Jeb Bush Sides With His Mother On Sarah Palin Slight

Sarah Palin's power in the GOP might hold a lot of sway right now, but it couldn't make former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush back the former Alaska governor over his mother, Barbara, in a quibble between the two.

Bush was asked by Newsmax in a recent interview how he felt about Barbara Bush's comment expressing her hope that Sarah Palin "stays in Alaska" instead of running for president.

"If it's between my mom and Gov. Palin, I've got to go with my mom, just in general, because she's my mother," Bush responded. "So you're not going to get me in trouble with disagreeing with my beloved mother of 85 years, who occasionally from time to time says things that give us all great joy, and sometimes some consternation."

But Bush's praise of Palin could imply that his mother's slight of the former Alaska governor might have been an instance of such consternation. "She's got an incredible skill to connect with people," Bush said of Palin in the same interview. "She's got fantastic political instincts."

Others have been less forgiving of the former vice presidential candidate's comments against the Bushes, who she referred to as "blue bloods who want to pick and choose their winners," after hearing the former first lady's jab.

MSNBC host and former congressman Joe Scarborough tore into Palin over her response Tuesday in an editorial written for Politico:

That reality hardly makes Palin unique, but this is one Republican who would prefer that the former half-term governor promote her reality shows and hawk her books without demeaning the reputations of Presidents Reagan and Bush. These great men dedicated their lives to public service and are too good to be fodder for her gaudy circus sideshow.

Comments

[Jeffrey A Beard]

09:50 PM on 12/04/2010

Of course, he does. He's planning his own run: '12, '16, '20.

[triggPalin]

02:03 PM on 12/03/2010

Did my mom bang Marcus Lamb?

http://abcn.ws/gEjojk

[Greygolla]

02:02 PM on 12/03/2010

The best darts have a little truth in their venom. Sarah (gasp) had it right about the blue bloods. Who would have expected them to let little George W to run with the big dogs. A definite break from staid high church formalism to God-talks-to-me aisle rolling. What worries the powers now is voices may come out of the woodwork, but will Sarah listen. Jeb is looking better all the time.

[Willow207]

11:38 AM on 12/03/2010

Couldn't have said it better myself.
What the foreign press and other nations do say about Palin...
You Betcha!!!!!

Couldn't have said it better myself
You Betcha!

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/foreign-press-says-what-american-pres

[OldBro70]

09:45 AM on 12/03/2010

Just for the record, none of Barbara Bush's sons will ever disagree with their mother.

[Lisa Spurgeon Bullock]

04:03 PM on 12/03/2010

Not even the fetus in the jar?

[gumbo1049]

08:46 AM on 12/03/2010

Haven't these people done enough to ruin this country. ENOUGH!!!!.

[chevy706]

08:42 AM on 12/03/2010

Sorry so late in commenting so late, was scouring the internet to make sure; Yep, this is the biggest non-story on the net!

[exclintonsupporter]

08:16 AM on 12/03/2010

Well...he didn't actually side with Dear old Mom...it was weak at best...but I am loving what Joe S. wrote about Palin..."That reality hardly makes Palin unique, but this is one Republican who would prefer that the former half-term governor promote her reality shows and hawk her books without demeaning the reputations of Presidents Reagan and Bush. These great men dedicated their lives to public service and are too good to be fodder for her gaudy circus sideshow.

...the side-show" statement says it all...

[OldBro70]

09:49 AM on 12/03/2010

Protential Republicans presidentil contenders for 2012.

Bring in the clowns.

[GHARDY]

08:13 AM on 12/03/2010

What a wuss, your mom has the guts to speak her mind, and you Jeb hide behind her skirt.

[loanshark]

07:54 AM on 12/03/2010

This is just another window dressing display of the establishment kind. The GOP establishment are trying to stack the deck for Jeb Bush. Do we want another Bush? Even though he is considerably smarter than his brother W, I don't think another shrub is the answer to our problems. You demwits should be supporting Palin, and not working in concert with the GOP blue bloods to knock her down..

[exclintonsupporter]

08:19 AM on 12/03/2010

This definitely depends on what your definition of "DEMWITS" is!!!! Supporting Palin is more fitting to someone that would be consider a "demwit" in my book...speaking of books...guess these latest nasty, mean, hateful and sarcastic quips from the Queen of Mean will be in her next book...due out in January...boy does she write fast!!!!

[loanshark]

08:22 AM on 12/03/2010

We know who Mr Oboma's ghost writer is, (Bill Ayers) wonder who writes Sarahs books?

[OldBro70]

09:52 AM on 12/03/2010

I hope Jeb has gotten a lot smarter now then when he was Governor of Florida. However please no more Bush's in the white house or the executive outhouse.

[calindi]

06:18 AM on 12/03/2010

She is the smartest person in that clan.

[exclintonsupporter]

08:20 AM on 12/03/2010

I'm taking a WILD guess here...YOU MUST BE KIDDING!!!!

[exclintonsupporter]

08:32 AM on 12/03/2010

morelike "klan"....

[DavidBlackburn]

05:54 AM on 12/03/2010

It's because Jeb wants to run against her and knows she'll get the nomination.

[ResearchtheFacts]

02:26 AM on 12/03/2010

Ouch doesn't sound like morning joe cares for sarah too much.  Brutal absolutely brutal.

[erl92]

01:26 AM on 12/03/2010

I question the mentality of those that Palin connects with but I also question the remark that Reagan and Bush were great men. I have to agree with Palin that the Bush family are bluebloods and these people have every right to be challenged.

[exclintonsupporter]

08:26 AM on 12/03/2010

I believe that the Bush's should be challenged...but what I question is Sarah's thin-skin...can you imagine if she were to be President...she would not be able to get anything done...because she has to always comment on something that someone says about her...and up until this point...like in the last week or so...nobody in the GOP said anything about her...if the things she said and did were done by Obama or any other DEM leader...the GOP would be all over it...they treat her with kid gloves...people have every right to challenge her also!!! And they should and she should shake it off as Politics!!! The Bush's (not my favorite family) may be Bluebloods...but you don't crucify people for the status that they were born into!!!! Get over it Sarah!!!

[OldBro70]

09:56 AM on 12/03/2010

Blue Bloods or Wasilla Hillbillies?, The Blues works for me any time.

[GreenKate]

04:48 AM on 12/05/2010

thin skinned and immature too.

[Higgs Boson]

01:24 AM on 12/03/2010

Pravda , speaking about Sarah Palin ............... “By attacking the democratically elected President of the United States of America at a sensitive time in her country’s history, she shows the tact of a boorish drunkard bawling obscenities at a funeral….

And now she turns not only against the fibre and backbone of her country, but against its democratically elected President, accusing him of being incompetent for not stopping Wikileaks. Where was she and where was her GOP before and during the 9/11 attacks? She accuses President Obama of not taking “steps” to assure the leaks were not published. What “steps”?……

If anything is a threat to the national security of the United States of America, it is this screaming, unrefined oaf with as much class as a searing release of flatulence followed by hysterical giggling at a state banquet. Is this what the people of the USA deserve?

[loanshark]

07:57 AM on 12/03/2010

And all this from a Pravda apologist.

[Lisa Spurgeon Bullock]

04:07 PM on 12/03/2010

Pravda is the same paper that has been quoted in numerous Right Wing publications when it criticized President Obama, and was considered a paper of merit at such time.