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And He Alone Survived To Tell The Tale

The expected bidding war for Karl Rove’s Bush apologia may not be panning out, according to Crain’s New York Business.

Student of History Rove had hoped for $3 million.

British Conservatives Look Back in Anger

It ain’t just disgruntled Labour supporters in Britain who dislike the current US president.

British Conservative blogger Ian Dale has polled his largely Conservative readership on ranking US Presidents since World War II. It’s not a scientific poll, but even these hardened fans of the smack of firm government view Bush the Younger as a walking disaster.

The rankings:
Franklin D Roosevelt +67
Dwight Eisenhower +59
Harry Truman +53
Ronald Reagan +50
John F Kennedy +40
Bill Clinton + 20
George Bush Snr -4
Lyndon Johnson -19
Gerald Ford -20
Jimmy Carter -40
Richard Nixon -42
George W Bush -48

Proof that Conrad Black is not a crank?

Missing in Action? We Never Left!

Barak Obama has gotten a lot of mileage out of saying he doesn’t want to endlessly revisit the battles of the 90s.

Mick Huckabee is heading the other way, holding out hope we can re-fight the culture and other wars of the 60s, 70s and 80s. And we can win this time!

His embrace of Mansman Chuck Norris sends us whirling back to a bygone corner of the Reagan era, when the liberal Hollywood elite cranked out film after film based on the proposition that Vietnam held American prisoners after the war. They were the missing kids or sex trafficked of their day, always in our hearts, yet somehow not real.

Now Huckabee has found a splinter of the One True Cross to guide him back to the promised land. Grizzled hack veteran Ed Rollins is answering the call.

“People are always asking: ‘Who’s the next Ronald Reagan?’ Well, I was with the old Reagan. I can promise you that this man comes as close as I’ve ever seen.“

Rollins was there when Reagan rolled to victory in Grenada and reelection,

and he can make the magic happen again!

Let’s look back on Ed’s proud decades. Where’s he been all these years?

Managing KT McFarland [sister of Iran-Contra felon and Reagan National Security Advisor Robert McFarland] in her loss to the guy who got crushed in Hillary Clinton’s reelection.

Consorting with Lenora Fulani in the Ross Perot “movement.”

Running Katherine Harris’s failed Florida Senate campaign until he walked and denounced her.

Boasting of bribing New Jersey black ministers to suppress the vote, then claiming he made it up.

Claiming he was told the Reagan campaign got $10 million cash from Philippine Strongman Ferdinand Marcos [and has not denied it since].

Veteran Huckabee watcher John Brummett looks back at Rollins, The Troubled Years and concludes:

” In more recent times, Rollins has been failed or odd…Now he proclaims that he has one race left in him and that he will favor Our Boy Mike with it ..Huckabee loves redemption. As we know from his record: If you beg his pardon, he’s apt to grant it.

Watch Me!

President Bush has lost a round in his quest to achieve magic invisibility.

Bush claims that White House visitor logs are doublesupersecret Presidential documents. The Secret Service creates the logs but then somehow whisks them into the Administration’s man-sized safes, where it is hoped they will lie still for all eternity.

A federal judge has ruled that the Secret Service can’t claim not to own the records and must therefore produce them.

Bush had drawn the Secret Service into his scheme, the Agency checks in guests before passing any records to the White House. And destroying the Agency’s own copy.

Army of Shadows

The judge’s ruling on other issues ropes in yet another federal agency. The judge held that he could not stop the Secret Service from destroying their records, but he ruled that the Archivist of the United States will have to sign off on any document destruction.

Over to you, Alan Weinstein, seeker of truth.

Happy Feet

He’s taking on a sitting President. After that the parallels kind of trail off, but Reagan is where you seek Him.

Jacob Zuma is expected to win a convention vote for African National Congress party president Monday, defeating South African President Thabo Mbeki, and almost assuring that Zuma will succeed Mbeki in South Africa’s next election.

For some the segue from “California Here We Come” to “Bring Me My Machine Gun” is hard, but a South African Business Day writer can’t resist the infectious optimist of the Southern Hemisphere.

“Zuma will probably be okay. He’s our Ronald Reagan, a good ol’ boy, at home in a suit in the corridors of power or sipping home brew out of a paint tin with his cousins in the kraal at Nkandla. Reagan was arguably the most successful postwar US president. He didn’t so much energise America as relax it. We could do with that here, too.”

If Reagan doesn’t work for you, take heart. Zuma’s also been called the Comeback Kid.