Posted on 11/07/2014 10:55:24 AM PST by TexasCajun
In the fight of her political life, Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu took the gloves off on day 1 of the runoff election between her and Republican candidate Bill Cassidy. Fewer than 24 hours later, the attack Landrieu launched went horribly wrong.
The day after neither candidate reached the 50 percent plus 1 vote threshold, Sen. Landrieu held a press conference where she slammed her opponent as absent during the devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Standing in front of a VA Medical Center construction site, Landrieu called Cassidy “wishy-washy, unreliable, undependable, not sure who he is, not sure who he was and not sure who he wants to be.
She even tweeted, “When the New Orleans #VA hospital needed to be rebuilt out of the rubble of Katrina & Rita, #WhereWasBill?” with a link to a press coverage of her news conference.
Cassidy tweeted a response to Landrieu with a link to a news story on his activities, answering: “Mary Landrieu wants to know where I was during Hurricane Katrina? Setting up a surge hospital for refugees
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Princess Fiona as the ogre. I think she looks just like her.
Beat me to it. Yep, that's why a lawyer will never ask a question in court that he/she doesn't already know the answer to. This happens.
The other question is: Where was she?
The best line I’ve seen was on another thread regarding the upcoming runoff:
“Make Miss Piggy squeal”
Classic!
I was thinking the same thing...she caught Wendy’s foot in mouth/dumbazz disease.
The RNC better get all of that into an ad. Landrieu might even provide the intro “where was Cassidy?”
She looks like a cross between Miss. Piggy and a bald Sasquatch.
was there a warning beeper attached to her caboose when she backed up?
So where was Mary?
I was thinking Landrieu needs to get out in front of this fast, find a staffer to blame and say it was a mistake, congratulate Cassidy and praise him as a fine opponent and worthy candidate.
But ...
Never happen. I have a recollection of her last campaign and think that one wasn’t very graceful either.
“So where was Mary?”
What Dem would ever ask such a question? Why would it matter to them? All she has to do is to claim she and her tubby midriff were with the people, working for/with them, and the brainless morons will eat it up.
Looks like she got her answer.
I have to wonder how much they spent on the signs.
A press conference with pre-printed signs asking “Where was Bill?”
This was their big campaign theme roll-out!!
This is epic
They had a website (wherewasbill.com), pre-printed signs and t-shirts and held a huge press conference!
This was the big campaign theme for her re-election!
OMG
This was not a gaffe. This was not an off-the-cuff mistake.
This is a huge epic fail.
I remember her on the news in a helicopter right after katrina, showing news people all the flooding below.
Good idea though.
hitching a ride with the media
as if they needed her to point out that it was flooded down there
That was mine!
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