Also, I wouldn't say this is so much a case of how Colin Powell isn't a conservative anymore....
So much as it is a stark reality check about just how conservative Obama actually has been in comparison to his campaigning.
Outside of Obamacare... Obama's first term was basically a love letter to neocon/corporatist republicans like Colin Powell.
Republicans can't really admit this because well... no way to win a campaign then with the few issues that they disagree on... (Obamacare, some civil rights issues, immigration.)
Though this is lost in the short term due to partisianship. In the long term, historically Obama's terms will be seen as legitamizing the actions of the Bush years... bringing bi-partisian unity to Bush's most controversial "anti-freedom" laws.
Should a rich vs poor society come to pass like in the Obama campaign ads (which at this point is very possible actually) it will ironically be in no small part thanks to Barak Obama.
Unless his second term seems a RADICAL depature from his first... or if he loses, therefore they demonize the same things they were defending Obama for.
Obama did nothing really but bail out wallstreet and rich corporations and left the middle class and poor to the wolves, even going so far as to refuse a proposal by the Bush administration to force banks to write down mortgages. To the point of where under his term 93% of all wealth created went to the super rich.
I mean... look at this graphic.
He went out of his way to screw the little guy, including passing a healthcare law that puts the burden on them to get health insurance or pay a penalty... What Obama is complaining about in his campaign was of his own creation... back when he had a full democratic majority.
and yet he gets to run on a populist message... because he's running against a rich white guy.
Mitt Romney could try his hardest and it's tough to believe he could make that 93% number worse.
