All of the Democratic candidates have had something to say about the wildfires raging through Southern California. Gov. Richardson, Sen. Dodd, and Sen. Edwards in particular have offered both statements and resources for those suffering in my state this week.
How are the Republicans handling this, you ask? In case you were wondering:
Rudy Giuliani: Nothing.
John McCain: Nothing.
Mitt Romney: Nothing.
Fred Thompson: Nothing.
Mike Huckabee: Nothing. A 30-minute interview with Glenn Beck on his front page, too, Beck is the guy who claimed that some of the people who lost their homes hate America.
Duncan Hunter: It’s his frickin’ district and it’s hard to find anything outside of this news article.
Tom Tancredo: Nothing.
Ron Paul: Nothing. And he’s doing a “Hollywood fundraiser” tonight.
They just don’t care. Which is really puzzling, considering that California is an early state. Plus, most of the fires are in Republican-leaning areas, like Orange County and the outer communities around San Diego.
But you would have to have the ability to feel compassion to actually offer it.
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[...] Republican candidates were, on the contrary, woefully silent on the fires, despite one candidate — Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine, Calif.) — represents many [...]
Uh, maybe they just don’t think it’s a campaign issue?
Must EVERYTHING be a campaign issue?
Duncan Hunter has been hard at work in his district to orchestrate emergency response and yet has done some interviews and made some statements. He’s the one talking about it while no one else is, and he’s the one without time to do it. His house is also currently being threatened by the fires, cut him some slack.
Guess you haven’t been to Romney’s website….
uh – giuliani, romney, and thompson all have huge banners on their sites. how about a LITTLE bit of research first guys???
They have banners up now, yes. But it took them a while to come around.
Something to say?
Where’s matt to say that we liberals are making up the whole wildfire thing just to smear Rudy?
Left by Noah
October 24, 2007 at 9:29pm