DEBATE REVIEW: Mary’s No Good, Very Bad Night (Still exempt Landrieu a crook?)

The Hayride ^ | 10/30/14 | MacAoidh

[Libloather]

Well, that got ugly pretty fast.

In the last debate before Tuesday’s Senate primary election, the three major candidates took to the LSU Manship School of Journalism podiums (or is it podia?) and gave the voters an hour’s worth of speechifying as to why they deserve our votes.

Or in Mary Landrieu’s case, why she’s ready to become a lobbyist.

**SNIP**

It might have been as good an answer as she could have given, and since Cassidy had already received a max-out donation from Bollinger for this cycle even before he declared for the Senate he probably wasn’t quite the right guy to wade into that fight, but this was where Maness had an opportunity to play bull-in-a-china-shop with nothing to lose and he took it. In one fell swoop he basically called Landrieu a crook and Bollinger a rent-seeker, and he accused her of wasting federal dollars on pork. That answer might not have gotten him any votes, and even if it did it wouldn’t put him in the runoff, but he was still able to leave Landrieu bleeding by the roadside.

Cassidy had no popcorn available to watch the exchange. Which is a shame, because he needed it at that point. It was the high point of the debate.

[Libloather]

Time for Mary to throw in the towel and cash in. Oh, and don't forget to DRILL BABY DRILL!

[Liz]

Mary doubles down---flacks for Obamacare.

"Hi there, Louisiana. I managed to unglued my mouth from Obama's rear end
so I could be with you tonight. Obamacare is great. I got $4.2 billion for my vote."

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This is what Boobamba meant when he uttered the chilling words:
"I don't think the Democrats will lose the Senate."

<><> In 2002, Louisiana Democrat Sen Mary Landrieu was forced into a run-off. She was under-funded and labeled the underdog. Her vaunted charm offensive seemed a liability. So she and her Democrat operatives mined every ghetto, housing project, crack house, ho house and Nursing Home in New Orleans for votes.....she won by a hair.

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<><><> TURNOUT IS CRUCIAL---In Democrat nabes and among their core constituency, armies of college students and union activists (carrying i-phones running DNC voter apps), go door to door multiple times in the next 2 weeks, which will give them a 5 or 10 point+, advantage in “turnout."

No matter the contrived agit-prop WRT "turned off or uninterested voters, Obama'a low numbers," Democrats will harvest massive numbers of mail-in ballots because the Dummy core no longer needs "motivation" to get to the polls, they just have to answer the doorbell.

[Yo-Yo]

the three major candidates took to the LSU Manship School of Journalism podiums (or is it podia?)

Actually, it would be lecturns. A podium is the raised platform that a candidate stands on, and a lecturn is slanted stand that a candidate stands at.

[catfish1957]

RNC needs to send an army of poll watchers to NOLA (general and runoff), if they want Cassidy to have a chance.

[tired&retired]

Per Merriam Webster:

po·di·um noun
: a raised platform for a speaker, performer, or the leader of an orchestra

OR

: a stand with a slanted surface that holds a book, notes, etc., for someone who is reading, speaking, or teaching

[WayneS]

Holy crap! She looks like Hillary Clinton.

[Yo-Yo]

The corruption of the English language is now complete.

[BlueDragon]

Holy crap! She looks like Hillary Clinton.

You know what they say about dogs and their owners --after a while they begin to look alike.

[petercooper]

One too many Jambalayas.

[Dr. Sivana]

The corruption of the English language is now complete.

Simply insist on the unabridged 2nd Edition ONLY, or an OED 1st Edition with four supplements. Supplement with a Black's Law Dictionary (no later than Fifth Edition) and maybe an IT jargon dictionary. Use Fowler's Modern English (1st or 2nd Edition only) in your rejoinders.

That which is corrupted can be reformed and purified. The dialectic doesn't have to move in one direction only.

[FirstFlaBn]

Good job on the podium/lecturn distinction. It really shouldn’t be all that hard for those who make their living writing and/or speaking - but you almost never hear a TV talking head use it correctly.

Next project (with about the same current batting average): getting those same talking heads to understand that cement/concrete are not interchangeable (the former is a fine gray powder; the latter, a matrix of cement, water, sand, stone, and chemical additives).

Would be very difficult to skin your knee on cement.

[Din Maker]

he basically called Landrieu a crook and Bollinger a rent-seeker, and he accused her of wasting federal dollars on pork.

Did he really use the word "crook"? I hope so. Ya gotta love it.

[1Old Pro]

podiums (or is it podia?)

Neither, it's lecturn.