Friday, October 29, 2004
Economist: If Bush loses...
Expect a few defenestrations in the Republican Party, but not a bloodbath
THE wake of George Bush senior's defeat in 1992, the Republican Party had a collective nervous breakdown. One of the many bizarre manifestations of the breakdown took place at the Heritage Foundation: a group of young conservatives filled a hall with friends before marching in carrying a plastic head of the former president on a plate. The plate was covered with blood-coloured crêpe paper—and the young activists were almost as jubilant as the triumphant Clintonites down in Little Rock.
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3329378
THE wake of George Bush senior's defeat in 1992, the Republican Party had a collective nervous breakdown. One of the many bizarre manifestations of the breakdown took place at the Heritage Foundation: a group of young conservatives filled a hall with friends before marching in carrying a plastic head of the former president on a plate. The plate was covered with blood-coloured crêpe paper—and the young activists were almost as jubilant as the triumphant Clintonites down in Little Rock.
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3329378
