Want to cruise with former Bush strategist Karl Rove?
That'll be $5,000, please.
Window seat? $6,000. Suite? $14,000 per couple.
The cruise of cacophonous conservatives sets off this summer and promises a "sunny itinerary," according to The Washington Post's Al Kamen.
The luxurious Holland America Noordam sets out from Rome to Dubrovnik to the Greek Isles, then to Sicily and back to Rome. The 2009 Mediterranean Cruise has a "sunny itinerary" perfect to brighten an otherwise gloomy time, the magazine's ad says. 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.
"Republicans are said to be experiencing their winter of discontent, aimlessly adrift and trying to get their bearings after a couple of tough campaign cycles," Kamen quips. "So why not join like-minded folks and be literally adrift, on a luxury cruise ship meandering for 10 days in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic?"
Also aboard? Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, Kathryn Lopez and Kate O'Beirne.
Lest one be tempted to mock the conservatives for spending garishly in a depressed economy, liberals have a cruise of their own. If you'd prefer the left-of-center cruise (sponsored each year by The Nation), you can sail with Howard Dean.
-John Byrne
"Rush jumps into the pool on the lido deck. Tragedy ensues.
http://thesmarterwallet.com/images/failing-business-sinking-ship-3.jpg
Gee wouldn't that be a real shame if he fell overboard.
Please cruise in pirated waters.
Obviously he is not coming out of the crows nest at all during this cruise. Probably just a fat dummy up there like Bernie's
Each night they will have a drawing. The winner gets to bunk with Rove but has to wear a strap-on.
please tell me they're cruising into the Bermuda Triangle on the Titanic 2
From http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/ship.html :
Went to see the captain
strangest I could find
Layed my proposition down
Layed it on the line;
I won't slave for beggar's pay
likewise gold and jewels
but I would slave to learn the way
to sink your ship of fools
Ship of Fools
on a cruel sea...
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.
see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_fools
Wouldn't go if they paid me $1400.00
Make him walk the plank!!!!!
wow, that sounds like a bliss. hope he can step away from the buffet line long enough to spew his insane rightwing rants.
They need to send that ship to the Middle East, by way of the Horn of Africa.
I would have said that it sounds like a lot of good shark bait on that ship, but I'm not sure that any self-respecting shark would want to bite into any mass of flesh that putrid.
aarrghh matey
I believe this is the first time I will be cheering for Somali pirates.
Just call it "Crook and Liars Cruise" and you'll attract them like flies.
How do they know terrorists won't sign up?
Maybe the ship will end up like "The Flying Dutchman" and never be seen again, except to show up every now and then to scare the hell out of people...
Let's hope someone terrorists get them.
Hey, look at that whale over there... don't you see it? ........ Maybe try leaning over the railing a little... Still don't see it? ......... Try leaning a little further... That's it... now you must see it... oops... (splash) I didn't mean to bump you, sorry... ........ No worries, I'll get right on that. You want peppermint or the fruity kind? ............ Then what kind of Lifesaver did you mean? ......... Sorry, I can't hear you anymore, you're too far away... Call me from you're cell.
How odd, he's not calling.
I guess Duh, Rummy, and the Dickster will take a pass. A little too close to Spain right now, or The Hague.
I hope they hit a friggin iceberg and sink like the Titanic.
Someone should sink that god-forsaken boat.
What a pack of evil liars. They were willing to sacrifice ~3000 innocent American lives for their "Project for a New American Century."
They and their sycophants belong on the ocean floor of history.
I would love to chip in and buy Michael Moore a ticket and arm him with a hidden camera for some surprise ambushes of Rove after he's had a few cocktails.
Looks like a 3 hour tour with Gilligan
I'll go only if I can tow him behind the mothership and then have target practice on his pasty fat white ass.
Didn't Bill O'Reilly have a similar cruise planned a few years ago and it was cancelled because hardly anyone signed up? Maybe the same will happen here.
Just the idea of 10 days with Rove is enough to make anyone jump overboard. Perhaps there will be another "mystery of the Bermuda triangle" or a ghost ship abannoned by its passengers floating in and out of ports in the fog doomed to forever sail the sea and followed by ghastly stories of horror and never ending nightmare.
But then no, HE WILL COME BACK! But ten days without Rove is like paid vacation!
-There'll be so much hot air on that boat - it'll float thru the air!
"....oh the humanity!"
Where are the "pirates" when we need them...aarrrrr.....
Milking the last few suckers before he becomes completely irrelevant.
While they're out there in the ocean let's all move away.