I am a personal friend of Dan "Blade" Morrish. He is not a RINO. He personally campaigned for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. Lousiana is a strange state. In south Louisiana in some counties you can't get elected unless you run as a Democrat. In the last 10 years the tide has been changing. Some of these politicians (who are ideologically VERY conservative) will now be able to run in the party that their beliefs agree with.
Yeah, Louisiana has been lagging behind the other southern states in realigning on the local level, but I think come 2007 that's going to change in a big way when we have our state elections.