Bad News for Republicans
While
prominent Republicans are lamenting the party's presidential candidates, calling President Bush irrelevant, and decrying the litmus tests imposed by theocratic social conservatives....
...thousands of students and alumni at Brigham Young University have signed
a petition protesting their commencement speaker, Dick Cheney.
Let me repeat that: Thousands of students and alumni at
Brigham Young University.
“The problem is this is a morally dubious man,” said Andrew Christensen, a 22-year-old Republican from Salt Lake City. “It’s challenging the morality and integrity of this institution.”
Meanwhile,
Rudy Giuliani defends Don Imus and hedges on the question of the Confederate flag....
...while, asked to name the price of a gallon of milk, Giuliani replied that the last time he remembered buying milk, it cost about $1.50.
The average price of a gallon on milk in the United States is $3.21. Here in New York, it's closer to $5. If you buy organic milk, it's more like $7-8.
Did I mention that Giuliani and his wife have been married six times?
John McCain, meanwhile, admits that it's actually not that safe to walk in downtown Iraq, but plans
a major speech—at my grandfather's* alma mater, by the way—talking about how great the war is.
And finally, Democrats are outfundraising Republicans. Yes, that giant cracking sound you just heard was indeed hell freezing over.
History is full of ironies: George Bush and Karl Rove, the men who seemed so likely to cement Republican superiority for decades,
will leave their party in a shambles.
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* The
grandfather in question....also a Harvard alum, by the way.
