A red state of mind

A while ago New York Magazine had an article on young NYC Republicans--they exist! One of them, a high school classmate of mine named Matt Baer, was "turning the Upper West Side into (gasp) GOP country", or at least trying.

Well, seems he's succeeded: Today I saw a young man wearing an "I Love Halliburton" shirt, plus an older man with one of those buttons with a letter crossed out, but rather than a "W" it was a "K." All on Broadway, between 72nd and 75th. The next thing you know, the Fairway will be selling red meat. Oh wait, it does! Aaaahhhhh!!!!

I wanted to find the person on the Upper West Side selling this pro-Bush paraphernalia, if such a person existed. Would he or she wear a bullet-proof vest, or would a device to protect him or her from wayward shopping carts be all the protection necessary? I passed a large table where someone was selling pro-Kerry pins, and saw down the street that a man was selling pins at a smaller table. Aha, this had to be the guy. He didn't look especially Republican, could have fit right in at Zabars or H&H, but things aren't always what they seem.

Actually, things are always what they seem. The guy, too, was selling pro-Kerry pins, albeit a smaller selection of them. No need to gasp--GOP country has failed to join Urban Outfitters, Sephora, and the soon-to-open Barneys Co-op on that particular stretch of Broadway.