How many Republicans has Colin Powell helped get elected?

Investor's Business Daily does an excellent job exposing Gen. Colin Powell as a RINO in the Arlen Specter mold.

Powell, who endorsed Barack Obama last year, is giving Republicans advice on how to recover from last November's drubbing at the polls. Here's a quick suggestion, general: Maybe Republicans should stop voting for Democrats!

From the IBD editorial:

Seems there's no shortage of advice these days from inside and outside the GOP on what the Republican Party needs to do to return to power. Colin Powell is no exception as he continues to snipe at the party that, thanks to appointments by Presidents Reagan, Bush and Bush, made him a national icon.

"The Republican Party is in deep trouble," the former general and secretary of state told corporate security executives at a conference Monday in Washington, D.C.
Powell: Still at war with the GOP.

Powell said he told 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain last summer that the party had developed a reputation for being mean-spirited and was driven more by social conservatism than the economic problems America faced.

Perhaps, if all you watch is MSNBC.

Powell opined that the country had changed, but not the GOP. "Americans do want to pay taxes for services," he said. "Americans are looking for more government in their lives, not less."

Really? They certainly weren't looking for more taxes at the tea-parties that dotted the nation last month. But, according to Powell, wanting to keep more of what you earn is mean-spirited.

Read the full editorial at the newspaper's Web site.