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The rights Colin Powell freakout
A FreedomWorks lady kicks him out of his own party after he criticizes Republicans' "dark vein of intolerance"
BY JOAN WALSH
The folks at FreedomWorks, last seen in the media being marched out of their own offices by an armed guard, only to march back in after a plutocrat benefactor paid an $8 million ransom to Dick Armey, found a black Republican to kick Gen. Colin Powell out of his own party Tuesday.
Happy birthday, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.!
Stacy Washington doesnt seem to have brought along an armed guard to help her escort Powell out of his party. But apparently motivated by his majestic denunciation of his partys four-year freakout over President Obama on Meet the Press last Sunday, Washington intoned on the front page of the FreedomWorks site Tuesday: Its with considerable dismay that I pronounce him to be, well no longer a Republican! Why? He holds far too many positions that place him squarely in the Democratic Partys base to seriously be considered a Republican.
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The usual suspects on the right went nuts. Foxs The Five called Powell unhinged. Laura Ingraham called him a weapon of mass destruction, and Foxs Megyn Kelly remarked Whoa, with friends like that in the Republican Party, who needs enemies? But at least Kelly let him stay in his own party; FreedomWorks Washington wont allow it. His ultimate sin: castigating the party using the very tired but effective cudgel of race. Tossing the race card is the purview of liberals, she says, so that makes Powell a liberal.
-snip-At this point, the Republican Party doesnt deserve someone like Powell. Its pathetic how alone he is in calling out his friends on either their racism, or their tolerance for it. Ive written many times: Birtherism wouldnt have become a potent force if people like John Boehner or Mitt Romney had spoken out against it. Instead Boehner insisted it wasnt his job to tell people what to think, and Romney made jokes about nobody needing to see his birth certificate, while embracing the carnival barker Donald Trump.
But Powell has spent his life as a Republican and hes entitled to remain one, to fight for the soul of his party from inside of it. None of the grifters or poseurs at FreedomWorks is entitled to read Powell out of it
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/the_rights_colin_powell_freakout/
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)should register as an independent. That would send a message to the GOP leadership.
stultusporcos
(327 posts)The Powell melt down on FR was hilarious and so predictable
did you know Powell was really a liberal on a mission to destroy the GOP from within along with all the other RINOs?
Me...... he destroyed any and all creditability on most things after his embarrassing UN speech on Iraq. He has a lot of things to come clean on for things he did for the government perhaps he finally had his come to jesus moment so to speak.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Well I have no problem with THAT sentiment.