Better stop whistling past the graveyard now, and start supporting your local conservatives now.
Unlike many here who do not see bad things a coming in November, I see the very real possibility of a Congressional blowout, and this particular election is not a good sign at all.
How many times has Woody Jenkins tried and failed to win office? Maybe it is time for someone to take him aside and explain that he can contribute better behind the scenes.
You are correct in you analysis.
McCain might win the presidential election if Dems do implode at their convention, but there is enough anecdotal evidence around to suggest the Dems will achieve super majorities in Congress even if that happens.
Gas prices, inflation, job insecurites, Iraq, failure to lead on all but the war on terror puts the GOP in grave jepordy. Voters do want change, even if that change is socialistic or at best void of actual policies.
Oppurtunity lost for the GOP since 2007.
You can pin this loss on a VERY WEAK GOP candidate. If Woody Jenkins is the best the Louisiana GOP can do in this district, then they got bigger problems than winning races.
I don’t disagree with your prediction of a coming Congressional landslide, but....
I was in Baton Rouge on business a few weeks ago. I saw and heard the ads these guys were running. I left town knowing that Cazayoux was going to win. He is young, attractive, has a lovely family, is funny, and “cajun”...
Woody Jenkins has been around since I lived in La (8 years ago)... is older, strident, pompous, and... lately, a bit hypocritical.
If we want to win, we need good candidates...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I think we’ll be able to pay our respects inside the graveyard if we don’t get a new nominee for President.
Like they say, a fish rots from the head down. I agree that the Republicans are in for a rough ride this fall. That is bound to happen when we run a horrible candidate like the maverick John McCain. Voter turnout on our side will be dismal.
Perhaps you are right in your concerns about the near future, but as a local to this race I can assure you that many who voted for this particular republican did so while holding their nose.
They disgust me almost as much as the liberals...
Baton Rouge has been inundated with former New Orleanians, who are now permanent residents of Red Stick.
“Better stop whistling past the graveyard now, and start supporting your local conservatives now.”
DITTOS ON THIS.
Let’s win this seat back in November.
Unless McCain turns out to be a really good campaigner and the 527s are able to torpedo Obama by making the Rev. Wright "God Damn America" connection each and every day, we're gonna get bombed this Fall in the downticket races. It's going to be 2006 all over again, maybe worse. There is so much overhang out there, Iraq, high gasoline prices, slowing economic growth, the daily drumbeat of doom from the media, and the media and the 'Rats will hang it all on Bush, and then make the Bush = 'Pubs connection, and it will stick, because the sheeple are stupid enough to buy into it.
Like it or not, most of the electorate gets it's news from "traditional" sources, and those are overwhelmingly in that tank for Obama. They're lining up their kneepads to serve him. The media was desperate for a female Speaker in '06, and pulled out all the stops to get one, and they did. This cycle, they want a Black President so badly that they'll make their '06 campaign for Pelosi look like a warmup.