GOP Convention May be Delayed
August 30th, 2008 at 12:14pm Mark Noonan
Completely understandable:
Republican officials said yesterday that they are considering delaying the start of the GOP convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul because of Tropical Storm Gustav, which is on track to hit the Gulf Coast, and possibly New Orleans, as a full-force hurricane early next week.
The threat is serious enough that White House officials are also debating whether President Bush should cancel his scheduled convention appearance on Monday, the first day of the convention, according to administration officials and others familiar with the discussion.
For Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Gustav threatens to provide an untimely reminder of Hurricane Katrina. A new major storm along the Gulf Coast would renew memories of one of the low points of the Bush administration, while pulling public attention away from McCain’s formal coronation as the GOP presidential nominee.
Senior Republicans said images of political celebration in the Twin Cities while thousands of Americans flee a hurricane could be dubious. “Senator McCain has always been sensitive to national crisis,” said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, noting that the senator postponed announcing his presidential candidacy in 2000 because of the war in the Balkans. “We are monitoring the situation very closely.”
Matt Burns, a spokesman for the convention, said that as of last night, it is scheduled to open on time. “We are planning for our convention to open on Monday,” he said. “Like all Americans, we are monitoring the situation closely in the Gulf.”
Yes, indeed we are - and while our prayer is that Gustav will fizzle into a little light rain before it makes landfall in the United States, the crucial thing now, for the people of Louisiana, is that they have a Republican governor who won’t fall apart in a crisis, like the Democratic governor did during Katrina, ultimately causing all the problems which were entirely unfairly laid at President Bush’s feet. Michael Moore has been quoted as saying that this new hurricane developing around the GOP convention is proof there is a God…and he might be right, but not in the way he thinks…the American people will see a Republican response from the get-go, and will be able to compare and contrast to the Democratic response three years ago.
And I’m actually sorry it has to be this way - but it was the Democrats who turned Katrina into a nasty, slanderous, partisan political attack. Democrats cooked this nasty broth, and now they might just have to drink it to the dregs.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats, Environment, General Government, President Bush, RNC08, Republicans
33 Comments
1. jayhay | August 30th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I love how when things go wrong, it’s never the guy at the top (Bush) that’s responsible. It’s always some other sucker down the line. The buck always stops somewhere over there with Bush. “I’m just President! What could I have done?!!”
This convention is going to be so good - whenever it happens. Between selling Palin as the best choice of all the possibilities to be McCain’s right hand in the oval office (when her use is clearly a cynical election ploy) to the pretzel-like threading the needle of conflicting GOP constituencies, it’ll be great stuff.
Putting. The GOP. First.
2. kimberly4victory | August 30th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I sent an email to the RNC asking them to please postpone the convention. If it goes on, the Dems will use it as “They don’t care about Americans” ploy.
In addition, I really, really, really want to hear Jindal at the convention, but obviously his priorities will lie in keeping Louisianans safe.
3. jayhay | August 30th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
P.S. Obama had 40 million viewers for his acceptance speech. But I’m sure this is great news! For McCain!
4. kimberly4victory | August 30th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Now it’s 40 million? And, the number keeps rising. LOL.
Look jayhay, Republicans and Independents watched it too. I even watched it. Just like Democrats will watch McCain’s acceptance speech. Give it up.
I am taking great offense to you Libs stating that Palin was chosen because of the women vote. Sure, one small part. She was chosen because of her intelligence, her fight against corruption, her fiscal responsibility, and many other reasons.
Just trying to save you from embarrassment.
5. neocon | August 30th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
There seems to be an orderly evacuation on going in NO, busses are being dispatched, people are being taken care of, structures are being secured and preparations are in place.
Thank you Gov. Jindal for taking care of your own state and demonstrating what competence is.
6. kimberly4victory | August 30th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Amen to that, neocon. Nagel and Blanco were so inept. Jindal is a shining star!
7. New Conservative | August 30th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
“Obama had 40 million viewers for his acceptance speech. But I’m sure this is great news! For McCain!”
But but 30 million of those live in Europe
http://thenewconservatives.blogspot.com/
8. Mark Noonan | August 30th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
jayhay,
In the United States, when something happens within the borders of a State it is the governor who is the person at the top…only subsequent to the governor’s actions (or lack thereof) does the United States government get involved…and once President Bush understood the scope of the disaster, federal assistence was massive and prompt, though hindered by State goverment failure and the complete collapse of the New Orleans city government.
You on the left cooked up a bunch of lies about what happened during Katrina…and now you might get those lies shoved right back down your throats.
9. getfreeinsurance » &hellip | August 30th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
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10. kimberly4victory | August 30th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
So true, new conservative!!
