While Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal are taking trips to Iowa this month, Mitt Romney is headed off on a cruise, but not just any cruise:
Guess who is conveniently leaving tomorrow on a Caribbean cruise with influential conservative leaders now that the election is over and Republicans are pondering their future?
Yep, Mitt Romney, widely believed to be planning another run for president in 2012.
Mr. Romney, who sought the Republican nomination in 2008, is one of the headliners for the National Review’s post-election cruise, which departs tomorrow for six days of sun and conversation about restoring the Republican brand in fabulous ports of call in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Turks and Caicos.
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For a taste of the goings-on aboard ship, here is a description from the Web site: “This is not your typical cruise. Guests of National Review will enjoy informative seminars and extensive interaction with our guest speakers; numerous social events; dining with fellow conservatives as well as guest speakers; and a wonderful sense of sharing and camaraderie.
The cruise will include cocktail receptions, evening cigar and cognac smokers, dinners together, group excursions, and seminar sessions.”
Mr. Romney has kept busy since dropping out of the race for president, campaigning vigorously for Senator John McCain, Mr. Romney’s former rival, and raising more than $400,000 for Republican candidates and causes through his political action committee.
You will recall that National Review endorsed Mitt Romney during the Republican primaries.
Welcome to politics, my friends, the game the never ends.
