Posted on 11/24/2010 11:29:45 AM PST by ColdOne
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) denounced the Bush family as "blue bloods" in an interview posted Wednesday and remarked that a mentality like theirs helped to cause the economic downturn.
Her comment came in response to a statement made by former first lady Barbara Bush during an interview with CNN's Larry King earlier this week. Asked for her take on Palin, Bush told King: "I think she's very happy in Alaska, and I hope she'll stay there."
Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham followed up with Palin, asking if she thought Bush's comment had been planned ahead of time. Palin had this to say:
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
No, Sarah is saying what has to be said.
Only Obama has done more damage to our constitution than the Bush clan in the last 25 years.
We don’t need GOP elitists selecting our candidates, and it is good that Palin is now on record opposing them.
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“All those politicians she supported last November won’t get in the way of the establishment. Or else, their own careers will be in peril.”
You will certainly be right in some cases, but most of the wins Republicans just had were the result of the crowd, not the support of insiders. Sarah should keep rallying the crowds; keep energizing the Tea Party movement, and we should continue to support her in that effort. Even if Sarah isn’t our next president, there is not reason why we should settle for another Potomac sipper like Romney. Believe me. Sarah scares the hell out of the establishment, and for good reason.
Let’s compare and contrast the Bush matriarch’s comments regarding Sarah Palin and any of the following Communists, perverts and oily criminals who are actively destroying our country:
1) The RaceMarxist In Chief.
2) Bill Clinton.
3) Harry Reid.
4) Nancy Pelosi.
5) John Murtha (RIH)
6) Barney Frank
Crickets.....
Yet the old tortoise sticks her head out of her elitist RINO shell to bash the brightest star in the conservative universe.
This whole mess has Mrs. Bush coming off as a sharp wit and Palin as name calling and petty. I don’t really see how calling an 85 year old woman a blue blood is constructive or presidential. Then again I would expect as much from a reality TV star who parades her family in front of the cameras for $$$
Palin says in the ad that she would rather be in Alaska and havin’ flippin’ fun than be in some old political office.
I think the Babs statement came from that.
Palin statement:
“I’d rather be doing this than in some stuffy old political office. I’d rather be out here being free.”
Who knows what what either meant by their responses but it does make for interesting observations of the participants.
I believe that the more we stand up strongly for truly conservative, Constitutional principles the more we will win. This even includes (eventually) among the hyphenated sub-groups like afro- and latino-/hispanic- etc. groups as they realize that Constitutional principles work for EVERYONE and marxist principles work only to turn the country into an unhappy and bankrupt hellhole.
The evidence is becoming clear even to our enemies, although they will still fight for the power that marxism promises (but fails to deliver: see China, Russia, Europe, etc.)
We fight for the right - Constitutional Conservatism and nothing else - and we win. Period.
This former first lady stepped into the ring and deserves whatever she gets.
Palin need to apologize:
Something in the vein of this apology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8vA0ANTUM0
“Sarah should keep out of this, it’s a trap”.
yes, it was a trap, and she should have kept out of it
“The Governor missed a golden opportunity to keep her mouth shut.”
the trap was set for Barbra Bush, and she shouldent have fallen into it, take a leaf out of your son “W ya” plybook
and stay out of the “fry”
She measures up tremendously short, the more I see her. She is no where near ready to be POTUS/CinC.
Because of the back-handedness that’s evident by that comment? People involved in politics do not generally say something like that about a potential presidential candidate from their own party. Barbara Bush obviously does not want Palin in the media spotlight, for reasons that only she can explain.
Reason #4: If Jeb runs, Palin's remark will be a major ingredient of his campaign commercials ("Here's what she said about the wife of an American President -- and the mother of an American President.")
Reason #5: When Romney runs in the primary, he'll use the same material, only with Romney he will even do it if Pres. or Mrs. Bush expires during the primary season, and with Romney's luck at least one of them will.
Here is what Sarah said:
Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham followed up with Palin, asking if she thought Bush's comment had been planned ahead of time. Palin had this to say:
"I don't want to sort of concede that we have to get used to this kind of thing because I think the majority of Americans don't want to put up with the blue bloods — and I say it with all due respect because I love the Bushes — but the blue bloods who want to pick and choose their winners instead of allowing competition to pick and choose the winners."
She then invoked the economic crisis to explain her point.
"They [blue bloods] kind of do some of this with the economic policies that were in place that got us into these economic woeful times, too," Palin said. "So I don't know if that kind of stuff is planned out but it is what it is. We deal with it, and we forge ahead and we keep doing what we're doing."
We fight for the right - Constitutional Conservatism and nothing else - and we win. Period.
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Agree with all of your points. Personalities come and go - and are also mutable.
The principles are forever.
What is with the new “thin-skinned” meme? If Sarah was thin-skinned, she would have been out of the public eye a long time ago. Might she just be tired of the nonsense that gets spread around about her, the media complicity, and the linguine-spined Republican establishment, who refuse to have her back?
There is?
I don't see anything stopping anyone who wants to from running and anyone who wants to from supporting anyone who wants to run.
We The People didn't involve ourselves too much in this process in the past. That was our doing, not some big machination in Washington to keep us from "voluntarily" electing our President.
Really: can anyone stop Palin from running or people from voting for her? No, and so has it ever been.
Of course, it's much easier now for grassroots politics to play a bigger role and grassroots candidates to pick up steam because of the internet, particulary the ability to fund candidates directly.
But I can't agree that we have ever had candidates forced upon us, either by the establishment or the media. Candidates who got the most people to vote for them won. Same as today and tomorrow. Just different means for reaching voters now.
“Seems to me if Palin wants to be Prez one day she needs some thicker skin”
You comment reminds me of a former freeper name...
“justshutupandtakeit”
Are you really this naive in person — or is this just a web personality that you haul out when your feeling lonely?
I have had it up to here, pointing to top of my head, with people running as conservatives when they are as liberal as any democrat. I will not hold my nose and vote for the lesser of 2 evils this next time. Either run a real conservative or face losing again. It is way past time that conservatives let the others have it with both barrels. Sarah seems to be the only one with “guts” to stand up for our conservative values. The Bushes are so called blue bloods. I supported both Bushes but look who they were running against. I will not support Mitt, Huck, or any of the others.
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