They are considering options, to make decisions last minute, based on the actual situation.
A good military leader makes contingency plans. So does a good commander-in-chief. Wise heads getting together I think. Fregards ....
A hybrid solution would work.
Attend to the key needs of the convention, that is also serving national needs of course, people need to know what they are voting for, with proper sensitivities and actions taken for any hurricane related events.
Country First is more then a motto.
This is a test of that conviction to the nation.
Can you imagine the MSM and Obama during the RNC. They would all be down in New Orleans showing Obama with his sleeves rolled up helping sandbag the city. Headlines would read “Demoncrats help while Republicans Party” or some such nonsense.
To me it’s patently obvious that simply canceling or postponing the event is not an option. To do that would cost millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars, not a red cent of which would then be available to help the victims of Gustav regardless of where it ends up making landfall.
Appearances are important, but they are only one of many considerations. It is a liberal idea when someone is suffering to make others suffer too, just to make it look like you are leveling the playing field.
When the storm makes landfall the people of the area are going to need a tremendous amount of help. Nothing that is going on at the convention will affect that fact. Travel plans are made, food is purchased, hotel rooms are reserved, everything is in readiness for the event. To cancel it would be a cruel financial blow to the host city and to every business that has spent a lot of money getting ready. What is the good of having two disaster areas instead of one.
IMHO the answer to go ahead as planned, make it abundantly clear that everyone who is tending to important business at the convention prays for the storm’s victims. ANYTHING that is at the convention site, or headed that way, that could be better used in the disaster area would be shipped or diverted.
I know I will take heat for not caring about the victims of the storm, but the object of the response is to help those victims, not make others suffer too.
Whatever way the Republicans play this (suspend, postpone, cancel or just go forward) will be attacked and made to look like the Republicans “don’t care” about New Orleans.
What I would like to see is some official of the Federal Emergency Management agency, on tape, asking Mayor Nagin to “Give the command for evacuation of the city of New Orleans, now,” and see, still on tape, either Nagin REFUSING to give the order, or giving it, and make this known in every occupied quarter of New Orleans. Then there is no excuse that can be bucked back to the Bush Administration.
Nagin and then-Governor Blanco were the ones who fumbled around and refused to take responsibility for issuing the necessary evacuation orders in 2005. We are fairly sure Governor Jindal will do his part, but getting Nagin on board is like nailing Jell-O to the wall.
Everyone should be planning for the worst and praying for the best.
latest from weather channel
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid823425597/bclid877032950/bctid959746457
Put the entire population of the Ninth Ward in hotel rooms inland or on cruise ships now and keep them there until the storm blows over.
Without fresh footage of poor Black people stranded in the SuperDome, the driveby media won’t have anything to televise and blame the evil cruel Republicans for.