Cheney (Surprise, Surprise) Likes Limbaugh over Colin Powell

This should come as no surprise to anybody. Failed Vice President and war criminal Dick Cheney says that Fat Blowhard Rush Limbaugh more accurately personifies the Republican Party than General Colin Powell.

That's what you'd expect from him. No real news there. It would be a big news story if he said he likes Colin Powell. Powell, of course, became instant persona non grata when he came out for Obama.

In today's Republican party, you don't break ranks. You don't violate your loyalty oath. Marching in lockstep to party dogma is the only acceptable thing to do. Nothing else is tolerated.

I'm sure it was a long and painful decision for Powell to do the right thing rather than the Republican thing knowing what would happen to him. Yet, he is only one for one now. Since I'm in a charitable mood, I'll say that he has redeemed himself for what he did in the Cheney/Bush buildup to the Iraq invasion. It's unfortunate that he did what he did then, but as a military man that's what you'd expect. He followed his orders. In his system of ethics practiced his entire military career, there was no other choice. He was Secretary of State, working for da man. I don't think he, at that time, considered himself very far from the military. The boss said do it, so he did it, as any good soldier would.

It is to his credit that he didn't do it again by supporting McCain. I would have voted for him for president, even as a Republican, a few years ago--but not after he did the U.N. speech. I knew that information he was presenting was not an accurate justification for war, and so did many other people. None in government who spoke up got listened to, however. I'm sure Powell lives with the guilt of those actions every day.

While I may consider him to have redeemed himself for that one mistake, I doubt that he did what he did in order to seek redemption. I think he's a patriotic American and professional soldier and always did what was right for his country, except in that one instance where he did what the commander in chief told him to do. No, he didn't support Obama in order to atone for his sin of the past. He did it because he knew Obama was infinitely more qualified to be president than McCain. Of course, I'm only speculating. Who knows what really went on in his mind. Hopefully he'll write a book someday and tell us. Since I'm speculating, I'll go even further and guess that when McCain picked Fundamentalist Christian Low I.Q. Sarah Palin to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, Powell thought about McCain's age and about a President Palin and said, "No way!"

I digress. The fact that Cheney likes Limbaugh better than Powell says all that needs to be said about the Republican party today. Can you imagine what Mr. Conservative Barry Goldwater would say about Cheney today if he were alive! Neither Goldwater nor Eisenhower could even get a seat on the back row of today's Republican party. They wouldn't be moved to the back of the bus--hell, they wouldn't even be allowed on the bus. I remember when people thought Goldwater was a right wing lunatic. But today, when the Neocons say "Goldwater Republican," that's an insult to someone they consider way too liberal. The Party of Lincoln died when they buried Eisenhower. The Party of Neocon Dysfunction and Racism began when Reagan announced his entry into the campaign from--guess where: Philadelphia, Mississippi. That choice of location was not a coincidence. Racism and hatred and divisiveness reached new heights with Gingrich's control, and corporate takeover became a nightmare in broad daylight with Cheney/Bush.

One bright spot here...with Cheney supporting Limbaugh over Colin Powell...that shows the Neocons' true colors to everyone. It can only hurt the Republicans in the next election. Americans are not nearly as stupid as they think.