Question Aske.
What would you have McCain do?
They are in a no win situation. I guarantee any course of action would be ridiculed by you and the left. I'm not defending McCain and the Republicans but I just don't see how they can be faulted for their actions now.
I'd have him delay the convention. Seriously. Sometimes things are MORE important than lost $/time.
THAT would be his chance to live down the haunting legacy of his hypocritical 'sympathetic' response to Katrina (surely he was eyeing a 2008 run at the time)
. I'll be damned if he sure looks critical there at the time.
You know, it might also give him bag 1oz of credibility to the 'maverick' label he likes to call himself, instead of taking the surefire business as usual approach (and likely exploit the tragedy angle).
If he gives a speech from NOLA, I'd like to hear it before I pass judgment on whether or not the situation has been exploited.
The problem as I see it, is ... even if he manages not to 'verbally' exploit it, he's just getting in the way of the relief efforts. He's not the president yet, he's not a LA senator, etc. He really has no business being there and other than possibly* offering sympathy, what is he going to do there, bail water? I'd have a lot less problem with this if he were doing it even 2-3 weeks after 'impact' not 2-3 days.
By all accounts the evacuation of NOLA has gone well. Any chance FEMA and the feds get some praise for learning their lesson? Doubt it. Look, everybody from the local level to the federal level *fudge*ed up big time the last go around. It appears things have changed for the better this time in regard to taking a big-ass hurricane seriously.
This I have to agree with. Word is that either a better (yes Repbulican!!) administation, experience, some other factors, or all of the above have contributed to a MUCH better gameplan for getting people to safety. -- The
REAL issue of concern
