Gustav likely to steal a lot of our thunder

It will be the only news story if it hits New Orleans or does a lot of damage. (which is really bad all by itself), it also gives Bush and Cheney political cover for missing the GOP convention. Instead of showing up and embarassing everybody they can miss it while looking like they are trying to do some good for the country rather than because they are an embarassment to this country and their own party.

Free and Brave
or Cradle to Grave
You can't have both

In God We Trust!

It is God who raiseth the wind and waves and He alone will calm them.

Put all the HAARP thinking in the trash can where it belongs.

I'm not looking at that which is seen, but to that which is not seen!

for the GOP, provided they can distance themselves from the Bush fiascos of Katrina. They'll be sure and keep Bush and Cheney under wraps. The attention to the storm will bring many viewers into close watch on their television sets, and they'll be exposed to plenty of politics. I'm not sure what kind of coverge Ron Paul will get, and it may not play too well at the moment of a National disaster in progress to be calling for "less" government. A lot of people's sentiment will be for more, more, and even more big govenment. Bad timing for a disaster. But, Ron Paul can eloquently guide the people with his true logic, and rationale......this may be the perfect storm that Ron Paul needs.

The idea of McCain grandstanding on the winds of Gustav is sickening to say the least. I don't see that him going to the region will help foster an image of a man that cares about the aftermath of the hurricane and being sensitive to the residents, I see it as a vain attempt to make himself out to be the great caring President that Bush wasn't after Katrina. What a waste!

"Ideas have consequences." Ron Paul

Here it comes...

Suspend the rules, backroom McCain, and announce a unified party in the face of a national tragedy.

It will make great TV.

floor vote. Remember how the DNC was talking about having the delegates do a phone vote so it wouldn't embarrass Obama? This storm is the perfect excuse. They don't really care about the people, just so long as it fits into their agenda. Most telling part of the Politico article is this sentence. "Much can be changed or altogether dropped from the convention, but it emphatically must take place in some form, because McCain needs to be nominated to be legally placed on the ballot in all 50 states. “There are no exceptions to that,” said the source."
The threat of Ron Paul delegates is exactly why I think they will do anything other than a normal floor vote.

Officials insisted that the convention, scheduled to open here on Monday, will go on — albeit in a more limited and sedate form —

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