George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Get a Free Blog

and his administration had been packed with Trilateral members; there were indications
that the establishment choice of Carter to be the next US president had been made at a
meeting of the Trilateral Commission in Kyodo, Japan, where Carter had been introduced
by Gianni Agnelli of Italy's FIAT motor company.
Loeb simplified all that: "George Bush is a Liberal" was the title of his editorial
published the day before the primary. Loeb flayed Bush as a "spoiled little rich kid who
has been wet-nursed to succeed and now, packaged by David Rockefeller's Trilateral
Commission, thinks he is entitled to the White House as his latest toy."
Shortly before the election Loeb ran a cartoon entitled "Silk Stocking Republicans,"
which showed Bush at a cocktail party with a cigarette and glass in hand. Bush and the
other participants, all male, were wearing women's panty-hose. This was the message that
Loeb had apparently gotten from Bush's body language.
Paid political ads began to appear in the Union-Leader sponsored by groups from all over
the country, some helped along by John Sears of the Reagan campaign. One showed a
drawing of Bush juxtaposed with a Mr. Peanut logo: "The same people who gave you
Jimmy Carter want now to give you George Bush," read the headline. The text described
a "coalition of liberals, multinational corporate executives, big-city bankers, and hungry
power brokers" led by David Rockefeller whose "purpose is to control the American
government, regardless of which political party--Democrat or Republican-- wins the
presidency this coming November!" "The Trojan horse for this scheme," the ad went on,
"is Connecticut-Yankee-turned-Texas oilman George Bush- the out-of-nowhere
Republican who openly admits he is using the same "game-plan" developed for Jimmy
Carter in the 1976 presidential nomination campaign." The ad went on to menmtion the
Council on Fopreign Relations and the "Rockefeller money" that was the lifeblood of
Bush's effort. [fn 20]
On February 24, Loeb trotted out Gen. Danny Graham, part of Bush's Team B operation,
to talk about "George Bush's weakness as the head of the CIA and his complete failure to
estimate correctly the Soviet threat." Bush had "stacked" the Team A-Team B debate,
Graham was now claiming. Brent Scowcroft, Lt. Gen. Sam Wilson and Ray Cline all
rushed to Bush's defense. "Any inference that George was too soft in his analysis of the
Soviet Union was just dead wrong," responded Cline. "George is probably more skeptical
and concerned about Soviet behavior than anyone in town." "Baloney!" was Graham's
rejoinder.
Loeb hyped a demand from the National Alliance of Senior Citizens that Bush repudiate
and apologize for a remark that Social Security had "become largely a welfare program."
Here Bush was scourged for his "insensitivity to the independence of Social Security
recipients." Right underneath was another article from a Union-Leader special
correspondent in New York City reporting that Bush's delegates had been thrown off the
ballot there by the Board of Elections because Bush's petitions "were illegal."