Posted on 08/31/2008 6:15:36 AM PDT by bcatwilly
Many of the Democrats have expressed glee over the fact that Hurricane Gustav is going to disrupt the Republican convention plans, once again showing their true colors when a major natural disaster is about to hit an area where people are still trying to recover from the prior hit. Comments have even included references to the fact that God must be on their side, well what if God is outflanking the Democrats? Consider the following:
1. Republicans have taken political hits for the reaction to Hurricane Katrina (much of it unjustified IMO), and this gives them a national stage to demonstrate some of the changes that have taken place since.
2. None of us would kid ourselves that McCain is ever going to demand the same ooh and ahh (especially with the press flag waving for the other side) that Obama does from a football stadium. But imagine John McCain speaking via satellite from the Hurricane zone speaking Presidential and having a chance to connect with voters during a real tragedy.
3. I think Governor Palin is absolutely great, but many Americans obviously still don't know her very well. A sympathetic woman speaking to the country about the tragedy down there may just cement the love of many Americans, especially women, for her.
4. At least some of the Republican surrogates should definitely point out that the initial Democratic response was clear happiness at this coming tragedy.
5. A major issue in this campaign is of course energy independence, and we now have Governor Palin on the ticket that very much understands and has actively done something to work toward energy independence, unlike Obama who simply provides a blanket generic statement to a football stadium that we will be energy independent in 10 years. Even the threat to oil production assets in the Gulf really draws attention to this issue, and clearly the McCain-Palin ticket has more real solutions on deck than the other side. Let us hope that assets are spared as much as possible here from the storm.
Having given that political analysis, the primary consideration here should be prayers that lives are spared and damage minimized. God does work in mysterious ways though, so none of us really know what the ultimate outcome in terms of the election may be from this unfortunate timing.
Yeah. Democrats must have victims, the more the better. Disaster always help them. If not man made, natural disasters will do quite nicely.
Too late.
As much as the libs fawn over the communist chinese they never really pay attention to them... the other half of the definition of the word “crisis” means “opportunity”. The left only pays attention to the chinese penchant for torture, abortion and destroying the environment.
Fair enough, didn’t mean to imply “love” for any other reason than she seems tough and speaks about actually doing something for a change in Washington (with a record to boot). Having said that, don’t discount that some people tend to connect on a more emotional level with their leaders.
In the “real” world, what you say would be true. But we’ve got a bizarro world in which Democrats in cahoots with the DBM are bent on destroying Republicans at every turn, even if it means doing so will hurt the country.
Even though Nagin is still NO Mayor, we’ll hear how Bush and Jindal have emasculated him and are not letting him make any decisions. That’s racist, of course.
No matter how smoothly the evacuation procedures go and how prepared emergency relief is to go in after the storm, Democrats and the DBM are going to find those few (black, of course) people whom the “gubmint” ignored.
Split screens showing the GOP whooping it up in MN on one and poor helpless abandoned NO citizens with nothing but the shirts on their backs on the other will be de rigeur.
Sorry to be so pessimistic, but that’s just the way I see it happening.
Best case scenario is that the storm goes either east or west of NO and the city is spared for the most part. But even then, we’ll hear how cruel it was for Bush and Jindal to make such a big deal out of nothing and causing so many people such inconveniences.
Excellent, excellent.
not to mention that the “Initial Responders”...NO mayor Nagin, et al, ...were all Dems, and ALL failed miserably.
Now we see Ray Nagan stepping up and making plans, the rats probably had something to do with his sudden concern
“don’t make us look bad” while we cheer on the storm that will devistate the already devistated area and disrupt the Republican convention. I’m sure he and the governor at the time had direction from the rats above with Katrina “ sit on your hands do nothing and we will blame it all on Bush” Nothing new for the rats they couldn’t wait for more body bags to return home from Iraq. These are the creeps we want running our country? MCCAIN/PALIN IS THE WAY TO GO!
I WOULD LIKE HER AS PRESIDENT! SHE’S GOT MORE EXPERIENCE THAN THE RATS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND HIS VP COMBINED!
i think that Governors Jindal, Barbour, Crist, Perry should speak to the convention beamed in from their states, showing them dealing with Gustav. that would be very effective i think
This makes me sick.
um...I think you got your states mixed up there but no worries :)
It needs to be a commerical everywhere !
Absolutely agree that this is the worst possible thing that could happen to Democrats. The disgusting chortling by Democrats is just the tip of the iceberg. If Republicans seize the iniative, Democrats will be exposed as the shallow, smarmy, hypocrites they are.
This storm is already a complete game changer in a very close election.
For weeks, media commentators have said John McCain probably wished that President Bush wouldn’t come to the convention. Now the president won’t.
Instead, the Bush Administration has a second chance at managing the media coverage of their efforts during a hurricane disaster.
For Republicans, this hurricane presents a golden opportunity to present themselves to America as truly the party of change.
Obama talks about change and chooses Biden as VP. McCain chooses Palin. Now the Republicans have a chance to hold a very different kind of convention.
What a contrast the Republicans could create between themselves and the Democrats with a totally different kind of convention—with McCain and Palin on the Gulf Coast. The contrast would reveal the Democrats as ineffectual narcissists, with their silly rock concert antics.
How wonderful that Democrats, who only talk about “change”, could be beaten by real change. That, I believe, is the opportunity the Republicans now have.
Sorry but the Obama cultists are really scary—I don’t want to see the right do the same thing. It’s requires a balancing act. I think be excited but don’t go loopy (not implying you went loopy—just in general).
Just like what they did with the Iraq Liberation-they calculated that they'd gain a seat in Congress for every 100 American deaths. That's why the Dem Congressmen and Congressnags were saying the war is lost, we're in a quagmire, etc....to encourage the Saddam Loyalists, al-Quearda, and Mookie Sadr's Shi-its to kill more Americans.
This proves what I have believed for years. Loss of life is nothing to the Democrats compared to their gaining power. They welcomed every lost life in Iraq as an arrow they could shoot at Bush. They worked toward our defeat there because they thought it would help them.
The problem with big cities is the Democrats are ingrained into the system. The masses vote D no matter what. Very few large cities have Republican mayors. The mayors and city councils of these cities are able to provide largess to friends of the mayor, to buy votes. A practice that appears to work.
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