Powell Says Shrinking GOP Should Return To The Center [praises McCain, attacks Palin, Rush, Coulter]

National Journal / Congress Daily ^ | 2009-05-05 | Chris Strohm

[rabscuttle385]

The Republican Party is in big trouble and needs to find a way to move back to the middle of the country, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday.

Powell said the GOP is "getting smaller and smaller" and "that's not good for the nation." He also said he hopes that emerging GOP leaders, such as House Minority Whip Cantor, will not keep repeating mantras of the far right.

"The Republican Party is in deep trouble," Powell told corporate security executives at a conference in Washington sponsored by Fortify Software Inc. The party must realize that the country has changed, he said. "Americans do want to pay taxes for services," he said. "Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."

Powell, secretary of State during the first term of former President George W. Bush, made waves last year when he came out for the Democratic presidential candidate, then-Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Powell described the 2008 GOP candidate, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, as "a beloved friend" but said he told him last summer that the party had developed a reputation for being mean-spirited and driven more by social conservatism than the economic problems that Americans faced.

[b4its2late]

Who’s Powell?

[GreatDaggar]

New Political Scale:

Far Right — People with Brains

Right — Colin Powell

Center-Right — Obama

Center-Left — Noam Chomsky

hmmm it all makes sense now!

[rabscuttle385]

"Americans do want to pay taxes for services," he said. "Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."

Powell is a flaming RINO.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Powell needs to pull his head out of his specter.

[DTogo]

"Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."

Why we need a third party, a truly CONSERVATIVE party!!

[Gator113]

Powell , I don’t take my orders from AA turncoats.

[sheik yerbouty]

So sez the star of the TV show “The Mole”..

[wac3rd]

The Affirmative Action General with no combat experience endorsed the Affimative Action Senator from Illinois with no political experience. It figures.

[jennyjenny]

I’ve never figured out why so many people think this guy is so intelligent.

[peace with honor]

hey powell, here's an idea, WHY DON'T YOU NOT WORRY ABOUT IT

[Not now, Not ever!]

Wrong then, Wrong now, A perfect record.

[dandiegirl]

He’s just another liberal trying to get BO’s socialist agenda shoved thru. What a slimeball.

[lynn4303]

Who is Powell? Didn’t he fall off the face of the Earth recently? I thought I felt the planet speed up, just assumed it was him falling off.

[SmokingJoe]

“Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.”

What Americans are these eh Colin?
Jamaican Americans, drug dealers, inner city ghetto dwellers or those who won't work, but want to live on free goverment largess?
Do we have to take even more crap from this 3rd rate idiot?

[tumblindice]

Irritable Colon Syndrome

[omega4179]

I do not want any services except national defense and a fire department.

[McGruff]

Colin Powell. The slime bag that let Scooter Libby and the rest twist in the wind for 2 years when he knew who leaked Valeria Plame’s name. He should be kicked out of the party.

[avacado]

The party must realize that the country has changed, he said. "Americans do want to pay taxes for services," he said. "Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."

These satire articles are getting less and less funny.

[texmexis best]

uih..Dude, we just lost the election with that approach.