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– Colin Powell's criticism of the GOP Sunday did not go over well with many members of his party—but Joe Scarborough thinks moderate, electable Powell is exactly what Republicans need. As the late William F. Buckley put it, conservatives need to take reality into account. Or as Scarborough puts it on Politico, "History casts an unforgiving eye on political parties that don’t adapt to changing times." So the GOP is doomed if it can't "keep pace with the rapid change in demographic realities." That means voting for someone electable, if moderate, rather than continuing to champion far-right candidates (or, as Scarborough puts it, "idiots") who will never win a general election. Powell is that electable-but-moderate choice. Sure, Scarborough used to scoff at him back in the '90s, but he now understands that Republicans are actually lucky Powell still considers himself one of them. "This war hero with historic accomplishments ... should still be one of the leading voices of my Republican Party, especially since it faces demographic trends that could spell its doom," writes the MSNBC host and former congressman. If the GOP actually starts listening to and using Powell, it could also start winning elections again. If not, the party may not survive. Click for Scarborough's full column.

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History casts an unforgiving eye on political parties that don’t adapt to changing times. 
  
 The Whig Party collapsed in the 1850s because it didn’t move together against slavery. Republicans spent 20 years in the wilderness after Herbert Hoover took the blame for the Great Depression. Democrats were routed in five out of six presidential elections following the radicalization of their base in 1968. And today’s GOP lost the popular vote in five of their last six runs for the White House, in part, because they couldn’t keep pace with the rapid change in demographic realities. 
  
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 Republicans will continue their dreadful collapse unless they adopt William F. Buckley’s view that “conservatism, except when it is expressed in pure idealism, takes into account reality.” 
  
 Had GOP voters followed Buckley’s advice to vote for the most electable conservative instead of the most extreme right-wing choice, Harry Reid would be in retirement and a Republican would be Senate majority leader. 
  
 For the GOP to win again, it must embrace Buckley’s ruthless, pragmatic approach to primary elections and once again vote for candidates who can win sweeping majorities. That means they must also stop electing idiots in primaries who are little more than ideological indulgences that only advance the Democrats’ cause. 
  
 WFB never forgot that beating liberal Democrats sometimes requires voting for moderate Republicans. The winds of history have blown Barack Obama’s way of late not because of some irreversible sociological trend but because supporters of Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle voted to indulge their Republican resentments instead of electing a candidate who could win in the fall. 
  
 Supporting this pragmatic approach has not come naturally to me. I remember speaking out against Colin Powell’s possible candidacy in 1996 because he was too moderate to be the standard-bearer of my Republican Party. But watching the retired general on “Meet the Press” last weekend made me understand why Ronald Reagan and George Bush drafted him to be a critical player in their White House teams. 
  
 Today, this war hero with historic accomplishments (the first African-American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state) should still be one of the leading voices of my of Republican Party, especially since it faces demographic trends that could spell its doom. Instead, General Powell is a Republican relic from a different age — little more than a reminder of a majority party that once beat Democrats in landslide elections every four years. 
  
 Republicans could kick General Powell around for the next four years or they could get smart and start celebrating the fact this commanding figure still identifies himself as a Republican. Then they should do everything possible to drag him back into a big GOP tent. 
  
 Unfortunately, the Republican Party of 2013 bears little resemblance to the party of Ronald Reagan, who would have responded to Powell’s concerns with an all-hands-on-deck effort to win the war hero back. That’s because President Reagan lived by the belief that “just because I’m your friend 80 percent of the time doesn’t make me your enemy 20 percent of the time.” 
  
 If the Republican Party is big enough to reach out to disaffected moderates like Colin Powell, then it is big enough to win the White House back in 2016. The question is whether the GOP will choose to go the way of William F. Buckley or Todd Akin. 
  
 The party’s survival depends on that choice. 
  
 A guest columnist for POLITICO, Joe Scarborough hosts “Morning Joe” on MSNBC and represented Florida’s 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001. ||||| Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham joined the hosts of Fox & Friends on Tuesday where she countered the argument made by Gen. Colin Powell on Meet the Press over the weekend where he claimed that the Republican Party looks down on minorities. Ingraham outlined the ways in which the GOP has advanced the careers of many prominent African-Americans, Powell included, and spelled out how liberalism has historically “been an utter disaster” for African-Americans. 
  
  
  
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 Steve Doocy asked how the GOP, which has advanced the careers of people like Mia Love, Allen West and Gov. Susana Martinez (R-NM), could be as racist as Powell contends. 
  
 Ingraham said that Powell is frustrated with the Republican Party over his role in pushing the war in Iraq. She said that he is still bitter after testifying before Congress regarding weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to be in Iraq. 
  
 “It seems that Colin Powell is trying to continue to expiate for his sins of that testimony,” Ingraham said. “He worked for Republican presidents and, presumably, those Republican presidents don’t have the view that the Republican Party is riddled with racism and has a ‘dark vein of intolerance.’” 
  
 Gretchen Carlson, playing “devil’s advocate,” said that even Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) has asked the GOP to do some introspection on how they relate to minorities. 
  
 Ingraham agreed, saying that the party has not done an effective job of selling “the wonder” of free markets, economic liberty and conservative social values. She said that liberalism has been a failure for blacks in America in particular. 
  
 “I would challenge Colin Powell, frankly, to a debate on whether liberalism – climate change regulation he wants, I guess more affirmative action, he’s pro-choice, and now he believes that immigration amnesty is going to help, I guess, what? The wages of the black family?,” Ingraham asked. 
  
 “Liberalism has been an utter disaster for black America,” Ingraham said. “The weapon of mass destruction, Gretchen, has been found. The Democrats found it. It’s Colin Powell. He’s blowing up on Republicans.” 
  
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