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Writing about conservatives backing Barack Obama (dubbed "Obamacons"), Bob Novak reported this week that Colin Powell will likely endorse Obama. Given Powell's popularity and national security cred (tarnished though they may be by his loathsome pre-war presentation at the UN), this would be a coup for Obama. But Novak documents something even more significant: the overpowering sense of revulsion with Bush and today's Republican Party felt by many conservatives. The money quote is delivered by a long-time GOP loyalist: "The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of Weekend With Bernie [sic], handcuffed to a corpse." I didn't think it could be done, but that tops Republican Rep. Tom Davis' classic "If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf."

Comments

[trollsbwild]

Love the way the pundits have been saying the GOP brand is the problem. As if the resentment over the actions of the party were caused by some unknown individual, thereby the other members of this group are innocent victims. Truth is the GOP were in absolute power, they overreached in some cases, but in reality demonstrated a tendency towards corruption. They allowed their fortunes to rest in the hands of George W. Bush . Accordingly, they deserve no sympathy. In fact, they deserve every bit of vitriol thrown at them.
We can only hope the sheeple will refuse to be lead down the path to ruin by voting to allow them to stay in power beyond November.

[stop7997]

So if the Republicans are so much toast, why do Congressional Dems keep rolling over for them?

[enoughalready13]

Or better yet, why do people still VOTE them in?!

[Buddysingh]

I always took pride in the USA - the most powerful, the most intelligent, the most progressive, hard working, creative people on Earth. How else would you describe the rise of this nation in less than 500 years to be where it was on September 10, 2001?

Hail Bush and the Republicans... where are we now? I think I am begining to agree with Carlin - people are stupid. How else would you agree to allow a president take off his eyes of the real culprits in Al-Queda and go to war with Iraq - a nation that was contained and controlled after it was defeated in 1992? Still, 51 plus millions elected this idiot Bush as a President when we knew that he had lied to the entire world. My fellow Americans - stop watching too much of the idiot tube, reality shows and dont be too laid back - hold your administration to account - whether it be republican or Democrats. Start taking interest in your country or you will be flushed down the tube. Hungry and ambitious nations who have been too long in the dark are aggressively moving to take over the mantle of Superpower. If Americans do not watch out - it will go the UK way....

[we0z]

When Colin Powell endorses Obama the GOPspin machine will give us the rerun of "Colin is just a disgruntled employee with an ax to grind and no merit should be afforded to his credibility" as all are treated when they dissent.

[BetterDeadthanRedState]

That's true but it's getting to the point that the disgruntled employees are the majority.

[AzRealProgressive]

I agree with your handle. 100 million deaths due to to communism, socialism and fascism, all the red states, is historically accurate. The people who are dead from it however may not think so.

[Sundialsvc4]

There is a foul rottenness, all right, but it isn't limited to Republicrats nor Demoblicans. It's the rottenness that comes from holding on to absolute power and unlimited wealth (or so you think...) until Father Time himself wrests it out of your decrepit, age-soaked and blood-soaked hands.

"Ike" Eisenhower warned us that the military industry had the power to trump all other social priorities of government, and to produce so much money in so much secrecy that it would corrupt everyone and everything it touches ... and, paradoxically, bring vulnerability not safety to the country.

I wonder, Arianna, just how long it will continue. I wonder just how bad it has to get, before 300 million people finally realize that less than 1 thousand people have sold them down the river ... that they have all this time been spinning this nation's gold into straw.

This "so-called election" isn't going to change anything. We can look squarely at all these people's historic voting-records (the Congressional Record is online at http://thomas.loc.gov), we watch them massing billions of dollars and refusing to tell us who's putting up the money, and we Know. Whoever may take the Oath of Office next January, it deserves not to be any one of them.

[robotfog]

I consider Ike to be the last American president.

[nutty4tahoe]

Luv the "dead rotting carcass" analogy describing the Republican party. I can only add that I hope there's no such thing as reincarnation, at least when it comes to Bush, McCain, Karl Rove, Cheney, the Repuglicans, the chickenhawks, the neocons and the rest of their ilk. My greatest hope (other than impeaching one and all of them) is that, unlike the Living Dead or the Swamp Thing, they will not return more evil than before. Unfortunately, their demon spawn are interning to take over their power grabbing ways as we speak. If we the voters can be intelligent enough to see through all the swiftboating, lies, deceit, greed and obsession with power at obscene cost to the average American, we can return this country to something we could once again be proud of. We finally have a chance. C'mon, Nation, let's kick 'em while they're down!

[idabamaho]

And yet the media would have us believe it is a horse race...

[ArtLiquidBlogspot]

Someone just rewind the Nixon tape "I'Am not a crook" speech, All they do is laugh to they bank ,
If Bush & Cheney where the First U.S. President's American would never been Know....
They dont have the courage to Change!!!!!

[levibatgirl]

Arianna. The quotes about the state of the republican party ring true. Now if the msm would cease all the propaganda we can start living in normal land and discuss the 'clean up' of the neo con mess as well as stripping them of their power. Of course that would involve an informed population.

The msm still works very hard to portray the GOP as if they are giving Obama the challenge of a lifetime complete with neo con bobble heads spewing lies.

[AzRealProgressive]

The MSM is so pro Obama and anti Bush, and McCain it has no equivalent comparison. Time, NewWeek, NBC, CNN, New York Times and dozens of other MSM have pushed their message to voters and have openly declared for Obama.

