Republicans gather at former plantation to discuss minority outreach

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/17/republicans-gather-at-former-plantation-to-discuss-minority-outreach/



After its general election battering, the Republican party has retreated to lick its wounds and ponder what went wrong – on the leafy grounds of a luxury golf resort in Virginia.

And what better place for today’s GOP to hold strategy sessions titled “Successful communication with minorities and women” than on the grounds of a former plantation in the south?

“When the first English foot was placed in Virginia, it was here on these grounds that once served as a central part of the area’s plantation life in the 1600s through 1800s,” boasts the website of the Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, which draws a discrete veil over whatever events in the 1800s may have caused that to end.

But tradition lives on in the name of the resort’s Plantation Golf Course and the 374-seat Burwell Plantation Room – where, as luck would have it, the forum on minorities and women was to be held.

Included among the sessions is one that probably sums up the state of mind of many attendees: “What happened and where are we now?” It’s a good question, after the bruising battle the Republicans endured over the “fiscal cliff” at the end of last year, with the party in Congress preparing to get back in the ring for the debt ceiling extension tussles at the end of February.

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1. One session was in a room named after a wealthy slave owner

ReTHUGs can't help themselves.

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2. They are just pining for the Good Old Days and a they also want the ones from

the former Confederacy to feel right at home.

Why they are just being good hosts!

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3. Oh, the irony is so rich!