We knew it was coming, and now it’s happened.
Colin Powell came out and announced his dissatisfaction with the conservative tilt of the Republican Party and cited Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter as indicative of what he called "the divisiveness" of today's Republican Party and how it does not appeal to the normal American.
These country club Republican calls for the Party to renounce its conservatism and become Democrat-lite did not begin in 2008: it’s been going on since the days of Goldwater and is echoed every time the Republican Party loses (and sometimes, even when it wins.)
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