Of course Colin Powell is going to endorse Barack Obama for president. Trouble is, it won’t make one bit of a difference; everyone with a bit of knowledge about politics and interested in what Powell has to say saw this one coming for weeks. Powell will endorse Obama, and I explained recently why.
I’ll be very happy when we can stop talking about whether or not Powell will endorse Obama. There’s no question about it.
Sadly, I suspect that the same ones writing about it constantly now will act greatly surprised on Sunday and Monday when he actually does what we all strongly suspect.
What we see happening with all these moderate Republicans is the following: they’re jumping ship, that’s one and, two, they’re punishing the party that treated them badly for the last eight years. They were marginalized, not listened to, etc., yet the same ones who treated them like a four letter word (no, not jobs) are now asking them to support McCain.
Many of them won’t. Not because they oppose McCain, but the group that took over the GOP years ago.
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