Article

2012-08-24 -Election 2012

Joe Romm of ThinkProgress Hopes for Hurricane to Hit Tampa

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by lord garth 2012-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Baptized by water, Isaac was given the Family business.

If democrats think GOD is on their side , YOU ARE CONTRARY.

Posted by newc 2012-08-24 03:07|| 2012-08-24 03:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Somebody page Pat Robertson.

Posted by Ptah 2012-08-24 07:40|| 2012-08-24 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Joe might experience the laws of karma with his hopes and wishes. Watch out for a plague of locusts in Charlotte.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-08-24 08:04|| 2012-08-24 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Katrina paid big Dem dividends. They're just hoping for more of the same. Misery merchants, etc.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-24 08:46|| 2012-08-24 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Sadly for the Dem Hatriots the storm has remained pretty minimal and the predicted path has been trending west. At the moment, none of the computer models indicate the center passing within 70 miles of Tampa.

Posted by lord garth 2012-08-24 09:11|| 2012-08-24 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Katrina paid big Dem dividends. They're just hoping for more of the same. Misery merchants, etc.

If that's the Dem's motivation (which I don't doubt for a moment)they've made three basic miscalculations that won't allow them much gain from it -
The first is while Tampa's current mayor is an alarmist partisan Dem also, he appears to be marginally more capable than that moron Ray Nagin.
Second, there isn't anyone named Bush in the WH to lay federal blame on if things go south.
And lastly, the biggest one of all - worst case scenario is a glancing blow to Tampa from a Cat 3, not a Cat 1 direct hit. There is a huge level of nastiness difference there.

Posted by Dikhed Al Fuqwad 2012-08-24 10:20|| 2012-08-24 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Isn't Tampa already scheduled for a Cat 1 blowhard, Biden?

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-08-24 10:26|| 2012-08-24 10:26|| Front Page Top

#8 For a bunch of godless superstition haters, seem to have the gaiaic revenge and olde tyme religion prayers going on; from the party who prayed for North Carolina to get hammered so to save unemployment statistics.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-08-24 10:26|| 2012-08-24 10:26|| Front Page Top

#9 That's a good one, P2K.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-08-24 11:25|| 2012-08-24 11:25|| Front Page Top

#10 as of the 2pm EDT 2-24 updates it is possible the storm will be close enough to Tampa for heavy rain, 20-35mph wind and 1-2 feet of rise in Tampa Bay near the downtown

that will not stop the RNConvention but will soak the occupiers and anarchists and other hanger-ons.

Posted by lord garth 2012-08-24 14:03|| 2012-08-24 14:03|| Front Page Top

#11 "Biden is headed to Tampa in the Dems hope that he will somehow disrupt the convention, as opposed to going to Charlotte...where they KNOW he will disrupt the conventon".

Leno

Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-24 14:10|| 2012-08-24 14:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Leno also noted that Florida was well prepared for a hurricane since so many business's windows are already boarded up

*rimshot*

Posted by Frank G 2012-08-24 14:37|| 2012-08-24 14:37|| Front Page Top

#13 speaking of Charlotte, NC, one of the models (the GFS-AVN) indictes that the storm may produce flooding in the vicinity of that city on Wed or Thurs (8-29/30) next week

Posted by lord garth 2012-08-24 14:37|| 2012-08-24 14:37|| Front Page Top

#14 I want it to be cold, windy and wet outside the conventin so that all those anarchists are as uncomfortable as possible.

Posted by rjschwarz 2012-08-24 14:48|| 2012-08-24 14:48|| Front Page Top

#15 rjs

It's Tampa, FL. In August.

One thing for sure, it won't be cold.

Posted by lord garth 2012-08-24 15:26|| 2012-08-24 15:26|| Front Page Top

#16 but per this site,

Strippers in Tampa Bay are counting on the GOP to make it rain

Posted by lord garth 2012-08-24 17:42|| 2012-08-24 17:42|| Front Page Top

#17 that will not stop the RNConvention but will soak the occupiers and anarchists and other hanger-ons.

;-)

Posted by lotp 2012-08-24 19:22|| 2012-08-24 19:22|| Front Page Top

#18 "will soak the occupiers and anarchists and other hanger-ons"

Good! They need a bath.

Posted by Barbara 2012-08-24 22:11|| 2012-08-24 22:11|| Front Page Top

23:49 Raider
23:21 Rambler in Virginia
23:18 Bill Clinton
23:03 Frozen Al
22:55 JosephMendiola
22:24 JosephMendiola
22:18 JosephMendiola
22:13 Barbara
22:11 Barbara
22:02 Procopius2k
22:00 Barbara
21:04 DarthVader
20:38 Raider
20:27 Redneck Jim
20:25 Redneck Jim
20:15 Redneck Jim
20:09 badanov
20:00 JosephMendiola
19:48 Besoeker
19:46 Raider
19:34 JosephMendiola
19:33 swksvolFF
19:28 European Conservative
19:28 JosephMendiola