Poll question: Would you say that Colin Powell's reputation sunk when he joined *
Remember when there was all that talk years ago about Colin Powell running for president? You don't hear much about it anymore. I'll bet he wishes he never accepted the offer to be Sec of State.
and resigned he would have earned respect. Having done that he is disgraced forever. The RW no longer embraces him because he has been a worm about his role and the Left feel that he disgraced himself by knowingly aiding an illegal Invasion based on lies.
All the moderate republicans like powell and Christie Whitman were made to look like total ineffective idiots. I think this was planned so that the extreme right wing of the party could take complete control.
...had sunk as low as it could go with the cover-up of My Lai...he was (in Harry Belafonte's words) a "house nigger" long before he was given a blanket on the floor outside Junior's bedroom. As for Condi...
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