The Republican Convention: 'Expect a Lot of Split Screens'

     Issac may yet prove to be a full blown Hurricane and we'll see how high category a storm it ends up being-Katrina was a 4, at present it's just a 1 thankfully.

     It looks like it likely won't hit Tamp now. However, the convention is still facing a real concern over optics and the fact that people just may not be watching in the numbers typical as the storm may be the dominant focus for the nest few days.

    CNN has sent two of their top reporters-Soledad O'Brien and Anderson Cooper to New Orleans. At this point Louisiana has declared a State of Emergency, and Governor Bobby Jindal, has cancelled his trip to Tampa.

      "But despite reassurances from Priebus and top Republicans that the show will go on with a slimmed down three-day convention beginning Tuesday, reports surfaced Monday that suggest more schedule changes could be in the offing."

     “Officials conceded on the record for the first time Monday that plans for an already shortened three-day convention were in doubt… A senior GOP official said no decision had been made and none was likely Monday, but said the convention conceivably could be as short as a single day,” the National Journal reported.

      "The Boston Globe’s Glen Johnson even suggested that the entire convention could be canceled. “[T]he Romney staff … realizes that Isaac’s potentially horrid wrath could eclipse any bunting-draped imagery they generate inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum,” Johnson wrote.

       "The “optics” may get even worse if networks juxtapose images of the hurricane’s damage alongside convention coverage."

        "As the storm hammers the northern Gulf Coast later this week, an NBC spokesperson told POLITICO that its viewers should “expect to see a lot of split screens” during the network’s coverage of the convention."

        Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80204_Page2.html#ixzz24mTbleef

        In a way the problem of optics is already being felt. I mean no matter what happens, Issac has already upstaged Mitt Romney.

        Don't you love David Corn? Well I do, anyway:

        "Mother Jones D.C. bureau chief David Corn made an appearance on MSNBC Monday just past noon, in front of an essentially empty stadium. Proceedings on Monday had been largely postponed because of the possibility of adverse weather, which accounts for the lack of activity, but that didn’t stop Corn from using the backdrop to take a shot at Mitt Romney."

        “Mitt Romney is coming into Tampa — you can see there’s [not] a whole hub… of activity behind me — really with the least amount of enthusiasm of any candidate in modern times,” said Corn.

         I'm telling you it couldn't happen to a better group of people. If the GOPers weren't such jerks all of the time you'd almost feel sorry for them. Nothing ever goes according to plans in the Romney campaign. It's almost-poetic justice? Pace Krugman, I guess God is voting for Obama? Turns out the GOP is no longer even God's party.