Thin-skinned half-governor Sarah Palin lashed out at Barbara Bush and George H. W. Bush today.
“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. The blue bloods who want to pick and choose their winners instead of allowing competition to pick and choose the winners.”
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Varek Raith Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:24:16am |
The blue bloods who want to pick and choose their winners instead of allowing competition to pick and choose the winners.
Err...what?
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reine.de.tout Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:25:07am |
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chonguey Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:25:43am |
Oh, Sarah's upset that the Bushes aren't insane enough to support her over the boring yet not quite crazy Romney.
Blue Blood Elitists!
RINOs!
Lamestream Media!
Poor Sarah, can't wrap her mind around the fact that the powers that be in the Republican party aren't crazy enough to defer to her in every way.
Boo hoo!
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Kragar Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:26:05am |
The blue bloods who want to pick and choose their winners instead of allowing competition to pick and choose the winners.”
Says the woman who picked Joe Miller.
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DaddyG Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:26:34am |
Sarah Palin is just jealous that she's not part of the New World Order. /
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Kragar Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:27:32am |
re: #5 DaddyG
Sarah Palin is just jealous that she's not part of the New World Order. /
And pissed that her show is tanking.
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Kronocide Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:27:45am |
re: #4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Says the woman who picked Joe Miller.
No shit. This is so deeply moronic it's past funny.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:28:05am |
re: #5 DaddyG
Sarah Palin is just jealous that she's not part of the New World Order. /
Illuminati Barbie!
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wrenchwench Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:29:15am |
What is the alternative to "putting up with the blue bloods"? Is she proposing they be removed from the process? Or saying the Tea Party is the anti-blue bloods?
She's echoing what Limbaugh says about "country club Republicans", but he's too close to the Bushes to drag them into it. And I think he's no longer the big Palin fan that he used to be. An actual listener should correct me if I'm wrong.
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Jeff In Ohio Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:29:32am |
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. BAshing the Bushes does not improve the prospects of Palin / Fetus In A Jar '12. Man up girl, don't fuck with the inventors of the Iluminati.
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Kragar Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:31:00am |
re: #9 wrenchwench
What is the alternative to "putting up with the blue bloods"? Is she proposing they be removed from the process? Or saying the Tea Party is the anti-blue bloods?
She's echoing what Limbaugh says about "country club Republicans", but he's too close to the Bushes to drag them into it. And I think he's no longer the big Palin fan that he used to be. An actual listener should correct me if I'm wrong.
Rush is a breed that will turn on you at the drop of a hat.
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wrenchwench Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:32:08am |
re: #11 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Rush is a breed that will turn on you at the drop of a hat.
Good point. I hear has has none of the same advertisers he had a year ago.
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Taqyia2Me Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:34:41am |
All things Palin will play themselves out. This overexposure will not result in the nomination.
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Obdicut Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:35:18am |
re: #13 Taqyia2Me
Why do older people love her so much? I don't get it.
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JeffFX Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:38:08am |
re: #14 Obdicut
Why do older people love her so much? I don't get it.
She tapped into a ready-made cult of paranoid conservative Christians who think anyone different is out to get them. They email each other about prayerful friends who wouldn't lead them astray telling them Palin is like a biblical figure.
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Daniel Ballard Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:39:08am |
re: #14 Obdicut
Constant bombardment of bullshit.
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Taqyia2Me Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:39:20am |
re: #14 Obdicut
I dunno. I'm 50 and the only thing I remember liking about her is believing her when she said, as VP, she would work toward eliminating corruption. Maybe some of the other older people like her for some other reason(s).
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Obdicut Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:41:45am |
re: #17 Taqyia2Me
Well, I bet Mrs. Bush doesn't like her.
I'd also like to point out she's an enormous coward for 'with all due respect' and 'I love Barbara Bush'.
"I love you, now let me fucking trash you and call you an elitist asshole who's ruining the nation."
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wrenchwench Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:42:11am |
Palin tweeted a link to the cesspool known as Human Events yesterday, because they published a glowing review of her book.
[Link: twitter.com...]
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SanFranciscoZionist Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:43:28am |
re: #1 Varek Raith
Err...what?
Seriously. Imagine that Michelle Obama had said something like that.
The screaming about class envy and class warfare would be through the ROOF.
