Residual Forces

I’m back from the cabin and getting things together for the week. Which looks like it is going to be much less intense then I predicted with the entrance of Hurricane Gustov into the fray. The RNC Convention has scaled back the first day to just mandatory agenda items. Meaning, there’s nothing to blog here. 

With that, the rest of the convention seems to be on the ropes as well. What was lining up to be a series of kidney punches to the flailing Obama-Biden campaign, is now going to be the MSM’s trial of the Bush administration over Katrina, and subsequent guilt by loose association to McCain and all Republicans. 

A lot of people are commenting on the heinous comments by Democrats and liberal thought provokers over God favoring Democrats with Gustov. In all honesty, they are kinda right. The Democrats are in big trouble after the flop of a convention that they just had and need some serious help to change the subject. 

McCain and Republicans own the Democrats right now and no amount of woman bashing against Palin is going to undo the error of epic proportions that Biden’s selection as VP has brought. In a fit of desperation to add credibility to his would be administration, Obama erased everything he had run on in the primaries. Biden IS Washington, until he was selected, Obama was carrying the momentum of changing the status quo in DC. He now has to defend career Washington insiders. Heck, he has one on his ticket.

Palin’s selection caught everyone off guard, but more so Team Obama, and left the Democrats with only a couple options after fumbling their convention chance so badly, and with the nation watching to see if the Clinton’s were on board or not, whether Michelle would stay on script and could smile like a normal person, and of course the Temple of the One. 

A) They can attack a woman or encourage their attack dogs to smear and tarnish a woman with a list of accomplishments and personal connections to just about every mother, women, and wife out there. Some of them are already doing just this. There is a swiftboating movement out there in an attempt to portray the Governor of Alaska who has taken on entrenched bureaucrats and corrupt politicians as inexperienced or flawed, because she has been changing politics as usual. But it isn’t going to work when that is exactly what voters are sick and tired of. Tar and feather, smear and fear. 

B) Or they can simply go back to their old playbook and blame acts of nature and the faults of others on one man. Oh and try to say that McCain is just like him. I’m talking about Katrina and Bush. 

So yes, Gustov may in fact be a gift to Democrats. Sure the RNC convention is going to be affected and McCain and Republicans will have to take their foot off Obama’s throat for the time. Let’s face it, after Obama and the Dems blew it in Denver, and McCain was running circles around them with message and Palin, they needed something big to get the focus off of McCain-Palin, and back onto what Democrats have been running on for 8 years now …. Bush sucks.  

The goal of focusing this entire week’s media coverage to the Gulf and keep all eyes off St. Paul is very risky for Democrats, but they will try. 

Why is it risky? Because the new Republican Governor of Louisiana has ordered evacuations and mobilized local Government and the National Guard to go in and get people out, BEFORE danger was upon them. History will not be kind to those who have tried to politicize Katrina and assess blame on Bush and Bush alone. A lot of levels of Government failed, and people failed in their roles, and yes, some people made very bad decisions. The problems of Katrina were not the acts of one person and one person alone. 

Democrats are trying to put all eyes on the Gulf and all memories back to the soundbites that assessed blame solely on Bush’s shoulders. But if, and I pray it is true, this hurricane is managed as well as possible and no lives are lost, it could be just another slap in the face to the floundering Democrats. 

They are out of touch. Their radical agenda in Congress is hiding in plain sight. Their anointed candidate and political messiah is the biggest flop Hollywood has ever produced. Yes, Hollywood made Obama what he is. Like most of their big screen political pontifications the last few years, Obama is a flop. 

So be kind to the Democrats for smiling ear to ear about how a hurricane is upstaging the Republicans. They are licking their wounds for shooting themselves in the foot. No one bothered to tell them it would keep them out of having to go to war to defend their candidate and their agenda for America. They thought they had found the One. 

God be with all the people of the Gulf region and I pray the forecasts are wrong. For their sake I hope God did not send Gustov their way to upstage the Republicans, something senior Democrats have been saying. I hope God may even zap the storm and weaken it for everyone’s sake. 

So we’ll see how this week goes for me as a volunteer and blogger. I did miss the media party on Saturday, but I happened to have a great weekend at the cabin with the love of my life. We took her son and his friend up for one last summer weekend of tubing and fireworks before school starts. 

It was worth it for sure. The dogs woke me up to let them out early Saturday morning and this is what God gave me. 

Priceless morning mist. 

Stay tuned tot RF. Since the diaper wearing anarkidz have already pledged not to scale back their plans, we’re still going to have to keep an eye on our town.