"'She hasn't spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let's wait and see how she looks five days out,'"
If you read what are supposed to be his words minus the writers bias, you might see it in a different light.
I see that as someone who has been through the wringer and was waiting to see how she and her family would handle it.
BTW, it could all be BS as most 'tell all' books are.
LLS
GW should have warned the GOP about Sen. McCain being the nominee.
I hate to say it, but Bush was probably right. He wasn’t smearing Sarah, he just questioning if she was ready politocally for the national stage. I don’t Sarah was and it showed.......
BUT I also think Sarah learned alot of important things in that campaign that will serve her well in the future. like don’t trust any one from Washington and NEVER trust the media.
Bush was dead on on another thing:
“If bullsh*t was currency Joe Biden would be a millionaire.” LOL!
I sure hope President Bush isn’t thinking he’s gonna spend the rest of his years in Crawford in his easy chair. The American people still need his input.
For starters he can tell this author he’s lying and set the record straight.
The iron of both these interviews is that it ruined the interviewers. I wouldn't speak to Katie if we bumped into each other or Charlie either---0 respect for them.
vaudine
The good folks at Conservatives4Palin are going to pick this whole thing apart and get to the bottom of this within the next few days....more desperate innuendo from libs on the verge of Palin’s speech in Hong Kong.
Sarah looked pretty damn good and looks even better in hindsight to the trainwreck we have in the WH.
‘then-President George W. Bush attempted to inject some reason and caution into the melee, according to a new book by a former White House speechwriter.’
REASON and CAUTION! That is a matter of opinion. Not the first bad judgement call by Bush.
Whether or not Bush said anything like this about Palin, I’d say after a week in that she looked great, by far the best looking VP candidate we’ve ever had, and she drew huge crowds. Giving us a refreshing dose of conservatism in an otherwise disappointing election year. She managed to make me do something I would have sworn would never happen, vote for McCain.
While the rest of his party was celebrating the choice of novice VP candidate Sarah Palin last August,
(and we all were because she was an outsider & she even fought against bad in her own party)
then-President George W. Bush attempted to inject some reason and caution into the melee, according to a new book by a former White House speechwriter.
“’This woman is being put into a position that she is not even remotely prepared for,’” Bush is quoted as saying in Matt Latimer’s new book “Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor.”
“’She hasn’t spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let’s wait and see how she looks five days out,’”
(No one knows better than GWB, the media)
Palin, who started out as the darling of the Republican party, lost her footing when she came under media scrutiny.
(Exactly, homework was not done)
* “’If bulls*** was currency,’ he [Bush] said straight-faced, ‘Joe Biden would be a billionaire.’”
(what is so funny is for everyone to backtrack & look & see Joe Biden on each Sunday morning talk shows from early 2005 to early 2008) his eyes are on the prize. he knows BO is illegitimate.
I can’t believe Bush would say this; especially when Sarah held the same position he did; Governor; when he ran.
Note there is no direct quote of Pres. Bush saying this. I think the writer is getting a “twofer”: attack Sarah Palin and smear Pres. Bush with the conservatives.
Not that we aren’t already disgruntled with him, but I agree with a previous poster—it doesn’t sound like Pres. Bush.
And, neither had you, George, before we elected you President!
(balance of commentary self-censored)
They are now reduced to treating BUSH (Chimpy Bushitler, don't you know) staffers as "credible sources" in their attempt to smear Sarah.
PWN3D.
Cheers!
Sarah and her family were not ready to go into the Liberal’s and Rino’s spider web as American-American conservatives. Mainly she stepped into the spider web of McCain’s staff right off the bat. They are city people who hate, hate, hate “flyover” people.
She is going to recover. Being unfamilar with an enviornment as she and her family were; and being stupid and incapable as the media and McCains family and staff and the media have protrayed Palin and her family, is not the same thing. She got herself into a trial by fire by placing herself into McCain’s incompetent fire and she will recover from the stumble if she wants to.
But President Bush was right and Palin should not have joined McCain as an inexperienced National figure in the midst of a family crisis - a pregnant child with a slutty father of the child. Had she joined someone who is not corrupt and who shares Palin’s constitutinoal culture and ideals, she would have done better but the timing was bad for her and her family.
Sarah kept McCain in the game and kept the election close.
Thanks to Sarah, instead of McCain getting totally embarrassed by a good old fashioned, one sided ass whipping, he lost by a margin of only a few percentage points.
In retrospect it might have been better if she had not helped him avoid a solid trouncing.
He thinks he is still a contender and the GOP thinks they can get back in the game by just polishing up a few of their standard lies.
There are two denials on this particular story.
And even if there was some truth to it, it doesn’t really reflect badly on Palin for the President to be noting that she wasn’t a national figure yet.