The Salt Lake Tribune
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
At GOP party HQ, a dirge
Grand America . . .
Loneliest girl in town.

The GOP's victory celebration is, in the words of state House majority leader Dave Clark, "somber":
You always take a lead from the head of the ticket.
A couple is picking out a sad song on a piano and no one is smiling. Utah is still red, red, but you wouldn't know it from this crowd. McCain concedes and it's definitely a Mudville mood. Even Jon Huntsman can't lift the blue haze:
Come on, there's a lot to be grateful for. . . .
Amazingly, the Republicans, who are dressed in Sunday best, have a fully stocked bar. Not so amazingly, unlike the casually dressed mob at the Democratic celebration, no one is bellying up to it. (Fun fact: A drink costs $9—twice what the Dems are charging.)

"Not much business," lonely bartender Ozlem Kislali says sadly. I buy a shot of Jack Daniels and give her a tip. Kislali's a Muslim from Turkey. She says she couldn't vote, of course, but she was pulling for Obama. I lift the drink: "To Barack Hussein Obama."

1 Comments:

At November 5, 2008 7:07 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

GOP'ers are bummed? They still own the state.

The bastards want complete control, and the corporations want that too because they want to rape us ever way they can. That's whu I voted for Super Dell.

 

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