Posted by Trailer Trash on September 4, 2008, 2:48 pm
From: The New York Times
EXCERPT
".....Phyllis Schlafly.....led....."Life of the Party" party....their
undisputed dominance of.....convention."
"Celebrants.....comforted.....McCain fully retreated from.....moderate
past......to accept their favorite, Gov. Sarah Palin .....hailed
as.....pro-lifer.....fully "walks the talk" of reproduction.....founder
of..... new feminism...."
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EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK
Lives of the Party
By FRANCIS X. CLINES
Published: September 3, 2008
Across the interstate highway, in a hilltop mansion overlooking John
McCain's convention, survivors of a nearly extinct political species =97
moderate Republicans =97 gathered for cocktails and succor.
Gamely identifying themselves as pro-choice dissidents at the fiercely
anti-abortion convention, the few hundred attendees paid $250 to
tastefully invoke an old dream, "Big Tent" Republicanism.
The well-dressed crowd, their small talk reasoned, their outlook
untinged by venomous riffs on Democrats, seemed a warp-speed return to
the days of Nelson Rockefeller before he was fatefully booed at a long
ago G.O.P. convention.
"We've got to be tolerant and be ... nice," declared Sally Pillsbury, a
revered matriarch.
The tone seemed to be epitomized by former Gov. Christie Whitman of New
Jersey and others intent on defending choice.
Odd phrases from the past surfaced:
"no litmus tests on social issues" and "fiscal responsibility."
Representative Jim Ramstad was nostalgic.
"It's been 28 years since I've been in a room with this many moderate
Republicans," he said.
He referred to the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan, a time of the party's
victory mantra:
"Government is not a solution to our problem. Government is the
problem."
For all the party's electoral success since then in regularly
castigating government, the Big Tent gathering nobly demurred.
They held out hope that a President McCain would be more open to hear
them, more ... moderate.
The true Republican majority, speakers said, existed out there in the
nation.
In contrast, a roaring hotel celebration was under way down the hill for
anti-abortion conventioneers.
It made the Big Tenters seem a stylish band of outcasts, however
resolute.
Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-abortion movement's doyenne, led the "Life of
the Party" party in exulting at their undisputed dominance of the
convention.
Celebrants were comforted that not only had Senator McCain fully
retreated from his more moderate past, he dropped his first choice for
vice president to accept their favorite, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.
Governor Palin was not present, yet still mesmerized the celebration.
She was hailed as a pro-lifer who fully "walks the talk" of
reproduction, the founder of "a new feminism," and, not incidentally,
John McCain's running mate.
One young woman approached the stage uninvited and unfurled a sign that
read:
"Be Pro-life =97 Stop the war."
Ms. Schlafly grabbed the microphone from the intruder.
She was escorted to an exit.
What happened to the maverick, comics, et al?
Posted by BuffetHater on September 4, 2008, 4:08 pm
Comics sent me an email, he is in the County Hospital Charity Ward
getting a procedure done.
In a romantic furry, comics got his pet hogs head stuck up his ass
and needs it removed before he starts doing community service at
the Black African Rabbit Society.
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