Everybody knows ya don't never go full special.
Posted on 01/21/2013 2:08:06 PM PST by bestintxas
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the Republican Party should abandon its efforts to curb voter participation through voter ID laws and restrictions on hours for early voting.
“Should we really have gone after reducing the turnout of voters in those places where we thought it would make a difference?” he told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, referring to November’s election, Politico reports.
“The Republican Party should be a party that says, ‘We want everybody to vote,’ and make it easier to vote and give them a reason to vote for the party, not to find ways to keep them from voting at all.”
Powell says the Republican Party has turned much more conservative. “That’s perfectly acceptable, but if you stay that far to the right, you’re losing where the country is. “The country is moving more toward the center.”
He notes demographic changes as well. Minorities are growing as a portion of the population, particularly Hispanics. That’s a group that supported President Barack Obama by a whopping 71 to 27 percent margin last year.
“You have to appeal with policies and programs to these people who are going to be the leaders of our country in a generation,” Powell says.
As for voter participation, Florida GOP Gov. Rick Scott appears to have heard Powell’s message. He announced a plan last week to increase the number of early voting days and locations.
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Colin who????
the man is a complete idiot and has lost it and he seems to forget which party gave him his promotions and positions.
I winder if he would be so vocal if bozo the clown was a white guy?
Some folks simply have no business voting. Just as some people don’t need to be driving cars.
Does he think that a 12 year old should be turned loose on the roads?
Mr. Colon is just trying to finish nailing the coffin of the GOPe like a good leftist Statist.
Mr. Colon needs to be called out daily until he crawls under his rock.
Is it a “limit on voter participation” to demand that each voter be actually eligible and only vote once?
Which illegal votes does the general want us to count?
The DNC is committed to voter fraud like a sacrament.
I can’t think of any country where voters don’t identify themselves and prove their identity aside from this one.
If Repubs can’t at the very least stand strong and demand clean elections then they have no further reason to exist.
Yo, Semi-colon Powell, if the country is moving then THE CENTER IS MOVING TOO...
Geeeeaaaawd, will this loser quota boy every shut his pie hole?
FUCP
Whether they're qualified or not, General?
Stuff a sock in it Powell. There was a time, but you wasted all that good will since.
Prolly got tired of being an uncle tom and decided to tell it like it is...after he retired. /s
Man, talk about diarrhea of the mouth! This guy just can’t stop exploding.
Powell says the Republican Party has turned much more conservative. “That’s perfectly acceptable, but if you stay that far to the right, you’re losing where the country is. “The country is moving more toward the center.”
Is he running for something ?
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