“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

- Thomas Jefferson – Founding Father

Tonight the GOP Convention turns a corner. The boredom ends tonight when Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani and the most famous V.P. Candidate of all time, Governor Sarah Palin, each take the stage with a message designed to position John McCain’s campaign for the final home stretch.

The iVoteAmerica speech content predictions for each of them are summarized as follows:

ROMNEY: Mitt will deliver a senior statesman-like speech designed to elevate the Republican message above Obama’s centralized government platform. He will most likely lace the speech with strong talk. His message will also position him for another run for President. Tonight Romney will become the new Ronald Reagan of the GOP.

HUCKABEE: Mike’s speech will be evangelical in tone…he will stop short of passing the collection plate. He, of all the speakers tonight, will inspire and motivate the GOP faithful to the “higher” calling of Party standards, character, belief in absolute values and iVoteAmerica expects that Mike may actually carry the evening. He’s professional, practiced and polished. This evening is right up his alley.

GUILIANI: Rudy is going to once again position himself as America’s Mayor with a review of the impact of 911 on the psyche of the U.S. population and he will then direct our attention to the experience of John McCain to lead us in a time of uncertainty. Mayor Giuliani will be prosecutorial with respect to asking the American public to convict Barack of all charges against him. He will send the jury out to deliberate and return a guilty verdict in November.

PALIN: This is the “really big show” and iVoteAmerica predicts a delirious crowd will be hyper-energized over Sarah Palin’s presentation and we can expect a stellar speech that will connect the dots regarding her conservative political positions from point one through point 100. When she completes her speech the Party will get an immediate bump in the polls of at least five percent. We will all know Sarah Palin for the first time.

Democrats and the left leaning liberal mainstream media (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and others) and their blog site counter parts such as Huffington Post and DailyKos will suck-in every phrase and launch an even more aggressive witch hunt that will attempt to burn Sarah Palin at the political stake.

Palin’s speech will be the mother (no pun intended) of all V.P. speeches of all time. It will go down in history as one of the greatest V.P. speech ever! She will rally the right side of the spectrum and bring the evangelicals back into the fold. Expect her topics to include each and every hot button from energy to abortion and from family to national security.

Palin will make tonight John McCain’s water shed moment. Sarah Palin will step up to the podium and deliver a do-or-die message on his behalf and in so doing solidify her position in the GOP for years to come.

John McCain came into Minneapolis today to prepare for his acceptance speech on Thursday. His moment is coming; the prisoner of war, maverick republican is finally where he always wanted to be, on center stage asking us all to make him the next commander and chief.

The GOP will recover tonight from a less than enthusiastic convention that has been riddled with negative press, attacks on Palin and her family, and hurricanes. Tonight, expect the GOP train to be put back on the tracks moving forward with huge momentum.

The evacuations are underway as iVoteAmerica types. The players, including Governors, Mayors, George Bush, Dick Cheney, the Republican and Democratic Parties and yes, the media, especially the liberal media, are going to use Gustav.

Without discounting or minimizing the destruction, disruptions and even potential loss of human life, iVoteAmerica wants to invite our readers to observe how the players will ALL be “using Gustav.” It’s sad but true.

For McCain and the Republican Party, timing could not be worse with Gustav set to arrive on the very day of the start of the Republican National Convention; it’s a distraction. However, the Republican Party has already started to use Gustav by announcing the Bush and Cheney will not be at the Convention because the must both oversee the relief efforts Louisiana, Mississippi and other gulf states. Bush is headed to Austin, Texas to “monitor the situation.”

The real truth is Gustav has given the Republicans, including McCain, a much needed excuse to dismiss Bush and Cheney from any connection with the Republican Convention and John McCain. In this sense using Gustav benefits McCain because it forces a justifiable separation of Bush and Cheney from the Republican National Convention, something McCain’s handlers wanted all along.

For the mainstream liberal media Gustav brings an excuse to minimize the coverage of the Republican National Convention, choosing rather to focus on the hurricane. The liberal mainstream media can now justify their lack of the same intensive and emotional, round-the-clock coverage they gave Barack Obama and the Democratic National Convention.

Then too, there are the bit players…the local politicians and party officials. They too will be using Gustav. They will push all of the available political buttons at their disposal to been seen, heard and of course, paid. If Bush and Cheney don’t respond there will be hell to be paid…pull the levers and push the buttons!

The Democrats are stepping forward to make statements of concern and to announce their “monitoring of the situation,” according to Barack Obama himself in a statement on MSNBC at 2:40 p.m. ET. Barack spoke of getting his people involved in fund raising as well.

The big losers, us! Yes, us, as in the people of the gulf who have boarded up, loaded up and pulled out of the low lying areas that are most likely to be impacted by Gustav.

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if our politicians, political parties, Governors, Mayors and media were not engaged in using Gustav? Wouldn’t it be nice if the only spokespersons were independent parties and designated officials of the various local and federal departments and relief agencies charged with handling Gustav and its aftermath? Wouldn’t it be nice if politicians, parties and the media would just shut up? Of course it would. But there is too much at stake, too many chips on the table, politically and economically.

For the Republicans and the Democrats there is just too much at stake and each is damned if does and damned if it doesn’t. For the mainstream media it’s just another opportunity show their left leaning tendencies by minimizing their coverage of the Republican National Convention while maximizing their coverage of Gustav.

The use of Gutav for political gain or philosophical reasons is no different than using any other situation, tragedy or event to gain the upper political hand and for parties to set forth their predetermined agendas. It should not surprise Americans that we are exploited by the power brokers. It’s the way it works.

If Gustav fizzles, and we pray it does, everyone will breathe a sigh of relief and declare “we were ready this time and all of us did the right thing.” McCain will get his convention without a connection to Bush and Cheney, Barack Obama will have looked statesman-like, the media will be able to say, “we had to cover the hurricane as an overriding human interest story so we couldn’t devote additional resources to the Republican National Convention,” and finally, the Governors, Mayors and other local players will insure themselves a few more re-election votes.

God bless the people of the Gulf States.