The Wind and the Billows

Oh wow! The Republican Convention has been delayed due to weather. Tsk. I won't chortle over bad weather as it is just that: Bad Weather = problems = damage = loss of lives = loss of property. Not fun anywhere in the world at any time. However, with the Isaac Storm potential to harm portions of Florida growing increasingly plausible by the minute, I have to ask whose brilliant idea was it to hold the Republican Convention in a hurricane-prone state during Hurricane Season?

Think about it. The plan to go to Tampa to herald the GOP's platform, along with making Mitt Romney's bid for Prez official, pushes me to ask that question. Having the convention in Florida right now must be God's Joke or something. And, I wonder who Pat Robertson will blame this time for any havoc which may be caused by Isaac? Will he remain silent? Will he rail against George Soros, ignoring the sneaky Koch Brothers who are a billion times more influential with the GOP than Soros is with the Dems?

Will he blame Mormons? Can't point the warped finger at Gays and Feminists this time, can he? Could it be (gasp) God's Revenge Against The GOP's misuse of HIS WORDS to dismiss common decency as we have witnessed over the year? You know what I mean. Raging against The Poors; The Elderly; The Disenfranchised… Not very "Godly", is it?

Oh, but did God actually say anything about any of the above? Not really – in a direct way. He seemed more concerned with playing hide and seek with his followers and laying down LAWS. Nope. It was only in the New Testament when Jesus of Nazareth spoke of loving one another and not casting the first stone and helping the poor and sick. So it MUST BE that Robertson could point the finger at Jews, right? Jewish people only follow The Old Testament. You know how Florida is filled with many of the Jewish persuasion. But I thought it was Miami and more of the East Coast cities in Southern Florida which held the largest Jewish population in the state. Not tame Tampa on the West Coast. Oh well, someone will find a way to make some "undesirable" types pay. After all, we know that Key West is a haven for The Sodomites and is first in line for A Big Windy Rainy Whopper! 

(UPDATE: God must love The Gays as Isaac is only flirting with the Keys at the moment, moving further West and heading North.) Well, Pat, looks as if you can't blame it on The Key West Gays! Instead, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, natch, are the places that are now in serious danger. Must be those Floating Casinos near Mississippi and the Sinful-Lucifer-Tasty-New Orleans-Beignets. Oh, and their music, too.

Before the news of the The Big Storm caused the RNC to reconsider its plans, Mr. Mitts was "disappointed" that the networks weren't planning to air the first night of the convention – the night his wife was to have made her mark on praising her husband's sense of humour, integrity, honesty, and all of that BS anyone who has watched Romney flip-flop more than a gymnast on a mat on every single issue tossed his way. Yep. That's integrity, my friends. Say whatever "they" want you to say to get the job (except he doesn't tell us what he wants to cut out of the budget beyond everything that favours The Poor and The Sicks), and make sure your wife comes across as a privileged Dressage Prancer to make all of the other GOP wives feel comfortable with a potential First Lady with whom they can relate when summoning their servants to clean up the Doggy Poo in the marble foyer.

Never fear, though. Unless Isaac wipes out Tampa, the convention will go on, albeit in a "compressed" sense of speeches. I'm sure Ann will get her moment in the spotlight somewhere along the lineup. Or so "they" say. Believe it. Mitt has to have a woman who loves him speak of him in glowing terms before he loses most of the women in the GOP to his and Paul Ryan's obscene plans to cut them off at the waist, as it were/was/always will be.

So, it's ON WITH THE SHOW – mebe. Tampa might be in a form of shambles by the time the convention re-opens on Tuesday (following a brief "Hi there" from someone at the RNC on Monday to open the convention and then run for shelter until the coast is clear).

In finishing, all I will say at this point is that with the on-coming storm, the RNC's plans are in a bit of shambles. A fitting physical manifestation of what that party has been doing to itself since 2010.

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