Posted on 08/31/2004 11:30:11 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
aybe girls do just want to have fun. The Bush girls, at least.
Forget four years of shunning the spotlight. President Bush's twin 22-year-olds, Jenna and Barbara, strutted into it last night with a sassy, sexy serenade to their parents at the Republican National Convention, every wisecracking word broadcast live on national television. They spared no one.
"She thinks 'Sex in the City' is something married people do, but never talk about," Jenna, the blonde, razzed her grandmother, Barbara Bush. Jenna was referring to the HBO program "Sex and the City."
Mrs. Bush's namesake, the brunette, said of her alma mater, "When your dad's a Republican and you to go to Yale, you learn to stand up for yourself."
And dear old dad?
Jenna Bush took Mr. Bush's words about his own youthful indiscretions as her punch line. "We kept trying to explain to Dad that when we were young and irresponsible," she said as Madison Square Garden erupted in cheers, "well, we were young and irresponsible."
For a coming-out party, the girls were notably underdressed: Jenna in a shiny brown jacket over white T-shirt and jeans, Barbara in a sleeveless black dress with embroidered yolk. But they embraced that aesthetic, seeking to fill any coolness gap their father might face with the MTV set by mentioning OutKast and even its lyrics.
Mr. Bush's daughters have slowly been emerging as public figures in recent months, occasionally appearing on the campaign trail. "Since we've graduated from college, we're looking around for something to do for the next few years," Jenna said by way of explanation on Tuesday night. "Kind of like Dad."
The twins' turn yesterday at the microphone, part of the introduction of Laura Bush, brought the first public words many had heard from their mouths.
Barbara Bush took the teeniest slap at the opposition, invoking the story Senator John Kerry's older daughter, Alexandra, briefly stole the show with at the Democratic convention in July. Ms. Kerry described a dad so devoted that he dove off a dock to save her pet hamster from drowning.
"We had a hamster too," Ms. Bush said last night. "Let's just say, ours didn't make it."
So, you know the workings of the MTV generations mind?
Why would such a nightmare possibility, get my hopes up?
I do not believe freepers are far right.I believe they are just RIGHT!
I just watched the girls again; they obviously were using humor to mock themselves and disarm their critics.
They certainly could have used more rehearsal (you could hear nervous laughter), but it was delightful; not one thing offensive about it.
You said Bush was going to lose his base; it's not going to happen; the base is with him.
You are right. Kerry's daughters hamster story was stupid & pathatic. It made Kerry look stupid but am sure it appealed to the 8 year old voter.
The base realizes they much support this President,look at the alternative.
You make it sound like the base is unhappy with Bush; other than normal disagree when you consider that you wouldn't agree with somebody 100 percent, the base IS with Bush, 90 percent of them anyway.
sorry it's late, must
The vocal so-called and self-proclaimed base that isn't with President Bush never was and never will be.
What "base" is it that they are ignoring if the BASE is with them 90 percent????
I think the girls are not running for public office and as Martha says "that is a good thing". They are beautiful, were on a terrible spot and did okay. Obviously they love their grandmother and grandfather and parents and at the end the decency and generosity and sweetness shown thru. That said, the evening did not need them. And they have hope of growing into their mother and granny's shoes and I think they will,,something about their good hearts came thru. Geeze I hate to see them in the limelight, I hate to see them at the mercy of New York and the people who will surely use them and abuse them ,,,if I were Barbara or Laura, I would be very afraid for them. Their naivete and lack of guile would worry me for them. Here I go fretting about someone else's children. I do love this family and feel that they are my own.
I have been watching for two evenings, and as much as I have enjoyed THIS evening, they have done nothing either evening, to appeal to their base.
They might just sit it out. It's been done in past elections.
It is amazing how resoundingly, to the tune of a TRUE mandate, Ronald Reagan was able to win two presidential elections, without pandering.
Well, that's what I'm trying to figure out; if the polls (even the FR one) show 90 percent of the conservatives are with him, who is being ignored?
That's sweet
FGS, take off the tunnel vision glasses. That NEVER happened.
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