In TV Appearance, Powell Plans To Answer Right-Wing Critics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/22/AR2009052203555.html

Under intense fire from the right, former secretary of state Colin L. Powell is preparing to answer his Republican critics this weekend in a television appearance that is likely to add fuel to his long-standing feud with top conservatives in his party.

The appearance will come just days after Powell, one of the country's leading black political figures, told an audience in Boston that a new Republican Party is "waiting to emerge." Earlier this month, he said the party is in "deep trouble" because "Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."

Powell's current battle with the right flank of the GOP is a continuation of a war that began in November 1995, when he announced that he would not be a candidate in the 1996 presidential race. With an apparent eye on 2000, he said he would change his lifelong political registration from independent to Republican and begin a quest to move the party toward what he considered its natural home in the center.

in a jiffy.... Something in my gut tells me that he knows how badly he fu**ed up by letting Bush/Cheney lead him in that direction. Don't think he is really that bad a guy, other than being a Repug.... and who can figure why he stays in that party of losers.

any association with W.

And that might have made the difference in Florida too. Plenty of people voted for W. because they liked it that he announced that Powell would be in his cabinet.

Their current brand blows, they know it, time for something a eensy bit more palatable?

Sounds like he's being floated as their new brand.

at the UN speech. They are just using him as a whipping boy now. It amazes me he would still be a Repub.

He got recycled several times, when needed. Powell is much more "attractive" I doubt he's reached the end of his ability to be used.

File this under "I'll believe it when I see it." The only thing standing between Colin Powell and a war crimes tribunal is powerful forces in the Party of 21% still pitching for him based on his past stoogery.

I can't think of one critic who has served.