Oh, yes, Here we have the Party of Concerned, Compassionate Citizens.
The "Compassionate Conservatives" who ask us to wait until they can get their act together, when we're two months away from the Presidential election, as they get their schedules and their speeches together, as they interrupt their convention so as not to be celebrating as others suffer!!
Here we have conservatives expressing grave concern, even interrupting their convention, ostensibly because they want to focus on progress of hurricane relief. (Also, they say, they don't want to appear to be "celebrating" while others suffer!)
This begs the question, back when President Bush had at least something he could do about global warming, namely, signing the Kyoto Protocols in Japan, while so many other nations saw fit to sign them, he declined.
Nobody knows what the Republican view is on global warming, except that as the party of big business, we can expect them to want to excuse big business from any accountability in climate change.
If Republicans were really concerned about hurricane damage, they would wake up as a party to global warming and to industrial pollution the role of fossil fuels in warming the climate, greenhouse gases, the greenhouse effect, the warming of ocean waters and the ways in which warmer waters effect the formation of more violent hurricanes.
If Republicans really cared about family values, they wouldn't be "all excited" about a candidate one heartbeat away from the presidency, who espouses states' rights to criminalize abortion.
If Republicans really cared about No Child Left Behind, the would not be "all excited" about a candidate a heartbeat away from the presidency, who espouses creation science and thinks it should be taught alongside evolution as an explanation for change in the natural universe.
If Republicans really cared about the health and well-being of our citizens, enough to interrupt their convention to focus on hurricane damage and help to victims, they would not throw its youth into harm's way by invading a sovereign nation based upon a myth of weapons of mass destruction.
If Republicans really cared about the rights of individuals to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, they wouldn't be throwing tear-gas canisters at people who are doing no more damage than marching in protest with banners waving in front of the Republican Convention, and conducting warrantless searches of homes in the area based on residents' participation in a protest movement.
I Republicans really cared that they look selfish and silly by celebrating in a convention with funny hats, they wouldn't have regressive taxes which make the middle class pay for the rich. They wouldn't protect big business as they always have, making the struggles of the poor and working poor invisible to the nation, and they wouldn't lie constantly to the nation that their opposition wants to raise taxes on the middle class when he has said over and over that he wants to tax only those making more than $250,000.
If Republicans really cared about how this country sees their candidates, whether the voting public knows their candidates, they wouldn't try to shut up those of us who are concerned enough to ask questions.