Colin Powell's former chief of staff condemned the Republican Party on Friday night, telling MSNBC's Ed Schultz, "My party is full of racists."Retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson made the comment in response to Mitt Romney campaign surrogate John Sununu's suggestion on Thursday that Powell's endorsement of President Barack Obama's re-election was motivated by race. Wilkerson, who served as Powell's chief of staff whenthe general was secretary of state during the first George W. Bush term, told Schultz that he respected Sununu "as a Republican, as a member of my party," but did not "have any respect for the integrity of the position that [Sununu] seemed to codify."When asked by Schultz what, if anything, the remark said about the attitudes of the Republican Party, Wilkerson said:My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people -- not all of them, but most of them -- who are still basing their positions on race. Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists, and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin, and that's despicable.
i fail to understand why they have not corralled the loonies on the right don't the feel comfortable that their hate base is on board? evidently not, they may feel that once the red meat feeding trough is empty they will go elsewhere looking for more and they only want them to consume their brand.
Powell, a Republican, endorsed Obama for the second time on Thursday morning -- he also backed the president in 2008 -- saying on CBS' "This Morning" that he was "more comfortable with President Obama and his administration" than with Romney on a host of issues.
Obama himself dismissed Sununu's suggestion on Friday, telling radio host Michael Smerconish:
Any suggestion that Gen. Powell would make such a profound statement in such an important election based on anything but what he thought was what's going to be best for America doesn't make much sense.
they will trash anyone who challenges their right to lie and mislead and expose their inept candidate
as Norquist said "Romney will do as he's told
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/13/grover-norquist-speech-cpac.html
also he said of Romney "We just need a president who can sign the legislation that the Republican House and Senate pass. We don't need someone to think. We need someone with enough digits on one hand to hold a pen."
http://nationbuilders.thenation.com/profiles/blogs/pipe-dreams-of-grover-norquist
republican state of "who' who on the right".
