Analysis: Colin Powell had no loyalty to a political party, to the fury of some Republicans. - mitchellreports
Former General Colin Powell during his speech to the evening session of the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia's First Union Center 31 July, 2000.Oct. 19, 2021, 11:24 PM UTCWASHINGTON — Having covered Colin Powell since the Reagan White House, and later, when he became the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush, I had associated him in those decades with Republican presidents and the GOP.
In happier times for him, immediately after his successful leadership of the first Gulf War, he was arguably the most popular public figure in America, riding the crest of a nationwide book tour for his memoir and, in 1996, seriously considering a challenge to President Bill Clinton’s run for a second term.
The wisdom of that decision became glaringly apparent to me when Powell, still a national hero, addressed the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 2000. That was the year when the Bush campaign trashed John McCain in the South Carolina GOP primary, using ugly racial attacks on McCain’s adopted Bangladeshi daughter.
Those years included his acceptance of what he had been told was carefully vetted CIA intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction. Delivering that fateful speech at the United Nations in February of 2003 was, he later acknowledged, a “blot” on his record that he always regretted.
Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell speaks to Tom Brokaw during a taping of "Meet the Press" at NBC on Oct. 19, 2008 in Washington, DC.Powell also timed his announcement for maximum political impact: on the Sunday two weeks before Election Day. Veterans of both McCain and Obama’s campaigns say both sides knew it was a fatal blow to Republican hopes.
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