Storm sucks air out of GOP's sails

[dorktv]

http://news.yahoo.com/story//rockymountainnews/20080901/pl_rockymountainnews/stormsucksairoutofgopssails

The sun was shining through partly cloudy skies, but a Category 4 storm of uncertainty blew into the Republican National Convention's host city Sunday.

Though more than 1,000 miles to the south, Hurricane Gustav played havoc with the festivities planned to coronate Sen. John McCain as the Republican presidential nominee.

In a surreal scene inside the Xcel Energy Center, hundreds of journalists crammed into a small ballroom to stare into a television screen as McCain appeared via satellite from Missouri and announced that all but perfunctory party business would be scrapped on the first day of the convention while the nation sends its thoughts and prayers to the people of the Gulf Coast.

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Can we laugh after it makes landfall and no one is hurt about how bad this was for the Republicans?

[calimary]

1. Well, they prayed for bad weather to rain on our parade. WE, on the other hand,

are and should be praying for your last sentence to carry the day, especially the part about "...and no one is hurt."

I think that's the difference between Democrats and republi-CONS - then and there.

[dorktv]

2. It is funny until someone gets hurt. Then it is not funny at all.

So since they were able to evacuate almost everyone, it should be okay dokie.

[calimary]

4. I hope so!

I just hope everybody got away okay. We sure saw a lot of footage of jammed highways outta town.

[blitzen]

3. I feel really sorry for the poor GOP, what with the weather-opportunism,

and praying for APOCALYPSE NO, and the politicizing-by-saying-that-you-don't-politicize, well, all that stuff must be terribly tiring.

[dorktv]

5. Honestly, they must be thinking "dude, what the heck happened?"

We had balmy days in Denver (unless you were in a suit) and the day of the speech was perfect.

They on the other hand have okay weather in one part of the country but the scene of the final nail in the Bush Administration's coffin is getting hit AGAIN with a hurricane.

Not to mention that Georgia calmed down right before the convention.

[RNdaSilva]

6. Actually this might've been a blessing in disguise for the RNC.

* No George Bush.

* No McCain. Acceptance speech, by satellite, from the storm area? Lessen chance of gaffes.

* No lengthy speeches to be discredited.

* Keep Palin in the background.

* Nothing said, nothing to be protested.

I've often felt that McCain's only chance, very slim chance, would be to say nothing between now and November.


(I'm just now reading on CNN that "FLOODING COULD BE WORSE THAN KATRINA." Hope that this is not factual, at least not reality.)

[VolcanoJen]

7. It will likely make landfall as a Cat 2 Hurricane

This has become Hurricane OverHype.

My gut tells me McCain is going to come out looking like a knee-jerk if he doesn't get his ass to St. Paul soon.

[RNdaSilva]

8. Considering that Bush and McCain were making like Nero,

eating cake while New Orleans suffered during Katrina, McCain has to put on a good facade of caring. He will attempt to milk this storm, Gustav, for all it's worth.

[AtomicKitten]

9. Nah, they sucked before Gustav.

[WeDidIt]

10. It's look like this storm could be disastrous

for oil platforms.

The Greasy Oil Party will be sad indeed.