Yeah, I saw that Boustany announced he wouldn’t run for the Senate. Freaking coward. As a Protestant from Acadiana, he would have won by not letting Landrieu carry Baptists in North LA or Catholics in South LA, but, as Impy said, he didn’t twist all those arms to keep his CD intact if he was going to run only one more time there.
As for Jeff Landry, I agree with DJ that it would be divine justice if he was elected to the Senate in 2014 after getting shafted in redistricting last year. But as much as I like Landry, and believe that he would make a great Senator, I can’t pretend that he would be our strongest challenger to the execrable Mary Landrieu. Landry is largely unknown outside of his immediate bailliwick, and only has 2-years experience in Congress, and his only prior political experience was losing a state senate election in 2007.
Of course, some will say that we won’t need to bring our A game to beat Mary Landrieu. But we’ve thought Landrieu was dead meat before, and she somehow cons or cheats her way to victory. Even with how LA has moved towards the GOP over the past decade, it seems to me, based on the 2012 election results, that a lot of the blacks who left the state after Katrina have returned, and Mary might be able to parlay her brother’s inexplicable popularity into a winning coalition. Maybe Landry has what it takes to win, but I think he’ll have to prove it in the campaign trail.
“Of course, some will say that we won’t need to bring our A game to beat Mary Landrieu.”
We always need our A game. Always.
This potential pickup is too important to be left to the national GOP “leadership”. How’s the MI state party?