Why is Colin Powell a Republican?
Why doesn’t Colin Powell quit the Reprican Party?” As I said before we need “a term that combined “REPugnant” and “Republican”, a pejorative as useful as the way the Repricans misuse “Democrat Party” as an epithet.”You’ve got to think first about what’s the party actually going to represent,”… “If it’s just going to represent the far right wing of the political spectrum, I think the party is in difficulty. I’m a moderate, but I’m still a Republican.”
Powell in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press,”
There is a “dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party.” “What do I mean by that?, What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.”
This echoes his former Chief Of Staff, Lawrence Wilkerson
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.