Posted on 11/13/2008 4:17:18 AM PST by cll
Winners, we all know from a lifetime of post-Super Bowl commercials, go to Disneyland.
Losers, at least in this election cycle, apparently go to the Caribbean.
As the Associated Press' David McFadden reports:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - When Joe Six-pack suffers a severe setback, he might cry in his beer. The Republican elite could be found this week on a Caribbean cruise after being stung in the Nov. 4 elections.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson joined policy analysts and 700 subscribers who want to revive the Republican Party on the cruise hosted by the National Review, a conservative magazine.
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"No one's jumped overboard," Fowler quipped as passengers disembarked in Old San Juan. "This is a forward-thinking group."
Thompson, whose own bid for the GOP nomination was short-lived, tersely answered a few questions from shoreside journalists before walking up the narrow cobblestone streets in shorts and sneakers. He called the cruise a family vacation, and said he is not planning another White House run.
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This cruise, the 21st hosted by the National Review, mixes leisure and politics, but Fowler said there are no panels about John McCain's running mate.
Most of the passengers booked oceanview and veranda cabins at $2,400 to $3,000 per person, according to the Cruise Authority, the U.S. company that arranged the trip. The ship is stopping in Turks and Caicos Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Bahamas before returning to Fort Lauderdale, Florida this weekend.
(Excerpt) Read more at swamppolitics.com ...
Well, it is fitting that rat is on a ship. After all, he is one responsible for sinking the GOP ship!!!!
Which ‘rat’ are you referrring to. . .
Thanks, Fred and Mitt.
So, who do we want for RNC chairman?
Michael Steele or Fred Thompson?
Fred please throw Mitt overboard before that ship sinks...oh give him a lifeboat...
Bwahahahahaha
Stung? More like a self inflicted mortal wound.
Seems their death will be agonizingly painful & slow ... for those of us who are watching.
Can't anyone put them out of their misery?
STEELE
Okay, Steele sounds good to me.
It should not be difficult for the Republicans to connect the dots -- borders, language, & culture (and Ronald Reagen).
Perhaps they should take a look at the Savage Nation's manifesto.
What do they know?
This cruise was planned for months ago.
I didn’t read the entire article so forgive me if I jump the gun here. It seems to me that if this cruise is happening at this time, it was put together more than a year ago. These cruises don’t happen within the timeframe existing since the losing election, therefore this article is biased.
this is a cruise that is planned every year and is available for anyone
who wants to go(provided you fork over the cash.) it is not elaborate
or over the top like the events planned by billionaire dems.
the article is misleading at best and borders on outright misrepresentation.
people should complain to the reporter for his mischaracterization.
The Swamp is the DC edition of the Chicago tribune, as in Chicago - the other America’s capital city.
He also had the public's extremely low popularity of the Bush admin to overcome.
Blaming McCain for everything is ignoring reality, something you would expect to see from DUer s after Bush won both his terms, not here.
From April 2008:
Cruise with Us [Jack Fowler]
Time to make up for neglected travel-hawking: there are now over 120 cabins booked on the National Review 2008 Post-Election Cruise. You must join us for the great trip, scheduled for November 8-15 on Holland America Lines new Eurodam.
Featured speakers so far include Mitt Romney, Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, Bernard Lewis, Pat Toomey, Brent Bozell, Deroy Murdock, Fr. Robert Sirico, Darcy Olsen, Andy McCarthy, Jonah Goldberg, KLO, Jay Nordlinger, Ramesh Ponnuru, John Miller, Byron York, Kate OBeirne and we expect to hear from a few more.
All the info you need to know about this great trip can be found at www.nrcruise.com.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTIzMTE2OTE2NWU2OWZiYjhkYzUzNDk0ODhjOTNjNGI=
That is the annual GOP governors meeting, which is where Sarah Palin is.
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