The Traitorous General Powell

The wingnut whining, along with the expected character assassination, has commenced on former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of State in the Bush administration and 4-Star General (and Republican) Colin Powell, over his endorsement of Obama. I guess he's one of those "anti-American" Americans we keep hearing about.

Talking points: He was an "affirmative action hire" by Bush. The Powell Doctrine is just duh-obvious to the military. (So why didn't Bush Jr. follow it? Duh.) Powell was always a liberal RINO anyway. He's only endorsing Obama because they're both Black, so he's a racist too.

Hack mystery writer and quisling Roger L. Smith gives us the whiny ass titty baby side:

But then Powell raised the ante. Citing unnamed Republican party leaders (not McCain), he said these leaders made allegations to him that Obama was a Muslim and therefore a “terrorist”. Really? I would like to hear the names of those “leaders.” Sure, there are plenty of extremists on the Internet and elsewhere bantering around stuff like that (just as there are liberal-left extremists spewing nonsense about McCain), but genuine party leaders? Would Powell please name one? If not, this seems like a political smear. Why would Powell feel he needed to make it?

Three words: Representative Michele Bachmann:




Mr. Simon, you do realize you've just called the only enthusiastic, viable base that still supports McCain/Palin "extremists"? Somehow, I don't think they'd appreciate your description.

And it's not just Internet nutcases, it's the typical parade of seethingly angry supporters lined up for McCain/Palin rallies. There is no similar phenomena at Obama/Biden rallies, no wave after wave of followers spouting "Manchurian candidate" or "Alzheimer's victim" at Obama rallies. (Ridicule of Palin, unfortunately for you guys, simply writes itself.) And there are no Democratic members of Congress calling what now constitutes a majority of the electorate as well as the Legislature "anti-American." Just the one who McCain called one of the wisest men he knows telling it like it really is.

However, both Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr. would agree with your inadvertent "extremist" assessment of the current GOP base, and in fact, they did. They deplored what the GOP and the Conservative movement was becoming even before they died, and now I guarantee you they're spinning in their graves fast enough to generate electricity.

Face it, Mr. Simon - you've backed the wrong horse, you're grasping at straws, and you can't bring yourself to admit it.

Doubling down on the smear by association isn't going to work. The GOP is dead, and you guys killed it.

"President Barack Obama." Get used to it.

UPDATE: Wahhh-mbulance to the Limbaugh studio, stat!
UPDATE 2: Powell gives Simon those three words.