{"id":32215,"date":"2013-01-15T22:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T05:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/the-latest-republican-unperson.html"},"modified":"2013-01-15T22:49:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T05:49:56","slug":"the-latest-republican-unperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/the-latest-republican-unperson.html","title":{"rendered":"The latest Republican UnPerson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Powell, by suggesting that the GOP as elements in it that are less than racially tolerant, gets castigated as a lunatic and serious not-a-Republican by folks at Fox News, the Tea Party, and other zanies.<\/p>\n

How long will the GOP last if it keeps lurching further and further to the right, and rejecting anyone that doesn't loyally pad along behind? (h\/t +<\/span>Wendy Cockcroft<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Pamela Zuppo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The right\u2019s Colin Powell freakout<\/b><\/p>\n

A FreedomWorks lady kicks him out of his own party after he criticizes Republicans' dark vein of intolerance<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n

The folks at FreedomWorks<\/i>, last seen in the media being marched out of their own offices by an armed guard<\/b>, only to march back in after a plutocrat benefactor paid an $8 million ransom to Dick Armey, found a black Republican to kick out of his own party Tuesday: Gen. Colin Powell.<\/p>\n

Happy birthday, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/b>!<\/p>\n

Stacy Washington doesn\u2019t seem to have brought along an armed guard to help her escort Powell out of his party. But apparently motivated by his majestic denunciation of his party\u2019s four-year freakout over President Obama on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d last Sunday<\/b>, Washington intoned on the front page of the FreedomWorks site Tuesday: \u201cIt\u2019s with considerable dismay that I pronounce him to be, well \u2014 no longer a Republican!\u201d Why? He \u201cholds far too many positions that place him squarely in the Democratic Party\u2019s base to seriously be considered a Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n

The usual suspects on the right went nuts<\/b>. Fox\u2019s The Five<\/i><\/b> called Powell \u201cunhinged.\u201d Laura Ingraham called him a \u201cweapon of mass destruction,\u201d and Fox\u2019s Megyn Kelly remarked \u201cWhoa, with friends like that in the Republican Party, who needs enemies?\u201d But at least Kelly let him stay in his own party<\/i>; FreedomWorks\u2019 Washington won\u2019t allow it.<\/b> His ultimate sin: \u201ccastigating the party using the very tired but effective cudgel of race. Tossing the race card is the purview of liberals,\u201d she says, so that makes Powell a liberal.<\/p>\n

At this point, the Republican Party doesn\u2019t deserve someone like Powell<\/i><\/b>. It\u2019s pathetic how alone he is in calling out his friends on either their racism, or their tolerance for it. I\u2019ve written many times: Birtherism wouldn\u2019t have become a potent force if people like John Boehner or Mitt Romney had spoken out against it<\/b>. _Instead Boehner insisted it wasn\u2019t his job to tell people what to think, and Romney made jokes about nobody needing to see his birth certificate, while embracing the carnival barker Donald Trump<\/b>.<\/p>\n

But Powell has spent his life as a Republican and he\u2019s entitled to remain one, to fight for the soul of his party from inside of it. None of the grifters or poseurs at FreedomWorks is entitled to read Powell out of it<\/b>.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/01\/16\/the_rights_colin_powell_freakout\/<\/a><\/p>\n

These fucking teeeBags are hilariously such idiots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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