Who Cares What Colin Powell Thinks About The GOP?

A lot has been made this week of Colin Powell's somber judgments about the Republican party. Powell is the toast of the liberal media for claiming that the Republicans have lost their way and need to moderate, return to the political center, etc., etc., etc.

Excuse me, but didn't Powell support Wonderboy in the last election? Hardly what I'd call a solid conservative, is he? He cut and run over race.

And, if memory serves, Powell was the wimpy moderate at State who tried to mess up president Bush's strategies in his first term.

Powell has served in Republican administrations, but the further he's gotten from his army years, the more centrist and placating he's become. Nobody has ever accused him of having a strong conservative orientation.

As a British conservative guest on Hannity noted on Wednesday evening, nobody has ever heard Powell articulate a clear vision on anything. How can he possibly counsel the GOP on this?

Instead, as that guest, and Ann Coulter noted on O'Reilly, earlier that evening, the GOP is not the same as the size of group of Americans who consider themselves conservatives. The number of registered Republicans has always been less than the base that votes for the party's candidates. Especially in those states, one of in which I was raised (Illinois), which allow for voters to register as independents, but vote in the primary of their choice.

As one Fox News pundit noted, Reagan, and other successful candidates, succeed by moving the center to their end of the spectrum, not by moving to the center. For example, it was noted that Dole, McCain and Bush senior all lost election or re-election as moderates. The more the Republicans listen to the NY Times and move left, the more they get creamed.

Powell is completely wrong. Which is why the liberal media is playing up his comments so much. But Colin Powell is no conservative, and probably not a Republican, either.