Republican National Convention forced to cancel a day due to Hurricane Isaac.
There are moments in politics where the imagery borders on priceless storytelling. Dick Cheney in a wheelchair during Obama’s inauguration, for example. I’m not intending to kick a man while he was down, but many lips smirked, and many heads shook in understanding of the imagery that day.
And now we see the news that the RNC in Tampa FL is in the cross-hairs (to borrow a often-used Republican metaphor) of a hurricane. In the words of one British comedy idol, I think there’s meaning in that.
Raining on their parade? (there, I said it. Sorry.)
Is the RNC cancelled? No, it is not entirely. Come hell or high water (clear throat), the Republicans will throw their party and make sure that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are nominated to be at the top of the 2012 general election ticket. Monday they will gather briefly, then immediately cancel so that, one would assume, they can hunker down in whatever high spots one might find in Tampa.
Questions arise about the Republican National Convention schedule now:
- What about Donald Trump? According to him he had been asked to do “something really, really big. Super big” for the convention, which we can only assume was scheduled for Monday.
- Anne Romney was supposed to speak on Monday, got moved to a different day because they want her on Network TV. Given who she knows, I imagine her spot is safe, but who gets kicked of the schedule? Looks like Jeb Bush, and Tea Party darlings, Mike Huckabee and Nikki Haley. (Though the RNC will provide updates regularly to schedule changes.
- How will the Republicans complain? Did Obama secretly have something thrown into the air to cause this hurricane? Somehow they have to make this his fault, right?
- How will the Republicans complain (part two)? What about TV coverage? All the networks agreed to only three days, which assuming they go on Tuesday, means it’s still fair between both Republican and Democratic Conventions, but we all know that they will find SOME WAY to blame “the liberal, mainstream, lame-stream media” for giving favor to Democrats even thought they still will both get equal coverage on the networks.
- The Republican Party wanted the roll call to happen on MONDAY, when the cameras would not be looking, so that they might avoid any uproars being televised by all of the Ron Paul delegates. Now that the chairman, Reince Priebus, says that the roll call will happen on Tuesday… maybe we’ll get to see more upheaval during the roll call and the dedicated Ron Paul supporters will get their time in the limelight.
First this week, music and musicians have been bashing the republicans for using their songs, now mother nature is having a say. Burning bush?
And yes: levee is very intentional. Shout out to New Orleans as well as all the other states who have been flooded in the last year, but the Republican Congress seemed ill-fit to quickly approve emergency funding so that citizens might be rescued from the rising waters.
Irony is a bitch, isn’t it?
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/25/13480404-hurricane-impending-republicans-cancel-first-day-of-convention?lite>1=43001
