SurPRIZE!1 Shrub's deal with the devil for political success was denying his WASPiness & Skul'nBones

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/05302009/gossip/pagesix/dubyas_denial_171603.htm

DUBYA'S DENIAL

GEORGE W. Bush turned his back on his White Anglo-Saxon Protestant roots to succeed in politics, a new book claims. In "Cheerful Money," out in September from Little Brown, New Yorker writer Tad Friend says Bush, like many younger WASPs, denied his heritage. "Bush learned that his past was a losing story when he first ran for Congress, in 1978," Friend writes. "His opponent won by reminding the voters that when he was at Dimmit High School and Texas Tech, Bush was swanning about at Andover and Yale. So Bush recast himself as a brush-cutting, 'ain't'-spouting populist, leaving Skull and Bones off the résumé."

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1. Yeah, we knew that's what he did.

Still used New England yachting terminology all the time, though.