{"id":9305,"date":"2012-11-01T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9305"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:38:10","slug":"doing-well-politically-in-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/doing-well-politically-in-a-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Well Politically in a Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

When politicians find themselves in the midst of a crisis, it would be unrealistic to assume that they don\u2019t care about how they do politically because of it.  The best way for them to do well politically is to set aside partisan concerns and do their jobs well, working together with others, regardless of political affiliation, to provide the aid that the people need.  Both Democratic President Barack Obama, and Republican Governor Chris Christie are doing very well politically, because that is exactly what they are both doing.  Compare that with the Bush administration response to Katrina.  They did not warn residents to evacuate until after the hurricane hit New Orleans.  They did not preposition rescue workers and equipment.  Neocon Nero fiddled in Crawford for three days while New Orleans drowned.  Instead of taking responsibility, they tried to blame local Democrats, and they favored Republican areas when directing relief.  Bush did so poorly politically that he never recovered.  Now, the absolute worst thing a politician can do is to get caught trying to use the crisis for political advantage, while doing nothing to actually help.  That brings us to Willard Romney.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1RomneyRelief\"While President Obama made the decision to cancel scheduled campaign appearances this week in light of the disaster that Hurricane Sandy has brought to New York City, New Jersey, and a number of other states, including the key battleground state of Ohio, Mitt Romney just couldn’t pull the plug. Instead of doing the respectful thing and canceling his campaign appearance on Tuesday, just after Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, the Republican presidential candidate decided to re-brand his "Victory Rally" and call it "Relief Rally" instead.<\/p>\n

The campaign decided that it would stage a photo op of Romney accepting food donations from supporters and loading up a truck with food after the event<\/strong>. But campaign staffers soon began to worry about the last minute nature of the call for donations, and worried that people wouldn’t show up with anything. To ensure that Romney wasn’t left without any donations and an empty truck, BuzzFeed reports that the campaign went out the night before the event and spent $5,000 at a local Wal-Mart. They bought up supplies like granola bars, canned food, and diapers. These items were then used as props to put on display while they waited for the real donations to show up<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For their part, the campaign says that it donated relief supplies, but would not confirm an amount.<\/p>\n

What makes it all even more ridiculous is the fact that the Red Cross didn’t even want the items that Romney’s campaign collected<\/strong>. They’d have been better served with a $5,000 donations. Of course that wouldn’t be as nice of a photo op as standing by a table overflowing with canned goods… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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When people came without donations, they were told them they were not allowed into the event without a donation and given a donation from Romney\u2019s purchased stash to humbly present to Lord Willard.<\/font><\/p>\n

Then Romney went back on the campaign trail, but promised no attacks or excessive partisanship, before Obama returned to the campaign also.  Like everything else he says, that was a lie.  <\/font>Rachel Maddow contrasted Obama’s and Willard’s responses to the storm.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Did you heat that? An elected Republican official, speaking officially at a Romney campaign rally, said Republicans should tell their children to steal the Halloween candy from the children of Obama supporters to threaten their parents.  Despite Willard\u2019s bogus promise, could anything be more extremely partisan than that?<\/font><\/p>\n

On a final note, Obama has always been willing to work with Republicans to solve the people\u2019s problems and meet their needs by the way he is working with Christie.  Can you imagine how much better off we would all be, had Republicans been willing to work with Obama from the time he took office, instead if deciding to sabotage America to make Obama look bad?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When politicians find themselves in the midst of a crisis, it would be unrealistic to assume that they don\u2019t care about how they do politically because of it.  The best way for them to do well politically is to set aside partisan concerns and do their jobs well, working together with others, regardless of political […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}