Posted on 10/16/2008 11:07:59 AM PDT by BGHater
Senate Republicans are pulling advertising from the Louisiana Senate race, the only contest in which they were on the offense.
The decision, reported by local media, is a blow to the GOP candidate, Louisiana state Treasurer John Kennedy, and good news for Sen. Mary Landrieu, long seen as the lone vulnerable Democratic senator in this cycle. Landrieu won election in 2002 with just 52 percent of the vote, and some believe the state has turned more Republican since Hurricane Katrina, which shrank the size of New Orleans.
Still, Landrieu has been comfortably ahead in recent polls. She led by 13 points in a September 27 Rasmussen poll of 500 likely voters.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is pulling the ads from Louisiana, may want to inject more money into seats once seen as safe, including Kentucky, where Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell appears to face a difficult challenge. Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) also appears vulnerable, and recent polls show Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) could be in trouble in Georgia.
Its sad. Is the GOP broke?
I have Shreveport TV stations on our satellite, and seems to me that Kennedy was a weak candidate to begin with.
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“Western North Carolina”
Must be racist! (j/k)
The Republican leadership in DC is a non factor.
McConnel and Boehner need to go.
Time to bring in the future stars of the party.
Maybe they are gonna runs ads in racist western PA. Who knows.
I can tell you that Landrieu is entrenched in corruption...er...I mean the dem party in Louisiana she was nearly impossible to beat.
Negative? Do you want only ‘positive’ news, or ‘the’ news?
I post different things from different perspectives. If you don’t like the post, the next post might be something you will.
The Globalist RNC has its instructions, too, it would seem. Bush, the RNC, the media, the whole famdam country is dedicated to pushing us into The New World Order.
Stupid party strikes again.
Well, I’d rather see progress with this seat, but the fact is that Kennedy hasn’t made any progress against Landrieu at all. So, it seems like a good idea to focus elsewhere.
I just e-mailed a good friend of mine in Baton Rouge, yeah he’s a coonazz and pround of it, to ask about this race. I’ll keep ya posted if there’s any news.
The only reason Landrieu won the last election was that she posed as a pro-lifer. Then she immediately started voting for abortion.
I wonder if Kennedy pushed that angle at all? Louisiana is corrupt, no doubt, but there is a substantial pro-life majority that the Democrats have to treat very gingerly.
Unfortunately, the Country Clubbers who run these campaigns don’t seem to understand that being pro-life is a winning issue and doesn’t need to be hidden.
Havent you noticed ALL the threads are negative as of late.
The dead can no longer vote in Orleans Parish, so I thought Kennedy would have a chance.
He still gets my vote and with a heavy turnout for McCain I think he can still pull it out.
I would think she had a chance with all the ‘dems’ and ‘deads’ washed away from the Hurricanes??
They are a complete and utter joke. The RNC needs to understand the political landscape is shaped 24/7, 365 days a year.....and you need to be on the offensive, you need to be premise-setting each of those days.....Not trying to "trick" the voters in the last 30 days of an election cycle....
But that would take real work, that would take a systematic approach.....Thus, it isn't done.
New leadership is needed throughout the RNC and PR staffs ....
After the election, I got into a heated exchange with a fellow Freeper over that.
He didn't live here and knew nothing of Louisiana but insisted that Landrieu won because her opponent was pro-life.
Nonsense.
You should have heard the constant barrage of "I am Mary Landrieu and I am pro-life" ads that flooded the TV and radio that year. She was more pro-life than Randall Freaking Terry, until election day.
Cant we at FR do what MOVE ON. ORG did and created their very own political party that abides to them! Huh, cant we. Surely we can do better than the RNC.
I agree if we can get the Republicans in this state to remember she was over the left shoulder of Blanco at every press conference after Katrina. She was a major part of the problem.
It is not the RNC — it is the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) which is only slightly better then the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). NRCC is the worst of the lot by far.
This is actually a smart tactic to move resources since there is no movement.
I politely apologized to them this a.m. by thanking them for participating in the loss of 40% of our 401k’s.
They are stuck on stupid! Mary (I’m Hillary’s Mini-Me) Landrieu is defeatable by constantly pointing to her actions after Katrina. She’s the one who told everyone that the Superdome would have plenty of supplies for those who didn’t evacuate.
They are lazy! Plain and simple.
Understanding politics today, they need to understand (and have the fire in their stomachs and hearts) 24/7, 365 days a year......An aggressive, creative and systematic PR campaign by the GOP could take on the MSM without a question in my mind.....and if you defeat the MSM, you destroy the DEMs....
But it takes work. It takes getting it on each and every day.
Yeah. Who wants to know what’s actually going on?
I agree, though I also think it’s a lot easier to do that when you are the party in opposition. When you are the party in control, it becomes problematic.
The RNC is giving all of its money to McCain.
NRCC is the worst of the lot — I think they ended up with $6M to spend. The head of NRCC is also the worst of the lot.
I agree with you, but the GOP has never been good at tooting their own horn and the MSM will not carry their water for them. I think you are dead on right with that.
My point was simply that when you’re in the opposition, it’s much easier to get your message out when things aren’t going well which is the case right now.
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Let me know what you find out. I am voting absentee from Georgia. (We are military and living in GA now, but still vote in LA).
Since I really know nothing about Kennedy, I was reading up a little to make an informed decision. I found one article that said that Kennedy changed parties in mid to late 2007, from Democrat to Republican.
Just wondering what else you know.
Thanks
My friend said he didn’t think Kennedy had a chance, since Landrieu was connected through her father to the blacks in chocolate city. Not much info on stances though, which is what I’d want to know.
Thanks for the info. I will have to continue to research though. You and your friend are probably right about Kennedy having no connections compared to Landrieu.
She will probably win. Thanks for the help. Let me know if you hear anything else.
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