I can only imagine the praise that would be heaped on Powell in this forum if he had endorsed McCain instead.
One wonders where all the condemnation was when Powell got hung out to dry by Bush in his presentation before the UN with false intelligence and the Bay of Pigs like reversal when he made an appeal for the Kyoto accords only to have Bush withdraw support because it would be detrimental to the profits of America's big business if they had to join the vast majority of the rest of the world and further lower the amount of toxic waste they spew into the environment.