Republicans Will Exploit Gustav

[Benny B]

Prediction:

McCain will give his acceptance speech by flashlight somewhere near New Orleans, and Palin and her kids will be seen down there filling up sandbags instead of speaking in Minnesota.

[240 is Back]

Prediction:

McCain will give his acceptance speech by flashlight somewhere near New Orleans, and Palin and her kids will be seen down there filling up sandbags instead of speaking in Minnesota.

Good call.

And FEMA will do a bang-up job this time, since mccain needs it.

[Hugo Chavez]

yup, we called this last night in another thread   I'm shocked... well not really, this is typical.

[youandme]

Sounds good to me. It will ring in the donations,play on emotions, show leadership, show courage when faced with obstacles. etc.

Question is will it turn out as more of a fundraiser, or a play on comradeship

[Benny B]

Sounds good to me. It will ring in the donations,play on emotions, show leadership, show courage when faced with obstacles. etc.

Question is will it turn out as more of a fundraiser, or a play on comradeship or over-the-top pandering.

Time will tell if exploiting a tragedy will succeed. 

[Hugo Chavez]

Time will tell if exploiting a tragedy will succeed. 

it may backfire.  after 8 years, the people pretty much have Rove's playbook memorised.  I am also worried this is a screen to draw dems in and then paint them as the exploiters of tragedy.  These hints being dropped by the McCain camp are odd and may be designed to do that.  This is a political mine field.  I see two ways they can go with this.  The dems need to be very carefull how they approach this.