Liberals might call it the “Ship of Fools,†but this summer’s National Review luxury cruise sounds charming. Conservative golden oldies will be aboard, and ports of call will include Glacier Bay, “a world still emerging from the Ice Age.â€
Ah, memories! Passengers who pay up to $9849 will take high tea at the Empress Hotel, view the “holy paintings of the Czarist days,†pan for gold and kayak along the waterfront of a native American red light district.
Such past glories will be the setting for shipboard seminars and talk with the founding fathers of NR, Bills Buckley and Rusher, as well as the Supreme Court martyr, Robert Bork; Arthur Laffer, whose curve inspired Reagan’s trickle-down tax cuts; Ed Gillespie, George W’s party chairman who loyally fell on his sword after the ’06 election; and the magazine’s Washington editor, Kate O’Beirne, sporting the most expensive hairdo west of John Edwards.
A bipartisan note will be struck by Dick Morris to regale with tales of his hooker listening in on White House calls to Bill Clinton
As if that weren’t retro excitement enough, a last-minute rusher up the gangplank (backwards, no doubt) will be John Bolton, fresh from his tour of revolting the “superior Brits.â€
Next year’s plans call for a cruise off the waters of a liberated Iran.
Cross posted from my blog http://ajliebling.blogspot.com