The Republican National Committee this evening released a new condensed schedule for the Tampa convention, which was cut short a day by Tropical Storm Isaac’s projected path as it moves across southern Florida and into the Gulf.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus will be at the hall for a quick, 5-minute gaveling in at the convention Monday with an immediate recess until Tuesday. A clock indicating how much debt has been added to the national tally in the time span of the convention will also be started.
Monday’s headliners were all shuffled into Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Ann Romney and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will cap off Tuesday night; Condoleezza Rice, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) are the final speakers on Wednesday; and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mitt Romney still finish out the convention on Thursday.
On a conference call with reporters this evening, convention organizers were asked how the “optics” of the conference would be if Isaac wreaks devastation on the Gulf Coast mid-week as the GOP parties in Tampa.
“There’s a weather event; we all know that the weather event is there … we’re obviously monitoring what’s going on with the weather,” said Russ Schriefer, Romney for President Strategist. “Our concern has to be with the people who are in the path of the storm.”
“Communities from New Orleans to Pensacola are being put on high alert for a direct landfall from future Category 2 Hurricane Isaac around Tuesday night,” reported Kristina Pydynowski, senior meteorologist for AccuWeather, this afternoon. “…Ironically, Isaac is expected to threaten lives and property along the northern Gulf Coast seven years to the date of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall.”
Still, the convention is forging ahead and Schriefer said Monday’s theme, “We can do better,” “can easily be put into the entire program.”
Schriefer was asked whether the convention could be pushed into Friday depending on what happens with the storm.
“Certainly if the weather changes in a way that we have to make some changes — it’s a hypothetical question and I really don’t want to answer it in that way,” he said.
Stop the Establishment from Rewriting the RNC Rules As you may know the Romney camp is pushing new rules that would strip grassroots activists of any meaningful ability to participate in presidential politics. The process has always been bottom-up, but Romney officials have rewritten the rules so that the nominee can stifle any dissent on the platform committee and even unseat delegates. Make no mistake, this will weaken the process by which Republicans chose their candidate for president and push the grassroots out of the party process. Please locate the phone number of your State Republican Party Headquarters below, call them immediately, and tell them to oppose Romney’s new rules that strip grassroots activists of the ability to participate in the Republican platform process.
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Help the “Establishment” stop self-important little twits from abusing power they haven’t earned. There, fixed that for you.
If you are a “Romney delegate”, or a “Perry delegate”, then you’ve been sent to the RNC by the voters to represent and support the candidate the voters voted for. You haven’t been sent there to advance your own interests and beliefs, because none of the voters know what those interests and beliefs are.
This rule should have been put in place as soon as primaries started. Oh, well, better late than never.
I am so sick and tired of every storm being reported on as a storm of the century be it snow in Minnesota in January or a tropical system on the Gulf in August. Right now it looks like Isaac is going to be a garden variety hurricane that Gulf residents are well equipped to handle. It may also offer the silver lining of drought relief to Arkansas and west Tennessee.
The same media numbskulls complete missed last year’s real story on Irene in their hype about a weal system hitting New York City. The major damage wasn’t where Irene made landfall on the coast. It was hundreds of miles inland in Vermont where it dumped rain in mountainous regions where the runoff was brutal. The problem is careers can be made with footage of newscasters holding on to report about high winds and pounding surf. The overnight rise of a stream that’s normally two feet wide and six inches deep tp the point where it takes out several miles of rural roadway doesn’t offer the same potential for getting a local reporter promoted up to the network.
Like the “news” media, the weather folks are now total drama kings and queens. They’ve cried wolf so often and declared so many “storms of the century,” most of us ignore them unless the evidence is visibly piling up outside our windows (as snow, rain, parched earth, etc).
If Isaac wreaks havoc, then don’t “party in Tampa.” Pull up stakes and have GOP delegates fan out over the stricken areas as volunteers, with Romney and Ryan leading the way.
Travis Tritt – Here’s A Quarter Call Someone Who Cares!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLG2jaVdUMo