Posted on 11/22/2015 10:43:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Maybe the country is sick of immoral leaders. I am stunned by allowances given to a cheat. shocking.
[and touts his family’s deep religious faith and ties to the church]
OK, that part made me laugh.
Not sure about this yet. The Republican Lt Governor won by an equal margin over the Dem. I think it was all about Vitter.
Count on it. This is why it does not matter who gets the Republican nomination. The last two presidential elections were just warm ups. This next election will see voter fraud and electronic cheating on a massive scale. It's a done deal. Yet it won't keep me away from the polls.
John Bel Edwards is pro-gun and pro-life and being a military vet looked good on his resume.
GOP voters simply deserted Vitter. Even GOP parishes went for Edwards.
Yup. Edwards is a Blue Dog Democrat.
That’s why he put the race away.
In the South, people would vote for a Blue Dog before they would vote for a Republican.
Maybe the next the GOP will get its act together.
Louisiana has a long (or is it “Long”?) history of Democrat governors coming from WAY behind and still taking the race. Of course, until fairly recently, there were only Democrats running against Democrats, so that is not perhaps a fair assessment of the current situation.
But this peculiar situation of the Democrat being both a more respectable and more conservative candidate for the office than the Republican puts a rather different cast on things.
Is this a test case by the national Democrat party to try out the conservative/libertarian philosophy? If the name of the game is to win elections, and not necessarily to push a reform (or deform, as the case may be) agenda, and the national Republicans seem not to have ANY agenda other than field a candidate, any candidate, in each election, then this may start to pay off big time for the Democrats.
Edwards IS NOT conservative. He may claim to be, but he will be trying to raise taxes first thing.
No.
A liberal Democrat has no chance in the South.
Bel Edwards was very attractive to GOP voters.
I don’t see the national party running Blue Dogs in the South.
Bobby Jindal dropped out of the presidential race to sink Vitter.
Somehow?? he was an unmitigated disaster. I am absolutely glad he is gone. No, I don’t want a Dim, but sometimes we need to cut out our own cancer to move forward. Vitter was such a cancer. Glad he’s gone. Good riddance.
Edwards has to work with a GOP legislature.
Good luck with it.
He won 57% of the vote. Large number ticket splitting.
“Basically, in Louisiana, the lieutenant governor is the state’s ambassador of tourism, which is an $11 million industry in Louisiana. The office oversees state parks, museums and tourism promotion through the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.”
http://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/nungesser-elected-lt-governor
At least on radio, Vitter ran a terrible campaign and Edwards’ campaign was silken. Vitter ran heavy handed, crass, and clearly ineffective attack ads. Edwards ran calm, reassuring schmooze ads, and more of them.
Hard to live down the whoremongering around here too. He got some last minute traction with the Syrian refugee placement, but his own lassitude, negativity, and some burden he had to carry from Jindal’s unpopularity sunk him.
This election cycle is very low energy, with very, very few people taking any pride in or boosting their candidates. I’ve seen only four bumper stickers this year, one for Hillary and THREE for SANDERS!
Weird cycle.
It’s really too bad he couldn’t keep it zipped.
Vitter was one of the few U.S. Senators on the citizens side in the fight against the illegal alien inundation.
Yup. GOP voters elected Edwards and voted down ballot races GOP.
The legislature is crawling with RINOs itching to raise taxes.
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