Candidate's Joke: Thanks Storm for Keeping Biden Away

[trailmonkee]

Source: abc news

Republican Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz tried to make a joke at the expense of Tropical Storm Isaac, counting it among his "blessings" that the storm kept Vice President Joe Biden from campaigning in Tampa during the Republican National Convention.

"We have so many things to be thankful for. So many blessings, including even we can be thankful for Hurricane Isaac. If nothing else, it kept Joe Biden away," Cruz said Sunday at a rally organized by the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

Biden planned on bracketing the convention with stops in Tampa Monday and Orlando and St. Augustine Tuesday, but postponed his trip so that resources would be focused on managing the impact of the storm.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=17090763

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[donnasgirl]

1. bullshit

There isn't a republican in this country that would make a pimple on Joe Biden's ass,he is a blue collar gentlemen who say's what's on his mind and repigs don't like it.

[onehandle]

2. It's funny when lives are endangered. nt

[2pooped2pop]

3. that "we can be thankful for hurricane Isaac"

will be used against them once that fucker hits land.

Would have been ok, if Isaac had left the entire country alone, but it's gonna hit and cause problems. That sound bite won't be so funny then.

plus it makes them sound kind of afraid of Joe Biden.

[DhhD]

6. It is a challenge. Cruz is wanting to run against Biden in 2016.

GOP's move to suppress voters, allowed the primaries to be moved from early March to late July; just what Cruz needed to get the nomination.

R-Cruz and D-Sadler will have a Senatorial debate in Texas on October 2, on ABC television network.

Seems like Texas is bleeding red these days.

[HubertHeaver]

10. If the storm track bends far enough south and west

it could plow into Texas

Gulf hurricanes do tend to be erratic.

[Rose Siding]

4. "we can be thankful for Hurricane Isaac"

Oh so blessed are 'we', if by 'we' he means the exceptional American gop con attendees.


A boy tries to take cover from the cold behind an appliance sitting higher than the floodwaters triggered by Tropical Storm Isaac in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday Aug. 25, 2012. Tropical Storm Isaac swept across Haiti's southern peninsula early Saturday, dousing a capital city prone to flooding and adding to the misery of a poor nation still trying to recover from the 2010 earthquake. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)


Residents of Cite Soleil, Haiti, wade through floodwaters on Route Neuf from Tropical Storm Isaac, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Isaac pushed into Cuba on Saturday after sweeping across Haiti's southern peninsula, where it caused flooding and at least three deaths, adding to the misery of a poor nation still trying to recover from the terrible 2010 earthquake. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Patrick Farrell)


He could have just given thanks for Joe's consideration of societal needs by not wanting to pull services from an area that could need them during a disaster. (And by disaster, I mean the gop con)

[Cha]

5. Yeah, 'cause gopricks are scared of

the damn FACTS.

[trailmonkee]

11. there is a visable discomfort when they are confronted with with the posibility of caring...

[Tikki]

7. He is probably in Washington D.C. Coordinating efforts to help those who are..

going to be affected by the storms, tornados and a possible hurricane. He is the Vice President
Of the United States of America.

He is too busy to even know or care what was said.

Tikki

[luv_mykatz]

8. yep, the Repukes see themselves as loved and blessed over everyone else.

Their arrogance and sense of entitlement continue to be on full display.

After all, the baby Jeebus and his Big Daddy only love them and everyone else can go to...well, that really hot place.

I keep on affirming: the light of comprehension of What the Repukes Are Really About continues to turn on in more and more heads.

[BadGimp]

9. Ted...

We will see who has the last laugh you swine...

"Republicans braced for more disruption as Isaac heads for New Orleans
GOP officials admit they would find it difficult to push on with their convention in the event of severe flooding in Louisiana"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/27/republicans-disruption-isaac-new-orleans