You can add another high profile Republican to the list of conservatives who have NOT gone “gaa-gaa” over Sarah Palin. And it’s former President George W. Bush!
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According to Bush’s former speech writer Matt Latimer in his new book “SPEECH-LESS: TALES OF A WHITE HOUSE SURVIVOR,” Latimer revealed a comment Bush made after Sarah Palin was selected as John McCain’s running mate. “Bush said: ‘I’m trying to remember if I’ve met her before. I’m sure I must have. What is she, the governor of Guam?'” When conservatives seemed to rapidly warm to Palin’s selection, Bush advised people to wait “until the bloom is off the rose,” Latimer recalled. “This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for. She hasn’t spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let’s wait and see how she looks five days out.”
Welp…that's about all one needs to know when trying to assess just how far the GOP has sunk, as a "major" political party.George W. Bush is now the "voice of reason" within that party_smh.No further proof is needed.
Okay so I can't resist adding this little gem to the MOUNTAIN of evidence highlighting a political party in Crisis!I give you Repub Congressman Steve King from Iowa: Earlier this week, the Des Moines Register released a poll showing that “Iowans are almost evenly divided about whether they would vote for or against a constitutional amendment to end marriage for same-sex couples.” It also found that “the overwhelming majority of Iowans – 92 percent – say gay marriage has brought no real change to their lives.” Asked about the poll, King complained that many Iowans do not have “a very good understanding of what same-sex marriage does to the overall institution of marriage.” After claiming that “Rick Santorum was right” when he said that expanding gay rights would lead to a “right to incest,” King asserted that same-sex marriage is “a purely socialist concept”:King further stated:"So in the end this is something that has to come with a, if there's a push for a socialist society, a society where the foundations of individual rights and liberties are undermined and everybody is thrown together, living collectively off of one pot of resources earned by everyone. That is, this is one of the goals they have to go to is same-sex marriage because it has to plow through marriage in order to get to their goal. They want public affirmation.They want access to public funds and resources. Eventually all those resources will be pooled because that's the direction we're going. And not only is it a radical social idea, it is a purely socialist concept in the final analysis."Full Story: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/23/king-gay-marriage-socialist/http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/23/king-gay-marr… />So umm…I guess it's True_those blithering idiots HAVEN'T the slightest clue what "Socialism" is_smh.“Life without knowledge is death in disguise.” (Black Star)