Under bus, thrown.
Welp, that didn't take long.
“Endorsements are typically overrated, I think,” former Bush budget director Rob Portman said on CBS’ "Face the Nation." “I don't think it makes a big difference,” Portman told host Bob Schieffer, though he added that Powell “is well respected” and has said “he respects both men but he's always had a special admiration for Sen. Obama.”
Missouri’s Republican Gov. Matt Blunt told Schieffer, “I don't know that it will make a difference in Missouri,” and he downplayed the record 100,000-person crowd Obama drew Saturday in St. Louis.
“He obviously has a great celebrity status,” Blunt said of Obama. “That doesn't always translate into votes.”
Powell got it wrong when he called Obama “transformational,” Rudy Giuliani said on CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.”
“I don't see the same things in Barack Obama that Colin Powell sees,” said the former New York mayor, who acknowledged he has “the highest regard” for Powell and wanted him to seek the GOP presidential nomination in 1996.
“What I see [in Obama] is a very traditional liberal Democrat, really a throwback — even a throwback before the Clintons, Giuliani said, charging that Obama would engineer a government takeover of health care and strip workers’ rights to secret ballots in union elections.
And it's equally hilarious and pathetic that these Republicans are now ditching Colin Powell in favor of Joe The Alleged Plumber.