(0 comments)Sheer brilliance:
CHENEY: Well, if I had to choose — in terms of being a Republican — I’d go with Rush Limbaugh, I think. My take on it was that Colin had already left the party. I didn’t know he was still a Republican. [...]John Cole opines:SCHIEFFER: And you said you’d take Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell?
CHENEY: I would. Politically.
It was one thing to hear Rush babble out Powell last week- having Cheney say this is kind of crazy. Powell was the guy who sold Dick Cheney’s excellent Baghdad adventure, and now he isn’t good enough for the GOP.Has there ever been a perfect storm of idiocy like the stuff that’s being pumped out of the GOP high Command right now?Kind of amazing. Four decades of military service, National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Secretary of State, and they don’t want him.
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The idiocy is in whether any of this is meaningful. Of course Powell isn't good enough to be the party leader, compared to Limbaugh. Limbaugh was at the heart of the 1994 revolt that put Republicans in charge of Congress, while Powell wasn't even sure which party he was in. He was always a liberal Republican at best, which might have been OK, if he hadn't just last year publicly supported the most liberal Democratic candidate in history, against his own party's most infamous mainstream candidate. Duh. That's akin to suggesting Democrats would be fools not to support Lieberman (who, while more qualified than most Senators) they are still pondering how they can strip of any power) over Obama.
Of course, wanting Limbaugh to actually participate in politics is just silly.
thought experiment: do you believe that obama is as far to the radical left as limbaugh or cheney is to the radical right?
Yes, inasmuch as the term "radical" right (a contradiction in terms) can possibly apply, if not more so. On Candidate Calculator in 2008, Obama rated out farther left than any candidate since before McGovern. He voted to deny medical care to infants born ALIVE following a failed abortion. He supports confiscatory marginal tax rates. He supports socialized medicine. He clearly supports government control of the economy. I could go on, but if he tacks to his left any further, he will be looking back at Lenin.
Well, at least I know where you stand. It's a laughable claim but you're entitled to it.
If the Republicans wanted to be a powerful party, pulling off a remarlable return to power, they would back Powell, and welcome him with open arms. However, it would seem that the Republicans are more interested in continuing their splintering, self attacking, self destroying tactics. If they cannot control their self destruction, they will fall to only a regional power.