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 ...
romney’s favorite novel was Battlefield Earth
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/romney-favors-hubbard-novel/
Mitt was the rat to which I was referring.
And what's even worse in my opinion that several Freepers on this thread have fallen for the writer's anti-conservative slant -- a story line that makes it seem as if the cruise were an evil conspiracy launched entirely by Romney and his minions.
So here we have the spectacle of Freepers bashing an activity that features Victor Davis Hansen and Mark Steyn as a speakers!
(Will the irony ever cease?)
Exactly, lets pick the worthy guest speakers and place them in the lifeboats prior to sinking the entire ship.
The ads for it first appeared in National Review, well, a *long* time ago. It's also a fairly regular event.
True.
That's encouraging.
Yep. I really wanted to go, since Mark Steyn is supposed to be there.
Steele for Chair, Newt for vice Chair, and Thompson for M.C. of all fund raisers.
I can live with that, but NO way would Newt’s ego allow him to be Vice Chair
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, left, and his family, walk off the Holland America Line cruise ship docked at the San Juan port, in Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. Thompson, who ran a short-lived bid for the GOP nomination, joined about 700 National Review magazine subscribers on a weeklong cruise through the Caribbean, who hope to revive their party after last week's drubbing at the polls. ( Photo/Andres Leighton)
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