obviously completely true, and i can t disagree with it. it is at the moment a recipe for disaster. it s some kind of thelma & louise exercise where they re trying to take the party over the cliff. but i also agree, i think the colin powell performance was extraordinary. i think the way he calmly, clearly, logically it was just so logical from a, b to c laid out everything you just said in terms of how the republican party has moved and why it s not his party, i think there are a couple other things about the interview worth noting. one is, of course, he is to some degree still fighting the battles of the bush administration where he had that sensible, more centrist position and was fighting the neocons and for the most part probably lost. and he also has this you know, this particular ability to look at the situation as somebody who is a member of a minority and is trying to be a republican and feels this hostility toward him from the rest of the party, in part because he is a min