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Colin Powell Slams Rush Limbaugh
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Meanwhile, David Brooks is frantically searching for the GOP's soul (working under the amusing premise that it actually has one) and is hoping to aid its rise, pheonix-like, from the ashes of its own self-immolation.
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No, what needs to happen is for those two branches of the body politic to be amusing third and fourth parties and for a real liberal party to finally emerge in the U.S. because, frankly, the Democrats have never really gotten the job done for the people and--Blago, Blago, Blago--are just as corrupt as the other guys.
Quite frankly, I'm sick of living in a country that dresses right and righter and pretends its two woeful special interest blocs are actually different.
And if change is going to happen, quite frankly, this is the moment. There's actually someone apparently responsive and not yet calcified by age and indebtedness to the horrible dependence all on fundraising to which U.S. politicians are captive.
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The question is, why did you ever listen to him in the first place? OK, i know why--crass opportunism. It gave the GOP a chance to move beyond the country-club and white-shoe law firm set to the guns, taxidermy, and Wal-Mart set, thus latching onto power with a vice-like grip for another generation.
But this is what Rush et al are. Despite being elephantine in ego, he hasn't gone rogue. Rush got his start in the radio market in which i live, and he's always been this way. And until this election, the GOP has been just fine with it, has had no problem with appealing to the baser instincts.
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Which goes to show two things:
a) These kinds of "reformations" aren't all that rare. They're at most generational. They're certainly not once-in-a-lifetime events. And both the Dems and Republicans go through it periodically. (The Dems last reinvented themselves with Bill Clinton, who transformed the party from a party of perceived liberals to a populist party founded on fiscal conservatism and pragmatism).
b) Usually, the result is a stronger party more in tune with the public. So there should be no rejoicing in this by Democrats. This is the end of the current phase of the Republican party, but it's also the *beginning* of a new phase of the Republican party.
A lot of people seem to think the Republicans are at a "crossroads" and could go even further into the abyss, but that's not really the way the cycle works. People need to actually get elected on a national stage to move up in the party ranks, and then they need to prove effective in legislative bodies... because the last thing either party wants is ineffective leaders. So it's pretty much impossible for the party to continue regressing - they need to clear out some of their dead weight, and their grumpy old men, but the people who will replace them will be natural leaders who come up through the democratic process.
(Some of them will end up being corrupted by power or will just get old and grumpy themselves, but in the beginning, people will be excited about them.)
I'm a Democrat but I'm just trying to keep it real here. There's almost a giddiness among some Democrats about what's happening to Republicans right now. I'm saying you should be afraid. You should not underestimate what's happening here. This is a forest fire, and forest fires serve a purpose. They're clearing out dead weight. They will come out of it stronger.
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But, yes, he should shut the fuck up. Only, this will just empower him. The only thing we can hope for now is for him to do another one of his famous racial slip-ups when talking about this and maybe this time the sponsors will get some nuts and boycott.
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But how do we do that when he isn't president yet? We have to wait until after the inauguration, don't we?
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I'm sorry, I thought that Black Man Who Can String Two Sentences Together = ANTICHRIST.
HOLY SHIT, ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME THERE ARE TWO ANTICHRISTS?
OH FUCK, JEBUS IS ON HIS WAY, BETCHES. LOOK BUSY!
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Powell was National Security Advisor, SoS, Chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff so none of the bullshit they're using on Obama can stick to him. He's using the bully pulpit to try and save the party that gave him an opportunity, and I dig that. They begged him to run for prez in 00 but he saw the part for what it was, and tried to put ideology above the RNC's idols (Limbaugh and the like.) But clearly his patience has worn thin.
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auh2o4life(lifeafterdeathok2).
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