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To: microhoogle! who wrote (39169)	9/22/2000 9:21:25 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 769667

Powell is for a strong military, tax cuts, welfare reform, free trade, individual responsibility, deregulating industry, law and order, etc. Where he differs with mainstream republicans is on one issue, affirmative action.

To: microhoogle! who wrote (39169)	9/22/2000 9:23:55 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Well, you are wrong about Powell having that much of a problem. Eliminate abortion and maybe affirmative action, which he is more ambivalent about than some, and he is pretty mainstream. In the Northeast, where one has Guiliani and Whitman, he would be considered fairly conservative. He is a moderate Republican in a party that is tilted conservative, and it is possible that you are more conservative, and just are bitter over McCain. You are correct, he would not have gotten the presidential nod. But he was electable as vice- president. We need someone more like JC Watts, who really is conservative, although still too young, to have a shot at getting elected president.