Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. The National Weather Service canceled Tropical Storm Warnings for coastal portions of the Florida panhandle mid-Monday morning but with Isaac headed toward New Orleans Republican National Convention officials are considering a number of worst-case scenarios including a quick roll call and a truncated speech by Mitt Romney.
- The relieved area includes Tampa the site of the Republican National Convention.
- The storm is headed west of Tampa and New Orleans is now expected to bear the potential brunt of it.
- It remains on track to land in Louisiana as a Category 1 hurricane.
- Republican Convention Officials conceded on the record for the first time Monday that plans for an already shortened 3-day convention were in doubt.
Were hoping we go forward with Tuesday Wednesday & Thursday" said James Davis communications director for the convention. We are agile and we can move things around but were planning for" a three-day convention.
- A senior GOP official said no decision had been made and
none was likely Monday but said the convention conceivably could be as short as a single day. - One of the worst-case scenarios would be Romney delivering a brief speech declaring the emergency is bigger than politics shuttering the convention and turning the publics attention to the Gulf Coast.
- That might not be the worst-case scenario" politically for Romney if hes seen as putting people ahead of politics said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss convention options.
