Will Michael Steele please publicly TAKE AWAY this mans Republican membership card? For Pete’s sake already!  Full story from Newsmax HERE

“What we can’t continue to have is to have somebody like a Judge Sotomayor … called a racist, a reverse racist and she ought to withdraw her nomination because we’re mad at her,” Powell said in an interview broadcast Sunday on “State of the Union” on CNN.

Powell said Sotomayor has “an open and liberal bent of mind, but that’s not disqualifying. But she seems to have a judicial record that seems to be balanced and tries to follow the law.”

Tries – what a nice word – how about tries and fails to follow the law?  Ricci case is Exhibit A, Four out of Six of her decisions that have come before the SCOTUS have been Overturned.

Powell, a Republican who supported Obama, said his party still is not sensitive enough toward minorities.

The MSM will continue to leverage his “Republican” credentials against us until we kick him out of the party!  What the heck does “Sensitivity” mean?  Different rule of law for minorities?  guess what – Caucasians will be a minority as soon as 2042!  So will Republicans become insensitive to themselves?  This is an issue of Principles and Values folks, not Race or ethnicity.

He noted that Obama had a significant advantage with Hispanics and African-Americans in the November elections. He criticized Republicans who are not elected to office and “immediately shout racism” against Sotomayor, while accusing Powell of supporting Obama because both men are black.

“We still have a problem,” he said.

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has called Powell “just another liberal,” said he should become a Democrat and charged that Powell endorsed Obama based on race. Powell said Sunday that Limbaugh “doesn’t decide who I am or what I am no more than I decide who he is or what he is.

Gee – I think I’ll start calling myself a Democrat and we’ll see how far that gets me…….