GOP SUSPENDS CONVENTION ACTIVITIES DUE TO GUSTAV...
GOP Officials just held a press conference
here in St. Paul, Minnesota, to announce changes to the convention schedule in advance of Hurricane Gustav making landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast. Sen. McCain has directed that all convention activities outside of necessary business be suspended until further notice.
RNC Chairman Mike Duncan said that the convention must meet tomorrow to constitute itself. But he said that the program will be restricted to gavelling the convention open, receiving the report of the Credentials Committee, establishing a quorum on the floor, electing officers, and adopting the rules of the convention. The session will then be adjourned with no further activity. All of the speakers set to address the convention tomorrow, including President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, and First Lady Laura Bush, have ben canceled.
McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis said that there will be no "political rhetoric" as a part of tomorrow's program, and that the campaign was heeding Sen. McCain's call to "take off our Republican hats, and put on our American hats." Asked about the possibility that Sen. McCain may not appear to accept the nomination at all, depending on the cours eof the storm, Davis would not speculate.
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It was the right call, no pun intended...:-) n/t
"A society that puts equality before freedom will have neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both." ~ Milton Friedman
It's a good decision,
although I'm not sure there's any decision that they could make that would keep them out of criticism's way. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. But given the options, they made the right call.
They could be in trouble, though: with Hannah moving up the East Coast and a few more tropical storms brewing, they'll have a hard time finding a good week to un-adjourn the convention.
Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce
It looks like Gustav is going to slide to the west...
...of N.O., if it does, and we don't see what we could have, I hope we will get the show happening on Tues., even if there is flooding etc.
"A society that puts equality before freedom will have neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both." ~ Milton Friedman
That's possible, although
if Hannah looks about to strike the Carolinas later in the week, they better squeeze it in.
Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce