Lost? When did we have him in the first place? Being appointed to government jobs by Republican Presidents doesn’t make you a Republican.
Never liked him. In retrospect, Powell looks like the first modern high-ranking military man who broke ranks with the tradition of what it means to be a military man, and consequently, he seems to have become something of a prototype for the types we “enjoy” today, like every one from Wesley Clark to General George Casey, who said about the Ft. Hood shooter, “it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well”.