Makes it less about a "little tacky" remark from an "old" person.
True, but the other side of the coin is an unwillingness to see flaws in Palin.
If you think Sarah's the anointed one who'll set everything right you'll read more into Bab's remarks than people who have questions or doubts about Palin will.
Take both sides into account -- Barbara's establishment background and personality on the one hand and doubts about Sarah and her temperament on the other -- and the controversy starts to look more about an old lady's catty remarks than about political Armageddon.
True, but the other side of the coin is an unwillingness to see flaws in Palin. If you think Sarah's the anointed one who'll set everything right you'll read more into Bab's remarks than people who have questions or doubts about Palin will. Take both sides into account -- Barbara's establishment background and personality on the one hand and doubts about Sarah and her temperament on the other -- and the controversy starts to look more about an old lady's catty remarks than about political Armageddon.
True, there is the other side of the coin where one in unwilling to see the flaws in Palin or any candidate of choice.
That said, one doesn't have to think that Sarah Palin is "the anointed one", in order to think that Barbara Bush's faint-praise-about-beauty remark, and her I-hope-she-stays-in-Alaska remark, aren't constructive or realistic, "questions or doubts".
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.
There's a pattern of it, in both timing and substance.