Ho hum, another day, and another woman comes out of the woodwork claiming that former President George H.W. Bush groped her.
This time it’s author Christina Baker Kline, writing in Slate about her 2014 experience. And not only does Kline have her story, she has proof! As in a picture of GHWB with his hand on her butt!
Someone pass the smelling salts!
She describes Bush’s M.O. as his other accusers have:
“You wanna know my favorite book?” he whispered. I had to lean close to hear him.
“Yes, what is it?”
By now the photographer was readying the shot. My husband stood on one side of the wheelchair, and I stood on the other. President Bush put his arm around me, low on my back. His comic timing was impeccable. “David Cop-a-feel,” he said, and squeezed my butt, hard, just as the photographer snapped the photo. Instinctively, I swiped his hand away.
She continues by telling us why she didn’t say anything earlier — because it involved a former president, and she didn’t want the scrutiny. But her third reason is a real eye-roller:
I also didn’t want to seem opportunistic, as if I was reporting the former president’s transgression for publicity purposes. (Although, ugh, who wants this kind of publicity?) . . . Most of all, I didn’t want to be perceived as being cruel to a harmless, aging former president with a reputation for courtly gentility.
She doesn’t want “this kind of publicity?” Well, you got it now, honey! You’re just as opportunistic as the other women who are clamoring for their 15 minutes of fame.
What these women don’t realize — or choose to ignore — is that it’s likely that former President Bush is affected by dementia. So perhaps they should “educate themselves,” as liberals are so fond of telling conservatives.
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