So John McCain and his running-mate, the Snow Bunny, traveled to the Gulf Coast yesterday to "oversee preparations for Hurricane Gustav." Meanwhile McCain has implied that he may accept his party's nomination not from the stripped-down convention in St. Paul, but from what's sure to be the battered landscape left behind by the storm. GOP strategists (which tells you something right there) claim that this will help McCain prove that he's a steady leader, that he's not beyond making a bi-partisan call to service across America and, most importantly, that he's ready to take the Republicans in a new direction.
Because exploiting a crisis and showing up for a photo-op just before a big election is something we haven't seen in the past eight years.
In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman points out the irony of a guy whose party's disdain for government (ironic in itself) helped create the Katrina disaster now choosing to capitalize on a new storm -- a guy who, by the way, was in Arizona happily chowing down on birthday cake with President Bush while Katrina was laying waste to the Gulf Coast three years ago.
(The New York Times: "John, Don't Go" by Paul Krugman/9.1.08)
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