# If a hurricane hits during the Rep convention: **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 24, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435 "2012-08-24T00:35:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435/21 "2012-08-24T11:20:54Z")
I hope it goes something like this: “Ladies and gentlemen, I accept your nomination with the knowledge that God wants me to be president. And if God doesn’t want me to be president, may He rip the roof right off this aren…” “Please stand by, we seem to have lost the signal from Tampa.” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435/22 "2012-08-24T13:27:42Z")
Natural disasters and the like are only from god when it follows their agenda. When they were filming “The Passion Of The Christ”, assistant director Jan Michelini was struck by lightning twice, and the second also hit Jim “Jesus” Caviezel. Can you imagine what they would have said about that if it was movie even slightly critical of Christianity? “It’s God punishing the wicked!!!” But since it was pro-Christianity, mum’s the word on God’s big thumbs-down. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435/23 "2012-08-24T14:26:37Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Countless lives will be saved because they received a warning from the National Weather Service, using imaging satellites launched by NASA; then they’ll reconvene and make speeches about how bloated and useless the government is. Ask and ye shall receive: “The National Hurricane Center is Obama. The National Weather Service is part of the Commerce Department. It is Obama…They are talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing…We, who live in south Florida, become experts on it, and we don’t need the National Hurricane Center — we don’t need all these weather dolts analyzing this for us.” Rush Limbaugh ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435/24 "2012-08-24T15:27:12Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > “The National Hurricane Center is Obama. The National Weather Service is part of the Commerce Department. It is Obama…They are talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing…We, who live in south Florida, become experts on it, and we don’t need the National Hurricane Center — we don’t need all these weather dolts analyzing this for us.” Rush Limbaugh Wrathful lightning bolt target acquired… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435/25 "2012-08-24T15:31:27Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Ask and ye shall receive: > > “The National Hurricane Center is Obama. The National Weather Service is part of the Commerce Department. It is Obama…They are talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing…We, who live in south Florida, become experts on it, and we don’t need the National Hurricane Center — we don’t need all these weather dolts analyzing this for us.” Rush Limbaugh I’d read that before my post. The situation is slightly different, though. The hurricane hasn’t hit Tampa yet, and may not. Rush can say whatever he wants about how Obama (through his lackeys in the hurricane center) is trying to make people afraid to come to the convention, etc.[sup]\*[/sup] It will be quite another thing if it does hit Tampa. In the face of demonstrable evidence that the government has saved lives, maybe even their own, will Republicans still talk about how ineffective government is? Maybe we’ll find out. Of course, if not Tampa, the hurricane will make landfall somewhere, and the people there will get a warning that is part of what they pay taxes for. - Whatever track the hurricane takes, I do not expect Rush to significantly alter his argument. Perhaps I’m just as bad. If Isaac does hit Tampa during the convention, and someone gives a speech thanking the National Hurricane Center, I hope I’ll be back here to apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435/26 "2012-08-24T15:36:40Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Ask and ye shall receive: > > “The National Hurricane Center is Obama. The National Weather Service is part of the Commerce Department. It is Obama…They are talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing…We, who live in south Florida, become experts on it, and we don’t need the National Hurricane Center — we don’t need all these weather dolts analyzing this for us.” Rush Limbaugh As an aside, how in the hell does this quote from Limbaugh make any sense at all? Yes, I can see how people who live in south Florida would be more tuned in to the vagaries of hurricane prediction than someone who lives in Kansas. However, where does Limbaugh suppose Floridians are getting the information to make their informed decisions? In 1900, Galveston did not have the NWS or NHC to warn them. Maybe they did need a few weather dolts to analyze things for them. The NWS predates the Obama Administration. I don’t think Obama has made any great changes to the nation’s stance on short-term weather prediction(as opposed to global climate change). How far out in right field does a person need to be for Limbaugh to make sense? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435/27 "2012-08-24T17:29:39Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Ask and ye shall receive: > > “The National Hurricane Center is Obama. The National Weather Service is part of the Commerce Department. It is Obama…They are talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing…We, who live in south Florida, become experts on it, and we don’t need the National Hurricane Center — we don’t need all these weather dolts analyzing this for us.” Rush Limbaugh He knows a dolt when he sees one. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435/28 "2012-08-24T17:54:37Z")
Yeah takes one to know one, amiright? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435/29 "2012-08-24T18:42:16Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > …In the face of demonstrable evidence that the government has saved lives, maybe even their own, will Republicans still talk about how ineffective government is?.. Whenever small-government advocates are faced with this sort of situation, it’s usually, “This is what government is _supposed_ to do. It’s all that _other_ stuff that doesn’t benefit me directly that needs to be cut.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-hurricane-hits-during-the-rep-convention/632435.md?page=1)