Limbaugh To Colin Powell: 'Become A Democrat' »
Posted By TimALoftis 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Rush Limbaugh fired back at Colin Powell for his critical comments earlier this week, saying Wednesday that the former secretary of state should join the Democratic Party.
"What Colin Powell needs to do is close the loop and become a Democrat instead of claiming to be a Republican interested in reforming the Republican Party," Limbaugh said on his radio show Wednesday.
Limbaugh also took aim at Powell's decision to endorse President Obama over John McCain during the presidential election, repeating his earlier sentiment that Powell's move was "solely based on race."
"He's just mad at me because I'm the one person in the country who had the guts to explain his endorsement of Obama," Limbaugh said. "It was purely and solely based on race."
During a speech on Monday, Powell said the "the Republican Party is in deep trouble" and said the GOP would be better off without Limbaugh, according to a report by the National Journal.
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not2needy7 months, 3 weeks ago
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That's hysterical! Limpballs just never gets done running off republicans! When are the truly decent republicans going to put a stop to him?? He's a liability, definitely not an asset!
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Colonel Mustard called, said get a clue repubs!-
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epiphannyy7 months, 3 weeks ago
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I can't believe this idiot has the power that he does. It's no wonder the GOP has lost nearly all the respect it once had and its own members are jumping ships faster than the rats did the Titanic. As long as Limbaugh, and others like him, are embraced as the face of the GOP, they'll never get back in power. The fact that he's been so nasty toward Specter, McCain, and now Powell, should really make the true conservatives sit up and take notice. It's like he's making it his mission to purge his party of anyone who isn't willing to lockstep behind everything he puts out there without a question. Wake up folks....blind allegiance is NOT an American trait.
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fsev417 months, 3 weeks ago
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As the de-facto leader of the Republicans Rush's words should have a great deal of weight(pun accidental but OK). Apparently Steele has relinquished spending control and thus has become pretty much of a figurehead. Eric Cantor has bowed and kissed the ring. He's now saying his new initiative is not a "listening tour" because Rush doesn't like that term. What a sad group they are. Powell would be well served to get out of the sinking ship.
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antibrainwasher7 months, 3 weeks ago
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The porcine pedophile is president of a fraternity of freaks.
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Amazingly, this lying principleless fat coward sits on his bleeding cyst popping oxycotton all day, raving and ranting which ever way the wind blows, its all a charade, designed precicely to entertain and attract other uneducated white suprema-cysts, former KKK militia gun nuts, and other closet homosexual perverts back from girlyboy tours of Bancok.
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DaneL7 months, 3 weeks ago
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scott42617 months, 3 weeks ago
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You've purged all the reasonable people...and without them, you cannot win. It's simple mathematics. The tent has collapsed all around you, but you insist everything's fine. You are like a lobster in a pot...just thrilled that the water is getting toasty!
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canadianrancher577 months, 3 weeks ago
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DaneL - Your comment reminds me of how Rush was always ranting about how McCain was not really a Republican and didn't stand a chance and yet the majority proved Rush wrong by electing McCain as the presidential candidate. I sort of agree with your comment that the Republican party does need more conservatives but that will not likely happen until the party defines todays conservative.
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UnusualSuspect7 months, 3 weeks ago
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I'm beginning to think many Republicans are just closet Democrats. Why, I don't know, but if more leave the Republican party, who will be left but the religious conservatives and Limbaugh?
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Republican Party? National party --> Regional party --> Party of No(ne)
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GWHayduke7 months, 3 weeks ago
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The purification of the Republican party continues at the hands of its leader - the exalted one.
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El Rushbo leading the party is appropriate as they scramble to appeal to an audience.
Who has the largest audience among rural, undereducated Right wing voters?
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truthiness7 months, 3 weeks ago
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8aEvCUc1yo=related
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the true face of conservatism. -
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canadianrancher577 months, 3 weeks ago
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Colin Powell was a man which when he showed his true colors about the war in Iraq and all the lying, gained the respect of people on both sides of the politcal spectrum. To me he offered a bit of hope that politicians may not all be quite as bad as we normally think. Come on Rush get with the program the world is changing and in the last little while your are beginning to really show your true colors, you are so opposed to change you are a dinosaur and not only a dinosaur but a racist dinosaur.
