Hubby said it had to take a female hurricane

[malaise]

to fuck up WilLIARd Rmoney's electoral chances. ReTHUGs hate women.
He said Sandy was the icing on the cake.

[HockeyMom]

1. Poetic Justice

after what he and the Republicans want to do to women.

[malaise]

4. That's his view

[ProudProgressiveNow]

6. +1 nt

[socialist_n_TN]

2. Well that's pretty clever of him, but.......

Sandy can be a male name too.

[malaise]

3. LOL

Not to hubby

[11 Bravo]

5. Well, since they alternate male with female storm names, and the previous storm was "Rafael" ...

I'm thinking that "Sandy" was probably considered to be a female selection.

[HipChick]

7. I knew a few males that were called Sandy..

[Panasonic]

8. I know a guy named Sanford.

He insisted on being called Sandy.

[malaise]

10. Well this one was female

Rafael was the male before her.

What's more Sandy developed below Jamaica and hit us from South to North mostly on the eastern side of the island - an unbelievably rare event.

GObama!

[Zalatix]

9. Sandy is not just a female name. Plus, I don't speak for the victims of Hurricane Sandy, but...

I would have much rather not ever seen Sandy come into existence than kill 50 people and destroy countless homes just to hurt Romney's chances at election.

There is no silver lining to Sandy that can come close to counteracting the sheer tragedy that it has caused.

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Johnson_(director)

I know the procedure for naming hurricanes and all, but I'm still greatly opposed to assigning some kind of gender to hurricanes. This isn't a female hurricane, this wasn't a message to Romney, it wasn't the icing on any cake.

It was nothing but a horrific tragedy that will take years and billions of dollars to recover from.

Oh and did I forget to mention that it hit a bunch of Blue states?

[malaise]

11. She hit us too

Chill - there will be more such tragedies if we do not address climate change.

[Zalatix]

12. Okay now that is THE message that Sandy sends to all of America.

Address climate change... or else. Literally.

[libdem4life]

13. Mother Nature sent her to give us a message...She is not amused.

[mwooldri]

14. I grew up on a male Sandy. Sandy Beech on Atlantic 252.

Generally speaking though, if a natural disaster strikes before an election, the incumbent always has the upper hand. The challenger should stop campaigning, call the incumbent and offer what services that the challenger can muster. At the very least, shoot a few TV ads at the campaign's own expense encouraging people to support the local NGOs who are on the ground working... and the challenger should put down some of their own money too, if possible. Anything else if not co-ordinated with those on the ground looks just plain crass and stupid.