Posted on 12/06/2014 11:47:33 AM PST by Kaslin
Landrieu is a household name in Louisiana. A Southern, conservative Democratic stronghold for generations, the Gulf States have edged toward the GOP since the mid-1990s, when Bill Clinton made fiscal discipline a national value, yet his party failed to follow suit. Still standing true on American values, limited government, and individual liberty, Southern Democrats felt less welcome in their party, and started moving to the GOP.
Except for US Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who has had it pretty easy in the Big Easy. A staunch defender of the oil industry, a reliable provider of federal earmarks, she flew out in full force for her state during Hurricane Katrina.
In 2014, however, the voters will not turn out for her. Not this year. Not this time.
Even though she survived to the December 6th run-off , two major Republican challengers with their combined votes more than top whatever she garnered November Fourth. Of course, the National Republican Senate Committee has left nothing to chances. But they certainly have de la chance [good luck] this year. Republicans have all the factors on their side, and the conservative who did win the run-off, Bill Cassidy, will be the next US Senator From Louisiana.
What happened to the Democratic franchise in the Pelican State, and Landrieu in particular, that even the three-term incumbent loved by both sides of the aisle is struggling so badly this year?
One word: Obama.
This President has so ruined the Democratic brand's national appeal, he has undone the former DNC Chairman's Fifty-State Strategy, that Southern white Democrats will become a figment of political history.
The senator went along to get along from 2008 to 2014, forced to vote "Yea" on Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and every other Big Government agenda one can think of. The President's vision of government-controlled health care, plus his aggravated push to redefine marriage, expand poverty programs (and poverty with it), along with his pro-abortion stance, which have pushed Landrieu further to the left. After six years, the Lady from LA cannot run from a record so contrary to Louisiana values.
Even her claims of senatorial seniority have fallen on deaf ears, especially among her colleagues. The most influential Democrats in the upper chamber are clamoring for climate change, an agenda hostile to carbon exploration and distribution, i.e. Louisiana residents and businesses. In a last ditch effort to save her seat, Majority Leader Harry Reid submitted the long-delayed Keystone Pipeline extension to a floor vote, which lost by one vote.
Now, Landrieu is her worst enemy, castigating her own voters as racist and sexist:
“I’ll be very honest with you. The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. It’s been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader.
She apparently forgot that President Obama won Virginia and Florida twice, along with North Carolina in 2008, all of which are Southern states. While she paints the South as a bastion of racist animus, Landrieu ignores that two Southern states have Indian-American governors: Bobby Jindal of her home-state Louisiana, and Nikki Haley of South Carolina. The first black male US Senator since Reconstruction is in South Carolina, too, Tim Scott, who just won reelection this year.
And sexist too?
It's not always been a good place for women to present ourselves. It's more of a conservative place, so we've had to work a little harder on that.
Landrieu should take a long look in the mirror, and recall that Louisiana voters sent a white women to Washington during Presidential and off-election years for nearly two decades. Here's a comprehensive list of female legislators in Louisiana, and he is a list providing the data on female legislators throughout the country.
Yet there may be more to the allegation that the South, particularly black voters, are not friendly to the President. Landrieu neglected to mention that the President's policies have heightened racial tensions, job-killing regulations, and union-friendly restrictions on school choice. President Obama's stance on individual liberty and religious expression has driven many blacks in the South to the GOP for the last four years, including councilmembers in Georgia, former Congressman from Alabama Artur Davis, and Louisiana state senate Elbert Guillory, along with state legislators in Missouri, and West Virginia.
On December Sixth, Landrieu’s defeat will be the capstone on Republican victories across the country, national repudiation of President Obama aggressive, progressive agenda, and the demise of the Southern Democrat as a political force. As for Landrieu, she has no one to blame but herself, and her President, for the terrible outcome she faces. To put it glibly, she is French toast. Laissez les bons temps rouler!
We salute you and owe you a bag of fried pork rinds for your good service.
Yep. Let the good times roll!
Let them leave you up in the air.
Let them brush your rock and roll hair.
Poke saild Annie...
Since Montgomery Wards is no longer in business, where does she buy her scarves at?
Meh... looks like something my cat dropped in the litter box.
That looks great. I’ll take that with my wife’s gumbo. She’s from Louisiana. Not a voodoo child, but a black magic woman in the kitchen and in the...
Petco ?
My personal favorite.
http://boudinlink.com/a-rabideauxs-quik-mart-iowa-la-boudin-review/
Rabideaux’s Quik Mart in Iowa, LA = A Rated Boudin
You never had jambalaya? You don’t know what you’re missing with blackened Cajun and Creole cuisine.
Yum!
Hey- from where I sit in a suburb of N.O. I HEAR stuff. I know how politics works here. NO ONE wants to see that smug poliTICKian outta there more than me! I’m a realist. It ain’t over till all the dead folks vote and the lawyers stop challenging the results.
I’ve had it, don’t care for spicy foods and even more so detest “blackened” cuisine. It’s just a fancy word for “burned.”
She’ll have a lot of time to get her teeth whitened after the first of the year.
Her face looks like it caught on fire and they put it out with an axe.
All I can say is...... meeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaattttttttt.
Bye Bye Mary
I'm gonna miss you so;
Bye Bye Mary,
Why'd ya have to go?
No more darkness,
It's followed you away;
I'll cry Mary,
Untill you're home to stay.
I'll miss the way you vote,
All tho’ it's not for me;
And each and ev’ry night,
I'll forget you faithfully!
Bye Bye Mary,
It's awful hard to bear;
Bye Bye Mary
Guess I'll always care,
Guess I'll always care,
Guess I'll always care!
Bye Bye Mary
Obama's got you now
I'll try Mary
To forget you somehow
No more sighing
Each time you move those lips
No more dying
When you twist those hips
Your swivel and your sway
Your loser-duper class
There's nothing left to say
But Harry you're a gas
Bye Bye Mary
Ta ta oh sweetie-pie
Bye Bye Mary
Time for me to fly
Time for me to fly
Time to say goodbye
Bye now!
And this image shows up as well. Way better than Mary L. Who is this gal?
That’s Ann-Margret! You’re an American, aren’t you?
;^)
At what time after 8PM CDT will the race be called for Cassidy?
Any guesses?
Mine is before 9PM.
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