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lotowner
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 10:26:39 AM
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush, family as 'blue bloods' after remark
By Elise Viebeck - 11/24/10 12:44 PM ET
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:
"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."
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MartiniMan
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 1:08:38 PM
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I like the Bush's as well but Palin has a point. They are from the Republican establishment and it is exactly their willingness to abandon conservative principals when it suits them politically that cost him a second term and rightly so. This is also where we got the idea of compassionate conservatism which means more government that is better.......a complete oxymoron. You can't define something as compassionate when it takes money away from the productive at the point of a gun and give it to the less productive.
I thought Barbara Bush's comment was particularly snarky and a little classless.
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Talullahhound
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 2:27:44 PM
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I think BB's remark was very classy -- she didn't say anything bad about Palin; in fact, complimented her. And since Palin is continually praising Alaska, in fact doing a political ad, er, show about it, then why wouldn't she stay there? Especially since in the commercials, she says she'd rather be "free" than in some stuffy old political office. No one is forcing her into the latter.
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MartiniMan
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 2:34:59 PM
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Hound, I could not disagree more. Did you see her comment and the look on her face? When she made the comment she had this smirk on her face as if she was being really clever when in fact she was not. If her saying I hope she stays in Alaska with a smirk on her face isn't snide or snarky I don't know what is.......just my opinion
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Talullahhound
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 2:42:46 PM
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I didn't say she was being nice, I just said I thought her remark was "classy" (and clever). Sarah's attack on BB? Not so much. The woman couldn't be subtle if she tried.
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4691
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 3:00:33 PM
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It seems that the more Democrats and (Bush-era) Republicans disparage Palin, the more I find myself liking what she has to say even though it may not always be clever and polished.
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Yankee06
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 3:04:50 PM
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-As I've stated before, I'm a political independant.
-I agree that BB's comment was a little on the clever side, ...but I don't agree that it was classy. I particularly don't care what a president's spouse thinks. I didn't vote for them or their opinions.
-I agree with Palin's reference to the Bushes as Blue Bloods, ..too bad though that Palin isn't a little more articulate. She has the right instincts but not the right articulation. Obama has all the wrong instincts, but has the shyter's gift of jive.
-As an independent who was orginally a democrat, then a Raegan republican, and now an independent, ..the charge of "blue blood" resonates with me. As a yung man from a working class democrat family, republicans were the rich "blue blood" factory owners who paid the workers little and kept most of teh money for themselves and their cronies. It was dem kids that fought wars and played football, while blue blood kids played squash and dodged the draft. Of course as you grow older, you learn more. What's that old saying? --If you're 20 and not a democrat, you have no heart; if you're 40 and not a republican you have nno brain!
-But the chagre of blue blood still resonates in this soul. As much as I like Bush senior for all he was and all he has done, when Palin used "blue bloods," silently I said, "right on!" ...there are a lot of us who think that way ...and, God willing, we will be voting in 2012
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lotowner
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 3:52:37 PM
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BB's body language gave her away. I too thought that this would have been an appropriate time to give praise for what Palin had done to promote Americanism. "Blood Bloods" was a good way to describers BB..
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MartiniMan
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 4:18:37 PM
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I will agree that Palin's response was more to the point and spoken plainly. You know Hound, some of us.....many of us....actually appreciate someone who is plain spoken and not always trying to be clever or politically correct or whatever. I am of the opinion that the political world needs more of that and not less, hence my admiration for Chris Christie for example. You may or may not agree with what he is doing in New Jersey but there is no doubt that he is saying what he is doing and doing what he is saying.
Again, just my opinion about Barbara Bush and her comment......and we all know that opinion's are like certain parts of the anatomy that we all have.
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GoneFishin
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 5:09:00 PM
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Give me a break. Barbara is an 85 year old woman who has the admiration of Republicans and Democrats alike. Are the Bushs bluebloods? Yes, they are and one could argue like the Kennedys, a dynasty. I recently read an interesting book titled American Dynasty about the "House of Bush".
Palin had no problem running with John McCain whose wife Cindy is considered by many to be a blueblood. Is Romney a blueblood as his dad was President of American Motors? Does the GOP receive a large portion of their funding from bluebloods?
A better approach would have been for Palin to rebuke with " I left Alaska as Govenor so I could travel the "52" states to bring my message of freedom and hope for 2012 to our great country". Rather, than attack the 85 year old messenger. Kinda childish.
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Talullahhound
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 5:18:26 PM
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I happen to like Chris Christie very much. And I agree that Barbara Bush didn't need to enter into the political discussion on a public basis. But she did, and I thought her comment was clever.
Blue blood? I don't really know what that means in this context. What exactly is a blue blood in this country? We don't have nobility or aristrocratic families. If you consider the Bushes "blue bloods" it is only because we have made them so.
What about all those people that were "barons of industry" in an earlier time in this country and are credited for making this country great? Were they "blue bloods"?
I don't find it plain spoken or honest, I actually find it rather childish and not fitting for a potential presidential candidate. The woman cannot let an opportunity to comment pass. Sometimes the best response is no response. She needs to learn to be subtle.
Ed Rollins wrote a great article today about Sarah Palin. And I think what he says makes a lot of sense.
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Mack
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Palin rebukes Barbara Bush
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12/1/2010 7:16:35 PM
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Neither Republican nor Democrat politico strategists know what to do with Ms. Palin, do they? That's cool.
But, she certainly helped, helped, crush Business as Usual in the mid-terms. Both sides, as Dems cross over. And, she continues to have the media attention for everything she does or says. That's good too.
Presidential Material? Fleshed out all the dirt in 2008, maybe. Polish, class, slick-Willy answers to questions, outright lies, party line loyalty, did I already mention lies?. Isn't that what was voted out in 2010?
I hope Ms. Palin and like-minded people step up the pressure to bring about changes that are actually good for the USA.
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MartiniMan
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GF, coming to the rescue of poor old Barbara
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12/1/2010 7:59:57 PM
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Gosh GF, its nice to see you coming to the defense of Barbara Bush. Funny I don't remember you being all that fond of the Bush's over the last several years but considering your abnormal fixation on Palin it doesn't surprise me that you suddenly found common cauuse with them when they suddenly critcize someone you and other left wing nuts seem to think about 24/7.
As for Palin's response it was dead on but I wouldn't expect you to understand a conservative's views on country club Republicans. It is funny though when you look at the average wealth of a GOP donor compared to the Dems you really see who has access to the blueblood money......and it isnt the Grand Old Party.
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GoneFishin
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GF, coming to the rescue of poor old Barbara
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12/1/2010 9:35:34 PM
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My criticism has been of his son and his henchmen Cheney and Rove. I have previously said that his dad was the best prepared person for the position of President and did not have to go through a first term learning process. Do you like caviar or are you a beer and hot dog Wing Nut????????
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lamont
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Amazing...
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12/2/2010 11:54:58 AM
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lamont
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Amazing...
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12/2/2010 11:56:06 AM
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It appears Hound and GF don't like Mrs. Palin. Go figure.
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MartiniMan
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GF, coming to the rescue of poor old Barbara
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12/6/2010 10:20:52 AM
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Don't remember you ever posting that about Bush 41 but I will give you the benefit of the doubt. I actually don't like caviar, too salty. I prefer a nice red wine and hummus........
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