Don't ask Barbara Bush to share a stage with Sarah Palin anytime soon.
In an appearance set for broadcast on the Larry King show Monday night, the former first lady unleashed her trademark deadpan wit on the the possible 2012 presidential candidate.
When King asked Bush for her impressions of the former Alaska governor, Bush responded, "I sat next to her once. Thought she was beautiful. And I think she's very happy in Alaska, and I hope she'll stay there."
In the excerpt posted on CNN, King laughed. The video does not show any follow-up question.
King quizzed Bush and her husband, former president George H.W. Bush, as part of a series of interviews with notables he is doing before his show ends next month.
The former president also made some news of his own when he expressed ambivalence about the Tea Party movement.
"Well I don't know what [the Tea Party] really is," George H.W. Bush said. "Some of the ideas make a lot of sense. But how it fits in, I know it was in the paper today, they were talking about what the Tea Party would do to get the Republicans in Congress to do something. But these people have all been elected, whether they're Tea Partiers or not, so I'm confused by it frankly."
The full interview will be Monday at 8 p.m. on CNN.