Sarah Palin needs to practice further how she can avoid overreacting to adversaries no matter who they are when it is obvious they are trying to put her in the corner or on the defensive.
When Barbara Bush, the ole gray fox herself, said in a Larry King interview last week that she thought Mrs. Palin was beautiful, etc. but that she hoped she’d stay in Alaska, it struck a Palin pain point. Palin’s comeback was to reference the Bushes as “blue bloods” that most people in America did not cotton to.
Hold it – freeze frame. In the ranks of the Tea party, there are many blue bloods. Not everyone is a blue collar conservative. To take pot shots at ANY faction in your support system is to invite problems.
Sarah, leave class colored remarks to the Socialists and Communists among the Democrats. You don’t have to go there. You have said countless times the Tea Party welcomes everyone. Next time just turn it back on them. “I guess Barbara hasn’t got the word that Jeb’s campaign for 2012 hasn’t kicked off yet.” “He’s still claiming he’s not running for President.”
Sarah needs to stay strong and focused and rise above this kind of remark and she will.
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blackwatertown
November 24, 2010
I hope she’s reading your blog. Maybe she could slip you a consulting fee for wise advice.
(Though on second thoughts, I might prefer her to stumble on without the benefit of your counsel.)
samhenry
November 24, 2010
Why thank you kind sir. I’m sure she doesn’t read my blog because it isn’t Conservative Kosher. I’ m a bloody independent. I am currently registered Republican so I can vote in primaries. I was a Democrat at one time. Really, I’m in the middle and I stray over into one or the other on certain issues or for certain candidates. I don’t believe people should be limited by a label this way.
DarcsFalcon
November 26, 2010
I don’t think there are “blue bloods” in the TEA party. Those are the very people the TEA party is pushing back against, the establishment Republicans, the RINOs like the Bushes, the “Democrat Lites”. I did read that Mrs Bush said that not for Jeb’s sake, but for Mitt Romney’s sake. They’re rooting for him apparently. The man who makes a Ken doll seem warm.
samhenry
November 26, 2010
I know several blue bloods in the Tea party. I have all of my life known conservatives that were blue bloods. I don’t think you can call it that close by class. I stood in line to see Sarah Palin with a bunch of them. In any event, I am dead set against any ethnic or class slurs. It is beneath the dignity of the person sluring! To be frank it’s low class, lol!
DarcsFalcon
November 26, 2010
I think we’re operating on 2 different definitions for “blue bloods” here. When I use it, I’m talking about those R’s like Bush and McCain who think that trashing your own party just to “reach across the aisle” and sacrifice your own (and party) principles is more valuable than standing up for what you believe in politically. People like Murkowski in AK, who got her Senate seat as a gift from her daddy the Governor when he vacated it. Those are the kind of people I mean when I say “blue bloods.” Actual wealth has nothing to do with it. It’s not a class slur and it’s not an ethnic slur. It’s more a slam against that entitlement attitude, for example, the notion that next election is “Romney’s turn,” regardless of whether or not the people want him, he’s entitled. It’s an attitude that has infected both D’s and R’s and it needs to be stopped. It’s about the will of the people, government by, of, and for us – not some out of touch elitists who think they know better when they actually don’t.