What Ben Baker wants to do to Kamala Harris

It's not often I say this, but I totally agree with Ben Baker.

I usually attend the Newton County Republican Watermelon Feed, but I was working on the Turner Report Newsletter last night and it totally slipped my mind.

I picked the wrong year not to go.

Republican candidates for county and statewide offices were each given three minutes to speak. One of the minor candidates for secretary of state, Valentina Gomez, after using her time to attack corruption in the party had her microphone taken away from her by Newton County GOP Chairman Nick Myers when she started to go past the three-minute mark, even though it was apparent she was in the final sentence.

Gomez immediately went on social media and said Myers had violated her First Amendment rights and committed election interference when he took the microphone from her.

Apparently, Gomez does not understand that in order for it to be a First Amendment violation, the government has to be doing it, not the master of ceremonies at a political function. The election interference part is also laughable.

And that's where Rep. Ben Baker, R-Neosho, comes in.

Baker, a social media watchdog who is quick to notice when women get out of line, set the record straight in a post on X.

Sick of the gimmicks in politics. Be real or don’t run. Candidate gives speech on “corrupt lying politicians” and then immediately puts out a video lying about the event she spoke at. 

The truth is (I was there) MO Republican party chairman Nick Myers took the microphone from several candidates who apparently lack self control at the Newton Co Republican event in my district because they went over the AGREED time limit. Happens every year. 

Grow up, get some life experience, maybe learn how to be a decent person before you run for office and ask the good people of Missouri for your vote. Oh and we don’t need shock factor TikTok stars we need people of character and principle to represent We The People.

Baker is absolutely right.

I'll give you a moment to recover from that. I know in the past I have been critical of Rep. Baker and I am sure I will be again.

In fact, now is the time.

Consider what Baker said. "Learn how to be a decent person before you run for office and ask the good people of Missouri for your vote. Oh, and we don't need shock factor Tik Tok stars. We need people of character and principal to represent We The People."

I wonder if Baker is referring to the same kind of shock factor he and his fellow podcasters reached for on the April 15 version of their podcast The Mancave Caucus.

If the podcast name gives you the idea Baker and his friends indulge in frat boy behavior, you can forget that thought- that's an insult to frat boys.

During the April 15 episode, a discussion begins at the 50:48 mark in which Baker and friends talk about a product available in a Trump gift shop called "Pee-Litical," a motion-activated target light that enables real he-men to urinate on projected images of President Biden and other political figures.

Baker and the boys quickly abandoned Biden and were almost giddy with joy at the idea of streaming something besides their podcast at Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.

At least now we have our definitions straight.

According to Ben Baker, Valentina Gomez isn't "a decent person."

Apparently, in his book, decent people talk about urinating on an image of the person who may be the first woman president of the United States.