Rush Disagrees With Jim Baker

It’s Friday the 13^th! Whooooooooo! Being pre-occupied for most of the afternoon, I caught the last minutes of Rush Limbaugh’s program, wherein he labouriously allowed as to how he disagreed just a tiny bit with Jim Baker. You know—THAT JimBaker. Former Secretary of State. Former campaign manager of George HW Bush whom he put him up to accusing then Gov Reagan of putting forth VOODOO ECONOMICS. You know, tax cuts. That thing that got the old man beat by the promiscuous Arkansas Governor.

Rush was discussing a current gem out of the mouth of Mr. Baker: that we (I think he means you and me) cannot win in Iraq. Rush disagreed. But it was at the end of Rush’s 3 hours, so there was no room for additional (and very enlightening) information in re Mr. Baker. Should we genuflect when we hear of the cowboy booted country club republican campaign manager of the senior Bush? Not here. He managed the, now forgotten, spirited primary fight (one more time) between the eastern/country club repubs and those of us in the Taft/Goldwater camp. As you know (or should), the Bush I campaign against then Gov Reagan, lost. Mr. Baker did not turn out to be much of a political genius. But cowboy boots and all, he landed like a cat with nine lives. Whooooooooo! Someone in the Bush transition team began to trickle power to Baker before Reagan got to take the oath. Bob Novak wrote several articles in the Wash Post about the nefarious but successful effort from Nov to Jan 81 to knife conservatives as a Reagan administration was formed. Baker even ended up chief of staff to Reagan. This; the guy who did his best to defeat Reagan on behalf of the country club republicans!

Another gem out of the mouth of Mr Baker recently came in the last week as he pimped his new book on Glenn Beck’s TV program: In providing cover for his limp advice to Bush I about Sadam/Iraq in the war to liberate Kuwait he, in bleating our allegiance to the UN said: “(Kuwait) was the first time the UN had ever authorized force against a member state.” Say what? The republican (and the democrat) liberals LOVE Mr. Baker! He has always been there for them. So now he preaches defeat in Iraq. I have a question for Mr. Baker. If you are so smart, Mr cowboy booted country club Texas lawyer, how come you couldn’t deliver a second term for Bush I? You got beat by an oversexed Arkansas gov.-- Let me answer the question for you sir: you are arrogant. You are timid. Finally, you care only about your own bank account; your hunt club memberships where you rub elbows with other establishment types. What is right is irrelevant to you. It took the son of your patron to teach that.

There are a lot of James Baker’s in the repub ranks. As an example, they have practically wrecked the State of Ohio. The repub nominee for Governor, the dynamic Mr. Kenneth Blackwell, has had an uphill fight to defeat a complete moron democrat member of congress with lots of bones in his closet. I only had one bone to pick with my hero Ronald Reagan—he gave Bush I and Baker the chance they didn’t deserve. We’re still paying for that.