James Baker, George Bush, and Me
I watched HBO’s “Recount” last night. James Baker led the Republican team that oversaw the 2000 Florida presidential election recount.
In 1970, Baker’s wife died of breast cancer. A scene in the movie describes how a friend helped him get his mind away from the sorrow. The friend asked him to manage a campaign to become a United States Senator. The friend was a Republican; Baker was a lifelong Democrat.
Baker switched political parties.
The friend was George H. W. Bush. I thought of a personal irony, “Funny. George H. W. Bush influenced James Baker to switch political affiliations and his son may be doing the same to me.”
I think that George H. W. Bush’s son is a goof-ball. He has lead the Republican Party into increasing goof-ballishness. No one is more for goof-ballishness than me, but I don’t like it in my air traffic controllers, doctors about to perform vasectomies, and people trying to rule the world.
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A little about my politics:
I have voted in every Presidential election that I can remember. I have never voted for a Democrat Presidential Candidate and voted for a Libertarian once; otherwise I’ve voted Republican.
I am not a registered Republican. Nor have I registered Democrat. I abhor the political term Independent. I was once a card-carrying “Big L” Libertarian, until I finally figured out that they’re just masturbating to the pornography of American politics.
When asked about my political bent, I generally say that I’m a “Radical Constitutionalist.” I follow with the joke that “the Constitution isn’t perfect, but it’s better than anything we are using now.” I joke, but I’m serious.
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I have not ruled out voting for (using my best Ted Kennedy Massachusetts’s accent) errr-ah Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election. Most of my decision-making thoughts will be around who I think will be the person to lead the United States back into international respectability.
I like that Obama is willing to talk to the Iranians.
Yes, I realize that Chamberlain was willing to talk to the Germans.
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