As a gold star family (my only uncle was kia in WWII, double bronze star recipient, along with a purple heart) my concern is that the only real person he could endorse would be John McCain. To do anything else would seem political, and too long in the process. No doubt that General Powell is a true American Hero…but there is only one other true American hero in this race…John McCain. Thus I would be shocked to see him endorse a candidate that has spoken of our troops the way Obama has, that has tried to put in a timetable for withdrawal, much less tried to cut off funding.

I pray I can see Colin Powell tomorrow the way I see him tonight…As a man with principles. We all owe him a tremendous gratitude for his many years of service, along with John McCain.

Powell isn’t a conservative.

Sure, he’s pro-military and he’s a fiscal conservative. But many of his views line right up with Obama.

He is pro-choice.
Pro-gun control.
Pro-affirmative action.
He didn’t agree with invading Iraq.
After we invaded he stated that Iraq was an unwinnable war.
He doesn’t agree with Bush’s military tribunals.

He’s never claimed to be a conservative. If he believes that Obama would have a good Iraq exit strategy (maybe listen to Powell, huh, huh?), why wouldn’t he side with him?

The man is a politician for goodness sakes. If not, why would he wait so long to endorse? Why would he wait until Obama pretty much has the thing sewn up?

Of course, he may endorse McCain, and I hope he does. But I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he didn’t.

The only reason Colin Powell is a registered Republican is that key Republicans gave the necessary ticket punches for his advancement in the military. Members of the Armed Forces have told me that any advancement beyond O-5, Lieutenant Colonel, is political payback. There are many Admirals and Generals who owe their rank to being in the right political place at the right time. Colin Powell seemed to have this ability.

Remember, he was uneasy with the conservative base of the GOP. George Will had written back 1995-1996 that he had said something to the effect, “I have to persuade THOSE people?” His views of Middle America may be close to Obama’s.

There is a rumor that John McCain was not bringing up BO’s association with Jeremiah Wright to have Powell’s endorsement. Hopefully, they will bring up this association. This can be as damaging as Ayers.

In fact, I hate him! Yes, he beats Obama, but he’s has been moving left ever since he’s been to Washington, sopping up the media attention that it’s given him.

REMEMBER ALL! Powell is of the exact same mold as McCain. “Go-along-to-get-along.” McCain once supported Powell when most every one else knew that Powell was a closet liberal. McCain? Listening? How’s it feel buddy?

A brief look at Sec. Colin Powell’s Character, Honesty and Judgment.

Plamegate revisited…

Mr. Armitage never did tell the White House or his boss, the President, that he was the leaker. Instead, in October 2003 he told Mr. Powell, who told the State Department general counsel, who in turn told the Justice Department but gave the White House Counsel only the sketchiest overview of what he’d learned and didn’t mention Mr. Armitage’s name. So while Mr. Fitzgerald presumably knew when he began his probe two months later that Mr. Armitage was Mr. Novak’s source, the President himself was apparently kept in the dark, even as he was pledging publicly to find out who the leaker was.

At a minimum, there appears to be a serious question of disloyalty here. By keeping silent, Messrs. Powell and Armitage let the President take political heat for the case, while also letting Mr. Rove, Mr. Libby and other White House officials twist in the wind for more than two years. We also know that it was the folks in Mr. Powell’s shop–including his former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson and intelligence officer Carl Ford Jr.–who did so much to trash John Bolton’s nomination to be Ambassador to the U.N. in 2005. The State Department clique that Mr. Bush tolerated for so long did tremendous damage to his Administration.

As for Justice, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the case in an act of political abdication. That left then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey in charge, and he also presumably knew about Mr. Armitage’s role as the leaker who started it all. Yet if the book’s account is correct, he too misled the White House with his silence. Mr. Comey is also the official who let Mr. Fitzgerald alter his mandate from its initial find-the-leaker charge to the obstruction and perjury raps against Mr. Libby that are all this case has come down to. Remind us never to get in a foxhole with either Mr. Comey or the Powell crowd.

I was stunned. Not that he’d back Obama but that he’d toss out so much misinformation.

It’s just amazing when you think back that Obama’s UN testimony was the turning point in getting us into Iraq and Obama was nominated because he was opposed to Powell at that point in time. Go figure.

If anything, it seems that Powell echoes McCain – the war was the right thing to do, but it was conducted poorly.