Posted on 08/25/2012 6:14:27 PM PDT by Fawn
Republicans have postponed their national convention in Tampa at least a day because of concerns about Tropical Storm Isaac.
The event will kick off Monday morning but the convention will immediately recess until Tuesday afternoon, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement.
Due to the severe weather reports for the Tampa Bay area, the Republican National Convention will convene on Monday August 27th and immediately recess until Tuesday afternoon, August 28th. After consulting with Governor Scott, NOAA and local emergency management officials, we are optimistic that we will begin an exciting, robust convention that will nominate the Romney-Ryan ticket, Priebus said.
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Now that’s just crazy talk. I’ve been through hurricanes, and I”ve been through tornados, they’re both nasty!
The hotels stay full for two extra days and the girls working the streets will appreciate the two extra nights work.
Does this mean Ann Romney gets to speak prime time Tuesday?
Just wondering when the PhonyCons start blaming the storm on Todd Akin
The “out” party (relative to the White House) chooses the week and they go first. The “out” party often chooses the end of August because it gives them more time to get their act together after a typical bruising primary struggle. It also forces the incumbent party the hassle of having to wait until after Labor Day, when people are busier with their own lives, football season and school have begun, etc.
Cities compete for the privilege of hosting. I don’t remember who competed w Tampa. I know the Dems had to choose between Cleveland and Charlotte and they made a HORRIBLE decision, as it turned out.
Hurricane season lasts from July 1 until November 30. Florida's last hurricane was 2005.
Dems considered Cleveland, St Louis and Minneapolis in addition to the "winner" Charlotte.
For a convention? Relatively speaking...Bewahahahaha
Cowards!
Lettin’ a little thunderstorm scare ‘em.
Where I live we have tornadoes.
They’re worse
Ohio?
Cleveland sucks, Columbus is boring as all hell, and Cincinnati is dangerous.
And Dayton and Youngstown are dead and almost ghost-towns.
Write down 7734, then turn the paper upside down and GO there.
Yeah, well, Katrina was taking the exact same route, according to predictions, four days before she did a hard turn and made landfall well West.
Teams Mittens best speech would be, I accept the nomination and thanks, enough said. Anything else that he might say only reveals how empty a vessel that he really is.
LOL,What? How in the world can pushing back the start date of the Convention by 1 day have any affect on how much or if any bump will occur for Romney?
There wasn’t even going to be any Network coverage of the 1st day anyway and the only result of this is to shorten Convention to 3 days instead of 4. The Dem Convention is 3 days anyway so what is the issue here?
So Preibus should have known 6 months ago there would be a storm on 8/27? It’s Hurricane season from June thru Oct in Fla so what date should he have chosen?
Great to have 20/20 hindsight, eh?
There is nothing remotely exciting about the GOP ticket.
Excellent observation.
So, what kind of hillbilly is this ol'boy that he pshaws hurricane season on the Florida coast?
Awful lot of them look like they scooted right by Florida ~ in other years they scoot right into Florida ~ I posted that NWS historic track record of all the storms earlier ~ and anyone could have looked at that.
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