Cigars, cocktails, & Karl Rove on the high seas for $5000 per couple. $6000 if you want a window.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803780.html?hpid=news-col-blog

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. 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?

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.

The cruise is conservatively priced as these things go, with 185-square-foot cabins for $5,000 a couple ($6,000 if you want a window, which you do). But the fiscally prudent will have to chance a waiting list for those rooms. The pricey suites, up to $14,000 per couple for one with a veranda, are still available. In times past, the plush accommodations went first. Must be the economy.

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience," the ad says, "why not experience it yourself?" You won't forget it.

[hatrack]

1. "Once-in-a-lifetime experience"? So's having your skull trephined without anaesthesia

Christ, talk about Voyage of the Damned.

[11 Bravo]

2. There's never an iceberg around when you really need one.

[T Wolf]

3. Where are the pirates when you need them? Hey guys - great target here. If only we would

"ground" (or port) our naval forces while this hate-fest cruises the sea...

Then use the attack as an excuse to invade where exactly...

So what if a few pukes visit Davey Jones' locker. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices.

[gratuitous]

4. How much to participate in the manhunt on the Lido deck?

Cal Thomas seems like he'd be too slow; not much sport there. But I'll bet Rove would sweat real good, and his "terrified" face could open a major summer movie.

[monmouth]

21. I'm going to predict this little fiasco at sea will be canceled due to

a lack of interest. Could be wrong but other than the grubbing journalists, and I use that term very lightly, who would spend money on such an extravagance? I know the wealthy would, but believe me, they have much nicer trips to take and most have their own yachts. Nah, I think it might be a bust.

[dweller]

5. YO HO HO, AND A BOTTLE OF

DUMB.


dp

[Mari333]

6. the window is extra in case u need to

:puke:

[MineralMan]

7. Would it be wrong of me to wish for a norovirus epidemic

on that cruise? Something really annoying but not all that dangerous?

Oh, I suppose it would be wrong of me, but if it's wrong, I don't wanna be right. :bounce:

[Me.]

8. Or...

"But the fiscally prudent will have to chance a waiting list for those rooms. The pricey suites, up to $14,000 per couple for one with a veranda, are still available. In times past, the plush accommodations went first. Must be the economy. "

[Mari333]

9. Its the LOOOOVE BOAT

we be cruisin baby

[MineralMan]

10. Aw, Jebus! I didn't need to see that.

Where's my eyebleach?

[sakabatou]

19. My eyes! THEY BLEEED!

[CatWoman]

23. well, I just have to raise ya

[Mari333]

24. ayeeee it burns it burns

(i dont think that thing's been raised for decades)

[CatWoman]

25. bwahahahahahaha

[NYCGirl]

11. I'd pay for the window so I could JUMP OUT OF IT! NT

[underpants]

12. How much to put suntan lotion on a shirtless Rove?

Lather him up!

[yellowcanine]

14. Thanks a lot for the mind pic. Gross.

[KansDem]

17. These should come in handy...

[underpants]

22. AND

[yellowcanine]

13. How much to get a gaming lesson from Bill Bennett in the casino?

[sinkingfeeling]

15. My advice: go for the window. You'll need something to jump out of.

[Ganja Ninja]

16. Two words come to mind - Norwalk Virus! n/t

[jwirr]

18. Where were the pirates when you need them?

[KansDem]

20. New "Rove Boat" lyrics...

Rove, exciting and new
Come Aboard. He's expecting you.
Rove, Bush's sweetest reward.
Let him lie, and deceive all of you.

"Rove Boat" soon will be making another run
The "Rove Boat" promises to screw everyone
Set a course for hegemony,
Find lots of dough for Bush and Cheney.

Rove don't hurt anymore
When you're lying dead, on a foreign shore.
Yes ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE! It's ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE! (hey-ah!)
(etc)

[JHB]

26. Paging Irwin Allen....

Have I got a "Poseiden Adventure" for you....

[emulatorloo]

27. I am feeling SEASICK just thinking about it. eom