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Barbara Bush Should Shut-Up
Riehl World View ^ | 11/20/10 | Riehl World View

Posted on 11/20/2010 12:13:04 PM PST by American Dream 246

This annoys the hell out of me, because I'm not some rabid Palinista. Crap like this from Barbara Bush leaves one no alternative but to respond to it. What, does she have another son, or a grand kid lined up for the job of President? Reagan handed your husband his, despite some misgivings, and he blew it, Barbara.

And as much as I supported her husband and her son while they were in office, they've hardly gotten us to a great place. Guess what? If not for 9/11, GW may well have been a one-term-er, just like his father. He barely escaped losing to John freaking Kerry. In fact, he barely defeated Gore in 2000. So, just how wise is this new found Bush wisdom? I don't see much in the record to support it, short of the political calculations of some consultants concerned more with winning elections, than the nation's politics.

"I sat next to her once. Thought she was beautiful," Barbara Bush said. "And she's very happy in Alaska, and I hope she'll stay there."

Bush, along with her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, spoke to CNN's Larry King in an interview set to air Monday.

President Bush discussed the Tea Party movement, and although he said "some of the ideas make a lot of sense," he said he isn't sure how the new movement will fit into the larger political landscape.

Read my lips, the same can be said for the price of bread and broken tax pledges.

And as for Mona Charen's, Why Sarah Palin Shouldn't Run item at Townhall, congrats Mona, you finally found something to write about and make yourself relevant, again. I can't recall anything you've done in the last two years that's generated any real interest outside the usual Beltway set you write for. If Sarah Palin has a secret weapon, it's how distasteful and classless are so many of the GOP establishment types lined-up against her. If they were nearly as smart as they fancy themselves to be, they'd probably just shut-up and let the chips fall where they may.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alaska; barbarabush; blueblood; bush; bushlegacy; bushrino; establishment; gopestablishment; obama; palin; rinos4obama; sarahpalin; stayoutdabush; stupidparty
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1 posted on 11/20/2010 12:13:06 PM PST by American Dream 246
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To: American Dream 246

Bar remembers the damage 3rd party candidates can do.


2 posted on 11/20/2010 12:15:11 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Yes, I'm a neocon. What of it?)
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To: American Dream 246
They are just all scared of losing their power. We are taking it back, and through Palin.

Besides, I never did like her husband. Too much of a milquetoast for my liking...

3 posted on 11/20/2010 12:16:33 PM PST by CAluvdubya (Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
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To: American Dream 246

Mama Frizzly just wants her cub Jeb to have a shot at 2012. Darn it, it’s his turn! /sarc

- JP


4 posted on 11/20/2010 12:16:59 PM PST by Josh Painter ("May we always be happy, and may our enemies know it." - Sarah Palin)
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To: American Dream 246

I just don’t have any interest in the Bush family at this point.

Too many other things going on, events which threaten our liberty. Really they have nothing to do with the Bush family.


5 posted on 11/20/2010 12:18:28 PM PST by reasonisfaith (Rules will never work for radicals (liberals) because they seek chaos. And don't even know it.)
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To: American Dream 246

The Bushes, like them or hate them, are elitists, and yes, Barbara still wants to see her boy Jeb take his rightful place as president. He is, after all, the nice son who was groomed for it. How dare Palin or other non elitists threaten to take the White House away.


6 posted on 11/20/2010 12:18:28 PM PST by pallis
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To: American Dream 246
Oh, for the love of Pete. The frothing at the mouth going on around here over Barbara Bush's comment is beyond the pale. A little tacky, but really, big deal.

She's old, cut her some slack. Sheesh.

7 posted on 11/20/2010 12:18:52 PM PST by truthkeeper ( God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy.)
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To: American Dream 246

Pro-choice if I’m not mistaken.


8 posted on 11/20/2010 12:19:05 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Huh? Palin’s no third-partyer.

That was clearly a scripted sequence, with Babs all ready to damn by insulting praise, then get the Alaska digs in, while 41 sat silent.

I voted for Bushes four times and I’ll never vote for any more of them in my lifetime.


9 posted on 11/20/2010 12:19:39 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: American Dream 246

Isn’t this the same lady that covered Republicans with glory during Katrina, when she thought the folks were better off in a shelter, or some such nonsense?


10 posted on 11/20/2010 12:19:48 PM PST by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: American Dream 246

The entire Republican ‘elite’ establishment is dead-set against Sarah Palin because she isn’t one of them, thank God. Those elitists abhor actual political conservatism and if anyone doubts this, look at the records of both Bush presidencies. Sarah Palin is proudly middle class; a practicing Christian and unabashedly conservative. This is anathema to RINOs like the mega-rich, Yale educated Bush family and those who hang with that crowd. Barbara Bush is just a rich old lady nattering about someone she doesn’t know or understand. Her opinion is irrelevant.


11 posted on 11/20/2010 12:20:35 PM PST by Jim Scott (Cautious optimist)
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To: Gene Eric

The matriarch of the ultimate rino family speaks ,


12 posted on 11/20/2010 12:21:29 PM PST by RED SOUTH
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To: American Dream 246

BUSH/OBAMA other than rhetorical sales pitching, i see little difference in substantive action


13 posted on 11/20/2010 12:21:53 PM PST by KTM rider ( Former patriot turned rebel)
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To: American Dream 246
I'm getting tired of the elitists. Stick to baking cookies Ma Bush and let Palin do the fighting that 41 wouldn't.
14 posted on 11/20/2010 12:22:01 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: American Dream 246

Never in my wildest dreams did I think things would descend to this point, but I swear, the name “Bush” has just about become as nausea-inducing as the name “Clinton” to me.


15 posted on 11/20/2010 12:22:26 PM PST by greene66
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To: American Dream 246

I agree. With all due respect, shut up about this Barbara. It’s the luke-warm, big government Republicans like your husband and son that contributed to the huge mess we are in today. If Palin wants to run more power to her. I hope we have a great field of candidates to choose from unlike 2008. I do know that I don’t want Romney, Huckabee, and certainly not Jeb Bush. We’ve tried Bushes twice and you can count on them to always let you down.


16 posted on 11/20/2010 12:22:44 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: greene66

Clinton is their adopted son you know. They have more praise for Bill Clinton than they do for a conservative. What does that tell you?


17 posted on 11/20/2010 12:24:10 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: American Dream 246

No to political dynasties, no to anybody who’s for amnesty for illegal immigrants, and no to RINOS!


18 posted on 11/20/2010 12:24:40 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: American Dream 246

In his book, George W Bush relates that when he announced that he supported a Palestinian State but will not deal with their then leader the terrorist Yasser Arafat, his mother called him and sarcastically referred to him as “the first Jewish President”.

George Bush the father, was hostile toward Israel. This story evidences proof - to anyone deaf and dumb- that both husband and wife share an elitist county club type anti-semitism.

I can’t argue with anyone whose opinion is that Barbara Bush should shut the **** up.


19 posted on 11/20/2010 12:26:06 PM PST by HearMe
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To: La Enchiladita
Bar remembers the damage 3rd party candidates can do.

That would be pretty selective memory, considering it was her husband's breaking of the central promise of his campaign to be President that led to a significant third party challenge in '92.

If he'd have read his own lips, Clinton would have been nothing more than a footnote in the books.

20 posted on 11/20/2010 12:28:19 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (We conservatives will always lose elections as long as we allow the MSM to choose our candidates.)
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