TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross

This campaign is over

October 29, 2012 @ 8:32 am (Updated: 11:30 am - 10/29/12 )

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President Barack Obama steps off Air Force One upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday. The president flew back from Florida after canceling a morning campaign rally in Orlando. (AP Photo)
Every so often we're reminded what the real struggle in America is: to prevent the forces of nature from sweeping us off the face of the earth.

"I'm not going to mince words. This is the most catastrophic event that we have faced and have been able to plan for in any of our lifetimes," said Gov. Daniel Malloy of Connecticut.

Photos of the storm

And by now we know what to do, our reporters head directly into it, while the rest of us make strategic withdrawals.

Except for this guy: "I got a generator. I have 30 gallons of gas. I'm a diehard."

Even the politicians called a time out; Mitt Romney canceling a number of events, the president canceling everything to go back to Washington and be president for awhile, prompting the one snarky remark I was able to find.

"You'll notice he's canceling his trips over the hurricane. He did not cancel his trips over Benghazi."

The vocal stylings of Newt Gingrich, ladies and gentlemen!

But other than that, nothing. Not even a claim of divine retribution even though the storm is headed for a cluster of blue states. Not yet anyway.

When there's a giant storm, no one's thinking politics or October Surprise; I know it's tempting to think the storm itself is an October Surprise, but it's actually preventing any October surprise; no one cares what Donald Trump or Gloria Allred have to say.

This campaign is officially over. We'll have two days of storm coverage, then cleanup coverage, a lot of people have already voted; so it's all over but the ads. The news has moved on. No one's in the mood for debates over drowning government in a bathtub when nature is trying to drown us all.

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  • William Lawn wrote...
    We can only hope!
    October 29, 2012 8:09 am
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    yes, I hope that Obama demonstrates he is greater than King Cnut
    October 29, 2012 8:57 am
    He should set his throne on the Jersey shore and command the tide to halt and not wet his shoes.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    I was thinking more of Caligula.
    October 29, 2012 9:10 am
    When he couldn't cross the Channel to attack Brittan, he has his army gather sea shells as a 'tribute' from King Neptune, declared victory, and went home.
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  • anotherfencewalker wrote...
    Dave Dave Dave..
    October 29, 2012 8:12 am
    One must remember that the media will give national headline coverage to a bad traffic accident if it happens in NYC. It's great fodder for political candidates to work from..Campaign over? Hardly. You KNOW that the Romney campaign folks are writing up all kinds of material at this moment blasting Obama for his lack of post storm action and letting (wait for it) "Middle class families, children and seniors" suffer at the hands of an inept government.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Great segue, Dave. Let's hope al-Queda isn't ready with an electro-magnetic pulse drone.
    October 29, 2012 8:25 am
    Actually after Benghazi, even the main stream media seems to have given up and concluded that, if anything, Romney just gets stronger until the election.

    SO........... switch to something that's got some drama and unpredictability. And a monster storm for Halloween, no less. is it. ... Besides, FOX, CNN and network reporters would look pretty silly covering Obama in rain slickers.

    At least, until that pulse blacks everything out.

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Ross you cannot tell me that your Dear Leader is not pulling every trick
    October 29, 2012 8:36 am
    any lie, any dead person, or Donald Duck in attempting to resurrect this Lie campaign to get the Dear Leader re immaculated. This regime is still counting on the oversimple of the likely useful idiot voting percentages from 2008 to keep this close so the Liberals can get this into the courts and give the Dear Leader re immaculation.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Ha ha, in what direction will you direct your daily hateful rant...
    October 29, 2012 8:48 am
    after the election? Especially if Romney wins?

    Will you post every day about how immediately wonderful life has become with your personally preferred "dear leader" in the White House?

    Must really suck, to have your world view and emotional health depend so heavily on which particular gang of thieves controls the Executive branch, or Congress.

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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    must be a sign
    October 29, 2012 8:46 am
    this monster is heading straight for the bluest states and even the arrogant narcissist who once proclaimed he had the power to heal the earth and stop the rise of the seas can't stop it.
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  • Lonestar wrote...
    Another broken campaign promise
    October 29, 2012 8:52 am
    Obama promised to stop the rise of the oceans. To which Mother Nature has replied, Oh yeah?
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    This storm finishes Obama. Lights out. Back to Chi Town in January.
    October 29, 2012 8:59 am
    Obama gets his wish. He won't be wasting the next four years serving as POTUS for a paltry $400,000 per year instead of hitting the lecture circuit and making half that much in a single appearance.

    A few blithering idiots will try to "blame" the storm on Obama. Before the storm even peaks, the right wing-o-sphere will be vibrating with examples of "inadequate federal response" to some washed out wall of sandbags someplace, and some blown down shack some other place. That's not what will drive the final nail into Obama's campaign coffin.

    People who are not dyed-in-the-wool party sheep will swing Democrat under two circumstances, and neither are in play. They will swing Democrat when a Republican has just finished doing a less than stellar job (like 4 years ago) or when they are in an optimistic and altruistic mood. Those same voters swing Republican when a Democrat has just finished doing a less than stellar job (like now)or when they are fearful for their personal financial futures and less altruistic.

