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Colin Powell Says "I think I am Still a Republican" - Video 1/20/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | January 21, 2009 | BrianinMO

Posted on 01/21/2009 4:51:28 AM PST by Federalist Patriot

Here is video of Gen. Colin Powell talking with ABC yesterday about the inauguration of Barack Obama as President. During the interview, Powell said about his party affiliation, "I think I am still a Republican." He makes the statement at the 4:02 mark in the video.

Well, Gen. Powell, to have thrown a fairly moderate Republican like John McCain over the side, despite his heroic service to America and his wisdom in supporting the surge strategy in Iraq, it will be hard for you to make the case to any Republican that you have a single GOP bone in your body. To hope Republicans field a candidate in the future as liberal as Barack Obama is to hope for the complete disappearance of the Republican Party. . . . . . (watch video)

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: gop; obama; powell; racist; traitor; vichyrepublican; wedontthinkso
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1 posted on 01/21/2009 4:51:28 AM PST by Federalist Patriot
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To: Federalist Patriot

With all due respect sir(respect for your service to our country) I think you are a turncoat.


2 posted on 01/21/2009 4:54:08 AM PST by shadeaud (Time to smell the roses and not the stench coming from D.C.)
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To: Federalist Patriot
I think he represents the Republicans perfectly at this point.

Mr. niteowl
(ex-Republican)

3 posted on 01/21/2009 4:57:19 AM PST by niteowl77 (You wanted him, and now you have got him. I say, "Good day to you," America.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Republican does not equal conservative. For reference see John McCain


4 posted on 01/21/2009 4:57:41 AM PST by Rays_Dad (H. Clinton-Every man who looks at her is reminded of his first wife, even if he's never been married)
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To: Federalist Patriot

So NOW he wants to come running back to the GOP after screwing over. No thanks. You wanted the inexperiened doofus, so go sit around his office.


5 posted on 01/21/2009 4:57:47 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

“So NOW he wants to come running back to the GOP after screwing over”

Clarification: So NOW he wants to come running back to the GOP after BEING screwed over.


6 posted on 01/21/2009 5:02:24 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: Federalist Patriot

Mr. Powell represents Republicans as Hitler did Jews.


7 posted on 01/21/2009 5:04:37 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Federalist Patriot
"I think I am still a Republican."

And Madonna still thinks she's a young, beautiful, headlining singer. But that ain't so either.

8 posted on 01/21/2009 5:04:47 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: Federalist Patriot

General, I think you are full of sh*p.

sorry for the crudeness.


9 posted on 01/21/2009 5:04:53 AM PST by Carley (Remember when we had a real President)
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“Colin Powell Says “I think I am Still a Republican”

Well, General, until you:

1. Spit out the Kool-Aid,
2. Apologize for the massive brain fart you experienced when you endorsed 0bama, and
3. Actually adopt conservative values,

you’re a turncoat and a liberal democrat. Have you collected your 30 pieces of silver, yet?


10 posted on 01/21/2009 5:05:02 AM PST by ScottinVA (All I needed to know about islam I learned on 9-11.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

He should change his name to Colon Bowell.


11 posted on 01/21/2009 5:07:06 AM PST by Perdogg (Only the hypnotized never lie)
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“We’ve got to learn a lesson from this election.”

This is rich. Powell turned on the Republican party to take them to school? Nah, he turned on the Republicans to support a black candidate and he doesn’t have the balls to say so.


12 posted on 01/21/2009 5:09:18 AM PST by Toespi
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To: Federalist Patriot

A duck can think he’s an eagle, too.

That doesn’t mean he is.


13 posted on 01/21/2009 5:09:24 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

If you have to think about it, you aren’t.


14 posted on 01/21/2009 5:10:12 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Powell chose melanin over values. The GOP does not need that kind of immaturity. Go away, Powell.


15 posted on 01/21/2009 5:11:04 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: shadeaud

Shut up, REMF.


16 posted on 01/21/2009 5:11:35 AM PST by Seruzawa (Obamalama lied, the republic died.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Powell, I don’t give a rats-ass WHAT you think!

YOU sir, are a media WHORE, and NOTHING MORE.


17 posted on 01/21/2009 5:12:01 AM PST by Mr. Jazzy (Happy 233rd Birthday, USMC!!!)
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“I THINK I AM STILL A REPUBLICAN” (????????) If he is a republican, then break down and destroy the Republican party and build it again from scratch, because it means nothing anymore. It is a party of gutless cowards. We need another Reagan to emerge from the ashes if the Republican party is to have a furure.


18 posted on 01/21/2009 5:15:22 AM PST by RedCobra
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Colin Powell “I think I am still a Republican”

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So General Powell, let me explain something. The fact is Republicans did not listen to me. They listened to you. They have not been listening to me for years. The Republican Party nominated your ideal candidate. They nominated your guy, a moderate, who’s willing to buy into an endless array of liberal causes, from global warming — ...As long as you are a Republican but you buy into an endless array of liberal causes, global warming to amnesty for illegals, and somebody who has the same fetish for compromising principles that you do, then they are going to love you. Then you turn around and you stab this person in the back by endorsing the most liberal Democrat candidate ever nominated days before the election, General Powell?

Rush Limbaugh


19 posted on 01/21/2009 5:16:27 AM PST by IrishMike (Islam is a barbaric political and social system in religious dragÂ’)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Colin Powell reached his Peters Principle limit as a Captain in Vietnam. It was all downhill brown nosing from there on.


20 posted on 01/21/2009 5:18:06 AM PST by Venturer
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