Excellent post, Mark. Unfortunately, no matter how many times we explain how government works to Libs, they still won’t understand it … or will cover their ears, “Nope, don’t wanna hear it. I can’t hearrrr you! La, la, la, la, la, la, la.”
11. jayhay | August 30th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Sorry Noonan, Katrina is stuck to Bush, and he earned it. Tough luck on that one.
12. neocon | August 30th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Katrina is stuck to Bush only in the minds of the delusional, ignorant, juvenile liberal far left minority which will be relegated to the sewer once Jindal displays what competence actually is, and when Palin punks Biden.
13. Timestar | August 30th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
In the United States, when something happens within the borders of a State it is the governor who is the person at the top…8. Mark Noonan | August 30th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
This was a Hurricane of historical proportions. No state could deal with its impact alone. Had Katrina hit Houston or Dallas I am certain Bush would have stopped on his way to McCain’s birthday. Look at Mississippi and Alabama who just so happened to have Republican senators at the time; got all the Federal help they needed; good job Brownie. Bush let the Democratic majority in New Orleans drown. This will always be a cross he wears.
14. Mark Noonan | August 30th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Timestar,
It doesn’t occur to you at all that the other States had Republican governors? You don’t recall that Florida, under Jeb Bush, was hit by hurricane after hurricane and yet managed to get past the difficulty?
No one is saying that the federal government had no role to play - we’re just pointing out that its a monumentally stupid lie to say that the failure in New Orleans is Bush’s fault.
15. Timestar | August 30th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
A couple of weeks ago the good Christian Dr. Dobson’s Focus on the Family organization put out an Internet video asking people to pray for rain the weather they were asking people to pray for was “network-cameras-can’t-see-the-podium rain” during Barack Obama’s outdoor acceptance speech at Mile High Stadium.
I pray the gulf coast is spared any destruction and the wingnut pep rally goes on as scheduled so the nation can see the neocons as the hypocrites they are.
16. Timestar | August 30th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
It doesn’t occur to you at all that the other States had Republican governors? You don’t recall that Florida, under Jeb Bush, was hit by hurricane after hurricane and yet managed to get past the difficulty?14. Mark Noonan | August 30th, 2008 at 2:02
Are you trying to imply Florida, Mississippi and Alabama did it without massive Federal Aid? My point is because New Orleans had a large Democratic population Bush in his own divisionist way let the city drown. He probably thought it would be just a little drowning for voting Democratic. Anyways Florida gets hit every year, they should be ready for the big one.
17. Ken | August 30th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Hmmm… Katrina… Nagan and Blanko waited until the last moment before asking for Federal help and somehow our liberal friends want to blaime President Bush?
Here is how it works, the Federal Gov can not do anything until the Governer of one of the states asks for help. Until that happens, there is not much that the Federal Gov can do.
When a local town or City needs help, they turn to the State Government. If the State Government does not have the resources to handle a problem then, and only then does the Federal Government come in.
Sadly, most liberals hate President Bush, so no matter how the Government should work, any and all disasters will somehow be his fault.
I’m happy to hear that Gov. Jindal has his act together and is getting his state ready long before Hurrican Gustav hits and not waiting until one or two days before like Blanko did.
18. kimberly4victory | August 30th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Timestar has joined the Most Ignorant People in the US, alongside Kanye West. Unbelievable!!
19. Dennis | August 30th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Most people I know are praying that the residents of the Gulf coast will be spared another catastrophic storm. They already have suffered enough.
It is curious that the timing of Gustav’s landfall seems likely to coincide with the Republican Convention, immediately after James Dobson and others were invoking divine intervention to somehow ruin the Democratic Convention.
God is holy, and neither manipulable or prone to indulge human grudges. But the scriptures do contain accounts of natural phenomena that indicated both God’s mercy and his displeasure at people’s hardness of heart.
If those who were praying for misfortune to befall the Democratic Convention are rewarded by the distraction of a major hurricane during the GOP Convention, there is naturally a temptation to see it as a kind of perverse, if not divine, justice.
20. FmrMarine | August 30th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
nagan;
“we don wan steenking school buses, wes wan ar conditioned buses or nottin”………
So they got nothing, did nothing, evacuated nothing, and it was all Bushes fault…….GOTTA LOVE it.
In the meantime they rebuilt a city that is BELOW sea level, and still has dikes, and pumps to keep the sea out.
STOOPID donkroaches.
where be ma $2000.00 sos i cans buys a new louie?
21. FmrMarine | August 30th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
dingdong
>>>If those who were praying for misfortune to befall the Democratic Convention >>>
Praying couldnt have done any better than you guys nominating oBOMBa and hairplugjoe.
