Posted on 12/05/2014 7:18:24 AM PST by NKP_Vet
HAMMOND, La.—Mary Landrieu is dead, and everyone knows it but Mary Landrieu.
The senior senator from Louisiana, a diminutive blond woman with a round, youthful face, is standing under a green canopy in the middle of an airfield. The canopy reads, "City of Hammond, Too Lovely to Litter." There is frustration in her voice as she repeats, yet again, the message nobody seems to be hearing. "The national race is over," she says. "This race is clearly now about what's in Louisiana's best interest."
Landrieu's death was foretold on November 4, when any remaining hope Democrats might have had that their candidates' individual qualities could overcome voters' hostility to the president was washed away in a national Republican wave of unexpected proportions. Though Landrieu was also on the ballot that day, thanks to Louisiana's quirky election laws, it was only the first round—an all-parties primary featuring four Democrats, three Republicans, and a Libertarian. Landrieu got 42 percent of the vote; Bill Cassidy, a physician and Republican congressman, got 41 percent. Now the two of them are pitted head-to-head in a runoff election Saturday.
It is the last Senate contest of 2014 to be decided, a lingering loose end, a hangnail of an election that—now that Republicans have already won the Senate majority—will affect practically no one, except Mary Landrieu and her constituents.
Since the primary, Landrieu has undergone a series of humiliations. First, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee announced it would not spend any money supporting her in the runoff. Landrieu's campaign was already practically broke, and in the weeks following the primary more than 90 percent of the television ads Louisiana voters saw were from Cassidy or groups supporting him.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
She’s gonna lose tomorrow. Mark it down.
The only question left is by what margin.
Oh Je`sus, for Cripes sake! What part of the human equivalent to Miss Piggy squeals "diminutive" or "youthful?"
Even in impending utter defeat, these r'tard libs still stick to the lies and the spin.
Smile................
Good. Boot the socialists out of the South and let them run the liberal Northeast where taxes are high and freedoms are low.
There is still a demo in the Florida senate, Bill Nelson, that needs to be replaced.
Florida isn’t really considered a southern state — sort of a hybrid state.
“...What part of the human equivalent to Miss Piggy squeals “diminutive” or “youthful?”...”
Dude... that was REALLY funny...
Just snorted coffee out of my nose. Thank you...
You'd THINK, wouldn't you, that it's a message to politicians that it's time to stop thinking like a puerile teenager?
1. There IS a God; He loves us and wants us to be with Him.
2. There ARE moral absolutes and we ARE to obey them. [See the ten commandments for a starter. And the sixth commandment DOES go beyond "no adultery."
3. There ARE consequences to listening to Satan.
And, on a more earthly level:
4. Money doesn't grow on trees.
5. Sucking off the government nipple is NO way to live.
6. The order of life:
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Am I being HARSH?
I'm afraid that you are RIGHT.
Joe Manchin please pick up the courtesy phone...
“...except Mary Landrieu and her constituents.”
She should rather say: and those sick of being her constituents.
Good riddance Mary, and take the rest of your useless family of self-dealers with you.
“This race is clearly now about what’s in Louisiana’s best interest.”
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I agree with her.
It is the reason she is losing so badly.
Actually regardless of political label, Senator Bill Nelson is a totally useless public servant....period!!! End of story!!!
Le bon monde du bayou
Mes amis tout partout
Si content de être un cadjin
On travaille pour une vie
Pour élever notre famille
Et on va à l’église dimanche matin
Tous les samedis soirs
C’est au bal on v’aller
Pour rejoindre les cousines et les cousins
Sur les bayous et dans les maiches
On chasse et on pêche
C’est pour ça je sus fier d’être cadjin
Les belles blondes, les belles brunes,
Les belles filles du bayou
Si jolie et si pour avoir
On danse les belles valses
Et les two-steps aussi
On danse tous les samedi soir
Sur le beau bayou
Le Bayou de LaFourche
C’est là que je vas tout le temps rester
Il y en a pas comme le monde
Le bon monde du bayou
C’est la place que je vas tout le temps aimer
In English:
The good people of the bayou
My friends all around
So happy to be a Cajun
We work for a living
To raise our family
And Sunday we go to church morning
Every Saturday night
It's at the ball is to be
To reach and cousins
On the bayous and the maiches
Hunting and fishing are we
That's why I knew a proud Cajun
The beautiful blonde, beautiful brunettes,
The beautiful girls of the bayou
So pretty and fair
Beautiful waltzes we dance
And two-steps as
We dance every Saturday night
On the beautiful bayou
The Bayou LaFourche
This is where I'll stay all the time
There is none like in the world
The good people of the bayou
This is the place I love going all the time
Mary Landrieu is nothing like a traditional Cajun!
Of course if you are in South Carolina what difference does that make. You have a Democrat-lite Senator in Lindsey Graham and a corrupt tax and spend GOP state legislature.
“..if Landrieu loses, Democrats will not control a single governorship, Senate seat,
or legislative chamber from the Carolinas to Texas”.
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Also the loss will remove the last Statewide elected DEM in LA.
She is the last of the Plantation owners who has owned and controlled her slaves in the South. Change is coming, and she is going by the wayside. Her slaves are about to be set free and it angers her.
Did you see the author’s description of Cassidy? It was laughable, especially as juxtaposed to their description of Landrieu.
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