{"id":1626,"date":"2013-08-27T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T00:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2013-08-27T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T00:06:32","slug":"no-colin-powell-is-not-that-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/no-colin-powell-is-not-that-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Colin Powell is not that stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve heard Colin Powell&#8217;s remarks about the voter ID laws in North Carolina and Texas. They&#8217;re going to make it more difficult for minorities to vote, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Levin devoted a large segment of his show yesterday to responding to Colin, arguing how showing an ID isn&#8217;t racist, and implying that the general isn&#8217;t all that bright.<\/p>\n<p>I give the opposition to voter ID laws more credit than that. They know <em>exactly<\/em> what they are doing, and they are very bright.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout recent history, voter fraud has been an excellent tool for getting Democrats elected. From President Kennedy, right up to the last election. And I wish we would speak to these opponents of voter ID laws with more respect. They aren&#8217;t stupid. They&#8217;re corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>This is what gets us conservatives worked up into such a lather. &#8220;How can you be so stupid as not to see that having to show an ID is no big deal?&#8221; The answer &#8211; they aren&#8217;t that stupid. Conservatives &#8211; get off this racism argument and get to the real meat of the issue. Don&#8217;t talk about whether it is racist or not to show a photo ID. Any lame brain can see that. You&#8217;ll drive yourself crazy arguing the point. It will be good for your mental health and educational for the listening public to deal with the real issue &#8211; are you pro-voter fraud or anti-voter fraud?<\/p>\n<p>Colin Powell is pretending here to be sort of Republican, as he as at times been &#8211; a big tent, big government, pro-Marxist Republican. And he is pretending to advise us as friends. He knows that he is feeding us a bunch of malarky. Why does he do it? I will answer your question with a question, and that is, Why do you even need to ask? He has a constitutency that he is playing to. He wants them to like him. He wants to look like a hero in their eyes. Taking positions like this gets him a lot of attention. The establishment media love Republicans who criticize their own, so when he poses as a Republican and adopts this central tenet of big-boss corrupt Democrat politics, it gets him air time and attention, which gets him speaking gigs. 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They&#8217;re going to make it more difficult for minorities to vote, he says. Mark Levin devoted a large segment of his show yesterday to responding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/no-colin-powell-is-not-that-stupid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729],"tags":[732,69,334,1142,731],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voter-fraud","tag-colin-powell","tag-mark-levin","tag-mark-levin-show","tag-voter-fraud","tag-voter-id-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}