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theheat Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:44:15am |
Everyone knows blue bloods aren't Real Americans™. Sarah represents the dumbest, most confused, perpetually pissed off demographic, which is most decidedly not blue-blooded. They're running pure Brawndo through their veins, and they're proud of that.
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Shiplord Kirel Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:44:27am |
Sarah's North Korean allies don't like the Bushes either.
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Taqyia2Me Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:45:24am |
re: #18 Obdicut
Yep, once the brand-new feeling wore off about Sarah, it's been pretty down hill pretty fast.
She'll be a fascinating story of the narrowly dodged bullet variety.
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SanFranciscoZionist Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:49:57am |
Sarah, Barbara Bush doesn't dislike you because you're not 'our sort'. She's aware of it, but would never hold it against you.
She dislikes you because you're an idiot.
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jaunte Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:52:18am |
This kind of populism will make her rich selling some of the people confirmation for their resentments, but it won't get her into office.
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lostlakehiker Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:54:28am |
Older people love Palin?
Palin has a pa-lllaaaan. Make like being smart and knowing stuff is for blue-blood elites. The message is this: real people just like you and me, we don't know much about history, don't know much about geography. But we do know whose side we're on. We're on your side. You and me.
Never mind that Margaret Thatcher, a woman who in her day was twice the man most British PM's ever were, came from humble beginnings but knew her stuff. Never mind that the presidency is a demanding office; there's no time to get up to speed once in office. Either you have a broad general education before you start running for office, or you don't.
Never mind that even fairly well educated men of reasonably good character, with the best of intentions, have proved grossly unequal to the presidency. [Yes, Jimmy Carter, yes, Herbert Hoover, I do mean you.] It takes courage, character, flexible intelligence, and a lot of knowledge about all sorts of things, to have even a chance of being a good president.
Sarah, Sarah. You don't have what it takes. For the sake of your own children, if for no other reason, don't run. Their future and ours cannot afford the mistakes you would fall into, through ignorance and lack of understanding.
Our OK presidents have been really bright. Really, really bright. Not just bright enough to get through college, especially in this day of college for all. The better ones knew something about science, together with a lot about history and geography. You don't know squat about any of that.
You, Sarah, you know how to market yourself. You're good at what you do. You've made it past almost every checkpoint on the way to the presidency except this: are you good at anything else other than promoting yourself? The answer is no. You know it in your heart. Don't seek the nomination, because you can't afford to win it. Your political base can't afford for you to win it, your party can't afford for you to win it, and your extended family can't afford for you to win it.
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wrenchwench Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:57:43am |
I heard a snippet on the radio this morning from an unnamed comedian. He said Palin was able to parlay her failed nomination to the vice presidency into a media career, but Joe Biden, who won the job, is not taken seriously. The comedian suggested Biden do a reality show to enhance his credibility.
If someone knows who said that, please let me know.
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Shiplord Kirel Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:58:07am |
"Blue bloods"
These people don't respect anything. Blue blood or not, this is a guy who was fished out of the Pacific by a submarine druing World War 2. He was there because he had been shot down over a Japanese held island whose commander was later hanged for EATING American prisoners.
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Four More Tears Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:58:57am |
re: #29 MilkOfMalfeasance
Next she'll say Ronny was a RHINO.
Nah. He's dead so she can make him out to be whatever she wants him to be.
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wrenchwench Wed, Nov 24, 2010 11:04:00am |
re: #28 Shiplord Kirel
"Blue bloods"
These people don't respect anything. Blue blood or not, this is a guy who was fished out of the Pacific by a submarine druing World War 2. He was there because he had been shot down over a Japanese held island whose commander was later hanged for EATING American prisoners.
Soon I fear the phrase "war hero" will only be said with a sneer. I never thought the anti-war part of the Paulian philosophy would catch on.
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Lidane Wed, Nov 24, 2010 11:10:16am |
“I think the majority of Americans don’t want to put up with the blue bloods."
Class warfare at its finest.
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Lidane Wed, Nov 24, 2010 11:11:15am |
re: #30 JasonA
Nah. He's dead so she can make him out to be whatever she wants him to be.
Yep. Including making him just like her, suggesting that they have many things in common.
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Fozzie Bear Wed, Nov 24, 2010 11:11:58am |
re: #33 Lidane
Yep. Including making him just like her, suggesting that they have many things in common.
