God, I hope. He could run and win any race in Virginia if he was a Democrat. I would fully support him as well, after he apologizes (and he's already begun) for leading us in this failure.

Some of us have not forgotten all of this:
http://www.consortiu...

Best case scenario is that Powell is too busy giving testimony to run for any office, because it's only reasonable to believe that Powell was in a position to make a difference.  Please explain why in comparison you view John Edwards as a traitor and Powell can ascend some throne or another by saying he is sorry.  I just don't understand that reasoning.

would be a huge loss for the GOP.  A Powell departure on the heels of a Webb departure would start sounding the death knell of the "national security" wing of the GOP. 

The only way I see this happening though is if G.W. Bush stays the course, and a large section of the GOP marches along in lock-step.

This just isn't going to happen.  The more likely outcome is that G.W. Bush's GOP coalition is going to fracture in its support of him; not in its support of the party.

I'd love to see it happen, but I'm doubtful that it will. 

He could follow John Eisenhower (Dwight D. Eisenhower's son) who publicly resigned from the Republican party in 2004.  He registered as an independent and expressed his views, in print, that his father's Republican party no longer existed.

Jim Webb was in many ways representative of the American journey when he moved from the traditional Democratic path to the Republicans in the Reagan admin. Millions of traditional Dems throughout the South and in northern urban regions did the same. Was the path of integrity (translation: tao te ching) Jim followed which sent him to the Reagan admin and brought him back again to the Dems. Colin Powell was the touchstone American - the most representative of the honorable and decent in the Reagan Administration - as it rose to power. Powell's chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, now teaching at William and Mary, has spoken out fiercely in opposition to the neocons all through this period - perhaps as a proxy for Powell. I wrote to Col. Wilkerson last Spring lobbying him to ask Powell to follow Jim's path back to the Dems. He made no comment on that but he was thrilled at the prospects of Jim Webb in the Senate. Col. Wilkerson's essay, "Is the U.S. Being Transformed into a Radical Republic" published on April 23, 2006, is one of the fiercest, most incisive, most historically accurate and fundamentally American indictments of the Dungeons & Dragons Warriors every published. It is reprinted here http://www.commondre.... Perhaps he could be encouraged to bring Colin Powell in.

Here's a sample:

From the Kyoto accords to the International Criminal Court, from torture and cruel and unusual treatment of prisoners to rendition of innocent civilians, from illegal domestic surveillance to lies about leaking, from energy ineptitude to denial of global warming, from cherry-picking intelligence to appointing a martinet and a tyrant to run the Defense Department, the Bush administration, in the name of fighting terrorism, has put America on the radical path to ruin.

Unprecedented interpretations of the Constitution that holds the president as commander in chief to be all-powerful and without checks and balances marks the hubris and unparalleled radicalism of this administration.

Moreover, fiscal profligacy of an order never seen before has brought America trade deficits that boggle the mind ...

There's no question where Wilkerson stands, and we know Powell respects his opinion.  Let's hope he can influence Powell to switch parties.

political crazy head games.  And hopefully, also like Webb, he'll become a Dem one day :)