DUMB and DUMBER !
looks like the donkrat toilet, no is about to be flushed again.
22. jerry | August 30th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I think this proves it. God is clearly a Democrat. Maybe he is an Obamacan.
23. Ricorun | August 30th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
jerry: I think this proves it. God is clearly a Democrat. Maybe he is an Obamacan.
Your comment is beyond the pale. You should be ashamed of yourself.
24. Casper | August 30th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Like it or not Katrina will forever be attached to Bush. I’m not saying that Nagan and Blanko don’t deserve some of the blame, because they do, as does Bush. After Katrina Bush’s ratings dropped like a stone and they have never come back.
25. Marie | August 30th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Hey, will some one post the picture of Georgie playing the guitar while the hurricane was hitting one more time?
Isn’t that the same photo op with McCain and Georgie holding a cake while N.O. drowns?
Anyone?
26. jerry | August 30th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Ricorun-
I think you need to relax, I was not serious.
27. Ricorun | August 30th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
jerry: I think you need to relax, I was not serious.
First of all, show me where you made it obvious you weren’t being serious (before I called you on it, I mean). Second, even if you weren’t serious, how do you reconcile being flippant about such a serious danger?
Maybe it’s true that I need to relax. But it’s even more obvious that you need to think.
28. jerry | August 30th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Ricorun-
To designate God having poltical leanings is I though inherently absurd. My flip comment was in poor taste as Gustav has already killed several. I apologize for offending you or anyone else. But I think you need to relax a little as well.
29. Danish Artist | August 30th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Notice how quickly Blondestar changes the subject.
He/She/It spews the talking points rather well.
As a Katrina “refugee”, I witnessed first hand the inept and bungling administrations of Nagin and Blanco. Both were more worried about their authority being over-ridden by the Feds if they asked for help too soon, neither one wanted to give up their “kingdoms”. It came back and bit them in the ass, neither one followed the plans and procedures already in place.
It is a good thing that the Republicans are considering postponing the convention. That way the libs can’t say the Republicans partied while New Orleans flooded.
New Orleans will flood, because the liberal utopia that has been in place for 30+ years is still in place and the ineptness of the people are still grabbing federal money and diverting it to their pet projects instead of putting into the levee system. It happened before and it is happening now.
The great liberal experiment has failed in the cities all over the country and they want to bring it up to the national level…….. amazing.
30. yekepyt | August 31st, 2008 at 11:16 am
Well, Focus on the Family did pray for “rain of biblical proportions” to ruin the convention — oops, they wanted God to send rain and ruin the Democratic convention.
Looks like God got it wrong — but let me ask a question on a more serious note, to those who are genuinely devout and believe strongly in the power of prayer.
Focus on the Family explicitly asked people to pray to God for “rain of biblical proportions” to come and ruin Obama’s speech. In the end, Obama’s speech was blessed with gorgeous balmy evening air in an outdoor stadium in a city a mile above sea level.
Now, a category four hurricane threatens to delay his opponents’ convention. My question is: do you think that God is trying to send a message to the good men and women folks at Focus on the Family? And if so, what?
31. FmrMarine | August 31st, 2008 at 1:15 pm
y
>>>Well, Focus on the Family did pray for “rain of biblical proportions” to ruin the convention —>>>
more baseless accusations…..PROVE this, or be considered a LIAR!
As for NO is a toilet, and will once again be flushed.
maybe we will again witness the good citizens, robbing, looting, rampaging, and pillaging while their local and state officials did NOTHING.
The NG had to turn around and ARM themselves against the fine citizens of NO.
They had to act like liberaters of a 3rd world country more than rescue a citys citizens.
That is your democrat society at work for you.
PS anyone stupid enough to live in a city that is BELOW sea level, in the direct path of hurricanes, are surrounded by levies and pumps to keep the water out gets what ever happens to them.
32. FactCheck | August 31st, 2008 at 2:14 pm
more baseless accusations…..PROVE this, or be considered a LIAR!
Done and done.
The truth hurts, doesn’t it, Alleged Marine? That would explain your perpetual anger and paranoia: You’re in constant pain.
33. yekepyt | September 1st, 2008 at 10:07 am
Hey FmrMarine:
Spend THIRTY SECONDS RESEARCHING SOMETHING ON GOOGLE before DEMANDING THAT SOMEONE PROVE IT or else be labeled a FOOL!
I mean, seriously — all it would take is for you to type “Focus on Family Prays for Rain” into Google and you’d get links to the actual video, news articles about it, official statements where they announce that they’ve stopped running the video (wink, wink), and more “proof.”
When you spout off (especially with your third-grade bad spelling and punctuation), demanding that I “prove” something that is very well documented, you just sound like a fool.
Go get an education, man!