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Jeb Bush On Sarah Palin: If She Only Had A Brain... (VIDEO)
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has some advice for Sarah Palin: You'd be a great, if you only had a brain.
In a recent interview with Newsmax, Bush was asked whether he thought Palin was a viable candidate for president. Though he had some nice things to say about her "charisma," it was clear that Bush thinks Palin doesn't have the intellectual heft to occupy the oval office. He said that Palin's success depends on her willingness to add a "depth of understanding of the complexity of life we're living in today" to her rhetoric.
"That's up to her," he said. "I mean, I don't know what her deal is, but my belief is in 2010 and 2012, public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity."
Check out the Newsmax interview featuring Bush's extremely faint praise for Palin (starts at 18:38, runs for about a minute):
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ogliberal
February 24, 2010 2:23 PM
"...public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity."
For the Palin fanatics, the fact that she makes Jeb's brother look like René Descartes by comparison is a feature, not a bug.
You gotta love the willfully ignorant. But I think the above applies the to Kristol crew as well. The less she knows the easier she will be to manipulate...won't take much to convince her that we need to nuke Tehran.
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lousgirl84
February 24, 2010 5:07 PM in reply to ogliberal
Agreed! Great post. made me smile
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Sailormarlowe
February 24, 2010 6:19 PM in reply to lousgirl84
Bet you smiled a lot when his intellectually curious brother was Preznint, too.
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lousgirl84
February 24, 2010 6:43 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Even your man Jed thinks your girlfriend is a loser. Does your 11-year old know you jack off in your room with Going Rogue?
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Brownbagger
February 24, 2010 5:35 PM in reply to ogliberal
It's a slick double shot. He disses her and distances himself from his stupid brother. He's going to run.
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Schmed
February 24, 2010 2:27 PM
"....my belief is in 2010 and 2012, public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity."
Which conveniently excuses Dubyah since intellectual curiosity (or any other attribute of intellectualism) wasn't required from 2000 to 2008.
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Michael A
February 24, 2010 3:05 PM in reply to Schmed
Beat me to it. Question is what does he have to say about his brother? Rambo is probably smarter than the king.
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Rick Jones
February 24, 2010 3:12 PM in reply to Schmed
Now that's good. Perhaps 8 years of Dubya and the threat of Palin has put intellectual curiosity back in vogue - at least for a sizable portion of the citizenry.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
February 24, 2010 3:39 PM in reply to Schmed
Dammit! I wanted to say that.
How much subconscious ooze does that statement reveal, though, eh?
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lousgirl84
February 24, 2010 5:08 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
A lot!!!!
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slb
February 24, 2010 6:05 PM in reply to Schmed
Yeah, I had a feeling that statement was a two-fer: an overt slap at Palin, and a more subtle one at his brother, who may have torpedoed Jeb's own presidential ambitions. (At least, I hope he did. It would be the one good thing Dubya managed to accomplish.)
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tchamp77
February 25, 2010 11:42 AM in reply to Schmed
Wait a minute, didn't W join the Book of the Month club somewhere along the way?
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Schmed
February 25, 2010 4:08 PM in reply to tchamp77
Yeah, but that's only because Archie and Jughead comes out monthly.
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smartone
February 24, 2010 2:31 PM
what calling Dr Freud
"...public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity."
it is very funny Jeb calls out a criticism that was frequently used on his brother
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Steve LaBonne
February 24, 2010 2:39 PM in reply to smartone
Might be a feature rather than a bug. HE was supposed to be the second Pres. Bush, and I wouldn't be surprised if deep down he still harbored some resentment that his dim fratboy brother jumped ahead of him in line.
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bluesplashy
February 24, 2010 4:19 PM in reply to Steve LaBonne
yep - I sense a little pay back zing too.
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demdogs
February 24, 2010 2:48 PM
Neither did his brother, but that didn't stop him... come on!
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mans_best_friend
February 24, 2010 2:48 PM
Maybe she should go to see the wizard. She can take Dick Cheney and Blanche Lincoln with her.
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CityGuy
February 24, 2010 3:07 PM in reply to mans_best_friend
Excellent analysis.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
February 24, 2010 3:55 PM in reply to CityGuy
...she would be so very brightful, and not so very frightful, the fact that shall remain...
...she wouldnt be a Fox announcer, or an election one-hit wonder, if she only had a brain...
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bluesplashy
February 24, 2010 4:27 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
LOL!
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tiowally
February 24, 2010 4:48 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
...she wouldn't be a Fox announcer, we wouldn't all need forty ouncers, if she only had a brain...
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Brownbagger
February 24, 2010 5:11 PM in reply to tiowally
She could while away the hours, conferrin' with world powers
With narry headache pain.
And her eyes she'd be winkin' while
her in head she'd' thinkin'
Fuck you John McCain.
