Hominid Views

The Republican Politburo is crumbling like the former Soviet Union. Now, it seems, they can’t even deal with a hurricane in New Orleans anymore without shutting everything else down:

ST. PAUL — First Lady Laura Bush and Cindy McCain will both make appearances today at the Republican National Committee despite the announcement Sunday that all speeches would be canceled because of Hurricane Gustav, GOP officials said.

Bush will introduce a video of several Gulf state governors thanking the delegates for their support during the hurricane, said Rick Davis, the chairman of Sen. John McCain’s campaign, on a morning call (click to listen).

Cindy McCain will make some remarks at the end the abbreviated two-hour session, but Davis said they would be limited to encouraging the delegates to contribute financially to Hurricane relief.

Really? They can no longer manage a simple already-planned convention up north in Minnesota and deal with the potential fallout from a hurricane down south in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time?

Did they learn nothing from Katrina over 3 years ago? We need the president and the politicians to get out of the way and let the first-responders do their jobs. Instead, McCain has Bush holding-up the National Guard in Texas with a photo-op appearance, shaking hands and telling jokes with the first-responders.

What happens if al Qaeda attacks? Can the Republicans deal with a hurricane and an al Qaeda attack at the same time? Nope. It doesn’t look like it. John McCain is compulsively pulling the “eject” lever yet again, leaving the wives to take the helm.

The one thing John McCain won’t cancel is getting himself anointed as the Republican Politburo’s nominee:

ST. PAUL, Minn. – John McCain will accept his Republican presidential nomination here despite Hurricane Gustav’s landfall today in a sign that GOP convention planners are becoming increasingly optimistic their political gathering won’t be completely scuttled this week by the storm.

Big surprise, huh? As he leaves a trail of Bush-like devastation behind him, John McCain is quickly starting to give-off that familiar Dick Cheney “undisclosed location” stench.

And following the Dick Cheney “Go fuck yourself” approach to civic duty, Sarah Palin reneged on her promise of a “transparent government” in Alaska. She hid behind a written statement about her daughter’s pregnancy today instead of appearing in-person before the cameras and the American people. And according to the McCain campaign itself, they took advantage of Sarah Palin’s 17 year-old daughter, Bristol, dragging her unwed pregnancy into the media before the entire the nation, only to counter other political rumors about mom Sarah. That’s not “tough love”. That’s tough hate. But we already know that Sarah Palin is capable of a tremendous amount of hate and contempt for those closest to her.

Finally, with the annihilation of the Republican Convention, the McCain/Palin ticket has descended to the proverbial “Bunker”, blaming the weather even before the convention has started or Gustav made landfall.

…All this in less than four days since the shocker announcement of the McCain/Palin ticket. Can you believe that!? I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m surely loathe to see what the next two months will bring from these jerks…