Colin Powell, A RINO Phoney

Gen. Colin Powell claims that he's a Republican. Yet he supported neo-Marxist Barack Obama for president.

Powell says that the GOP needs to be a "big tent." Powell claims the reason he supported Barack Obama for president last year was that he believed Obama was "best-qualified" to lead.

What do you think of "hope and change" now, General? Obama quadrupled the national debt; essentially took over the auto and banking industries; is dismantling the safeguards that the Bush Administration set up that protected this country from terror attacks for seven years; and now he wants to nationalize health care (that will usher in rationing).

John McCain was a moderate Republican presidential candidate that was tailor-made for the Colin Powell/Nelson Rockefeller/Hugh Scott/Gerald Ford/John Rhodes wing of the Republican Party. Yet he abandoned McCain and supported Obama. Powell essentially pissed on the grave of Ronald Reagan, who he brown-nosed his way to the top through.

Reagan appealed to moderates, independents and Democrats without sacrificing principle. Reagan welcomed those who didn't agree with him on everything. He always said, "Part of a loaf is better than no loaf at all." He won them over on his terms. The moderates of today have no principles. You can call them RINO (Republican In Name Only) or "Democrat Lite". What do they stand for? They embraced the socialist policies of Obama. They would prefer that the march towards socialism go at a slower pace, but they still embrace it.

Look how successful the moderate wing of the GOP has been. They can't win elections. If it is a choice between a "Democrat Lite" and the real thing, Democrats and some independents will vote for the real thing. Get a strong articulate conservative as a nominee, the liberals will have their clocked cleaned.

As for Powell's "big tent", a poster at the American Spectator said it best:

If you think it's okay to kill babies, get out of my tent.

If you think that gay marriage is anything other than an abrogation of natural law, get out of my tent.

If you think that persons entering this country in defiance of its laws should be granted amnesty, financial assistance, or the right to vote, get out of my tent.

If you offer aid, comfort and compromise to the sworn enemies of our country, get out of my tent.

If you think that the Constitution is an archaic document that can be ignored at the whim of a political agenda, get out of my tent.

If you think it's fiscally responsible to bankrupt our country, get out of my tent.

If you think the community organizer-in-chief has a clue about national security, economics, democracy, business or morality, get out of my tent.

I don't care if I'm the only person left in my tent, at least I can cling to my guns, my Holy Bible and my Constitution.