For other participants, this year’s Renaissance panels on subjects like “Mistakes” were more relaxed and introspective sans president – and in the wake of last fall’s GOP landslide, much humbler. The organizers recruited new Republican darlings like Jersey City, N.J., mayor Bret Schundler to keep GOP standbys like Richard Viguerie company. Hey, if Clinton has veered right, why shouldn’t his favorite New Year’s party?
