Colin Powell

    Vichy Republicans

    By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 25th at 11:08 PM  | 

    The year is 2003. Tom Ridge is chatting, explaining what’s going on with Homeland Security, having a seemingly good time. His good natured counterpart in the conversation lets Ridge run with the conversation. The other party in the conversation is Rush Limbaugh. Ridge had called into Rush’s show. Over the past twenty years Rush has been on the air, people like Powell, Ridge, and others | Read More »

    Cheney, Limbaugh, and the Destruction of America

    By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 10th at 11:59 PM  | 

    Dick Cheney has given a lashing to both Colin Powell and Barack Obama. Put me in the Cheney-Limbaugh camp. Heck, put me in the Cheney-Limbaugh 2012 camp. If not a Presidential ticket, at least they should be the listened voices on the right — the ones whose advice guides the direction our candidates go. Yes, the left may laugh at that and encourage it, but | Read More »

    Colin Powell Has Probably Never Listened to Rush Limbaugh

    By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 12th at 09:39 AM  | 

    Colin Powell has opened his mouth and let out some hate: “Can we continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh?” Powell asked. “Is this really the kind of party that we want to be when these kinds of spokespersons seem to appeal to our lesser instincts rather than our better instincts?” First, we should note that Powell equates Limbaugh to the Republican Party when Rush, like | Read More »