http://spectator.org/archives/2006/09/18/a-special-place-in-hell

The Wash Post had an incentive to keep things quiet – Powell and State have always been good leakers of information for the Post, they needed their sources intact. Powell did in fact know that his guy was the leak (although it sure doesn’t seem like much of a leak to me regardless) and his silence while a fellow member of the President’s team was left to dangle in the wind while the dems went after Cheney seems the antithesis of courage. Powell is a coward, overly concerned about political viability. Then he endorses Obama in what was nothing more than a race based power play, showing him to be a racist to boot, and turning his back on a colleague who voiced support for most of the provisions he says the GOP must embrace to win elections.

Powell is done as a Republican. If you think McCain didn’t excite the conservative base (they stayed home, which added to Obama’s spread of victory) Powell would lose in a landslide to a Dem. If he ran as a Dem, I think he would motivate the GOP base to beat him. He is disliked that much.

I would think torpedoing Libby would be different from what I see here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701781.html
Is this inaccurate?

Fuster, because Powell knew that it was Armitrage and not Lilly who talked to Bob Novak and never lifted a finger.

Barbara, how did Powell torpedo Libby?

This may be way too obvious, but don’t you get the feeling the some people want to color match? It’s Garanimals politics.

Unfortunately, it’s not hard to imagine that the Republican party would go outside the party for a presidential candidate. Colin Powell has all of John McCain’s fine qualities but one: he’s not even “in name only.”

And Colin did his own fair share of torpedoing: Scooter Libby has a record and has been disbarred for a non-crime, and Colin Powell knew the truth the whole time.

Nature abhors a vacuum. So do some rugs.

It makes you wonder: Where does the wig end and the hair begin?

Second thought: Powell’s the Bhig-Whig. David Brooks might be the Heir.

Come to think of it, Colin Powell is the Heir Apparent of the Whig Faction. Makes him the national Heir-Whig.