Tim Cuprisin on his blog links to a CNN report on an interview with Colin Powell to be aired Sunday at 1pm ET, in which he talks about what Republicans need to do and wonders whether Rush Limbaugh serves the party well.
Cuprisin doesn’t much go for the “sqwakers” anyway, so this fits in his meme.
Powell, of course, supported Obama over McCain, whom I suppose was too conservative for him.
There is nothing wrong with being conservative. There is nothing wrong with having socially conservative views — I don’t object to that. 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.
The thing that surprised me was that Powell considers himself a Republican. I must have missed that.
Any way here’s what he said about Limbaugh,
“Can we continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh?” Powell asked. “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?”
I’m not a big fan of talk radio and hardly listen to it, unless I’m in the car, but doesn’t Air America do the same kind of thing? It didn’t seem to hurt the Democrats.
But I guess he’s saying Republicans should become Democrats.
That should give the country a choice.
I guess some Republicans feel like Powell and Emil W. Henry Jr.
who wrote in the Washington Post about infrastructure spending, which was not bad, but he started with this,
In the wake of the recent electoral rout, we conservatives must redefine ourselves in a world that has changed since the birth of the Reagan Doctrine.
Rout? Oh, it was a convincing victory and we should learn some lessons from it, but a rout? I guess his definition of a rout is different from mine. And Republicans have won twice since the election–hardly what you would expect from a rout.
