WASHINGTON -- For many bulging Republicans, Barack Obama's inauguration is a festive epoch of a distinct sort, intense of balmy breezes and satisfying vistas. Having preoccupied a drubbing in the November elections, GOP loyalists fled Washington for beaches, golf courses and ski slopes, light-hearted to have as a remainder the dismal and crowded National Mall to the winners. "For some reason, I did not get invited to any of the enthusiastically rated parties," said Charlie Black, a past master lobbyist who was a trim cicerone to Republican presidential appointee John McCain.
He planned to lay out Tuesday playing golf in Arizona. "I'll be trading up about 50 degrees," Black said, seeking a witty quandary in a bloodthirsty civil season. Eric Ueland, a longtime Republican assistant and consultant in Washington, was enthusiastic to be chilly, but not in Washington.
"Inaugural daytime will upon me in New Hampshire, snowmobiling my cares away," he said in an e-mail. "I of there's no better part of the country to go after the avalanche we suffered in the electoral college." Terry Holt is another Republican strategist who went skiing Tuesday, although he chose West Virginia slopes, and he didn't perfectly be blind to the festivities in Washington. "My 9-year-old son is mountainous Obama admirer," Holt said, "and he insists we chaperon the swearing-in and speech. I'm guaranteed it's just the senior of many treacherous acts.
" The GOP's end was not the only justification for vacating Washington, Holt said. With so many common man pouring in, he said, "it's current to be chaos." Washington-based Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio dog-tired the daylight at his Miami vacation home.
All inaugurations bring in suffocating crowds and intolerable traffic, he said. Obama should not work his want personally, Fabrizio said, because he also skipped George W. Bush's two inaugurations.
"It's just a vile time, period," to be in the nation's capital, he said. Jill Hazelbaker, who was McCain's communications director, expended Tuesday visiting friends in New York City. "Of procedure I'll be watching the inauguration festivities" on TV, she said. She said she meditating about attending in person, but navigating Washington's crowds seemed too daunting. Still, Hazelbaker said, Republicans and Democrats showing "have spacy hopes for the entering Obama administration.
" Some Republicans, of course, stayed in Washington. John Feehery, a strategist and earlier height congressional aide, said he and his ball and chain planned to haunt from their Capitol Hill stamping-ground to the ritual if they could catch a infant sitter for their inexperienced son. "I accepted the will of the American commoners and I'm game to accomplish with this administration," he said. A resort to administrative commentator on CNN and MSNBC, Feehery seemed not in great inquire on this broad daylight of Democratic celebration.
"I might be doing Irish TV," he said a shred sheepishly. Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist who has joined a Democratic fellow-worker to fashion a bipartisan consulting firm, did not look for to conduct many GOP friends Tuesday. "There's a slew of common people at South Beach and Vegas," he said. He and his better half considered a last-minute escape to Puerto Rico.
"It's not because Barack Obama is proper president," Bonjean said. "It's because 2 million subjects are saturating the city." Fabrizio, the pollster, said he thinks there is "a private undercover of Republicans who are in point of fact effective to be undisclosed to the inauguration.
" "They're a charge out of the closet chocolate eaters," he said: People who warrant they don't have a bite sweets, then hideaway to their arcane stash.
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