Well, well how quickly the tables have turned.
During former V.P. Dick Cheney's recent interview with CNBC's Larry Kudlow, host of "The Kudlow Report", he decided to make amends with his "buddy" General Colin Powell.
During the broadcast Cheney basically begged Powell to remain a member of the Republican Party.
I Guess Cheney must have seen Powell's high approval poll numbers.
Here are some excerpts from the interview:
KUDLOW: ... You kind of took a shot at General Colin Powell the other day, said you didn't know he was still a member of the Republican Party. He responded to you by saying that you were mistaken. He is a member of the Republican Party, and he regards himself a, quote, "Jack Kemp Republican," end quote. Could you react to what Mr. Powell is saying?
Mr. CHENEY: Well, we're happy to have General Powell in the Republican Party. I was asked a question about a dispute he was having, I think, with Rush Limbaugh, and I expressed the consent, the notion I had that he had already left since he endorsed Barack Obama for president. But I meant no offense to my former colleague. I wasn't seeking to rearrange his political identity.
KUDLOW: So you welcome him back into the party.
Mr. CHENEY: We're in the mode where we welcome everybody to the party. What I don't want to do, in the course of trying to expand the overall size of the Republican Party and expand our base, is to take away from basic fundamental principles. I think it's very important that we remind people out around the country what it is that we stand for, that we do believe in a strong national defense, in low taxes and limited government; and giving up on those principles, in order to try to appeal to people who are otherwise going to vote Democratic, seems to me is a--would be a fundamental defeat for those of us who are essentially conservative, who've been long-time supporters of the Republican Party.
Sources: Huffington Post, CNBC, The Kudlow Report, Crooks and Liars, American Spectator, Day Life, Reuters
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