Perestroika
is already in high gear...
I tend to agree with her. The Bush admin was hardly small govt conservatism.
Sarah - 2012!!!!!!
I love you Sarah. OK you Bush defender attack Palin. Wake up. The election was a disaster,
“Seven-year-old Piper Palin walked around with an apron and a notebook, asking people what they wanted to drink.”
LOL! I’m sorry, I’m just totally “in the tank” for Piper Palin!
To use a word that she used often in her recent radio interview:
Piper is just totally “AWESOME”!
Build a better conservative party and all voters will beat a path to vote for you. During the next four years, we need to build a better conservative party. Obama’s failed Socialist programs should help revive a solidly built GOP conservative party.
I hope Sarah Palin isn’t throwing President Bush under the bus. She of all people, besides President Bush himself, should know how the media can skewer and rake you over the coals to shape public perception.
She’s right. Bush sucks. And his disasterous administration beget us Obama.
The GOP and GOP voters learned NOTHING from 2006. And we all pay.
What would have been the deficit without Sarah?
Had Al Gore won his recount in Florida ...what would you have ? I think $30 trillion in debt.. and 2 or more genuine quagmires... maybe a couple more 9/11 s and God knows what else
Yeah, she got it right. Bush strayed and conservatives paid.
Good. They were taking the line about Palin not knowing if Africa was a continent or country and playing some game they called "Are You Smarter Than Sarah Palin." Forget them.
i can’t remember any public person more vilified in such a short time during my life.
I think she’s being polite. It’s true that the Bush years were a big handicap, not only because of the spending, but because Bush couldn’t even defend the good things he did. He let the Dems blame him for everything and never fought back. But there were other reasons that had nothing to do with Bush.
For one thing, the Obama camp outspent McCain 4 to 1, and were totally ruthless and dishonest, lying about everything and getting away with it because the press was totally on Obama’s side. Axelrod ran a campaign based entirely on right-brain, emotional responses, and the McCain campaign was (until the very end) left-brain, rational and based on argument and explanations. For an Oprahfied universe, that is not particularly convincing; McCain’s only hope was to offer a clear message, but he wasn’t able to do this. Instead, he was so low-key and unwilling to engage that he looked elderly and timid. Things only picked up when Palin came along.
In other words, there were a lot of factors, but had Palin mentioned them, she would have come across as offering excuses and being whiny. I’m sure - well, not sure, but I hope - the GOP has learned from this.
McCain’s problem is that he had to campaign on “change”, just like the other guy. And why would people choose OLD change with McCain when they could choose NEW change with Obama?
The reason McCain had to campaign on “change” is because George Bush sat there like a punching bag for eight years, never having the guts to stand up and defend himself as lie after lie after lie from the rats and their newsrooms went left unanswered. Bush’s unwillingness to stand up and fight was an eight-year slap in the face to his bewildered supporters, including me.
The result was that the Democrat candidate could successfully tie his opponent to the easily-smeared punching bag, Bush, while the Republican candidate had little choice but to distance himself from Bush. What, McCain was supposed to defend a man who refused for eight years to defend himself? This situation left McCain between a rock and a hard place.
So yes, Tuesday’s Republican slaughter was Bush’s fault. No joke.
Ironically, Bush defeated McCain in 2000 and now again in 2008.
Whew....
That said, McCain was the guy running for President, not Bush, and so maybe he SHOULD have defended, supported, and lifted Bush to the high heavens rather than “distance” himself. “George Bush has kept America safe from the terrorists since 9/11”, might have been a good start.
Maybe if Bush had been an ally and unleashed him on the campaign trail, the whole game would have been changed completely. That would have taken some guts, but it could have worked because the rats greatly overestimated the general public’s dislike of Bush, and exit polls showed that.
What a freaking mess.... And NOW look at the steaming pantload we have for a president-elect.
After 8 years of either party in power, people want a change. Its just the way it is. President Bush has been under fire since the 2000 election. Not a minute of peace. I will miss him when he is gone, although I will be happy for him.
Correct.
Bush simply didn't know how to say no to huge spending bills.
Mind you, it didn't help any that McCain decided to increase the deficit even further, by voting for that $700 Billion “bailout” bill.
Blaming George Bush is just a way of passing the buck they where ahead after their convention and lost it when the banking crisis hit. What was John Mccains first reaction? Blame Chris Cox instead of blaming Barney Frank despite the fact the SEC went to congress 19 times about Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac.Thats typical John Mccain blame the Republican. Need I remind anyone of Mccains debate performances and leaving Jeremiah Wright off the table? Till like the weekend before the elction? All the exit polls showed later deciders went to Mccain early voting killed the guy there was no John Mccain register new voters drive come to think of it did the Republican party even do this at all?
