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.
Agreed.
I don't think it's necessarily an "Armageddon". I do think, at the very least, it represents an out-of-touch and self-centered establishment mindset.
Probably
There's a pattern of it, in both timing and substance.
Possibly Babs picked her moment with an eye to the political calendar, but I'm not sure she's is part of a larger conspiracy.
I guess I overdid it with "the anointed one" and "political Armageddon," but most Americans nowadays are pretty cynical about politicians (in part because of Barbara's husband and son, as well as Obama).
I have limited patience with politicians, and my attitude is "Get it together, or go away. Get it right or get out."
Barbara skipped that first step -- asking Sarah to get her act together and went straight to the "stay away," but her remarks didn't strike me as entirely the attitude of an arrogant establishment.
So yes, Barbara Bush was catty and unfair, but sooner or later we end up feeling that way about most politicians (Clinton, Bush, Obama), and I'm not sure Sarah will be an exception.
Your comment and those of so many other Tea Partiers/Palin fans makes it look like We the People want to be the new “ruling class.”
No, it's what free people who refuse to suck down the spew of the elitist ruling class do.
Maybe you. I never loved this sour-faced old abortionist.
I don’t believe you.
You have been a FReeper since before the 2000 election.
There is no way you were not in the Bush camp during your FR time.
Come on, be honest!!
According to the Constitution we ARE the ruling class. The leaders serve at our discretion and consensus.
And obviously, some of their policies were wrong...and their coddling of Democrats was WAY wrong.
But Barbara Bush's comment was just plain rude, why tell any American to “stay in their State”?
Much less a good Conservative woman like Sarah Palin.
The comment was unseemly and unnecessary.
People can still disagree with that as a correct path for our Nation to have taken, and I see the merit to a degree in those who oppose that....But it was not amnesty.
Furthermore, Mrs. Palin's strawman argument of "it would have cost so much" is just garbage. That is a reality that never played out. It is a good excuse to use, because there never needs to be any proof of such a thing having had to occur. There are plenty of Governors that deal with legal situations and their State's run just fine. Furthermore, aren't we just going to have to pay all these fees for lawyers once she becomes POUTS, than? As we surely know all these lawsuits will be coming....As lawsuits without merit happen all the time.....And if the purpose was just to go after her, if she stayed on as Governor...They will be wanting to go after her even more as POTUS. If her logic was to save her State such a fate.....Doesn't that hold true for the Nation as well, if she were to be POTUS?
I agree with much of Mrs. Palin's politics. I dislike the MSM attacks on her, but there are plenty within the GOP that are better prepared to be POTUS/CinC than she.
+1
Where is there a 3rd party? The fact that ‘we the people’ speak up and the elites hate it, the live in fear and will try to put that fear in others. Doesn’t that tell you something - THEY say who runs, not the boss, ‘we the people’.
Babs, go make cookies.
Where is there a 3rd party? The fact that ‘we the people’ speak up and the elites hate it, the live in fear and will try to put that fear in others. Doesn’t that tell you something - THEY (the elite) say who runs, not the boss, ‘we the people’.
Babs, go make cookies for your rino husband.
It was Jeb, Mitt and Newt who came out and said ‘The Reagan Era is over.’ Nix him.
Exactly. She’s the momma, her family needs protection from conservatives.
” When the final demise of the USA is studied, the Republican Party and its ineptitude and desire to be liked by liberals has to be near the top of the reasons for the calamity. “
When you stand for nothing, you will likely get it.
Good post.
“We have the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for furture generations, a New World Order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this New World Order, an Order in which a credible United Nations can use it’s peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.’s founders.” -GHWB
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a9Syi12RJo
Thanks for the refresher course.
No way GHWB and his son are in favor of the New World Order, you must suffer from BDS, or a head injury. Only a nut would believe something like this. signed nutjob
end sarcasm
Thanks for the ammo.
AND, of course, the Reagan Era will NEVER be over so long as Ronaldus Maximus continues to be cherished in the memories of free people everywhere.
Mitt, as his father's son, cannot be nominated. Gingrich is a bit of a loose cannon on deck, can be a good and resourceful adviser but never POTUS lest his bright ideas get the best of him and us. Sharing a love seat with Nancy Facelift in favor of green whatever did not evidence wisdom. Jeb was, by all accounts, a very good governor of Florida. He is a different Bush but a Bush nonetheless and we have grown tired of that brand. Bush the Elder's "New World Order" enthusiasms ought to have been enough to guarantee that the Bush Era was the one that was over. I don't know who we are about to nominate but those three seem unlikely. It won't be paleoPaulie since sanity is a desirable commodity in any POTUS and we need a foreign policy and a military and both of them strong.
Mrs. Palin's nomination would enrage and outrage all the people who need to be enraged and outraged for the good of our nation. Is she ready for prime time? Can she slice and dice the Lamestream Media? Can she do that while impressing the less biased public with gravitas as well as policy prescriptions? Time will tell.
Marco Rubio? A bit early for him but Slick Willy was obviously terrified by Rubio's iumpending election as Senator, enough to alienate a quite respectable black Democrat candidate Kendrick Meek by trying to get him out of the race to beef up Limp-wristed Charlie Crist's failed candidacy and career. Rubio's victory speech on election night marks him as more of a potentially worthy successor to Reagan than anyone else in sight but maybe not in 2012.
We have a verrrrry unpopular POTUS who has earned every iota of his unpopularity and will earn more. What we don't yet have is an obvious candidate to defeat him.
Except for Ronaldus Maximus, every candidate is some sort of compromise. Bush the Elder was up to his eyeballs in exotic and sovereignty-sapping and destructive foreign policy notions that amounted to international Kumbaya among the world's business and financial elites. His son was a far better POTUS and got a second term but he wore out the our military personnel by continually forcing extensions of their service time. He refused to veto any of the garbage passed bv Congress, made nice to Ted the Swimmer, and compromised with the Demonrats all too often rather than laying out the case against them as Ronaldus Maximus did.
Barbara Bush and, for that matter, Laura Bush, and Laura Bush's and Dubya's daughters are social revolutionaries in the mold of the late Dorothy Bush (Bush the Elder's mama) of Planned Barrenhood fame. They enjoy better reputations than they deserve because of their marriages or parentage. Nancy Reagan was and is no prize either.
That having been said, Reagan was infinitely superior to Carter and Mondale, Bush the Elder was far superior to Michael Dukakis. Bush the Younger was far superior to AlGore and to Comrade John F'n Kerry. McCain was better than Comrade Obamao. So are each of my household cats and so was my late great Norwegian Elkhound. Who isn't? Somewhere along the line, we need to stop apologizing for our own common sense in the face of the fabricated and imagined "superiority" of leftist mythology and of the culterati. We need to make an unapologetic defense of reality and the wisdom and absolute preferability of conservatism. Barbara Bush does not have that in her. She is no icon and Palin is far better as a source of wisdom. You betcha!
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