You would think the simple question 'are you a Republican' would have occurred to those that have interviewed Powell recently. Maybe the answer would be too inconvenient for the standard liberal talking points though.

Re Vice-President Cheney, isn't it interesting that the man ridiculed as 'on his deathbed' when he ran with President George W. Bush in 2000, is nine years later one of the Bamster's most vigorous critics?

Re Powell, he is easily the most overrated and inconsequential politician in America today. Why doesn't he get off his butt and run for something, or is it so much easier to be a pundit? To emerge from his cave every couple of months and throw a pearl or two of his wisdom at his admirers?

Being unencumbered, as I am, with the task of fleshing out the scenario, I rushed in on another thread to post my observation of this exchange.

I had no doubt whatsoever one of our fine contributors would also make note of Schieffer's surprise.

You did not fail me.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Support Limbaugh over Powell???

Damn Skippy..

Again, a political party is not a political philosophy. Parties are strictly about elections. They're basically an electoral joint venture; we agree to support the same candidates (for whatever reason). Therefore, if you support Democratic candidates, you're a Democrat. By definition.

And that's not a crime. Freedom means you can vote for whoever you want, for whatever reason.

But if you want to persuade others what makes a "true" Republican, you surrender your credibility when the GOP nominates your friend, but you vote for the Democrat despite that. At that point, you have no right to tell anyone what a Republican is, or should be. 

Like the rest of his tribe Shieffer no doubt sees Limbaugh as more evil than Satan.  So he's dumbfounded to hear anyone choose Limbaugh over someone who has the Cloak of Virtue imparted by the proper skin color.  Most basically:  what decent person would ever side with the white guy?

Millions of conservatives and Republicans have been listening to Rush Limbaugh for years.  And they have been entertained and educated.  Limbaugh’s ability to maintain an enormous audience is extraordinary.  

As a popular political sage, my guess is General Powell will have the staying power of…. let’s say… General Wesley Clark.  

Some people diminish their reputation with public exposure, and I think General Powell falls into that category.  His record of service in Viet Nam is laudatory.  His political opinions are trite.  

And in the past couple of years, Bob Schieffer has blown the opportunity he once had to retire with the reputation of an evenhanded moderator.  He’s just another liberal advocate.

Schieffer was surprised: “So you think that he's (Powell) not a Republican?”

Bob's obvious surprise is no....well...surprise.  Shieffer also thinks of himself as an objective journalist.

I'm happy to see our former VP endorse Rush as the defacto head of the republican party. The GOP needs to jettison Steele and install Rush if they want the party to succeed.  I think the dems would shutter at the thought of how Rush could energize the party and play a major part in taking back all they have lost in the last two elections. Cheney should step up and take a major role as well.  The both of them together would greatly facilitate a return of the the republicans back to power. GO LIMBAUGH/CHENEY!

How can Powell leap from supporting Reagan to supporting Obama? Powell is now embarrassed by his WMD performance at the UN. He will say and support whatever he has to to get back in the good graces of the MSM. Legacy building is his concern now.

Prior to DADT gays did not serve "openly" in the military. They were not prancing around.

The military is NOT a social experiment!

Our marines are already being shot in the back by Iraq military police while on patrol. We don't need this crap A** president shooting at them too.

Headline.."US soldiers shoot and kill Iraqi 12 year old boy"

Reason? the bad guys are payng kids to throw grenades at our military and we have to explain why one 12 year old is dead.

Better the kid than one of our men.

I am sick to death of all of it. Now we have to explain why we don't want to shower with ...

Never mind

Powell is a joke. He is basically wanting the Republican party to comitte suicide. Anyone who voted for and supports Obama is a liberal period. Limbaugh wants the best for the Republican party. So why would anyone be agreeing with Powell unless they are a marxist liberals themselves? Powell got his Rino candidate and his elite friends in the media trashed him and the Republicans lost. So who wants another repeat? Not me. We need better candidates to go against Obama and one who advocate conservative principals not liberal ones.  Cheney is right on to support Limbaugh.

It is sad, Powell had such a great military career and to totally scrap his name by lying about what the Republicans were say about BO.  I really wonder if he has ever been a Republican or is he really that shallow that he would drag up lies and vote for someone only because of the color of his skin.

