A few conventions ago, Limabaugh was given a standing ovation by the huge crowd attending a GOP campaign gathering.

This was very scary. That so many mindless idiots could actually be deciding the fate of our country was an insult to the American ideal and the American dream.

...and other "principled" conservatives waited for 15 years to come to this conclusion. Imagine the damage that could have been avoided if they hadn't been touting Limbaugh nonsense for these many years.

Of course, I don't think anyone in this forum will argue that Limbaugh is helping the Republicans, but in a larger sense, Republicans need to seriously look at whether their entire ideological house of cards is resting on wedge issues.

Probably the same thing he said when Powell endorsed Obama: that Powell doesn't want conservatives to criticize Obama because they're both black.

Agree w/ the above post: Limbaugh has been a racist knucklehead for a long, long time. Powell signed on with Bush back when ANYBODY could see that he was a disaster waiting to happen (that some chose not to, well, hopefully they have pulled or are in the process of pulling their heads out of their asses). Limbaugh was a divisive asshole in 2000 - Powell didn't notice?

Colin Powell can retire and go away now.

Should stop all of its stupid shouting

But what can a Little Boy Blue Limbaugh do?

Go on air

Smug in his little radio cubicle

And publicly air all of his silly childish pouting?

Powell is a RINO, not a TRUE kook-aid drinker like he is.

The Republican tent has gotten quite smaller the last few years.

But the Republican closets are still as big as ever.... :->

who listen to dick-wads like Rush already consider Powell a RINO (rebublican in name only) and are unlikely to heed his advice and reset their pre-sets.

When they cease to be useful, you're just left with a bunch of idiots. We hitched our wagon to this star a long time ago, and it's taken us about as far as it can--time to look elsewhere.

People like Limbaugh lets right-wingers off the hook for not giving a damn about anyone else, for being racist, for supporting corruption, and for being so greedy that someone else has to suffer for it.

As long as the Republican party is made up of people who want to believe they are good and moral while they are actually neither Rush Limbaugh will continue to be their hero.

after lying to the UN, who cares what he says.

"Powell is too coffee 'n creme colored

He's not one 'o us red 'n ruddy faced

Rush paced bothers..."

I guess that beats following what he does. Taking oxycontin until your hearing goes bad and you need viagra to fuck.

in 2000, powell spoke to the repubs convention, delivering a jeremiad about their leaving black america out. got a big hand, and of course they ignored it.

same in 2004. (for all i know, he delivered the same address pre 2000 as well)

in 2008, he wasn't even asked to speak. sorry Colin, that ship has sailed.

He gets on air like a bear

And spews "views" like the Niagra...

Because learning is a sign of weakness and diverts from idealogical purity. Also it might make you into a Godless itellectual elitist. Next you'll be thinking evolution actually happened and gays might actually be born that way. Nothing Jesus hates more then peple who ask questions.

It is my prayer that a few years hence the Republican Party and the malicious right-wing will be buried with the bloated carcass of Limbaugh, and the skelatal remains of Coulter. If Powell lives to see the day, may he stand by the graveside scratching his grey head wondering why he is alone.

I hope it all ends in flames and cannibalism. For everyone, everywhere.

Limbaugh represents the GOP base. The base is literally entirely white people who live in former Confederate states and territories or small towns in primarily rural states.

As the nation's demographics continue to shrink that ethnic group - the present GOP will disappear. The future will be

between the present Democratic Party (conservative) and the

new Progressives (Liberal) led party.

Republicanism is a tribal identity now. By definition, those who are left in this tribe do not learn. That is the reason why they continue to remain republicans.

As their wrong-headedness is continuously demonstrated for the rest of the population, they will cease to become relevant to anyone but themselves.

The Republicans just told Joe the Auto Worker to FOAD the other day. There have to be a few white, blue-collar Republican voters in the Midwest that were alarmed by that kind of game-playing with the country's economy. (And in the south? Do they think that no southern Republican voters are going to realize the effect two million unemployed Midwestern auto workers, moving south for work, would have on their own wages or employability?)

But no. It's an economic policy of Cheap Labor Republicanism, all the time, now. Their party is doomed to shrink to only those whose hate for Messcans/Homos/Libruls/N*****s/Towelheads/etc is stronger than their own sense of self-preservation.

Rachel Maddow said it susinctly last night. It is the Repubs job to dismantle Unions and get big bidness the cheapest labor they can. Only CEO's and upper management are allowed to make a living. Thats why they resisted the minimum wage increase so long while they were in power. They measue their success on a permanent underclass that can't get ahead.

Which, in the Republican playbook, becomes their voting base. Because they know that an un-empowered people demand big 'L' leadership, which is what the right-wing myth makers sell.

Well if this isn't a case of the pot calling the kettle.

Has Powell forgotten that his lies have resulted in over a million dead Iraqi civilians ?

Has Powell no remorse for the tens of thousands of American limbs that have been left to rot on Iraqi soil ?

Powell is a Top Ten War Criminal on the face of the planet.

Whether it was trying to cover up My Lai or presenting forged satellite imagery in the lead up to the first Gulf War...Powell has excelled at murdering and pathologically lying.

Although he is right about Rush "oxy fiend" Limbaugh , Powell should keep his mouth shut and keep a low profile before the American people realize that they have to take responsibility for every single Bush Administration jerkoff that had a hand in war crimes and subverting democracy and charge them accordingly.

Until America takes out it's trash there will be zero credibility amongst it's peers.

Colin Powell should be immediately renditioned to the Hague and face charges with the rest of those bastards.