Colin Powell.

Blasts the Cheney's. His emails make him out to be the most level headed guy in Washington in years. The Alt- Right won't like him which will make 70% of America happy.

He totally let America down by not running in 1996 or 2000. The world would be a much different place.

https://www.qu.edu/news-and-events/quinn...aseID=2378 …

Quinnipiac Poll

Clinton 41 (+2)
Trump 39
Johnson 13
Stein 4

Pretty simple illustration of the Clinton third party issue. Would you consider supporting a third party candidate?
-- @Nate_Cohn

oh so close ...

STAGE FRIGHT

(09-14-2016 02:15 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  The Alt- Right

Everybody take a drink.

(09-14-2016 02:15 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Colin Powell.

Blasts the Cheney's. His emails make him out to be the most level headed guy in Washington in years. The Alt- Right won't like him which will make 70% of America happy.

Powell is too smart to run for POTUS. I don't blame him for not wanting to his family and go through that meat grinder himself.

(09-14-2016 03:12 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 02:15 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Colin Powell.

Blasts the Cheney's. His emails make him out to be the most level headed guy in Washington in years. The Alt- Right won't like him which will make 70% of America happy.

Powell is too smart to run for POTUS. I don't blame him for not wanting to his family and go through that meat grinder himself.

huh?

I like how all of this garbage is being dumped at the feet of the new liberal boogeyman, the alt-right.

That's when you know there is fear out there.

The left is losing this argument, and they know it.

(09-14-2016 03:24 PM)DefCONNOne Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 03:12 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 02:15 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Colin Powell.

Blasts the Cheney's. His emails make him out to be the most level headed guy in Washington in years. The Alt- Right won't like him which will make 70% of America happy.

Powell is too smart to run for POTUS. I don't blame him for not wanting to his family and go through that meat grinder himself.

huh?

Shielding his family was the reason he gave at the time for not running. Google young Major Powell's role in the My Lai Massacre cover-up at Americal Division HQ for the real reason.

(09-14-2016 03:30 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 03:24 PM)DefCONNOne Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 03:12 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 02:15 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Colin Powell.

Blasts the Cheney's. His emails make him out to be the most level headed guy in Washington in years. The Alt- Right won't like him which will make 70% of America happy.

Powell is too smart to run for POTUS. I don't blame him for not wanting to his family and go through that meat grinder himself.

huh?

Shielding his family was the reason he gave at the time for not running. Google young Major Powell's role in the My Lai Massacre cover-up at Americal Division HQ for the real reason.

Yeah, bad wording on my part (got distracted) but still simple to figure out what I was trying to convey.

Yea, All this new "Alt-right" garbage is pretty amusing.

I guess it focused grouped well and sounds kinda Skeery, sinister or something. Muh-hahahahaha...

I liked and would have voted for Powell. Then he got all wishy-washy on where he stands. Recognizing Trump for the idiot he is though gives me back a little faith in him.

He just seems level headed. A peek inside his emails makes me like the guy even more. The people he doesn't like I don't like.

"Alt-right". 2016's "Vast right wing conspiracy".

Same old Clintons.

(09-14-2016 03:00 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  He totally let America down by not running in 1996 or 2000. The world would be a much different place.

(09-14-2016 03:12 PM)VA49er Wrote:  Powell is too smart to run for POTUS. I don't blame him for not wanting himself or his family to go through that meat grinder.

Both of the quoted comments are true. (I edited VA49er's comment but I hope in a way to make it easier to understand)

(09-14-2016 03:30 PM)58-56 Wrote:  Shielding his family was the reason he gave at the time for not running. Google young Major Powell's role in the My Lai Massacre cover-up at Americal Division HQ for the real reason.

Powell has also managed to avoid answering the real questions about his role in the "Valerie Plame Affair". That is the root of his falling-out with the Cheneys.

No thanks. You can keep Colin. He rode the system as long as he could. He's as common as they come.

Third party candidates, no matter who they are, don't stand a chance in hell of winning the POTUS.

Don't waste your vote .

(09-15-2016 09:11 AM)tigertom Wrote:  Third party candidates, no matter who they are, don't stand a chance in hell of winning the POTUS.

Don't waste your vote .

I disagree with that philosophy.

Most 3rd parties spend all their money trying to obtain ballot access with petition drives, court challenges, etc when they could simply stay on the ballot if they hit a certain threshold in the previous election.

In NC, the Libertarians have to hit 2% in the governor or president race to stay on the ballot or else they have to start from scratch. So a vote for the Libertarians in NC helps them meet that goal, which they did in 2012 in NC. If they started with guaranteed ballot access in every state for 2020 imagine what kind of candidate they could run as well as being able to redirect their funds from ballot access to actual campaigning.

(09-15-2016 09:11 AM)tigertom Wrote:  Third party candidates, no matter who they are, don't stand a chance in hell of winning the POTUS.

Don't waste your vote .

With the current system in place, you are exactly correct. Between the Dems and Repubs they have created a system where they and they alone can play the game. They have rigged the rules in their favor AND since they are the only real players, the money men funnel the cash their way and their way only. 3rd parties have the election rules set-up against them and because they can't compete, the money necessary to be a real player in the game never materializes..... Nice set-up these ba$tards have created for themselves.

I read where one of the emails indicated that Powell was going to endorse Hillary "sometime in the fall."

Well that ain't gunna happen. Wouldn't be prudent.

Piss on you.. I'm voting for Mel Brooks