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Brownbagger
February 24, 2010 5:22 PM in reply to Brownbagger
She'd shoot Katie from a copter
And no one could stop her
If she only had a brain.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
February 24, 2010 6:51 PM in reply to Brownbagger
Bravo!
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Brownbagger
February 24, 2010 9:57 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Gracia mille senore.
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lousgirl84
February 24, 2010 7:26 PM in reply to Brownbagger
Excellent. I am jealous. I am taking a stab at rhymin!!
Her name is Sarah Palin,
from the Alaska she is bailin
Cuz she doesn't have a brain
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Brownbagger
February 25, 2010 6:56 AM in reply to lousgirl84
Bravo! This could be a parlor game ;-)
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lousgirl84
February 24, 2010 5:09 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
You get me all excited when you talk like that!! LOL.
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Sailormarlowe
February 24, 2010 6:26 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Marina fan der Lube
The Queen of Vaseline.
What lights her up the most?
KY or Moroline?
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lousgirl84
February 24, 2010 6:46 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Having fun? LOL
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Marinus van der Lubbe
February 24, 2010 7:44 PM in reply to lousgirl84
Thru the anus of the Palin,
old sailor he was sailin'
wishing he were singin in the rain....
Columbus he just wasnt,
found dingleberries by the dozen,
but at least he found her brain......
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lousgirl84
February 24, 2010 7:53 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
That the best yet.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
February 24, 2010 8:06 PM in reply to lousgirl84
Thank you, my dear
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Marinus van der Lubbe
February 24, 2010 6:58 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Oh I see you have your panties in a bunch again SailorFELCH douche....
Your poem in style has none,
and cellulite Sarah is undone,
By Jeb the youngest Bush,
Who stuck it in her tush
He rolls his eyes like marbles,
While on Facebook she continues to warble,
but when comes to gravitas and truth,
She just has the brain of a Baby Ruth.
Suck it up SailorTwat....
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MikeE
February 24, 2010 7:38 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
All Sailboy's allusions to lubricant really is nothing more than latent Tucker Carlson fantasies.
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lousgirl84
February 24, 2010 7:59 PM in reply to MikeE
He gets his jollies off just thinking about Marinus and I. I am sure he uses a lot of lubricant at his house especially when he's reading Going Rogue.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
February 24, 2010 7:45 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Oh yea weenyboy...Thank Jeb for this ammunition. We ALL cosigned his faith in her...LOL
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BCLance
February 24, 2010 6:42 PM in reply to mans_best_friend
If only one of them can get a brain, maybe the wizard can give Cheney a heart.
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Brownbagger
February 24, 2010 7:16 PM in reply to BCLance
And W some courage. Alas, too late.
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sean
February 24, 2010 2:49 PM
public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity
'Her deal', JEB, is yours.
Must be tough being the Bush family intellectual...Lord knows the last 10 must have been sobering.
I can see Poppy shooting wolves with a high-power rifle as he para-rides to Earth strapped to a Special Forces troop.
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expat46
February 24, 2010 2:56 PM
He should expect a tersely worded ghost written statement on facebook explaining the difference between elitism and satire.
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mcc
February 24, 2010 3:10 PM
"I don't know what her deal is"
I find myself shocked to be saying these words, but I believe Jeb Bush speaks for America here.
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runfastandwin
February 24, 2010 3:19 PM
Palin Cheney 2012!
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Walter Mitty
February 24, 2010 3:27 PM
You don't just become intellectual curious at 45 years old. This isn't like cramming for a college exam.
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mans_best_friend
February 24, 2010 3:42 PM in reply to Walter Mitty
You could just write it on your hand.
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Indie Pro
February 24, 2010 3:34 PM
Jeb should offer to share with Palin the half a brain his family all shares and counts on. That might make a small difference.
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Hair_2_Play
February 24, 2010 3:46 PM
That's it! Jeb is no longer a real American. Real Americans in Palin's alternate universe are supposed to believe. Curiosity is for those unpatriotic liberals...
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absurdity 007
February 24, 2010 4:02 PM
This guy is a tool, minute 17'40,...."a million and a half people descended on Washington last summer in Protest"...talk about Intellectual Curiosity,...what about factual accuracy 60k does not equal 1.5 Million,....this guy is more dangerous than GWB because he's well spoken in comparison but his Intellectual Curiosity is close to nothing when it comes to Republican Talking Points. He disses Sarah Palin a little but is in ahhh about Dick Morris,...which one is Dumb and which one is Dumber?
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ejg3
February 24, 2010 4:11 PM
It sorts of sounds like the old comment about a person getting by on looks alone after a realization of their thinking prowess: nice house but nobody's home. Palin combines both a lack of depth perception of governance with a overly smug perception of her depth. Jeb may also think she's GWB in drag.
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fpie
February 24, 2010 4:27 PM in reply to ejg3
GWB in drag? Don't put thoughts like that out into the universe. It's dangerous and makes me feel a little sick. Now nothing's gonna taste right for a week.
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Forrest
February 24, 2010 4:29 PM
I have a plan.
