After the 2008 election the liberal media was announcing the demise of the GOP. After this month’s midterm election it would seem that the annoucement would have been premature.

But you know something? Liberals were right. It was the death of the GOP, but not the GOP that won 62 seats in the midterms. That GOP is the new GOP, the new conservative GOP. What died in 2008 was the beltway GOP. That same beltway GOP that bemoaned the rise of the Tea Party. That same beltway GOP that flew into a rage over Christine O’Donnell.

The same which is continually teeing off on Sarah Palin.

Barbara Bush is a fine woman, the mother of both Jeb and George W. Bush and husband of George H.W. Bush. But she’s one of the beltway elites and Sarah Palin is a threat to her wish of a trifecta where Jeb Bush could be elected President. To her Sarah Palin is a threat that cannot go unchallenged.

“(CNN) – Sarah Palin may not have the biggest fan in former first lady Barbara Bush.
“I sat next to her once. Thought she was beautiful,” Barbara Bush said. “And she’s very happy in Alaska, and I hope she’ll stay there.”

Bush, along with her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, spoke to CNN’s Larry King in an interview set to air Monday.
President Bush discussed the Tea Party movement, and although he said “some of the ideas make a lot of sense,” he said he isn’t sure how the new movement will fit into the larger political landscape.”

Yes they do. They know the Tea Party represents the end of their ideal of what the GOP has been, that very version which lost majorities in the 2006 and 2008 election. The old guard GOP is dead, long live the new.

The best thing that Mrs Bush could do is to heed Dan Riehl’s advice.

Shut up.