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 ?
Translation: I want millions of fraudulent voters in every election!
Republicans want voter ID to make sure that everybody has a fair chance to vote for whom they choose. They also favor vote observers at polling places so we don’t get the obviously fraudulent 100% from various Democrat vote counters like we had in Philadelphia in this last election. When Democrats cheat and vote more than once, or cheat and count votes against their guy as votes cast for him, then THAT is what suppresses the vote. Also I might expect an army officer who is supposedly Republican to be a little more sensitive to the lost and mishandled ballots for our overseas servicemen...who largely vote Republican....but go figure.
Powell is now a voter fraud cheerleader? I am not surprised; the guy has been a sock-puppet for the left all along.
Powell would be best reminded that we are an elected republic, not mob rule.
Our armed forces succeed only because the 10% tell the other 90% what to do when they wake, what to eat, where to sleep again, and who the enemy is to be.
Powell is developing dementia.
Mr. Colon can see the handwriting on the wall that the GOP is about to go the way of the Whigs. Ergo he is positioning himself for his next decade of meal tickets.
Shucks, vote fraud advocates have enlisted the help of another 95 percenter as a spokesmodel.
Please GOP, send this colostomy bag out of the party. He belongs in the dems, put him there. He would have little visibility there which is why he remains a RINO.
What do expect is going to come out of a colon?????
Liberal speak for “let the illegals vote.”
Powell would have made an excellent banana republic, fascist dictator. He’s a regular Hugo Chavez.
facepalm
I am so sick of seeing this piece of sh**’s name on FR threads, I keep throwing up in my mouth a little.
/facepalm
It's the right thing to do.
>>If Repubs can’t at the very least stand strong and demand clean elections then they have no further reason to exist.
I was really disappointed with GWB that he didn’t do anything in the wake of all the FL shenanigans in 2000, especially since the Dems were obviously working to disenfranchise military voters by challenging their absentee ballots.
If we ever get the White House back, election fraud clean up needs to be a national Republican priority. Until then, everyone needs to push it at the state level.
If the president himself does not have to be eligible then why do voters have to be eligible? Heck we have open borders and dems want a blank check with no debt ceiling. Anything goes. Get with the times. :-).
It sounds funny now, but there was a time when Colin Powell could have had the GOP presidential nomination almost for the asking. VP for sure.
Since the Scooter Libby ordeal, when he let the man be crucified all the time knowing the truth, when one word from him would have spared the man... he lost his honor and I don’t think he can ever get it back.
Powell proved himself to be a coward when he was afraid to tell President Bush he knew who the leaker was.
I have no respect for him in any area now.
This phony gasbag used to be in our military and lead our servicemen. And those same servicemen are disenfranchised every election by the democrats that Powell favor. It is a bitter insult and betrayal...
I agree with Powell. The republican party should be exactly what he wants it to be. And I’ll go somewhere else.
Gee, my Dog farts and looks back to see where the sound came from. I just laugh at how my cute little Dog is so entertaining without having a clue.
Nice to know that Colin Powell possesses the same ignorance with the noise he makes opening his pie hole.
Voter participation is what powell calls voter fraud. I bet the dunce has not read anything about the subject. He’s just the black race socialist slogan man now.
(especially since I've never seen "Republican" Colin Powell ever endorsed a Republican Party policy or campaign for a Republican Party candidate in his life)
Last week, I took some construction debris to the Orange County, Fl Landfill and was required, for the first time, to provide Photo ID to enter. Now, please tell me why photo id shouldn’t be required to vote. I’m very confused
We do want everyone who is ELIGIBLE, to vote. What we don't want are folks voting who are not citizens, or who are convicted felons, or who are trying to cheat by voting multiple times.
Colin Powell,
Thou hast repeatedly aligned with Marxists and Communists.
I care not what titles thou hast carried.
I care not what deeds thou hast performed.
Thou hast betrayed thy countrymen for the last time!
I DUB THEE TRAITOR!
May God have mercy on thy soul.
Remind me again.
When did the repubs ever attempt to deter those voters who are actually authorized to vote in a U.S. election from voting???
Did I miss something?
I mean, did the repubs load a bunch of rednecks in pickup trucks and then go around with their illegal magazines loaded to the gills with hollow point bullets to different polling places and then actually chase ANY voters away from the voting booth?
The irony of this is amazing. If Powell had been a midlevel officer when the democrats were in power he would have retired as an O-5 or O-6. Thanks to the repubs, he leapfrogged over 250 senior officers to gain the platform that he now pontificates from.
Colin, you are retired. Enjoy your sunset years, and keep your racist views to yourself.
That’s bull crap everyone should register to vote when they get their drivers license.
Early voting is one of the keys to modern Democratic party success. During the long early voting period they can round up every possible voter and deliver them to the polls, generating a turnout much higher than they would get on election day. And they can use early voting statistics and responses to telephone polls to determine if their propaganda is working.
We all know why Democrats are opposed to voter ID laws, since supposedly needing an ID impinges on your constitutional right to vote. Of course they never make the argument that needing an ID to purchase a firearm also impinges on your constitutional rights. So they really just want to enable anonymous voting.
Hey Colon,
The only way the GOP lowered voter participation was by nominating ANOTHER RINO.
Excuse me, but what are you even doing in this party??? You’re a DEMOCRAT.
As I recall, Benedict Arnold was also a graduate of West Point.
He, however, never verbalized his treason.
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