    The negative mood that this storm will cast over the NE, typically a Democrat stronghold, will swing voters to the right.

    If the lights don't literally go out in DC, I think they are figuratively out at the White House.

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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    you mean to say Chuck
    October 29, 2012 9:12 am
    that you think there are a few blithering idiot right wingers would stoop to the level of the masses of left wing blithering nut jobs who blamed Katrina on Bush? Got any examples?
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Paul asked for examples:
    October 29, 2012 9:31 am
    You might start with a couple of posts to this thread...

    According to a couple of right wingers here, this is either a "sign" or a "broken campaign promise". Oh, look...one of them was *you* :-)

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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    I am disappointed Chuck, that was pretty weak.
    October 29, 2012 9:42 am
    comparing mynw blog comments to Al Gore, Piers Morgan and just about every "journalist' on MSNBC, CNN and the rest of the left wing media (just to name a few). The comments here are more intelligent, I agree, but they do not have quite the same bandwith.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Meanwhile Republican Governor Chris Christie is first in line at the federal trough....
    October 29, 2012 9:56 am
    after praising Obama (yeah, really) for the President's assistance to coastal states in preparing for the onslaught of Sandy, Chris Christie then asked Obama to take the unusual step of declaring New Jersey a disaster area, *prior* to any serious storm damage, to allow the state preferred access to federal funds. Christie got his pre-disaster declaration of disaster.

    Any perceived difference between the two parties is pure bovine excrement.

    Romney's thought that it might be a good idea to dismantle the FEDGOV's emergency response capability is likely something he will hope voters will forget this week. From the primary debates:

    During a CNN debate at the height of the GOP primary, Mitt Romney was asked, in the context of the Joplin disaster and FEMA's cash crunch, whether the agency should be shuttered so that states can individually take over responsibility for disaster response.

    "Absolutely," he said. "Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. Instead of thinking, in the federal budget, what we should cut, we should ask the opposite question, what should we keep?"

    "Including disaster relief, though?" debate moderator John King asked Romney.

    "We cannot -- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids," Romney replied. "It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we'll all be dead and gone before it's paid off. It makes no sense at all."

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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    compare Chris Christie to Kathleen Blanco
    October 29, 2012 10:07 am
    "Just before midnight on August 26, three days before Katrina was to make landfall, Kathleen Blanco received a phone call from George Bush. The President had been through a series of briefings from Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin and knew the potential dangers to New Orleans and the surrounding area from a storm the size of Katrina. Now he was attempting to convince the Governor of Louisiana that she needed to take immediate action. His pleas fell on deaf ears. It seemed that the Governor was more concerned with the legalities of accepting federal assistance, and the appearance that her office could not handle the emergency. The next day, August 27, Bush called Blanco again and urged her to order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, she refused. "
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    I'm not going to be suprised when Romney....
    October 29, 2012 11:09 am
    starts spouting off about how under a Romney administration, Hurricanes will not be allowed to make landfall on United States Soil... He will in fact institute steep fines on any employers or citizens that allow Hurricanes to just come right ashore on their property... He will have tough Anti-Hurricane measures in place and if that doesn't work, He'll put a hurricane tax on any hurricane making landfall... They MUST play on an even playing field with other storms and natural disasters!!!! ... Tax Breaks for all and somehow we'll magically reduce the debt.. Go Romney!!! .... Meanwhile this lousy liberal is sitting in the Whitehouse just LETTING this Hurricane move it's way onto US soil... I bet Obama is going to give it a drivers license huh!?!?!?!?!?!? ............
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  • vsekvsek wrote...
    Bushes fault
    October 29, 2012 11:12 am
    Must be that storm machine that Grorge Bush steered into the 9th ward. You people are amazing. Lets see...it has nothing to do with %15 real unemployment, record high gas prices, Bengahzi-gate, Solendra-gate, fast and furious-gate, Obamacare that nobody wanted, courting Iran from day one, malaise etc etc etc. Jimmy Carter + Richard Nixon x 1000 = this administration = fail = american people hate the Obamunists. I have popcorn for next tuesday night to watch the bed wetters at PMSNBC melt down!
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    Funny, all of these things are legacies left by your party's last administration
    October 29, 2012 11:24 am
    You can't ignore that recession started under Bush... you love to try and pin all of it on Obama but you can't.. Bottom line, a REPUBLICAN steered us into the greatest recession we've seen.. you can go after him about the recovery but sitting there, like an idiot, trying attack somebody for something he did not get us into doesn't make up for the fact that your last President caused many of the problems this president has spent 4 years trying to fix. Solyndra? try Halliburton, Fast and Furious? Try the opening of Gitmo, Obamacare? Try The department of Homeland security. Seriously you're ignoring every bad thing the Republican party did to this country and the examples you give of Obama's failings, are nothing compared to the legacy left by the Last republican to hold that office... Not only that but the economy is actually showing signs of growth and recovery, instead of downward spiral that it was left in by the last repub... you guys are just rediculous... rediculous... blame the man for the recovery if you want but i think under the circumstances President Obama has done a good enough job to prove to me that he deserves 4 more years to try and fix this mess.
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