That is funny because I know so many old, neocon Jews who still love the Bushes. Hey, Uncle Bernie and Aunt Ruthie, I hope you realize George and Barbara would not let you set foot in their goy house no matter how many times you chanted "FOUR MORE YEARS" at the AIPAC conference.

On an even shallower note, Lauren Lauren?

"Barabara Bush" is pretty fucking funny, dude. Wouldn't Theda Bara agree?

I would take it as a compliment if that family disapproved of me. Also- I worked with Lauren some years ago when she first started modeling and she was a very sweet, mellow girl.

horror of horrors what if he reverts back to david lipschitz just so her name isn't lauren lauren??

"There are religious differences," one [source] points out. "Would he expect her to convert to Judaism?"

Silly Bushie, everyone knows Jewishness is passed through the mother.

Well, you'd think if they were okay with Jebby's kids from Florida, the little brown ones, they'd be okay with a Jew? Or are Mexicans > Jews?

@EleanorRigby: The joke would be on him. Babs' dying wish would be never to allow a Lipschitz or any of her kinky-haired offspring into the family fold. Lauren would have to pull a total Dmitri Nabokov.

What he doesn't want to propose to a 22 year old? Hmm wonder if it is because she is Christian, or her Uncle is in the White House or who cares. Bushes smushes.

@spinachdip: well, you know, they work harder, less whiny.

i'm going to hell.

This is super dishy. As is Ralph's son.

@In Other News...: Dub's probably wishing his mom's name didn't sound so much like Tora Bora.

@Koreanish: yes that's some jewy jewcy goodness there

could be just the thing to improve the bush gene pool

The Bushes disapprove of Jews? Well, we all disapprove of inbreeding so we're now even.

Well in all fairness, the Lauren's are pretty much honorary WASPs (if not their royal family) at this point. Ralph Lauren has gone to superhuman lengths to make himself over in that image, and it pretty much worked.

Also, its not entirely unjustified for the grandparents of a young woman to expect the (older) man shes dating to propose to her after three years of courtship. Isn't that pretty much what grandparents are for?

@Buzz Killington: There's NOTHING WASPs hate more than someone trying to "pass." Nothing. They'd marry her to a rabbi rather than to a fake WASP.

Maybe he's a Democrat?

In Kitty Kelley's book on the Bush's she reports that George W had a Jewish girlfriend while he was at Yale. But Barbara wouldn't let him bring her him - no Jews in the family, she declared.

@raincoaster: And how. I've even heard WASPy relatives of mine speak disapprovingly of the Kennedys efforts to "pass."

@raincoaster: @Nard38: Real WASPs don't even trust Rockefellers. They do, however, have little problem with Rothschilds. Jewish yes, Newish never (well, not exactly never...). Anti-semitism is a symptom of class insecurity, like most snobbery.

This is specious at best. But it sure is easy/fun to post, innit?

@PinkPundit: Okay, that's pretty bad, but you know what? I think she's come around on the whole "Family of Man" deal. Who can forget her compassionate, healing presence at the refugee-packed Astrodome in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? "These people were underprivileged anyway, so this is working out quite well for them," she said. Give that woman a Nobel Prize!

Forget conversion -- would she take his name?

@EleanorRigby: That's it in a nutshell. Double names went out with Rod La Rod.

The other problem is that he had a mag called Swing in the '90s. Which died after a while. Lauren's grandma's family owned McCall's mag. Which was a success. Till it was given to Rosie. I think Barbara I would only be cool with Lauren marrying a present or former mag owner if the mag in question stayed, or has stayed, in the black. Which means she would only be cool with Lauren marrying a Newhouse. But they're Jewish. So back to square one.

Besides, there's the issue of W slapping David on the back all the time and hollering, "Schwwwing!"

@tudobem: Lauren Bush is a model? and 22?! She looks like a 36 year old man - kind of like her boyfriend.

Clearly the Bushes really need to focus... these two would make some serious cute grandbabies for her parents.

That's what a true family only cares about.

even the elder George Bush didn't get to invite siblings.

There would be a major family blowup which would be discussed for decades in the event that I got married and my father didn't get to invite his siblings (along with his nieces and nephews). Incomprehensible.

@The Real JR: waspy / jewcy children can be gorgeous yes

Bushes. Giving WASPs and America a bad name. Laurens. Giving WASPs and America their very own iconic aesthetic. Tell David he's welcome at RMHMH House anytime.

@SirDidymus: 22? Srsly? She looks older than Jenna and that's definately an achievement since Jenna has been rallying like a Frat Boy for the past 10 years.

@Buzz Killington: Have you ever met Ralph Lauren?

Hey, what's the big deal? Lauren is now Jewish "by injection."

@PinkPundit: imagine how they feel about the Columba, Jeb's Mexican wife.

He's been dating her since she was 19 and he was 33. Seriously, where's the ring?

@Doolittle: I didn't realize until now that the Marta subplot in Arrested Development was a reference to Jeb's brown ones.

I'm thick, and I miss that show hard.

Your Lipschitz? My ass talks.

This is so petty but it was like 20 years ago ...

He was in the same house at Duke as a friend of mine. They were having a party one night and we went over to his room - for some reason we had to know if he had all polo stuff.

He did but most of it was Chaps stuff. We found that hysterical for some reason.

A man in his 30s who dates women who aren't even of legal drinking age does so because he doesn't want to get married. The Bush family is historically slow on the update, but one would think they would at least know that.

So the problem is that he's too old and too semitic for her, and he won't propose? That's like complaining that the food is terrible, and there's not enough of it.

(Yes, that's a Jewish joke. We've got a million of 'em.)

Her parents are a little nutty, if I remember correctly; could be the *Laurens* who don't want to blend.

Baba Sr. made some snide comments about Eleanor Roosevelt a while Bush Sr. was in office; that would suggest a likely anti-Semite affinity. She can kiss my a#s.

So, why does he have his uncle's fake last name?

@TedSez: jewish dilemma: free ham

I could have sworn that one of the Bushes told me that some of their best friends were Jewish.

@Nard38: Me too.

Wait, wait. The Bush Royal Family doesn't want the rebellious spawn bringing a Jew into the halls of Muffy? Do I detect another flaming wreck in a Paris tunnel coming up?

@spinachdip:
The rules have been loosened, at least for any flavor of Jewish person a Bush is likely to marry.

@cassandra:
Seriously. He's wasting her time. If you're an interfering relative this would be the time.

Ralph Lauren: The Pascal Dangin of Waspland.

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The New Yorker article was interesting. I think this was the second profile I've read of Dangin.

1. Calling Lauren Bush a model is like saying Paris Hilton is an actor. Lauren hasn't done any major ad campaign since her first RL shoot 3 years ago.

2. Ralph Lauren is as pseudo-WASP-ier than all the WASPs I know.

I would think the Laurens have much more to be concerned about - afterall who'd want to be related to the Bushs.

If she did marry him however, she'd be 'Lauren Lauren' - that's a label waiting for a clothing line if ever I've heard one.