First Lady Pickles loses her "reluctance," campaigns for GOP with "gusto"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Hi, Kids. It's your old pal, B_E_B. I'd like to address these comments to the "Laura Apologists" out there...YOU know who you are. You know how you like to say things like "Bush is fair game, but the wife and kids are OFF LIMITS?" Well, Laura is campaigning for the GOP with "gusto." Don't take MY word for it...read the article. Not just campaigning, but campaigning with gusto. So you know what? She's moved from "OFF LIMITS" status to "fair game." Have a SUPER day!

:evilgrin:

Mrs. Bush Loses Her Reluctance to Campaign

By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press Writer

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LAURA_BUSH?SITE=OHLIM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT



WASHINGTON (AP) -- Laura Bush, a reserved former librarian who only reluctantly warmed to politicking, said often and somewhat nostalgically in 2004 that her husband's re-election bid was the couple's last campaign. So much for that idea. The first lady is back on the hustings with gusto, deploying her sky-high popularity, practiced smile and firm defense of President Bush's agenda for Republicans nationwide. GOP strategists say sending Mrs. Bush out to help candidates running in the midterm elections is a no-brainer.

Her poll ratings swamp the president's and those of other high-profile Republicans, with three-fourths of the public holding a favorable view of her. That's down a bit from her 80 percent approval ratings over a year ago, but well above the barely more than a third who like the job her husband is doing.

Squeezed between foreign trips focused on expanding opportunities for women and more traditional first lady duties, Mrs. Bush has notched 10 political appearances so far - all fundraisers. They began with a Republican National Committee event in Los Angeles last April and continued with stops for GOP Rep. Jim Gerlach of Pennsylvania and several gubernatorial candidates later in 2005.

She's stepped it up lately, raising money in recent weeks for Rep. Robin Hayes, R-N.C., Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., and Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo. Later this month, Mrs. Bush is due in Connecticut to help GOP Reps. Christopher Shays and Nancy Johnson. And aides promise more, to the tune of a few events each month until November.

[marbuc]

1. I don't get the supposed fascination with this woman.

Apparently she is still popular, but I don't see it. I actually find her to be a bit creepy. Perhaps it's the sympathy card for having such a bonehead for a husband?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. I think it's residual worship for her husband...

A while back the "Presidential Prayer Team" Web Site ran a Flash greeting card with photos from various stages of Bush's life and soft New Age piano music in the background. It was chilling...the amount of reverence in that card was so over the top I can't describe it. I did some screen shots at the time:







...so her adoration is part of a larger myth that paints the Bush family, its husbands and wives and children, as God-fearing, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth saints that bless us with their leadership.

Scary stuff, isn't it?

:patriot:

[Warpy]

4. She's been portrayed as June Cleaver

and that's the beginning and the end of her popularity. She appeals to men and to those women who long for the certainty of gender roles keeping them in the kitchen.

[marbuc]

8. And also an idealistic longing for a return to a simpler time

Of course, the unspoken subtext is people knew their roles, and how they fit into (white, paternalistic) society.

[otohara]

3. I Think There Should Be A BAN on Pickles

articles. :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. I had to do this one...see my comments at the beginning of the post.

I can't tell you how many times I've read comments from people on DU saying that she's a "good person," how she should be exempt from any form of criticism...then I turn around and read her catty comments about Hillary's "design sense" and her "Oh, PLEASE" snark outburst when she was asked during the 2004 campaign if Edwards "measured up to" Cheney.

She's 100% BUSH, she's 100% PLUGGED IN, and I understand why the freep-holes love this woman...I just don't understand why she has a "base" on DU.

[GoldenOldie]

7. It's hard work having to travel with hairdressers, assistants to

lay out clothes, get in and out of limos, get on and off Air Force ?, meet and greet those same old/well selected party faithful, over and over and over and over again, repeat and repeat the same tired boring scripts that the well selected party faithful then stand at those well rehearsed moments to give the regulated plastered smiles and hand clapping to allow the Laura to relax before continuing on with her 5-minute meaningless speech.

It's really hard work......kinda like reading My Pet Goat.

[Imagevision]

6. Kiddin? Laura has to raise cash -- Bush can't with credibility probs!

Bush: Laura, get your butt out there and do whatever, can't ya see they ain't buying my act anymore!

[Talismom]

16. Yeah, an' if we don't get back the congress this year yer gonna

hafta visit me in the slammer.

[Missy M]

9. I think living in the White House has gone to Pickles head...

and now she's loving it. Personally, I find her to be annoying and vapid. Also, note how the article said her "practiced smile"; shows she is a phony. She is probably more like the photo of her at Coretta Kings funeral.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

11. That's the ONLY Laura Bush I know...the ONLY one.

TRUE colors, captured forever on film.



:patriot:

[Cha]

19. True pickles..she didn't have

it in her to put on anything but an ugly face at Corretta Scott King's funeral.

[adriennui]

10. i smell sen. laura bush

just watch how this will play out. she's the only bush who has any amount of popularity, the grandkids are losers and have issues with the law.

[terrya]

17. I thought her husband ruled that out for her a while back.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought he came out and said she won't be running for office after they leave the White House.

[adriennui]

20. the bushes need power like flowers need rain

and they'll hold on to it any way they can. the chimp is a eunuch, he'll do anything his mommy and daddy tell him to do, so if laura is the only one capable of winning she shall be anointed.

[MrBenchley]

12. She's the only First Lady ever to kill an ex-lover

But it would be so unfair to mention that (snicker)

[Talismom]

13. I suspect she hates the way George looks in orange. LOL! n/t

[Mika]

14. She sold dope in college with "gusto" also.

She was the "go to" girl then. (When she wasn't too busy banging frat boys.)

Read Kitty Kelly's The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty.

[PetraPooh]

15. The new Barbara?!?!?!

[Neil Lisst]

18. she heard there's free cigarettes in the tobacco states

[saltpoint]

21. Next she'll do a guest turn as judge on American Idol on FOX.

Teresa Heinz Kerry would have been VERY worth hearing on the issues.

Can't really say the same for Mrs. Bush.