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Poll to Freep: Should Colin Powell - The Republican Party Head Honcho Return to Public Office?
Larry King Alive ^ | July 28, 2009 | Steelers6

Posted on 07/28/2009 6:18:53 PM PDT by Steelers6

The poll is running 2-1 in favor of Colin with about 3,000 votes, so your vote can affect the outcome.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: office; poll; powell; public
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1 posted on 07/28/2009 6:18:54 PM PDT by Steelers6
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To: Steelers6

They killed the poll — probably because the results were so bad, they could not handle it....


2 posted on 07/28/2009 6:20:55 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Steelers6

Why would the people want him to do that?


3 posted on 07/28/2009 6:22:20 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: EagleUSA

So would he be the lst black Republican running? After he ditched McCain, he wants to come back? Nay...


4 posted on 07/28/2009 6:23:26 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: EagleUSA

It’s there and it’s running in his favor or returning.

No thanks.


5 posted on 07/28/2009 6:23:28 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Steelers6

With Colin running 2 to 1, I’d say the eunuchs and bobbleheads in Obama’s MSM have already “freeped” it. I think they’d love him to be the GOP’s next McCain. They’d rip him apart once he was nominated.


6 posted on 07/28/2009 6:24:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop the DemocRATS' War On America!)
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To: rovenstinez

I don’t think they understand yet. We want fresh blood; not old blooc.


7 posted on 07/28/2009 6:24:15 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

Let him try a return so he can be publicly humiliated and go away (old soldiers)


8 posted on 07/28/2009 6:24:55 PM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate)
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To: Steelers6

General Powell has never held elected office, IIRC.


9 posted on 07/28/2009 6:25:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("I won't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass." Admiral IsorokoYamamoto)
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To: Steelers6

Since when was Colin Powell a Republican? He was an opportunist who rode on the Bush clan’s coat tails.


10 posted on 07/28/2009 6:25:24 PM PDT by Frantzie (Obama DeathCare - Sending Seniors to the Death Camps. Obama = Racist Dope)
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To: EagleUSA

OK to return, but not as a Republican, although the way the GOP is acting am not sure it makes any difference. Summary, I do not care one way or the other. Today’s politicians are all crooks and liars and worthless and un-American.


11 posted on 07/28/2009 6:33:42 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: Steelers6

As a democrat.


12 posted on 07/28/2009 6:36:29 PM PDT by Tax Government (Vote all the clowns out of office...especially Bozo.)
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To: Steelers6

It’s running 2 to 1 in favor of Colon. As if we didn’t know where CNN is coming from. Sheesh.


13 posted on 07/28/2009 6:37:37 PM PDT by LiberConservative (- LC, Palintologist)
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To: Steelers6

Why the hell do they continue to call that racist a Republican?


14 posted on 07/28/2009 6:37:55 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: Steelers6
Colin Powell - The Republican Party Head Honcho...


15 posted on 07/28/2009 6:38:16 PM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: EagleUSA
Remember the JFK era?

"It was a glittering time. They literally swept into office, ready, moving , generating their style, their confidence. … It was an extraordinary confluence of time and men, and many people in the know quoted Lyndon Johnson’s reaction to them at the first Cabinet meeting. He, the outsider, like us, looked at them with a certain awe, which was no wonder, since they had forgotten to invite him to the meeting. … They were all so glamorous and bright that it was hard to tell who was the most brilliant…

"What was not so widely quoted in Washington (which was a shame because it was a far more prophetic comment) was the reaction of Lyndon’s great friend Sam Rayburn to Johnson’s enthusiasm about the new men. Stunned by their glamour and intellect, he had rushed back to tell Rayburn, his great and crafty mentor, about them, about how brilliant each was, that fellow Bundy from Harvard, Rusk from Rockefeller, McNamara from Ford. On he went, naming them all. 'Well, Lyndon, you may be right and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say,' said Rayburn, 'but I’d feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once.'"

-- From The Best and the Brightest, chapter 4, by David Halberstam (1969)

Colin Powell has never run for office. The party politics is all about winning elections. Has Powell ever demonstrated any political sense? The media loves Powell because he is their dream Republican. If he can't win an election, any election, his political wisdom is untested.

16 posted on 07/28/2009 6:39:56 PM PDT by Procyon (To the global warming fanatics the problem is too many people and the solution is genocide.)
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To: Steelers6

Who voted Colin Powell “head honcho” of the Republican Party?


17 posted on 07/28/2009 6:56:30 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Procyon

The media loves Powell because he is their dream Republican. If he can’t win an election, any election, his political wisdom is untested.
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Yes, and some good history there! Powell is an empty suit from a political viewpoint. He is also a liberal and we do not need any more of those. Admittedly, he is no AMERICA-HATING, RADICAL MARXIST as Obama is, but he just ain’t the guy. Too liberal, and not even a governorship, or even a mayor.


18 posted on 07/28/2009 6:57:11 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Yo-Yo
Who voted Colin Powell “head honcho” of the Republican Party?

You saved me the trouble of asking that question.

19 posted on 07/28/2009 7:16:07 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Steelers6

Yes. Our county could use a dog catcher.


20 posted on 07/28/2009 7:20:16 PM PDT by freedomfiter2
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