GOP Convention Cancels First Night for Gustav

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Heavens to mergatroids. The GOP must be in a full-on panic that the voters are going to have a Katrina flashback this week. Were it not for the colossal blunder at all levels of government in 2005 during that storm, you can almost guarantee that no change would have occurred at the Republican National Convention.

But change it they have, and--for people like Karl Rove, and those who have learned at his chubby knee--it will be almost 100% impossible to resist the urge to exploit the coming storm. There has already been talk about turning the convention into a "relief effort" or something akin to a telethon. John and Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin are down on the Gulf Coast today. As most Americans are dreading the landfall of Hurricane Gustav, I can assure you the Rove camp sees it as both an opportunity, and as the change-up they needed after a spectacular Democratic National Convention.

Be prepared in the next couple of days to hear any criticism of Republicans by Democrats to be demonized more than usual as "playing politics," even as they themselves exploit the situation for all it is worth.

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GOP Cancels Convention Opening Night

John McCain tore up the script for his Republican National Convention on Sunday, ordering the cancellation of all but essential opening-day activities as Hurricane Gustav churned toward New Orleans. . .

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