PARK CITY, UT —EBBQ A bunch of very old men with way too much money want to buy the White House and give it to the GOPTea©. They are promising a type of immigration reform that will let them hire Mexican gardeners, cooks and housekeepers to work for them. But with no possible citizenship for any. Thus, taking our country back to well before the 1820s – very pre-Lincoln, when everything was right with the world.
This past weekend, they, and a passel of $50K donors and their bundlers, were invited here for a series of meet-and-greets with the inner circle of the GOPTea© campaign to “Rally Round Romney’s flagpole,” as Mitt’s brother, Scott described it. A devout Mormon, Scott Romney brought both his current and ex-wives.
A number of sold-out events that deserve mention show the wide diversity that is present in GOPTea© thinking at this time of the campaign:
There was a 2-hour photo-op session titled ‘Five minutes with Rove: A one-on-one poseur’, where attendees were allowed 5 minutes of fame sitting next to Karl and photographing it their own iPhones. One question was allowed per session.
Mary Matalin and Dick Cheney chatted sans-teleprompter at a sold-out, 800-person cocktail party. Cheney was regaling everyone with grand detail in a slide show, how he shot his friend on a hunting trip. A magical conversation that several guests called “explosively funny.”
As at all of these multi-day events, GOPTea© wives are shuffled off to be privately entertained. During the alcohol-drenched cocktail party, there was a “Mingling at Ann Romney’s Victory Tea,” which was quietly held near-by on an umbrella-shaded patio. Ann and her 5 daughters-in-law were said to have enjoyed this family-time together. The 2-table tete-a-tete allowed ample room for the 6 ladies to relax.
The weekend had all the glitter of a dress rehearsal Republican National Convention, or as one donor said, “It’s one-on-one chatting with the people who make decisions. We got to relate to them and there were a few that are just like me.”
Condolezza Rice was served as the main entrée for the Saturday lunch. The recipe for making this dish can be downloaded here. The vegetarian alternate was Curry Piyush Jindal, a southern Indian dish known there as a Bobbie. Recipe here.
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On a related note, the brothers Koch held a competing conference for their own conservative ‘Electing R-Money’ PAC mega-donors at a resort outside San Diego.
When asked about a visible divide, David said “We weren’t competing here, this was a legitimate California conference of our private ‘Electing R-Money’ PAC. We were told there wasn’t enough room for our 50 members at The Chateau.” The Park City venue resort was chosen because the Romney kids wanted to ski together over the weekend.
“We require nothing less than 5-star double suites, and The Chateau only has the 2 that Ann and Mitt claimed for their family’s use. So we came here instead. We might teleconference with them after our MillionPlus® Brunch on Sunday. By the way, that’s the price for the brunch, per person – and it is sold out.” David grinned quite widely.
“Off the record here,” David whispered, “Park City was overrun by Karl’s piddly $50K-minimum donors and we don’t, by choice, sit next to the ‘Mini-Ks’, as we have come to call them.
“Back on record,” he said. “The outwardly minor, but my final and decisive reason not to attend was this new wave, liberalist ‘Everybody is completely accessible’ shit.
“Not one fucking MillionPlus® VIP-style event was offered – absolutely no seated place-card dinners. Seriously, two casual BBQs are just two-too many. Who eats that type of food? Let alone, two nights in a row? And why do you cook your own food?
“Off the record here again,” David whispered, “And W-T-F is with that Ann Romney Victory Tea thing? Women only? Really? For what purpose? A veiled take-over attempt by those damn ‘Mini-K’ wives, if you ask me.
“Back on record again,” he said. “Everything else was more of that damned ‘first-come, first-serve’ and ‘wait-in-line’ equality junk. This doesn’t work for us. We require and insist on a permanent, front row reserved seat for every event, even if we don’t attend.
“People need to be reminded of who they are – where their place is, and that it is a different place from our place. Damn straight on that point.
“We made sure that we felt wanted and respected in San Diego this past weekend. It’s not easy being a billionaire these days. We raised tens of millions for our PAC, but none of the lower classes wants to help us out anymore. I’m sensing way too much of this very unwelcome and pushy me-me-me attitude.”





