Rush Limbaugh knows a liberal when he sees one, and he sees one in Mickey Edwards.

Edwards, the former Oklahoma congressman who was run off by Oklahoma voters in 1992, recently engaged in a back-and-forth conversation with OKPNS after we exposed Corporation Commissioner Jeff Cloud’s ties to the ultra-liberal think tank, the Aspen Institute.

Edwards attempted to deflect the heat Cloud was catching after the public learned thorough OKPNS’ posts that Cloud was happily affiliated with the left-wing group. Cloud, whose poor work ethic is unattractive to the private sector, foolishly promoted his ties to the liberal group. While we do not know if Cloud was unaware of the group’s leftist pedigree, or if he simply didn’t understand, the damage was done, and Edwards tried to rescue his clueless pal by launching a broadside at OKPNS reporting, claiming he and the institute were not liberal, but nobody was buying.

So today, Rush Limbaugh comes to witness on the side of OKPNS original assertions: Mickey Edwards is indeed a Republican turned liberal, and his fellows at the Aspen Institute, including rate-raising Corporation Commissioner Jeff Cloud are too. From today’s Rush Limbaugh Program:

“Anyway, back to Mickey Edwards, a retired congressman from Oklahoma. Now, Mickey Edwards used to have a very conservative pedigree. Mickey Edwards was one of the three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation, and he used to be the national chairman of the American Conservative Union. However, when Mickey Edwards left Congress, he taught at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Law School for 11 years. He’d been ensconced at Harvard a long time. He’s also been one of those guys calling for a Republican Party reformation along the lines of the other sellouts in the party.

“Edwards is married to Elizabeth Sherman, Ph.D., well-known Democrat political operative from Massachusetts. Sherman directed the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts and served as a research fellow from 2001 to 2004 at the Center for Public Leadership and the Institute as for Politics, 1994, both at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.” Well, that explains it. There’s always — there’s always! — a woman involved in this somewhere along the way. A good conservative guy from Oklahoma, goes to Washington. He’s one of the original trustees at the Heritage Foundation, falls in love with some liberal babe and that’s it, it’s over. Read more…

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