I eventually figured out the source of all the rancor against Palin on the right.
It’s not some quaint notion of “elitism” vs “populism” as David Brooks would have tried to make us believe when calling Palin a fatal cancer on the GOP – because if intellectualism was important to Rs, Brooks, what about this?
So, if anyone had any doubt of the real reasons, enter Babs.
Here’s the delicious account from the right
Barbara Bush Should Shut-Up
Apparently the woman who called Hillary a “bitch” (before the entire media got to it), is now bothering her beautiful mind with Palin
“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.”
That’s way mild by Babs’ standards, but the Rs who had enough of the Bushes are incensed.
This rant is so good it almost gets it right:
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.
Close,but no cigar.
W barely escaped nothing: the truth is he didn’t win any election. Not in 2000 and not in 2004 either. Glad to see a R going at least near that.
Who knows? In 100 years or so, some Ds will wonder out loud why Obama got delegates instates he didn’t run or why California was skipped in the alphabetical roll call at the convention.
Yeah, this is schadenfreude.
And in 2012, if I want to cast a protest vote against Obama, I might possibly conceive a vote for Palin. Theoretically.
But never in a million years will I pull the lever for anyone called Bush.
8 comments
November 21, 2010 at 10:02 am
HP Boston
Yup ya got that right NYS…the only bush I like is my own…and the government wants his fingers in that pie too!
No airports for me….even though it cost me $ I cancelled a cruise. I called said no way will I fly under the present Gestapo process, I called the hotel said the same and also Jet Blue. I am very serious about a protest and that was mine.
DO not fly!
November 21, 2010 at 10:59 am
NotFooled
Babs should shut up. And her stupid offspring should shut up even more.
November 21, 2010 at 12:24 pm
SoCalDem
Now I know why I like Palin. It burns Babs butt and all the lefties.
November 21, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Swannie
Babs hasn’t learned to keep her mouth shut yet? Even after that racist plantation mentality remark she made after katrina? Palin has already left Alaska , Babs , you missed it…
November 23, 2010 at 8:19 am
Not Your Sweetie
And her leaving was in great part orchestrated by forces that Babs commends…Maybe from the 0s too, but the point is Palin was PUSHED from Alaska. Now she is truly national. Deal with it!
November 21, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Dario
Jeb Bush reminds me of his mother, not the physical, but something inside. It’s creepy.
November 21, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Dario
Okay. I’m not flying for one year, unless someone dies. And if I fly, I’ll choose the groping to the x-ray.
November 22, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Carl
I’ve never flown in a passenger aircraft and don’t intend to. If I can’t get there by car I don’t need to go.
The silliness going on with the TSA reminds me of the BS I had to put up with as a state employee for many years. I’m retired now yet some of their rules still affect me. I often wondered how the general public would react if they had to deal with the govt. on a daily basis and the furor over the TSA has provided me with the answer.
I like Palin. I too am offended by B.B’s remarks. I guess Palin has taken some of Jebs thunder. B.B. needs to settle with having a husband and ONE son as president.
I have often wondered what Harry Truman would think of the Dems these days. You hardly ever hear them mention him any longer. Too conservative for them.