Stars aligning right for McCain

Regardless what you think of John McCain or his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate--the one thing that cannot be denied is that the stars are aligning right for the ticket at this moment in time.

Nobody wants to see a Hurricane Katrina repeat in New Orleans with Hurricane Gustav, but this just in: due to the impending possible disaster, and its attendant heavy responsibilities, President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will be unable to attend the Republican National Convention this week in Minneapolis. (Wink, Wink. Nod. Nod.)

Now the liberal press will have to use four-year-old pictures of Bush and McCain bear-hugging, as the Prez is just too busy to go to Minneapolis. And Cheney can't be there either, gol darn it! And just when the liberals really wanted to get Bush's imprimateur all over the McCain campaign. Tough luck.

It even looks like McCain might have to do his acceptance speech by video from the Gulf Coast, due to the disaster. That means he's only leaving behind his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, to fire up the troops there on the ground in Minneapolis. Oh, the crushing weight of the call of duty, the sacrifices that must be made to put America first . . .

Not to be too cold and cynical, of course. But while the liberal media is doing its best to downplay it, the conservative GOP base has not been this fired up since the first Reagan campaign. As one old warrior told me, who has not been active in many years: "Stand back son, I'm lacin' up my cleats!"

If poor little Sarah Palin is there all alone in Minneapolis, to hold the hands of the 10,000 ecstatic Republican activists who are assembling as we speak . . .boy, that'll be a real downer.

Even more, looking around the television and Sunday papers, has anybody seen anything of Barack Obama or Joe Biden lately?