I want to become a darling of the rabid right.
I want to get up there on stage, night after night, and string together a series of one-liners that are designed to draw reactions from the crowd. No policy, no substance...just bits like "How's that hopey changey stuff working for ya" and "Darn right we cling to our guns and our religion!" and "Them black folks...just who do they think they are?" I want to whip them into a frenzy.
Then, when I reach the peak of my popularity, I will spring the trap.
I will tell them all that I've been lying from the start, that I think they're all fools, and that they should be ashamed of themselves for making it so easy to take advantage of them. I want to show them just how easy it was to rise to power in their eyes simply by telling them what they want to hear.
Do you think the unmasking of one of their darlings would do anything at all to wake them up and make them skeptical of *everyone* they listen to, not just the folks who look different?
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tiowally
February 24, 2010 4:54 PM in reply to Forrest
Wake them up? No. Would it make them move along to the next flim-flam (wo)man? Absolutely.
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Vincent F
February 24, 2010 5:04 PM
Who knew Jeb was an elitist?
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oskieoskie
February 24, 2010 5:04 PM
When someone named Bush gigs you for lacking "intellectual curiosity" you are, indeed, a slackjaw.
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Brownbagger
February 24, 2010 5:21 PM
She'd shoot Katie from a copter
And no one could stop her
If she only had a brain.
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jsdc007
February 24, 2010 5:33 PM
He euphemistically just called her an idiot and an ignoramus.
I guess she'll respond by reading the Cat in the Hat.
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Sailormarlowe
February 24, 2010 6:23 PM
Flatline Obama has so deflated his limp-noodle followers, even the Bush family makes them titter & tee-hee. Real people say: Palin/Bachmann, 2012.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
February 24, 2010 7:56 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
You mean: Real stupid people.
Like you. s a i l o r FELCH k i t
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willegge
February 24, 2010 6:48 PM
I think Jeb Bush, is being an arse. As if we are to stupid to know what he is saying. Which is, Sarah Palin is not as smart as I am. Actually what he is saying is, Sarah Palin should not run because she is not an insider like me. Sarah Palin is a threat to these elites, like Jeb Bush, Micheal Medved and others, who think they know whats best for the republican party, which is democrat lite, and McCains immigration reform . Who secretly want Sarah plain out of the picture. I'll take Sarah Palin any day over these arrogant snots who will lay aside conservative principals.
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Brownbagger
February 24, 2010 6:54 PM in reply to willegge
I'm with you. Please let Sarah run. Please, please, please. We'll get four more years of President Obama and then eight years of President Hillary. Runs, Sarah, run. And it will take 16 years of responsible leaders to start to repair the damage that Cheney/Bush brought.
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lousgirl84
February 24, 2010 7:55 PM in reply to Brownbagger
BB I hate to disappoint you but Hillary is not going to run. She will be way too old in 2016. She's 64 now and in 6 more years she will be 70 and the woman is exhausted. 70 is too old. You see what happened when we elected that old fart Reagan. Now I agree there is no comparison but there is a reason why people should retire after a certain age.
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Brownbagger
February 25, 2010 9:17 AM in reply to lousgirl84
One can dream.
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Brownbagger
February 24, 2010 7:14 PM
(Jeesh, I'm such a retard. Let me try that again.)
She could while away the hours, conferrin' with world powers
With narry headache pain.
And her eyes she'd be winkin'
While in head she'd' be thinkin'
Fuck you John McCain.
If sheeeeeeeeeee only had a brain
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lousgirl84
February 24, 2010 7:27 PM in reply to Brownbagger
Fabulous
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Brownbagger
February 24, 2010 9:56 PM in reply to lousgirl84
E gentile da parte tua.
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lousgirl84
February 25, 2010 8:56 AM
Non c'e de che. Parla Italiano???
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Brownbagger
February 25, 2010 9:59 AM in reply to lousgirl84
Si. Un po. Ma non molto bene. E tu?
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Leftflank
February 25, 2010 11:32 AM
If she had a brain she wouldn't be Sarah, no? If she had a brain she'd probably still be a Governor. If she had a brain she wouldn't have hooked up with McCain. If she had a brain she'd take it out & play with it.
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jjdjjd
February 25, 2010 11:57 AM
the most intelligent president of my lifetime was jimmy carter. how did that wind up? by the posts in this thread we should have elected john nash as president. i like my presidents with a good amount of brains, a fair amount of common sense, a whole lot of 'street sense' and an ability not to lecture me or talk down to me. bill clinton comes to mind, palin doesn't. but i will say this about palin, she has figured out how to play the libtards like a fiddle, making herself a muli-millionaire in the process, she will never be president, she knows this, so she will have to settle for being wealthy, thanks to you guys.
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Tosh
June 5, 2010 11:23 PM
what calling Dr Freud
"...public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity."
it is very funny Jeb calls out a criticism that was frequently used on his brother
m65 kamagra
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