Karl Rove: Powell's "Vision For The Republican Party's Future Is For Rush Limbaugh To Shut Up" (VIDEO)

Karl Rove has joined the conservative chorus assailing Colin Powell.

Last week, Rush Limbaugh called for Powell to leave the Republican party after the former Secretary of State gave a speech in which he suggested that the GOP was increasingly coming under the control of radicals. Limbaugh said that Powell should "become a Democrat instead of claiming to be a Republican interested in reforming the Republican Party."

Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney then took a very public dig at his former colleague, telling "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer that he would definitely side with Limbaugh over Powell about the future of the GOP.

Now Karl Rove has chimed in, voicing his own doubts about Powell's commitment to the Republican party on Fox News.

"Why get in a fight with Rush Limbaugh... It's not a very comforting vision to say my vision for the Republican Party's future is for Rush Limbaugh to shut up.... It's not the kind of thing that makes people stand up and say, 'Yeah that's the kind of Republican Party I want.'"

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[Bpeirce]

11:44 PM on 05/28/2009

Sounds like a good start.

[axt113]

07:44 PM on 05/14/2009

James Sundquist of the Brookings institution wrote in his book Dynamaics of the Party system, of a situation in which one of the Major parties would collapse and end up being replaced by a new party, much like the Whigs were replaced by the GOP. My friends I think we are witinessing another such event with the GOP at this very moment.

[ibsteve2u]

04:21 PM on 05/14/2009

"Rush Limbaugh called for Powell to leave the Republican party after the former Secretary of State gave a speech in which he suggested that the GOP was increasingly coming under the control of radicals"

Wow...the Republicans make no bones about their desire to quash the truth, do they?

But they are stupid, for they cannot understand what Powell undertook when he swore to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" - in fact, from any threat of harm to our nation and our people.

The Republicans should apply the truth test, and look around at America, asking themselves: "What group has threatened our Constitution the most over the last decade? What group has done the most harm to America, her people, and her economy over the last decade?"

If they have even a shred of honor and truth left in their souls, the right will answer themselves with "We have.".

[IntellectuallyHonest]

10:08 AM on 05/14/2009

My vision for your is to see you behind bars.

[keysbreezin]

10:10 AM on 05/13/2009

By all means, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele et al ..... keep talking. Everytime you open your collective mouths you dig the hole deeper for your irrelevent, chaotic, myopic party. Please, keep talking.

[1lalady]

09:54 AM on 05/13/2009

Keep talking Rove and Limbaugh, the GOP is not worth a damn anyway. You can't help or hurt the party anymore, it is no longer a party. With people like these two clowns[ rove, limbaugh] the GOP is only good for a good laugh.

[Jicarlo Henderson]

09:48 AM on 05/13/2009

If you disagree with them they will attack this is sad to see but something that had to happen in order to show America the light . People like Rush run that party and people like Powell does stand a chance in a party like that. There becoming a southern party, stuck in the ideas of a dying south. Pickup trucks and shotguns the lower the grade level completed the better.

[wookierage]

09:22 AM on 05/13/2009

For someone unwilling to testify before congress, he certainly flaps his gums enough when put in front of a TV camera.

[jwredd]

08:43 AM on 05/13/2009

Karl, there's nobody left in your party to "stand up and say" anything! You're dreaming and you have become totally marginalized.

[GOP1]

08:51 AM on 05/13/2009

Whats up with this doughboy, I thought he was to stand before Conyers for questions about the firing of those U.S. Attorneys, has anything happened yet?

[IcedTee63]

07:42 AM on 05/13/2009

You are so right Karl we need to keep the radio personality/entertainer talking so that everyone sees what's good about the Republican Party...Hardly anything.

[DRaymond]

02:04 AM on 05/13/2009

"It's not the kind of thing that makes people stand up and say, 'Yeah that's the kind of Republican Party I want.'

No, but it is the essential first step.

[afgail]

01:48 AM on 05/13/2009

For Karl Rove who is the architect of the current GOP message this is just laughable. Rove and Limpaugh think that the GOP message of being anti-Obama 24/7 is somehow a wining strategy. Keep it up boys. Myopia is epidemic among the GOP elites.

[backwoodsintellect]

01:08 AM on 05/13/2009

"It's not the kind of thing that makes people stand up and say, 'Yeah that's the kind of Republican Party I want.'

Well, yeah it is. The RNC has a leader who backed down from Limbaugh. What kind of leadership is THAT?!

[lynettema]

12:58 AM on 05/13/2009

And the GOPers wonder how they will get past their angry and negative image. Well it isn't going to be by following Rush. Some of my most ardent Republican friends have stopped listening to Rush. This will help, but they have so far to go to catch up with the rest of the world.....

[Tim Smith]

12:18 AM on 05/13/2009

Please republicans, dont listen to powell. Rush is the man; he will lead you to the promised land.