My Response to Powell

My Response to Powell.  I am not stupid.

Yesterday I said that I had lost respect for Colin Powell and now I will explain why. I never thought that Powell would choose race over character and conservative values.  All of his speeches and books on leadership and character are now just that, speeches and books.  They have no substance behind them.  His personal character was tested this election and he has failed.

He has chosen to endorse the most liberal Senator in Congress for President.  He has given up all of his supposed conservative values in an instant and for what.  For a man who used a corrupt political system to get ahead, a man who was an enabler for our financial crisis, and a man who has worked with felons and domestic terrorists.

I add to my argument all of his false arguments to defend his position.  It was as if the Obama campaign gave him their talking points.

One of his arguments was Powell’s assertion that Republicans were making irrelevant personal attacks against Obama…specifically his “alleged” connections to William Ayers, the domestic terrorist.  I hate to tell Mr. Powell this, but this is not an alleged connection and it is not irrevelant.  He has worked with Ayers on several occasions and launched his political career at an activist party at Ayers home.  During his time with Ayers, he helped to fund ACORN as well as an anti-Israel Arabic group.  Republicans have to address these issues and these associations because the media will not.  And even when some media outlets try, they are blocked by unknown donors such as was the case with the National Reviews attempts to get documents from the Chicago Library.  Powell also said that McCain’s campaign was spreading rumors that Obama was a Muslim. This is just a flat out lie.  McCain has personally come out to denounce people who have made these types of attacks.

His second false argument was that McCain showed poor judgment by choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate.  Powell said that she does not have the experience to be President on day one and Joe Biden does.  Two problems.  Neither Mrs. Palin nor Biden is running for President, but the man he endorsed is and he has no more experience than Palin.  At least Palin does have executive experience, and no Mr. Powell, running a campaign does not count.  A second point is that McCain chose her to help fix a fundamental problem in Washington.  That is irresponsible spending and corruption.  This she has an excellent record on.  To say that McCain showed poor judgment is just not true.  He should take another look at his endorsed candidate who could give a class on poor judgment.

Colin Powell also said that Republicans unsteadiness on the economic crisis also pushed him off the fence.  You mean the crisis enabled by representatives such as Obama and his fellow democrats. The man you endorsed.  The man who privately wrote a letter to the Treasury Secretary about the crisis, but then would not stand up against his own party who blocked the legislation to fix it.  The man who was very noticeably silent during this whole crisis and then had the audacity to criticize McCain for leaving the campaign trail to return to Washington to try to create a solution.  Mr. Powell, once again your argument is false.

Mixed in with all of these false arguments was a quite a disturbing and revealing statement about his values.  Powell said he “would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court.”  Maybe I am implying too much, but this is almost always an indication of a pro-choice stance.  The interpretation of the constitution is one of the biggest differences between conservatives and liberals and is not something that you just change your mind about overnight.

Now that his arguments have been shown false, maybe you can use his statement last month when he said that electing an African-American president would be “electrifying” for the world as your case for his dramatic change of values and ideals or maybe you think it is out of revenge against those who he perceived have done him wrong in the Bush administration, but one thing is clear.  It has nothing to do with leadership, character, or judgment.  A leader with good character does not lie when put in a tough position (ie: the trinity church situation) and they certainly do not associate themselves with the types of people that Obama has chosen to associate himself with.

McCain, on the other hand, cannot be accused of dealing with these types of people or lying to avoid associations as his counterpart has done.  You can like him or dislike him because he sometimes veers more to the center than some would wish, but you cannot question his character or judgment and you can be ensured you will get a genuine answer when you ask him a question.  And you can be assured that it is based on what is best for this country.

In the end, I guess I could have just left it up to Rush Limbaugh who summed up what I said in three simple sentences.

“OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I’ll let you know what I come up with.”

I guess that is why he makes the big bucks.

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