Before we have a government that can supply us with everything we will have a government that can provide us with nothing.

and he, as he always does, stood up for the truth.  Reminds me of Ms. California.  Ask a question of either one of those two and you will get a truthful and honest answer.  PC and the Liberal Media be damned!  Jim Webster

One of former Vice President Dick Cheney's concerns, as well as my own, is President Obama's discontinuation of enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation. Leftist media, such as Wikipedia, call enhanced interrogation "techniques of torture."

The far left Los Angeles Times, in an online article titled Memos shed light on CIA use of sleep deprivation attempts to make the case that sleep deprivation results in "mental anguish" for the poor terrorist.

Mr. Cheney was dead-on when he said on Face the Nation: "I think to the extent that those [Bush-era] policies were responsible for saving lives, that the administration is now trying to cancel those policies … means in the future we're not going to have the same safeguards we've had for the last eight years."  

As for liberals such as Bob Schieffer, they have as much understanding about conservatives as they do for the impact their big-governement policies will have on our nation.

On second thought, liberals do understand that even terrorist deserve at least eight hours of restful, uninterrupted sleep every night. After all, if the roles were reversed, the terrorist would ensure that their prisoners slept uninterrupted for the rest of their life.

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"They are actively promoting the decline of America." ~ Rush Limbaugh on liberals and Democrats

And what does Colin Powell know, anyway. He’s the nominal “Republican” that endorsed Obama, then re-assured us all that he was “qualified to be Commander-in-Chief” the week before the Russians caught Obama completely asleep-at-the-wheel and nabbed the Krgyzstani air-base that we use to fly-in most of our supplies to Afghanistan.

I don’t trust Powell an inch, he apparently feels guilty about promoting the Iraq war (but shouldn’t) and is trying to make amends. Powell’s advice and a quarter will get you a cup of coffee at 7-11 (small).

 There'll be no hiding the damage Obama is doing to the county in a year or two. I love how these critics of the GOP assume everything will just work out great with trillion dollar deficits and a pacifist foreign policy- When their pork-n-welfare spending orgy fails to create any real economic gains -but stokes vicious inflation and crashes the dollar instead- the Democrats face a bloodbath in 2010.

And Barack can kiss 2012 goodbye, no matter how hard he attacks the GOP and has the MSM plant BS stories and manufactured "scandals". His foreign policy is headed straight for an iceberg, as well.

Ironically, Powell and W did a lot of damage to the GOP brand... but Obama-Pelosi-Reid will be the ones to fix it all-up for us- already as good as done. Funny how life is.

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Cheney sat in that funny way of his, looking at Edwards almost sideways.  Prell Boy looked like a deer in the headlights.  Especially memorable was Cheney's line about meeting him for the first time, even though Cheney was at the Senate often - MSM was scrambling to find an event where the two met so they could call Cheny a liar.

So Dick Cheney would prefer Rush Limbaugh as a Republican over Colin Powell. Which would he prefer just as an American or as a human being? The idea that Cheney would pick a high school educated radio talkshow host who has NEVER served his country in any formal capacity over an educated, highly decorated former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who has served four presidents is breathtaking in its lunacy. If anything, Cheney should be working with Powell, trying to bring him back under the ever-shrinking tent of the GOP. Instead, he chooses to drive Powell (and the people who admire him) further away from the party with comments like these. It is this kind of ideologically-driven anti-think that is killing off the Republican Party. Limbaugh, who is one of the most disliked and polarizing figures in the country, is the very last person you'd want to embrace if you really wanted to strengthen your party. The longer the electorate perceives that Republicans are more concerned about preserving their ideology than the welfare of the public, the more that GOP tent is going to shrink. Dick Cheney's remarks have only confirmed that growing perception. Bob Schieffer was right to be "astounded". 

At this moment in the history of the GOP, it is very much like the skin eruption known as a boil. To excise a boil, it must be lanced and the core and pus forcibly removed. However, there is a conspicuously concerted and conscientious effort to protect the boil at any cost to allow the pus to continue to accumulate and the core to remain sequested intact. You're gonna get what you don't wanna pay for and when that sucker bursts, your decontamination will hopefully be privately funded since you sure won't wanna have anything to do with any government-funded decontamination.  Just think, all the pus you can drink and YOU helped cook it.  Just another example of how YOU made conservatism so popular.