The media has been propping-up Colin Powell as some kind of 'moderate Republican.' Powell himself said the party has drifted too far to the right and we need to moderate. With all due respect to Powell's service to this country, he has no credibility when it comes to his advice on the party's direction.
John McCain had reached out to the other party far more often than Obama ever did. He is way closer to the center than Obama, and we have never heard Powell say the Democrats need to move to the center, and the Democrats have let the far-left dominate the leadership of their party. Where is Powell's concerns about the Democrats now, or ever?
Republicans nominated a candidate that reached out to the other party, in fact McCain has reached out to Democrats so often it angered many in his own party. Obama nearly always reached across the aisle on issues where pretty much everyone agreed. He has embraced the most extreme elements of his party while speaking in a manner that makes him look moderate. Is Powell unaware of this? Or is he simply the liberal many conservatives had always thought he was. Either way he has no credibility to tell the Republican party what direction it needs to take.
Rush Limbaugh has often said things in jest that the left went gone nuts over, sometimes justifiably, usually not. I don't always agree with him, I disagree with him on church/state issues, same sex marriage, and a few others, but he is not an extremist. He exemplifies the opinions of tens of millions of Americans. He is a conservative and proud of it but not a radical. Obama has often associated with radicals and showed no discomfort with it until he ran for president. Where was Powell's outrage at that?
Rush was right when he said Powell should become a Democrat. He endorsed the Democratic nominee, not the Republican nominee when the Republican nominee was far closer to the center. In fact I think it is safe to say that Limbaugh, a proud conservative, is closer to the center than Obama.
Monday, May 11, 2009
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You are so right, Limbaugh is less of a hardliner than President O himself! Although I never thought of it that way. Interesting. Cheney had it so right about Powell--he voted for the opposition, for gods sake!! Please note that I used a lowercase 'g', I swear I'm an atheist! In fact, I'm the only conservative atheist I know...very glad to find you...
I think Cheney is a great American and very unfairly maligned by the media and the left.
There are a quite a few conservative atheists out there, but they get little attention by both conservatives and fellow atheists. I've started (yesterday in fact) a social network geared towards conservative atheists.
http://conservative-atheist.ning.com/
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