Never fly ATA again
More post-election debrief:
On the way back to DC from Wisconsin, my friend Deb and I shared a plane with the Bush-Cheney 72-Hour Team.* Not just a couple of them--the entire team.
We were connecting in Chicago, and as we boarded the flight I thought, gee--there are a disproportionate number of paunchy, balding, middle-aged white guys on this flight. And a lot of them are wearing Bush-Cheney gear (not too surprising in the paunchy middle-aged white guy set, but still).
As we taxied down the runway after landing at DC National, the pilot announced, "we'd like to give a special thanks tonight to the 72-Hour Team!" This confirmed my suspicion, which had already been partly confirmed by the Darth Vader theme music I heard in my head as these guys boarded the plane.
I commented to Deb, sotto voce, "what about a special thanks to the two hundred hour team?," which is about how long we had been awake working on our youth GOTV campaign in Wisconsin. That's when we learned that our side of the plane was chock-full of friendlies--ACT and DNC people. Bitterness is a dish best served family-style, I say.
So off the Bush-Cheney guys went to smoke cigars and sip fine champagne (joke, only a joke), and off we went to sleep the sleep of the just.
*72-Hour Team: Team of field operatives deployed by B-C campaign in the 72 hours preceding the 2000 and 2004 elections, to great effect. The idea is that the 72 hours before the election are crucial to turn out the Republican base. See also http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1252129/posts.
On the way back to DC from Wisconsin, my friend Deb and I shared a plane with the Bush-Cheney 72-Hour Team.* Not just a couple of them--the entire team.
We were connecting in Chicago, and as we boarded the flight I thought, gee--there are a disproportionate number of paunchy, balding, middle-aged white guys on this flight. And a lot of them are wearing Bush-Cheney gear (not too surprising in the paunchy middle-aged white guy set, but still).
As we taxied down the runway after landing at DC National, the pilot announced, "we'd like to give a special thanks tonight to the 72-Hour Team!" This confirmed my suspicion, which had already been partly confirmed by the Darth Vader theme music I heard in my head as these guys boarded the plane.
I commented to Deb, sotto voce, "what about a special thanks to the two hundred hour team?," which is about how long we had been awake working on our youth GOTV campaign in Wisconsin. That's when we learned that our side of the plane was chock-full of friendlies--ACT and DNC people. Bitterness is a dish best served family-style, I say.
So off the Bush-Cheney guys went to smoke cigars and sip fine champagne (joke, only a joke), and off we went to sleep the sleep of the just.
*72-Hour Team: Team of field operatives deployed by B-C campaign in the 72 hours preceding the 2000 and 2004 elections, to great effect. The idea is that the 72 hours before the election are crucial to turn out the Republican base. See also http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1252129/posts.
posted by Waage on Monday, November 08, 2004
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