Posted on 05/04/2011 8:57:39 PM PDT by curth
The salons of Manhattan's Upper East Side are an odd place to launch a Republican campaign:
On Tuesday, at the Gilded Age Upper East Side mansion that houses the nascent Bloomberg View, Daniels lunched with a bakers dozen of journo-pundits ranging politics-wise from rightish (Peggy Noonan, Ramesh Ponnuru) and leftish (Michael Kinsley, Josh Marshall) to neitherish (Mark Halperin), and outlet-wise from mass market (George Stephanopoulos) to niche market (me). Afterward, the informal consensus of the leftish contingent was summed up in this exchange:
If we have to have a Republican
this one seems like hed be better than the others.
Frankly I am not voting for an arab. No how no way.
Is Daniels Arabic? I don’t like this guy no matter his heritage. Bob
Syrian
I believe he is Christian
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