than what it is
Ever since the election, the opposite-named "pundits" (they're *not* wise) have been hand-wringing that the poor, dear Rethug party needs to change toward being diverse, inclusive, moderate on social issues. Now comes the POWELL wambulance joining in.
First of all, POWELL made his career out of currying favor with Old White Male overlords. Who is it who supposedly has all this vast reservoir of respect for him?!1 What credibility has he ever had ever since My Lai?!1 Certainly, the real bosses of his own party don't.
He has said the reason he is a Rethug is that he was raised that way. Hmmm. Well, people learn things as they develop and modify all sorts of things they were raised by.
So NOTE to him, the WashPo/CILIZZA, et al. : Entities exist for their own identity. The Rethug Party is what it is. There is NO, even, SENSE to the concept that it needs to be more like a different political party. What is the sense of having different parties with the same agendas? And CILIZZA even ties himself up in contradictions, on the one hand claiming that the Rethug leaders believe the party has to go in a different direction while then asking whether any of their elected leaders have peeped agreement on the subject.
No, the Rethug party not only should not, but canNOT be other than what it is, and if it did, its core members would just separate out and regroup into another party for themselves. Dumbasses.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/04/1088824/-Colin-Powell-so-so-sad-he-can-t-erase-blot-on-his-reputation
[font size=5]Colin Powell is so sad he can't erase 'blot' on his reputation[/font]
Fri May 04, 2012 at 02:43 PM PDT
by Meteor BladesFollow
.... We've been hearing this crap from the guy for seven years now. It's tedious. It's sickening. It's self-serving. It's bullshit. It's the same old, same old.
Except, not quite. Because Powell keeps changing his story about his interactions in the White House. In 2005, he told Barbara Walters that he was "right there with" the president on the use of force in Iraq. In 2007, he told a group of heavyweights at a conference in Aspen, Colo., that he had spent two-and-a-half hours trying to talk Bush out of using force.
This latest iteration isn't the first time Powell has tried to lay the blame for his bogus U.N. speech on intelligence failures well down the chain of command. Not only has he never held his bosses to account for intentionally distorting what they knew to be untrue, he hasn't owned up to his own distortions. ....
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/11442-focus-colin-powell-owes-us-an-apology
[font size=5]Colin Powell Owes Us an Apology[/font]
By Charles Pierce, Esquire Magazine
15 May 12
Has there been a more vastly overrated person in the past 50 years than Colin Powell? He helped cover up My Lai. He did his part to make sure that the Iran-Contra mess never came fully to light. He buckled under to chickenhawk bullies in the Bush White House and did his part to lie us into a destructive war with a speech to the U.N. that he knew was based on stovepiped bullshit from people he already didn't trust. And still, people trust him and revere him and, I have no doubt, if he came to them shilling another war, they'd salute and agree with him as devoutly as they did back in 2003, when he was before the UN talking about those lagoons of anthrax consomme that didn't really exist. ....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/14/colin-powells-overlooked-call-to-action-on-race/
[font size=5]Colin Powell’s (overlooked) call to action on race[/font]
Posted by Chris Cillizza on January 14
.... Asked by “MTP” moderator David Gregory to both diagnose [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]what ails[/FONT] the Republican party and [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]justify his ties to it[/FONT] — given that he endorsed President Obama in 2008 and 2012 — Powell responded this way:
“There’s also a dark — a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the Party. What I do mean by that? I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities. How can I evidence that? When I see a former governor say that the president is shuckin’ and jivin’, that’s a racial era slave term. When I see another former governor after the president’s first debate where he didn’t do very well, says that the president was lazy. He didn’t say he was slow, he was tired, he didn’t do well, he said he was lazy. Now, it may not mean anything to most Americans but to those of us who are African-Americans, the second word is shiftless and then there’s a third word that goes along with it. Birther, the whole Birther Movement. Why do senior Republican leaders tolerate this kind of discussion within the Party?”
Powell is referring to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who said that President Obama was “shucking and jiving” in giving answers to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, who referred to Obama as “lazy” following the first presidential debate. (Worth noting: Obama told Barbara Walters in 2011 that “there’s a laziness in me.”) ....
Even if Republican leaders want to dismiss Powell as a former Republican or a RINO (Republican In Name Only), they should also be mindful that simply having the perception out there that the party has a “dark vein of intolerance” within it is a major problem as the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]GOP tries to expand its voting coalition[/FONT] outward. ....
Do any elected Republican officials follow suit? Do they dispute Powell’s characterization of the party? Do they even acknowledge Powell’s remarks? It’s all part of how the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]GOP sees itself now[/FONT] and where [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]its leaders believe the party needs[/FONT] to — and [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]can[/FONT] — [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]go[/FONT].
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