Just google “Gustav” and “redemption” to see what I mean:
GOP sees potential redemption in Gustav
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican officials say their radically curtailed convention offers a big political opportunity for the party to redeem itself on the competence issue — and for John McCain to step out of President Bush’s shadow once and for all. […]
Republican officials said the images from here will present a positive contrast with the celebratory Democratic convention last week in Denver. The storm could paralyze Democratic efforts to hit McCain on several fronts.
“The contrast between McCain’s responsibility and the fanatical followers in the temple of the Lord Obama won’t be lost on everyday husbands and wives trying to meet their own responsibilities,” a Republican official said.
I’m sorry, but a natural catastrophe is not a chance for political redemption. It isn’t an answer to a politician’s prayers. And it’s downright despicable spin doctoring of the lowest order. But then, what would you expect from the party that promotes supporting the troops by cutting their benefits and medical care. From the party that claims Americans in need because of the worst economy in years, one brought on by their own party’s policies, corruption and mismanagement of the federal government are whiners in a mental recession. The party that insisted on protecting telecoms from lawsuits over protecting the civil liberties of American citizens. The party of George Bush and Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, Larry Craig and David Vitter, Jack Abramoff and Halliburton’s former CEO Dick Cheney.
I’m sorry Republicans, but a hurricane which could kill people and destroy homes, businesses and families’ livelihoods in the same region where one killed thousands little more than three years ago while George Bush and John McCain ate birthday cake isn’t a chance for political redemption. To even float that opportunistic “balloon” is simply beyond disgusting, it’s immoral.
I honestly believe this is going to backfire immensely should the GOP try to take political advantage of this, especially if, God forbid, the levees fail again.
There’s no way the GOP will be able to get out from this.
Chertoff (the Secretary of Ghoul) said earlier this week, to encourage New Orleanians to evacuate, that they shouldn’t expect the repair of the levees in the last 3 years to be resistant to hurricanes as big or bigger than Katrina.
Um, what does that bode?
Their spinmeister will be very busy:
This will be a total wash out for the RNC. – a full week of two hurricanes
Some omen huh.
How will they spin Hurricane Hanna is due to hit Florida Thursday into Friday?
Hanna’s still a tropical storm, not a hurricane, and may not evolve into one.
I guess you’ve never experienced a tropical storm.
Gustav was a tropical storm over Jamaica and Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominica Republic)50-70 MPH winds – killed 81 persons…. caused flooding and mudslides with 12 inches of rain. Go see the damage to well built roads. It strengthened after Jamaica to hurricane status on way to hit Cuba.
Temple of the Lord Obama?
What an asshole.
Here is what I have been thinking ever since I heard about this:
What a disgusting and typically cynical display of political game playing.
You’re thinking like a liberal. No potential opportunity is lost upon a Republican in a Rovian world, as recent history has shown us.
The businesspeople of the US are like vultures living off the wreckage of natural disasters. The new “disaster capitalism” depends on public sympathy + Congressional appropriation = big, free, and easy profits for a multitude of cronies, from trailer manufacturers to construction/demolition companies. But NO ACCOUNTABILITY! That’s the Libertarian Way.
They L-O-V-E these hurricanes. They could care less about the loss of lives and industry and property. It’s all about cleaning up the free and easy monies coming out of “Homeland Security” and FEMA.