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I have great respect for true conservative values and many people who call themselves conservatives and I don't think that he even understands that what he preaches is not the way that many conservative minded people think.-
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Nothing_Tangible7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Colin Powell was a man which when he showed his true colors about the war in Iraq and all the lying, gained the respect of people on both sides of the politcal spectrum. To me he offered a bit of hope that politicians may not all be quite as bad as we normally think.
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If Colin Powell or NYC Mayor Bloomberg had run for the Republicans, Obama would have been left in the dust. If McCain was still the man he was before his run in with Bush43 in the primaries, I would have gladly voted for him. Unfortunately, ANY possibility that I would give McCain a second look NOW was blown to hell when he picked Palin. If Colin Powell does decide to run as a Democrat, I truly think he would be able to beat Obama. -
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Wolfie20077 months, 3 weeks ago
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What a load Colin Powell was always about finding a cushy job anywhere with anyone in any administration. If you're impressed by Powell you'll be impressed by any other wishy washy pol.
Where I'm from they call a man like Powell" anybody's dog that will hunt with him".
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TimALoftis7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Last week Cantor, Romney, Jeb Bush and others were talking about traveling the Country and listening to what fellow conservatives were saying. Then came along Rush saying the Party should not be listening to but should be educating the Republicans. A day later Cantor suddenly backtracks and announces that this is not a 'Listening Tour'.
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Wow...a political party that does not want to listen to its members. Now that is an interesting concept. -
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frctm57 months, 3 weeks ago
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Some interesting assertions by ditto heads show how their reasoning works.
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Rush Limbaugh is popular therefore he is correct but so were Mao, and Hitler. Popularity has nothing to do with whether or not you're ideas have real merit. If you pander to people's base instincts, you'll get a response. This doesn't make you a sage who is full of wisdom. Just a Pied Piper of knuckle heads
Rush Limbaugh has a 400 million dollar contract therefore he is a success. But again, financial success doesn't make you or your reasoning sound. Its irrelevant. Howard Stern is rich and popular for being a potty mouth. Michael Jackson once had a contract that was potentially worth a billion dollars from Sony records.
When a conservative doesn't receive ordainment from Rush, screw them, they aren't real conservatives anyway. Yes, and this is why your party is steadily shrinking. No one is allowed to think for themselves. Everything you need to know on how to be a conservative is already figured out, you just need to follow Rush. Rush's attitude is no compromise. He deprecates moderates as mushy, and unprincipled never realizing that maybe they judge ideas on their merits and how well they actually work versus some arbitrary orthodoxy like don't mess with markets and stick to this idea no matter what. Moderates understand that no one has a monopoly on wisdom and compromise is a reality in any social system but they also understand that some times it is better to get something a little at a time rather than going for the whole enchilada at once. My way or the highway works best in dictatorships.
Getting back to the point, however. If conservatives think they can regain control of this country by excommunicating more members and alienating more constituents by remaining extremist, they have a strange idea of how democracy works and are mathematically challenged. They also are not good students of history as America is almost always governed from the center. Obama overwhelmingly took the youth demographic and they are the future. Young people have traditionally been apathetic as voters but were a pivotal constituency in this election because they were excited and energized by his candidacy and very well organized because they know how to make use of the internet and social networking to move masses of people to action. Rush appeals to crusty old white guys and is pretty much contemptuous of all others including women. He is a thinly veiled misogynist and a racist. This is a shrinking demographic. If the Republican party has any interest in regaining the white house, their going to have to tailor their message to people who aren't greedy, aren't red necks, do believe that preserving the environment is important, support pluralism and diversity, and don't believe that America is incapable of error or can do whatever we like in foreign policy because after all, every other country in the world is not as good as we are and they're all a bunch of wimps. -
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lloydm657 months, 3 weeks ago
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Do I detect a little envy here.Which of you could afford to buy Rush's cigars,and yet every dollar Rush has is derived from the market place.Each and everyone of the leftist talk host have to beg,grovel for a few bucks to get their drivel out.