What is a neo-con? Someone who disagrees with you?

[lm945]

Pull your head out of the sand and look around (i.e., try getting your "news" from someone other than Fox).

The so-called "main stream media" is deeply buried in the Rights' pocket.

When Obama becomes president, and announces the return of the "Fairness Doctrine" (passed into law by Congress, not an easily reversed Presidential order), you can bet Fox with their "fair and balanced" reporting will be screaming the loudest, trying to stop it. Forced into honesty, presenting the American people with all sides of every issue, will put them out of business.

[idabamaho]

See Link: http://zfacts.com/p/253.html

They are real, and dangerous.

[awcbuddy8]

Four years of an Obama presidency will go a long ways for the Republican party. Republicans are not sick of their party, who wouldn't want to be a republican, it's just that John McCain isn't the best person to get behind. A Bush/Jindal ticket would be pretty good.

[mamadeus]

4 years? The GOP has hung itself with it's own rope. They screwed everyone in AMERICA and then some. It would take a miracle to change those reprobates.

[cybertoothcat]

awcbuddy8 said, "Who wouldn't want to be a Republican?"

Let's see...
People who are sick of the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower, a fellow Republican, warned us about.
People who don't want to be lied into wars.
Those who don't have but would like to have affordable health care coverage.
Citizens who would prefer to invest money in education and infrastructure.
Citizens who would like protection from predatory business practices on everything from poisoned pet food, unregulated mortgages, unreined interest on credit cards, bad tomatoes and rotten meat, etc.
Annyone who isn't filthy rich.

I could go on and on, but this is just off the top of my head of what the Bush administration has allowed to proliferate since taking office in 2001.
Who wouldn't want to be a Republican? Anyone with a conscience who actually cares about their fellow man.
I'm sure that there are decent people who are Republicans, but they've essentially been duped into giving the GOP their vote.

[fortuitous]

excellent, my fellow citizen! we wish there were more like you! Many times our complaints about Republicans are not so much that they identify as such but that they have so few viable arguments, and here we have your wonderful example, argument by argument, for your current view.
Predatory business practices: this is the way of the future. Get used to it, unless we can put an end to it legislatively. Thank you for identifying yourself as an opponent!

[swift_goat_pet_for_truth]

The GOP has had 12 years to prove that it does not know how to run an economy or handle money.

They have had six years to prove they do not know how to win a war against a third world nation.

They have proved they will do anything to enrich the rich at the expense of everyone else.

[AzRealProgressive]

Bush tooj office in 2001, seven years ago. I guess that means that the prior president Bill Clinton switched parties somehow while he was president.

The war in Afghanistan began in late 2001 and the government that sposored Usama Bin Laden was gone in three months. Five years later the remnants still managed to get themselves killed by the hundreds every summer for not a single victory of any importnce.

As to Iraq, Saddam was deposed in three months. A new country emerged from the ruins and every foreign fighter decided to fight the Americans there, instead of here. It has destroyed them strategically and tactically. Probably 20,000 have been killed. That has taken the better part of five years. So what is the problem? A shorter time frame?

[LM1045]

Yes, Jeb would probably find a way to win, hanging chads, voter intimidation, etc. He's a proven expert at throwing elections.

[LiberalBuzz]

WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO BE A REPUBLIICAN?

Seriously?

I can think of at least 65 million people and probably more.

The question SHOULD BE who would WANT to be a republican considering they are the most corrupt and easily bought off congress in a century or more. The party of hypicrisy and phony politics. The party of fear mongering to further an agenda of looting the U.S. Treasury to line the pockets of their wealthiest contributors.

So really now WHO would want to be a republican except those in hard core denial?

[BADEN]

"The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of Weekend With Bernie [sic], handcuffed to a corpse."

They eat their own.....then pass the tab.

[AzRealProgressive]

So, if they win this November, what will that mean to you personally?

[sclucie]

that i will die without health insurance.

[surfcitysteven]

It will mean that America is finished.

[The5thW]

The idea that a Powell endorsement would be a good thing is exactly consistent with the kind of upside down thinking that is so troubling in recent weeks in the Obama campaign. Obama was supposed to be the exact opposite of a "principled" apologist for the neocons.

[dswansoniceman]

Powell has dissented from the adminstration for some time now. He was a "good soldier" and did what he was told in that presentation to the UN. He now says it's the worst mistake he's even made. Colin Powell endorsing Obama would be huge, though the right wing would probably try to boil it down to "well he's just doin' it cause they're both black"

[nunzia]

"tarnished"?
Powell and his family profited mightily, in power and wealth, as a result of his backing Bushco.
As a result of his betrayal of the troops.
He should be worthless to any candidate with integrity.
Granted, your average American is probably unaware of Powell did.

[ManWithLantern]

Powell showed the ethics & morals he operates under when he lied to the UN on WMD's with his pathetic picture of mobile weapons labs.
Why is he getting a pass on this? Part of our "support of troops"
He should just crawl away into a hole of shame!

[knapstellar]

He was one of the first Bush insiders to speak out against the administration, even before it became fashionable.

[heal57]

Powell paid many times over and went against Bush. That's why the ever waving Condi Rice is in that spot. Powell is not worthless; he was tarnished but he is a great American who got caught up with the horrors of Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld. he said 'don't go into Iraq; if you break it, you own it' remember?