The Venerable Colin Powell....

I understand that there's a bit of a to-do between Dick Cheney and Colin Powell as to whether or not he is a Republican.

On "Face the Nation" this Sunday Mr. Cheney was asked about Mr. Powell's comments on the Republican Party. He correctly answered that he was unaware that Mr. Powell was a still a Republican. The evidence is hardly inconclusive. Colin Powell, who was hardly comfortable in the Bush Administration, has made no bones about his allegiance.

When you tell the nation that you are going to endorse Barack Obama you pretty much have changed party affiliations. He can hardly claim to have been a Conservative Right-Wing person.

I feel a little guilty covering this because Rush is putting so much time and effort into it, but let's be honest, Colin Powell has had a jones against the Bush Administration ever since he was sent to the UN to sell them on the invasion of Iraq and he got laughed out of the place.

Unlike Rush I have no issue with whether or not he endorsed the hussein-ster due to his skin color. Of course that's an asinine reason for wanting anyone to be president... it's no more an indicator of your abilities than whether or not you wear boxers or briefs (I personally wear an orthopedic thong...). But on the "race" card, I have no problems.

You see, what is annoying, and while not quite as insidious, it's in the same field as the Arlen Specter thing... true Colin never ran for public office and was not elected General, but he basically came up through the ranks on a more temperate conservative platform. Liberals, in fact, have little ability to advance in the military unless it's through means other than merit.

So Colin projected the image of a man who had grown up understanding that the nation must be protected and that our troops were of utmost importance. He drew strength from the nation's pride in itself and from the advances that have transformed the American fighting man into the multi-tasking ambassadors, field medics, and soldiers that they have become.

(I must take issue with my own wording... "Man and Woman" is much more accurate. At my nephew's recent wedding, he a vet of both Bosnia and Iraq, I overheard a female member of the wedding party who had obviously done combat tours talking about how hot this other girl was and how the guy she was talking with should nail her, and then complaining somewhat amusingly about how stupid it was that this one woman brought make-up to Iraq.... "You Don't bring F***ing Makeup on deployment!" she laughed.... hate to say it, but she made me feel even more proud of our women in service. Pretty, capable, one of the guys, and likely just as lethal to the enemy.....)

Knowing that Bush was committed to America's safety Powell may have had some disagreements, but the cause should have been the same. And understanding that America's soldiers are the finest in the world and that Bush supported them 314 % more than most Americans, who were right up there in the 100% area.... Powell should have realized the goals again were very similar.

But like Specter before him, Powell has sold down the river the people who supported him and made a decision to back someone who would see our troops pay for their own health care for wounds suffered in combat.

The political landscape has positively crumbled and become a rocky jumble of unfamiliar terrain, but if jackasses like General Colin Powell get exposed for the traitors that they are in the fray, it's almost worth the price. We need to rout these weasels out of the Right-Wing conservative movement and establish once and for all we are NOT here for more of the same old failed policies and dogma of the hussein administration.

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