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As for Powell I called him a racist long before Rush did.I was following,and cheering Powell's carear before most of you creeps were born.He voted for Obama strictly based on color.He would have spit on a white candadate from either party who held the same views as Obama-
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skyking2p7 months, 3 weeks ago
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I surely don't have any envy of this creep.
Nice to know you can read other peoples thought. Why would you think that Colin Powell along with a lot of other republicans would want Sara Palin as vice-president ? When he announced his support for Obama he gave a list of the reasons why and I don't remember race as one of them. Of course I'm sure race played a part in your vote. See I can read minds too. -
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Tangent0017 months, 3 weeks ago
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"He voted for Obama strictly based on color."
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Hogwash! Powell has always been a moderate. I had considered him as someone who could attract my vote before his 'performance' in front of the UN.
Of course, according to the hard Right, everyone voted for Obama because he was black.
I mean, it couldn't POSSIBLY be because Americans were sick to death of being stuck in a neo-Con bog and the only thing McCain offered was more of the same. -
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djn3nunez37 months, 3 weeks ago
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Watch out pseudo-cons more facts to disturb you coming up:
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/19/powell.tran...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Sunday that he will be voting for Sen. Barack Obama, citing the Democrat's "ability to inspire" and the "inclusive nature of his campaign."
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he is voting for Barack Obama.
"I think he is a transformational figure, he is a new generation coming onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I'll be voting for Sen. Barack Obama,"
the [McCain] campaign said, "We're going to go negative," and they announced it, "We're going to go negative and attack [Obama's] character through Bill Ayers." Now I guess the message this week is, "We're going to call him a socialist, Mr. Obama is now a socialist, because he dares to suggest that maybe we ought to look at the tax structure that we have." -
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deathray7 months, 3 weeks ago
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i could afford to buy rush's cigars, and every dollar i make is from the market place. rush's revenues come from ad revenue; not exactly the market place.
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i guess you get a refund from the irs, don't you?
as regards powell, i'd rather he was vp than biden. perhaps the only reason that didn't happen is that obama would certainly lose the white vote. who would the racists be then?
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lloydm657 months, 3 weeks ago
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One more thing before I go the casino this morning.Colon Powell had every opportunity to run for president,but refused for one reason he was the wrong kind of ni& wouldn't haved recieved five percent of the black vote,and he knew it
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Radiofreeeuropa7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Now I've seen some horse's a**es on this site over the years making it known just how starved the hamster is turning the wheels of their thought processes, but that comment is so sad, it's obvious the hamster died long ago and the only thing turning that rusty wheel is the weight of ashes from a burning cross inadvertently falling on it.
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mack0831847 months, 3 weeks ago
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Judging from the names of some of most of the people on here and their comments, I can tell that the intelligence level of today is in the toliet. It seems like their education stopped at 3rd grade. Want to see typical democrat? Watch MTV's College Life. Yes, I know. It is one of the biggest reasons for the dumbing down of the current generation. There is a guy on there from a very conservative family. His mother is Jamaican and his father is white. His mother works two jobs to pay part of his tuition and he is supposed to pay the rest. While his mother is killing herself to get him an education he goes and spends $2400 on a tattoo. He also agrees with Obama. Does anyone see the correlation? He, like Obama, have no economic sense. That was off topic but it really shows the mindset of the typical liberal. They don't have any concept of hard work or money. They believe someone is supposed to provide for them so they can sit around and party. I'm only 24 by the way. With all the name calling by the liberals on here I feel like I am back in 3rd grade. They can't say anything good about their own party. If you can't hold a legitimate argument then that means there isn't one. Liberals need to actually go to college and get a real education. Learn something instead of being stupid.
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Radiofreeeuropa7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Actually you are unaware of the demographics Mako,
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Educated people tend to vote for democratic candidates by a wide margin.
Even Der Karl Rove claimed to be able to get anyone to vote for his candidate except those with a higher education...he was probably right.
Look around, who is left in your " big tent"? Cultish Religious fanatics, Racists, Gun nuts, and sycophants...that's about it.
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