For those of us who were planning on shutting down all of our media connections for the beginning of next week to avoid having to listen to rational people give legitimacy to some of the worst ideas of the Wrong Wing platform, help has come from an unexpected place. It is always risky to plan anything in Florida during Hurricane season, from a vacation to a connecting flight, but when Tampa was selected as the setting for this years Republican National Convention organizers had other things on their mind; how to take back the White House from the failed presidency of Barack Obama.
Still not blowing as much wind as Newt Gingrich
Day 1 has already been cancelled thanks to predictions that Tropical Storm (and possibly Hurricane by then) Isaac will be moving up the western coast of Florida presenting a host of problems from security to transportation to general safety. While we hope that no one other than Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers gets injured during the storm, a direct hit on Tampa — the type that knocks out power for three to four days and leaves people stranded in their hotels with no connection to the outside world — is desirable to fully plug the gushing well of bullshit that would otherwise be spilling in the Gulf and the rest of the country.
Major news networks have already cut down on the amount of Convention coverage they are going to offer, especially given how negative the campaign has become. People are just plain fed up with the whole process. People don’t want to listen to conservative, homophobic, hypocritical people talk about how the liberals are ruining our country and American morality will be forever lost. They don’t want to hear about how we must not tax the richest because money will trickle down. They don’t want to hear about how immigrants are invading our country or how men should decide what women must do with their bodies. They want to hear ideas for how to improve the economy, ideas that no one in the GOP has been concerned with.
Isaac’s disruption of the RNC might actually be a silver lining for the Republicans, who were struggling to put together a compelling speaker line up with characters that aren’t lightning rods of controversy. At least with a Hurricane, there will be other lightning strikes to worry about.
