Steven and I have written about this before. You can go on a mediterranean cruise with the editorial staff of National Review Online. Al Kamen fills us in:
You’ll be able to commiserate with and enjoy the grand company of luminaries from the conservative National Review — Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, Kathryn Lopez, Kate O’Beirne and others.
That might sound kind of lame. But wait!! There’s more!!
There are “exclusive cocktail receptions and smokers (featuring H. Upmann cigars), scintillating seminars and intimate dining with guest speakers.”
Some of the guest speakers include Karl (“Permanent Majority”) Rove, author Michael Novak, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton and ace political analyst Dick Morris, who appears fully recovered from that toe-sucking incident. Also on board will be columnists Tony Blankley, Cal Thomas and George Gilder.
Not sold yet? Never heard of George Gilder? Don’t worry, they’ve got craps and roulette. No word yet on the bowls of free Viagra.
If I fall into money, I am so not doing this.
I am so helping you not do this. Unless it’s for yuks. In that case, I’d endow a chair.
What? No costume party where you get to dress up as an “ethnic person”.
Aye, verily, a ship of fools.
With this all star cast aboard, a prelude to the cantos of hell.
Temptation, hard to resist, to conjure up a timely cyclone. The dark side of the force can be so appealing. (Hey guys and gals I’m only kidding–I heal not hurt. Still—)
I keep asking myself, “What would Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman done with this information in 1968?”
All of them there on one boat in international waters, eh.
Bring out the Merry Pranksters!
Spike the Viagra with LSD?
That would be SO awesome.
One scenario you might consider: if you could bring along a dozen or so really bright, informed progressives with plenty of feist.
Hog the Uppmans. 🙂
I could just see a bunch of people showing up with bad haircuts, ill-fitting clothes, bad breath, really bad BO, and all putting on an act like they had really weird personalities. They would repeatedly ask off-the-wall questions, and whenever there was a chance for face-to-face interaction with the headliners, they would jump right up there and try and crowd out the others..
Ultimately however the Republicans would probably smell a rat, and they might try and toss them all out. But the problem is that they would get so spooked that they would view anyone with any dissenting opinions as a Democratic mole, and would toss them out too.
Has viagra really such a bad influence / reputation?
If so, is it warranted / manipulated?
i’d go, if only for the opportunity to deflower Kathryn jean lopez.
had your coffee this morning, I see. Good one.
nah man, i am seriously hot for that woman.
I’ll bet under all that repression beats the heart of a very kinky person.
that’s why she’s into all the torture and waterboarding: she’s a b&d/s&m queen.
why do you think Jonah Goldberg looks the way he does?
One can only hope that the cruise ship has been maintained, and will be guided, with the same care and attention to movement conservative principles as has been used for the US “ship of state” during the Bush presidency.
In other words, plowing full-steam into a reef just before being struck a hurricane, lifeboats and floatation gear provided by KBR cronies and nonfunctional.
Where is Abu Abbas when you really need him?
George Gilder? How disappointing; I hadn’t been aware of his political views, just his writings as a technologist.
“Luminaries” – I love that.
I’d give my fortune to bask in your glow, Karl.
Oh wait, I already have.
“Intimate dining”.
Ewww. I take it dindin is served in troughs? Clothing optional?
Yeah-how is that “Permanent Majority” thing workin’ for them, anyway?
Upmanns’; Yuck.
4th rate cigars with 4th rate intellects;