When it comes to race, the Republican Party can’t win.
Bush 43, for all his faults, not only bent over backwards but damned near contorted himself into a pretzel hiring minorities for his Cabinet and elsewhere, including Alberto Gonzalez, Condi Rice and Colin Powell as the first Black Secretary of State.
Were Bush a true conservative, he would’ve taken the hit and hired the best people for the job, not the most colorful or capable of getting pregnant.
The predictable result was Bush ended up celebrating diversity by himself, got no credit from the left wing, race-obsessed hypocrites, and we the American people were stuck with the usual doubts about these characters.
My friends, my friends, you have every right and reason to doubt these peoples’ credentials and competency. Thanks to racist and idiotic affirmative action, which sends a clear message that minorities are not good enough to be chosen on their merit and therefore need high-chairs, we can never be sure anyone selected is right for the job, only right-colored or gendered.
I would be happy with an all-White, all-male government IF they were the best at doing the job. For most of America’s history White Guys DID run the show, with mixed results (in an oversimplification: the farther back you go the more they stuck to the rule of law). If the USA suddenly had an all-Black, Hispanic, Asian or Female government, I would raise my eyebrows like Spock, and if it turned out they did the best job, I’d be all for them. I want results, not excuses, and it’s a national disgrace we have to settle for racial also-rans and female seat-fillers in important positions of power to please the libmedia’s racial quotas.
Which brings us to Colin Powell.
Powell–who has been crucified by the left-wringers many times–recently thanked his boss and his party by voting for Obama, and is now relieving his massive ego’s bladder with a sham interview, embarrassing himself by assaulting conservatives for not being race-obsessed liberals.
The only reason I can think of this ingrate would stay in the Republican party is he’s a mole for moreon.org or the HoPuffs.
“I think the party has to take a hard look at itself,” Powell said in the interview, which was taped Wednesday.
This much I agree with, not because of race but because there are no conservatives left in it. The GOP has to be rebuilt almost from scratch.
Powell: “There is nothing wrong with being conservative. There is nothing wrong with having socially conservative views — I don’t object to that.”
Wow. Let me dry my eyes after that very moving endorsement for YOUR party’s principles. In return let me say there’s PLENTY wrong with being a left-wing socialist, starting with the Founding Fathers’ distrust of excessive government power and their rejection of socialism in favor of self-determinism.
Powell: “But if the party wants to have a future in this country, it has to face some realities. In another 20 years, the majority in this country will be the minority.”
Doesn’t this sound like an implied threat? What does Powell know about those minorities that we don’t? What disgusts me the most is his notion that all the things that made America great (and liberals despise) must now step aside as Whites step down from being the majority.
Powell: “I think the party has to stop shouting at the world and at the country…I think that the party has to take a hard look at itself, and I’ve talked to a number of leaders in recent weeks and they understand that.”
Leaders? Which leaders? Where? The only leaders’ opinions that matter are American leaders, and I’m not sure we have any of those left. I would gladly have the USA stop “shouting” at the world if we could simultaneously withdraw all financial aid to other nations.
Powell, who crossed party lines and endorsed President-elect Barack Obama just weeks before the election, said the GOP must see what is in the “hearts and minds” of African-American, Hispanic and Asian voters “and not just try to influence them by… the principles and dogma.”
In the words of Big Trouble in Little China’s David Lo Pan: “Now this really pisses me off!”
Conservative principles are available to all and would be self-evident if not for liberal propaganda. In order for communist bullshit to “work” it must be constantly reinforced by the media, whereas liberty and the right to keep the fruits of one’s labor are self-evident. What in Powell’s mind makes Blacks and Hispanics unable to grasp the concepts of liberty and the free market?
I can’t guess exactly what’s in the “hearts and minds” of Blacks and Hispanics, but I’m fairly sure the government they crave protects their rights, follows the rule of law, keeps criminals imprisoned, keeps terrorists on the run and takes only a reasonable share of their income and no more.
Powell: “Can we continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh…is this really the kind of party that we want to be when these kinds of spokespersons seem to appeal to our lesser instincts rather than our better instincts?”
This one’s easy. During the election Powell was humiliated several times by Limbaugh, who rightly pointed out Powell’s endorsement for Obama was based primarily on race. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, just have the balls to admit it, Mr. Powell.
My instincts are better than yours.
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