Posted on 09/15/2009 6:24:15 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Edited on 09/15/2009 9:24:06 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
While the rest of his party was celebrating the choice of novice VP candidate Sarah Palin last August, 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.
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A Tall-Tale Tell-All [Dana Perino]
I knew Matt only a little bit. Now that an excerpt of his book is out, I’m reminded of what a veteran of three White Houses told me: Beware of the quiet guy in the room.
Seems that every administration goes through this — yes, even the Obamas will have someone take advantage of the career opportunity of a lifetime to try to feather their own nest at someone else’s expense — no matter how far-fetched their story may be.
For example, he writes that President Bush didn’t know who Sarah Palin was. That’s rubbish — Bush had just met Palin the previous month in Alaska, and he mentioned that to me literally two seconds after McCain made his announcement. So much of what Latimer claims the president said don’t ring true to me. I was with the president for whole days at a time, through thick and thin, and I never heard him say things like that about others. And I don’t think he’s ever even said the word “keister.” C’mon.
I’m pretty sure that almost everyone who worked in the White House could not pick Matt out of a lineup, and I doubt that’ll change much after this book. Speechless should have been called “Shameless.”
09/15 05:30 PMShare
You’re very welcome. President Bush was a class act all the way through his Presidency despite receiving the most hatred I have ever witnessed spewed out in the most vile form ever...and I lived through the Reagan hatred.
Now Sarah Palin is on the receiving end of this same vile hatred.
They are ALLIES not OPPONENTS against the leftist/Marxist/Communists who control the MSM, the vile leftist blogosphere like DU and Huffington Post.
Just wanted to keep the record straight.
Sheesh we have just had a MIGHTY triumph over this past weekend....Let’s keep THAT momentum going and not fall in the libtard trap of trashing our own!
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.
We wish he had been that outspoken. (not about Sarah)
This is just another back stabbing Bush staff member scrambling for his 15 minutes.
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.
You’re right.
Awesome post! Great detective work!
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!
Elite rich frat boy playing with Daddy’s money.
I agree. If I’m not mistaken a radio host pretending to be Sarkozy spoofed her and she fell for it. She should have declined McCain’s offer for VP and remained Governor of Alaska. Watching her campaign for him made me want to vomit. My money is on Jindal.
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.
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