[bunster]

re: Very interesting story. I need help understanding this part:

I, too, would like to know as sadly I got tied up at the East Coast Garden Club — thinking it has something to do with The Manchurian Candidate’s Garden Club and can’t get back on track.

[Oratam]

re: Very interesting story. I need help understanding this part:

I, too, would like to know as sadly I got tied up at the East Coast Garden Club — thinking it has something to do with The Manchurian Candidate’s Garden Club and can’t get back on track.

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I’m sorry if my post #1687 is to blame. Perhaps the correct term is “Garden PARTY Republican.”

I think it was an article by Pat Buchanan in National Review in the early- to mid-90s that used that phrase to describe the sort of Republican who looked down his or her nose at the new converts to the GOP (Southerners, Evangelicals, Pro-Life People, White “ethnics,” etc.) and preferred being in the permanent minority.

Y’know, that scene in The Manchurian Candidate works, too. The soldiers imagined similar educated upper-middle-class women meeting in Atlantic City for their annual Garden Club convention. I think these are exactly the type Pat Buchanan was referring to.