Gustav and the RNC...

http://www.reuters.com/ar...SN30494388

If McCain turns the convention into a telethon type deal to help the red cross and other types its a brilliant move, cause it separates him from Bush's failure of Katrina. Also if W. decides he needs to be in DC and oversee the relief efforts, then McCain will have no images of Bush at his party. Another win.

If this happens, and its a big IF, McCain will come off as a caring, concerned for people, bucking the system maverick.

Its a PR wet dream.

If they try to use the DNC as a fund raiser, it'll look like they have ulterior motives.

Nobody wants to see a political convention masquerading as a fundraiser.

Just postpone the damn thing.

People can watch them parade old white men with old white man values some other time. Right now, we're on the brink of a major natural disaster.

Paris9748430 said:

lazycrockett said:

If they decide to cancel the RNC, it's only because they don't wanna be upstaged by Gustav - all the attention will be on that. Thing is, McLame hopes and prays the Reps handle THIS hurricane correctly, or else people will certainly connect another botched emergency with the Reps and that spells disaster for his campaign.

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Bottomline is, McCain knows what he's doing. As out of touch and Bush-lite as many dems want to paint him, he's simply not, and he's apparently well aware of the best way to handle this oncoming, literal and figurative, storm.

In the last week the man has managed to not only keep Obama's bump after what was one of the greatest political speeches of the modern era to no more than a single digits, but to gain a VP that has gotten the Christian right via Dobson to say 'pull that lever' and if you don't understand the significance of that, you're the one out of touch, and don't realize who ultimately beat Gore and Kerry in 2000 and 2004 -- the evangelicals of America.

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Paris9748430 said:

Wall said:

All Palin has to do is look pretty, smile and answer her questions in a cohesive manner. She's pro-life and, as impossible as it seems anyone could be in this current age, a supporter of 'intelligent design', aka a moron, and that's all the drones of the right need to hear to get on the McCain bus.
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Oh i give her cred cause shes passionate bout her beliefs. I don't agree with them but at least she up front and proud of them. She's real.

Wall said:

Paris9748430 said:

Here's a strange irony- before the Democratic convention a bunch of Christian Right Fundmentalist leaders actually said a prayer petitioning that God cause it to rain on Thursday night so as to ruin Obama's moment.

Thursday was beautiful.

Now on the scheduled beginning day of the Republican convention a huge storm is going to hit and even though it will be over a thousand miles from Minneapolis it is going to negatively impact their convention.

Hmmmmm..... simple coincidence or a spiritually humbling lesson for the Christian Right?

suddenly gods a democrat.

DakutiusMaximus said:

DakutiusMaximus said:

MuthaFunka said:

Wall said:

good lord people. it's probably going to be a huge disaster, and people are already trying to punk it for political gain.

people will likely die.

i mean... HELLO?

at least have the tact to not salivate over how much this disaster and the deaths of people can be used for political gain until AFTER it happens and we deal with it.

and you know, i realize they're not americans so not many will care, but at least 81 people are already dead.
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cborgman said:

I don't think the people who are saying "just cancel it" realize the logistics involved with a national convention. In canceling the convention, you extend a natural disaster in New Orleans to an economic disaster in the Twin Cities. Planes have been chartered, hotels have been booked, ground transportation has been arranged, food has been catered, etc. A lot of the people providing these things (especially the catering) are small businesses that are counting on this.

There is no reason the convention can't go on - in fact, it should. There is a nominating process that has to be completed. But there are ways of taking the celebratory aspect out of it - and I'm sure that's what they're looking at right now.

All of the Gulf Coast governors are Republicans. As such, they are all delegates to the convention. And all are staying home.
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Genesia said:

Yea isn't amazing Barack goes to have his speech outside, imagine if it would have start pouring rain a few hours or minutes before.....hhhmmmmm.....but the weather was PERFECT!

But now here comes the RNC and their convention appears to be going to occur with coming disaster.....

AriesIII said:

MuthaFunka said:

If they decide to cancel the RNC, it's only because they don't wanna be upstaged by Gustav - all the attention will be on that. Thing is, McLame hopes and prays the Reps handle THIS hurricane correctly, or else people will certainly connect another botched emergency with the Reps and that spells disaster for his campaign.

At least he (or shall I say Karl Rove) realizes that partying up in the great state of Minnesota while the people are at peril is a hard pill to swallow for normal human beings.

Really, they should just cancel the whole damn thing and call it a day, Gustav has reminded and rekindled those old painful memories of Bush and Katrina...memories we had almost forgotten, to our peril.

Let us not forget...Refugees in our (oops, I mean their) own country.

http://www.usatoday.com/n...sing_x.htm
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Oh man, now they're using Gustav as an excuse to get rid of Bush from the convention. They must be terrified of putting him in the same room as McCain and create a photo-op.

From CNN:

Depends on which way you look at it.


Gustav, and its timing, will serve to remind the country that the GOP's administration completely failed in one of the most basic functions the executive branch has. It will reinforce the failures of the Republicans, who had complete control of the government at the time.


OR

An effective, competent response to Gustav by both the current administration and the presumptive GOP ticket will assure Americans that the GOP has learned from its mistakes, has been duly chastened by its failures, and can be trusted with the executive branch for another four years.

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