Limpballs Blasts Colin Powell, Suggests He Should Leave GOP - Obama endorsement racially motivated.

[jefferson_dem]

Limbaugh Blasts Colin Powell, Suggests He Should Leave GOP

Dems have sought to turn Rush Limbaugh into the personification of GOP intolerance, mean-spiritedness, and uncompromising conservatism, and Rush’s attack on Colin Powell — delivered moments ago on the air — probably won’t hinder this effort.

Rush hammered Powell as “just another liberal,” reiterated his claim that Powell’s endorsement of Obama was about “race,” and suggested Powell should leave the GOP and just “become another Democrat.”

Rush was responding to some sharp criticism Powell lodged against him Monday. In a speech to corporate executives, Powell claimed that “the Republican Party is in deep trouble” and directly blamed Rush, saying that the talk show host “diminishes the party” and corrupts our public life with “a kind of nastiness that we would be better to do without.”

“I don’t care what Colin Powell says,” Limbaugh responded on the air this afternoon. “This kind of stuff is said about me three times a day … and Colin Powell is just another liberal.”

Limbaugh brought up his earlier claim that Powell’s endorsement of Obama was about race. “He’s just mad at me because I’m the one person in the country who had the guts to explain ,” Limbaugh said. “There can be no other explanation for it.”

Perhaps most tellingly, Limbaugh appeared to call on Powell to leave the Republican Party: “What Colin Powell needs to do is close the loop and become a Democrat.”

The optics of this one are not good: The de facto leader of the GOP (according to Dems and some in the media) is reiterating his claim that a high profile black Republican and decorated military man’s endorsement of the country’s first black president was only about race. And that he should leave the party.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/limbaugh-blasts-colin-powell-suggests-he-should-leave-gop/

[Skinner]

1. Rush Limbaugh...

...the gift that keeps on giving. To Democrats.

[Arkana]

2. Why anyone but his slavish, drooling listeners cares what Rush the Pill-Popping Lunatic

says is beyond me.

He crossed the line into complete irrelevancy a while ago.

[jefferson_dem]

4. Personally, I hope he becomes more and more relevant...

as the face of the Republican Party.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Hopefully communities across the country start pushing radio stations to cut Limbaugh.

[Captain Hilts]

14. He's an idiot. This is a stupid statement. IGNORE. nt

[Cant trust em]

3. One African-american endorses another african-american is racially motivated

But the hordes of caucasian endorsers of other caucasians is just fine. Is it possible for African americans in this country to tie their shoes without it being racially motivated?

[Captain Hilts]

13. Race is a factor in both. nt

[Number23]

15. Nope. The race card falls out of our mouths every time we open them

We can't help ourselves, you know... :crazy:

Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama was one thing that almost redeemed him in my eyes. Almost.

[Quezacoatl]

5. Head spinning logic

Rush says Powell's endorsement of Obama was about race and “there can be no other explanation for it.”

Yet Rush also says Powell is a liberal and he says Obama is a liberal. So according to Rush the only explanation for one liberal endorsing another liberal is race.

[ThirdWorldJohn]

6. Powell approved torture also - just like the others. What is so special about him. N/T

[damonm]

7. Attention, Mr. Limbaugh - your ship has arrived...

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[Submariner]

8. It's amazing to watch a drug-addled

yellow belly draft dodging coward, diss a military combat veteran who fought in the war that the puss-butt coward Limpballs avoided. Keep up the good work Dumbaugh.

[ellacott]

9. So true

and I'm sure that Powell has encountered men much tougher than Rush.

[ObamaKerryDem]

10. Yep. Just like he's done to John Kerry, Max Cleland and the like.

Boss Limbaugh=The personification of hypocrisy. Oh and asshattery, too. But then again, if he continues to be the face of the GOP, we will remain in very, very good shape. :evilgrin:

[jenmito]

12. Republican party-table for ONE! Rush is doing more to help us Dems. and hurt the Repubs.

than anyone else!