Gustav's gift to the GOP

It is no disrespect to the millions of people in the path of Hurricane Gustav to note that Republican presidential candidate John McCain reaped some political benefit from the powerful storm. It is no disrespect to McCain either. Quite the opposite: Faced with the question of how to handle the Minnesota convention that is to officially nominate him for president, just as an evacuation was underway at the other end of the Mississippi River, he and other GOP leaders made the right call in choosing a stripped-down, business-like session rather than a four-day party.

September 3, 2008