Frankly, they do.
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JeffFX Wed, Nov 24, 2010 11:24:29am |
re: #34 Fozzie Bear
She has a lot in common with Reagan if you just look at his presidency. Before the Alzheimer's, he was a really sharp guy.
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Spocomptonite Wed, Nov 24, 2010 11:35:05am |
Blue bloods? Isn't that a series of vampire novels? Are the Bushes vampires now? //
Has she ever taken criticism without taking it personally? "She's happy in Alaska and she should stay there": maybe a bit personal, maybe professional advice about staying out of national politics until she has a bit more local/state experience? "Blue bloods": simple name-calling.
Seriously, if she were president (shudder) would anyone here be surprised if we suddenly had trade embargoes, sanctions, and military action against other countries/groups just because President Palin felt personally offended by something they did or said? Can you imagine the domestic implications?
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Spocomptonite Wed, Nov 24, 2010 11:54:14am |
re: #21 theheat
Everyone knows blue bloods aren't Real Americans™. Sarah represents the dumbest, most confused, perpetually pissed off demographic, which is most decidedly not blue-blooded. They're running pure Brawndo through their veins, and they're proud of that.
I never thought of it like that, but now that you mention it, listening to the ignorance I've witnessed by many at TEA Party rallies does kinda call to mind a locomotive full of screaming babies crashing into an aircraft carrier and the aircraft carrier is on fire.
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sagehen Wed, Nov 24, 2010 12:43:38pm |
re: #33 Lidane
Yep. Including making him just like her, suggesting that they have many things in common.
Things Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan have in common:
Both carbon-based life forms.
Both live(d) west of the Mountain Time Zone.
Both spent time as sportscasters.
Both earned large sums of money pretending to be someone they're not, in productions they didn't write.
If Sarah now spends 20-30 years studying, like RWR did starting at about her age, she may also one day know enough to aspire to the job she wants to follow him into.
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Tigger2 Wed, Nov 24, 2010 1:43:59pm |
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SanFranciscoZionist Wed, Nov 24, 2010 1:47:29pm |
re: #31 wrenchwench
Soon I fear the phrase "war hero" will only be said with a sneer. I never thought the anti-war part of the Paulian philosophy would catch on.
This is the legacy of swiftboating. People are only allowed to be heros--hell, they are only allowed to have a war record which is mentioned without sneering--if they meet with political approval.
And any form of disagreement negates political approval.
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SanFranciscoZionist Wed, Nov 24, 2010 1:49:22pm |
re: #36 Spocomptonite
Blue bloods? Isn't that a series of vampire novels? Are the Bushes vampires now? //
Has she ever taken criticism without taking it personally? "She's happy in Alaska and she should stay there": maybe a bit personal, maybe professional advice about staying out of national politics until she has a bit more local/state experience? "Blue bloods": simple name-calling.
Seriously, if she were president (shudder) would anyone here be surprised if we suddenly had trade embargoes, sanctions, and military action against other countries/groups just because President Palin felt personally offended by something they did or said? Can you imagine the domestic implications?
Barbara was being catty. She's elderly and was First Lady. She gets to. The ONLY proper response is something like "Well, I am happy in Alaska, but I hope to show Mrs. Bush that I have a lot to offer the whole country. I so much admire her family and appreciate her concern!"
Hey. I did that in ten seconds. Without a handler.
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Cineaste Wed, Nov 24, 2010 5:40:11pm |
instead of allowing competition to pick and choose the winners.
Didn't we do that in 2008 and wouldn't that mean that Sarah Palin is the loser?
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wheat-dogghazi Thu, Nov 25, 2010 2:12:18am |
The blue bloods who want to pick and choose their winners instead of allowing competition to pick and choose the winners.
Silly rabbit, that's how the GOP operates. They try to thin the herd before the convention. It's called party discipline. I don't think Sainte Sarah gets the "discipline" part.
You can't tell me Barbara Bush's reply wasn't prepared in advance, with a lot of discussion with the Powers That Be. It's just the first salvo in an intra-party war to send Sarah back to Alaska. Having an elderly former First Lady say it takes some of the sting out of it, but it's just as effective.
The efforts to sideline Sarah before the convention should make for some real entertainment.
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