Tea Party's Maness Outperforms Expectations During Louisiana Senate Debate

Breitbart ^ | 15 Oct 2014 | Matthew Boyle

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SHREVEPORT, Louisiana — Tea Party-backed retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness outperformed the political establishment’s expectations during the U.S. Senate debate here Tuesday evening, where he faced off against incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and GOP establishment-backed candidate Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA).

“Answers from” Maness were “advanced candidacy in my book,” Shreveport Times executive editor and general manager Alan English Tweeted post debate. “Good job.”

English added that Landrieu was “polished as expected” and Cassidy “trailed debate scorecard.”

English was one of the four local journalists who moderated the debate.

Mary Matalin, a presidential campaign director for President George H.W. Bush and a powerful GOP consultant, also told Breitbart News that Louisiana voters should take a hard look at Maness over Cassidy and Landrieu in the Senate race. Matalin is the wife of legendary Democratic consultant James Carville, and is widely known for her powerful role in GOP consultant circles. She was the campaign director for George H.W. Bush and worked alongside Karl Rove for Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush. She and Carville are both influential in Louisiana politics.

“There will be a run off, and the strongest conservative will win,” Matalin said via email before the debate here Tuesday night. “I like this system; forces real debate. Maness has given a full throated defense of and advocacy for outcome based, common sense solutions. His life, career and commitment to public service are a restorative balm for our contemporary cynical political process.”

Matalin said that it’s “not gonna happen” that Landrieu may end up coming back and winning re-election, so Louisiana should focus its efforts on which Republican it wants to send to the U.S. Senate: Maness or Cassidy?

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[Hostage]

This race has escaped me.

Are all three on the ballot for November? How did that happen?

[TexasFreeper2009]

This race has been expected to go to a runoff for awhile now that Landrew will be whipped bad in

[Viennacon]

Its called a jungle election. There are no party primaries.

I really hope Maness can get momentum from this and surge to a win. That would be good revenge for the McDaniel debacle

[Bitsy]

We want Landrieu out in the worst possible way. I hope Maness takes over in popularity and that we can have a strong candidate against that egotistical, inept, treasonous brat Landrieu. We warned her about what would happen if she gave us obamacare and now I hope and pray we can deliver.

[GeronL]

Louisiana has a strange election system

[taxcontrol]

Maness needs a big TEA party endorsement announcement.

[ScottinVA]

I really hope Maness can get momentum from this and surge to a win.

He won't have enough support to actually win a runoff, but he can sure put a monkey wrench into Cassidy's efforts.

[CPT Clay]

Maness still single digits?

[duffee]

On general election day Louisiana has a Jungle Primary, any and all from any party and independents all run together, if any candidate gets 50% + one vote they win, if no one gets the 50% + 1 they have a runoff between the top 2 candidates regardles of party, they could be from the same party. It appears mary will be in a runoff and will likely lose. The runoff is two or three weeks after thegeneral election.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Gov. Palin endorsed him. He is far superior to Cassidy.