[randog]

...Blanco’s approval rating sits at only 38%.

That's actually not too bad, considering.

[Prime Choice]

Blanco’s approval rating sits at only 38%.

How can this be? After all, she insisted it was all Bush's fault...

[goldstategop]

Its her Cajun name that carried the day for her. LA voters are beginning to recognize its meaningless if you hail from the Bayou country. In a Governor, experience is a must rather than the right ancestry. Enough of affirmative action for Louisianans of French descent!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[perfect stranger]

**Yet, Blanco won a close election partly due to....*

FRAUD

[oldcomputerguy]

Well that article says it all. I don't see how those other two governors in the worst governor race can hold a candle to her, especially if they have a brain between them.

At the rate these incompetents in Louisiana politics move, this state is unlikely to recover for decades.........and they will still be arguing about whose brother in law gets the contract.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Lol! Is she in hiding?

[peteram]

Continuing the truncated article above for a few more lines.......

She tried to find consensus and worked to establish a deliberate path for recovery. The problem with that style was that in a crisis, citizens in turmoil and devastation look to the state’s chief executive for guidance, security, reassurance and quick decision making. Blanco provided none of those qualities during this storm.

Herein lies the key. Citizens - all the way up to government officials - were blindsided by the devastation the storm had left. They were hit hard and had become dazed, confused and looking for direction. It was up to Blanco to rise to the occasion and provide that leadership and guidance during the crisis.

Unfortunalely that type of leadership was not a part of her skill set.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"Yet, Blanco won a close election partly due to prejudice.."

I would surmise the prejudice emanated from more than a few Black democrats, after all, he was a "pubbie" of color and rated an asterisk in the rat play book.

[Rudder]

...the indicted and convicted Governor of Ohio, Robert Taft

[CajunConservative]

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[jmaroneps37]

The big surprise for the dying Whig party will be when Ray Empty Noggin loses to a white Republican in next February's election for mayor of NOLA. The rats are probably thinking that voter fraud will pull them through in a city that on Election Day will be majority white Republican and moderate middle class Black. Neither group is likely to vote for ole ray-ray. I predict that in order to try to get out of blame for Katrina, Empty Noggin will tell the truth about why Blanco-mind dragged her feet in helping him. That would be because in her run for governor Empty endorsed Bobby Jindal a Republican!