Best they blame God as the real killer. Sandy was but an act of God Himself. 
Republicans Blame Sandy for Killing Romney's Momentum - Yahoo! News

Republicans Blame Sandy for Killing Romney's Momentum - Yahoo! News
The election is still a day away, but the political pundits who might be on the losing side of the vote are already preparing their excuses for what went wrong. The early line coming from some Republicans is that Hurricane Sandy really put the brakes on Mitt Romney's campaign, just at the moment he was staging a powerful comeback. Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour gave that idea its own forward push on the Sunday morning talk shows, explicitly saying that “The hurricane is what broke Romney's momentum."