And of course, it is official that Bush and Cheney will not be attending the convention. They both claim that it is because of Hurricane Gustav. Yeah, O.K. Anything excuse will do.
Crooks and Liars:
Dana Bash reports to Wolf Blitzer that McCain, clearly cognizant of the bad press George Bush got of celebrating McCain’s birthday rather than keep an eye out for the citizens of the Gulf Coast, is considering a few different options for the Republican National Convention, scheduled to start Monday just as Hurricane Gustav makes landfall. One option, delaying the convention, has been set aside. Instead, McCain, along with wife Cindy and running mate Sarah Palin, will fly down to the Gulf Coast
The Arizona senator and Alaska governor will fly to Mississippi on Sunday to view preparations for the hurricane, adding a last-minute trip in an effort to contrast their would-be administration with President George W. Bush’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina three years ago.
But it gets worse, much worse. Now there’s talk of turning the Republican National Convention — peopled by the same types who thought that those Ninth Ward citizens should have drowned rather than look to the government to help evacuate them during Katrina, mind you — into a telethon of sorts for Gulf Coast relief.
McCain said he had been in touch with the Governors from Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Florida and continued on to say, “I’ve been talking to all of them, but you know it just wouldn’t be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster, so we’re monitoring it from day to day and I’m saying a few prayers too.”
The Republican Convention planners are preparing to alter the scheduled events and may simply stick to the minimal ceremony required by law to officially nominate John McCain as the Republican’s Presidential candidate and Sarah Palin as the vice presidential candidate for the GOP.
One contingency plan in the event of a worse case scenario where Gustav reaps massive destruction along the U.S. Gulf Coast is to turn a portion of the convention into a “giant hurricane relief telethon”, where attending Republicans would be transformed into “Red Cross-type volunteers” as the New York Post phrases it in their report.
Those Republicans would help collect donations, not for the Republican Party or John McCain but instead for storm victims as well as collecting food and goods to help them as well.
McCain - whose campaign motto is “Country First” - said helping people during an emergency will take precedence over accepting his GOP nomination for president.
A big gamble by McCain. The real question is how many people will show up to the convention and how many of the people who tune in to the RNC this week?
1 comment:
Oh pa leeze........Bush and Supreme Leader Darth were asked to stay away so that McSame, does not look like the third Darth term, any excuse.
Taking advantage of a natural disaster....pitiful, cancel the convention and put up sandbags or drive a truck of water down south McSame and then we will believe you...
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