Mitt wants to knock out Barack — but he may have to get past Isaac first.
A tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean strengthened into Tropical Storm Isaac Tuesday and was threatening to swamp Florida in time for Mitt Romney’s big moment at the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week.
Isaac formed east of the Lesser Antilles and was moving west, churning up winds of 40 miles-per-hour late Tuesday afternoon some 500 miles east of the island of Guadeloupe.
The National Hurricane Center predicted Isaac blowing over Haiti at hurricane strength Saturday, hitting Cuba the next day and possibly making landfall in Florida. The RNC starts Monday.
An expert said an Isaac appearance at the RNC is a longshot, but not an impossibility.
“It would take a ‘perfect storm’ sort of conditions to all fall in place ... but that is one of the possibilities the models have been suggesting could happen,” blogged Dr. Jeff Masters, a meteorologist who co-founded The Weather Underground.
You know the truly weird thing is that this also happened during the 2008 convention.
In 2008 the first day of the RNC in St. Paul, Minn., was shortened out of concern for the millions of Gulf Coast residents forced to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
Sorry I still can't accept this as evidence of a supreme being, but I will admit that it is an interesting coinky-dink!
Now we can rest assured that Palin won't show up in Florida. No WAY could that road kill wig of hers stand up to 40 mile hour winds!
Update: Todd Akin weighs in on the possibility of a hurricane during the GOP convention.
