Going down the list of General Powell’s reasons to endorse Barack Obama, everyone of them – other than his delight in Obama’s "intellectual flare" – is about the GOP (his party) going too far to the Right. Or to the Base.
Whether his stated disregard for Sarah Palin, his anger at the GOP for using Ayers and Hussien to play Obama as a terrorist, his fear of two more right-wing Supreme Court Justices, his dislike for the Republican saber rattling, his sadness that his friend John McCain has sank into the right-wing mire that has become the Republican Party along with the narrowing and exclusiveness of the Republican Party – Powell’s repetition of these themes run so strongly through his endorsement of Barack Obama all else is seem mostly irrelevant to the General.
The Republican Party has become the Party of Joe the Wingnut…
Watching the Sunday shows this morning, we find the Right is high on Joe the Plumber! They got their weekly good fix of intolerant, bigoted self interest from an idiot. What the base so admires and is in such need of.
But no one of any worth can even hint around at such things. If they here it going there, word gets out, and that mass of intolerant, bigoted selfish idiots that is the American Voter will put down their plungers and rise up out of cesspools of America with more voter turnout than ever though possible. So please… Shhhhhh…