He would rather lose the War…

For all of that talk about losing the war to win an election. It seems as though McCain is praying for total devastation in the Gulf for political expediency. Prior to the actual landfall McCain and Palin, and their coterie of advisors and SS agents, are in Mississippi for a photo-op. They are scaling back the RNC (by all means the right move). And are said to be planning on doing the acceptance speeches from the disaster zones. Obama, on the other hand, has decided to wait until the disaster has struck, hoping to use his fundraising lists as solicitations for volunteer efforts to aid the damaged areas.

Now. If McCain had any sense of shame he would follow a similar approach. I mean, why go to Mississippi before the hurricane strikes? This could at worst hinder evacuations and at best, well, I don’t think there is really any positive implications to a media frenzy being there.

The saddest part is that when this disaster happened the first time, with Katrina, McCain was holding a birthday cake. So much for not wanting to celebrate during a disaster. I mean this is really opportunism at its most treacherous. A moral flip flop would be more palatable, but I would be giving him far too much credit if I thought that this decision had any kind or moral, rather than political, calculus behind it.