Bush In 2008: "I'm Not Going To Tell Some Gay Kid In The Audience That He Can't Get Married"

[RamboLiberal]

From speech-writer Matt Latimer's new book.

• For a commencement address at Furman University in spring 2008, Ed Gillespie wanted to insert a few lines condemning gay marriage. Bush called the speech too "condemnatory" and said, "I'm not going to tell some gay kid in the audience that he can't get married." (Of course, Bush ran his 2004 campaign telling that kid just that.)

• Bush, when told that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig had been the latest GOPer to be caught in a sex scandal involving boys or men: "What is up with all these Republicans?"

• While Karl Rove was appearing on Fox News and writing op-eds as an independent political analyst, he was privately smearing Democrats. "Karl spread rumors through the White House that one of Obama's potential vice presidential running mates -- and a United States senator -- had beaten his first wife. 'Karl says it's true,' the president assured a small group of staffers. Then knowing Karl, he quickly added, 'Karl hopes it's true," reports Latimer.

• Bush, it turns out, is like millions of Americans: "I haven't watched the nightly news one night since I've been president," he said.

• Laura Bush, says Latimer, "was secretly a Democrat for all intents and purposes, though it really wasn't much of a secret."


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/20/bush-in-2008-im-not-going_n_292876.html

[Johonny]

1. Bush ran his 2004 campaign telling that kid just that

actually during the election Bush came out luke warm for civil unions in 2004. Which was pretty much the Dems platform as well.

[Ian David]

2. By Laura Bush being a "Secret Democrat," did he mean she did anal? n/t

[Lil Missy]

3. You still have time to edit that obnoxious statement.

[Ian David]

5. Oh, fuck no.

Look at that creature, and tell me that is NOT someone who likes to walk on the brown side early and often.

[Lil Missy]

7. k

[EarlG]

4. Is it just me or

Is this starting to look like an organized campaign to make Bush into a liberal? It plays into the RW's theory that they lost the last few elections because they weren't conservative enough, and it would be just like them to try to rewrite history so that the reason the Bush years were so bad was because his policies were so gosh darn left wing.

Next thing you know they'll have him reading Howard Zinn and renting Michael Moore movies.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. Wonkette of all places...

...did a pretty scathing critique of one of the teaser articles Latimer wrote for his book. Once I'm off the iPhone and on a real comp I'll find the link and post it here. Bottom line is that I would not necessarily trust this guy.

Edit: ah, here we go:

http://wonkette.com/411090/douchey-no-name-bush-speechwriter-writes-douchey-tell-all-piece-of-crap

[Ian David]

8. You mean the "No True Scotsman" Fallacy? n/t

[LuvNewcastle]

10. Dubya WAS a liberal.

He ran up huge deficits while in office, and we all know only liberals do things like that. And then that Democratic Congress he had for the last two years just made things worse. But Obama was in Congress then, so all this is really his fault.

[uppityperson]

9. Of COURSE a gay person can get married. Just not to their partner of the same sex

I agree that the changing of history is happening here, aka 1984 Bush has ALWAYS been a liberal.

[EFerrari]

11. And for that he should be commendatated.

lol