The Battle of New Orleans

The Weekly Standard ^ | 12/09/2002 | Stephen F. Hayes

[wideawake]

Terrell - standing up for the sanctity of life.

[SouthCarolinaKit]

I fail to see what's so mean about telling the truth about
Landrieu (?) when it's true and can be said about any number of 'pretend' Catholic Democrats. One can not be both: Dems are for maximizing availability of abortion; Catholic teaching is that it's murder and a mortal sin. Is the truth too difficult to accept? She, Mary, should call herself what she is: a Catholic of convenience.

[Senator Goldwater]

"The Landrieu campaign has not been warm to the idea of appearing with him [Bill Clinton]"

That's because he's the Kiss of Death, not only in his native South, but in national Democratic strongholds like Massachusetts, Hawaii, Maryland and Minnesota.

[ken5050]

"And while there was little concensus about the precise nature of the attack, there was widespread agreement that it was coming."

Great line. It sounds more like a description of Al Queida than the DSCC, doesn't it...?

[ken5050]

Agreed..it's nice to see Terrell attacking Mary for what she is....but it's also true, IMO, that only a female candidate could make such a statement...I'm more and more impressed with the GOP braintrusters who came up with the 3 GOP candidate strategy in the open primary....it's brilliant, and it's working like a charm...

[ken5050]

Pray...I think that Terrell will get all the financial and logistical help she needs, happily.....

[canuck_conservative]

#4 - Exactly.

And finally.

[Sparta]

This slimeball from the "conservative" Weakly Standard spends more time bashing Terrell than going after the enemy, Brown Roots.

[motexva]

Yeah - send ten bucks to Terrell's campaign. I get paid Monday and it's one of the first things I'm going to do.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"And while there was little concensus about the precise nature of the attack, there was widespread agreement that it was coming."

Great line. It sounds more like a description of Al Queida than the DSCC, doesn't it...?

LoL! About the same, I'd say . . .

[SwinneySwitch]

"With Woody's race, it wasn't that we needed more laws. It's that we didn't enforce the ones we had."

When are we going to get tough on voter fraud!

[Cicero]

The folks at the Weekly Standard are neocons who find the Right-to-Life issue hard to talk about. It really isn't important to them. That's why you have this confusing article, which recognizes that the right to life is important to Louisiana voters but doesn't quite know what to make of it. And doesn't understand what kind of a lie Landrieu is telling when she claims to be a good, conservative Catholic.

They should educate themselves. The right to life is a fundamental constitutional issue as well as a religious issue. The conservative cause will go nowhere unless it incorporates this plank. It's not enough to run on a plank of "more gravy for you and more for me." You need to stand for basic principles, and what could be more basic than this?

[GraniteStateConservative]

followed by appearances by presidential advisers Mary Matalin and Karen Hughes

This worked very well in Missouri and Talent probably needed more help than Terrell to get women voters.

[Turbodog]

"The contrast with Landrieu's campaign couldn't be greater. Louisiana Democrats are unlikely to see any national Democrats in the state before Election Day. Not Tom Daschle. Not Hillary Clinton. And not Al Gore. Former President Bill Clinton recorded some phone messages aimed at black voters, but the Landrieu campaign has not been warm to the idea of appearing with him."

But the article fails to mention that the senior Senator from Louisiana, Sen. John Breaux, has been all over the air waves campaigning extremely hard for Mary Landrieu, telling the voters how Mary has repeatedly voted to cut taxes for the people of the state, how she has fought to stop bad Republican policies from stealing jobs from Louisiana citzens, how Landrieu has worked hard in the battle to protect Social Security, and that the loss of her positions of power on valuable committees would be very detrimental to the state and her citizens. Sen. John Breaux has been extremely visible, both on and off the air waves, through out this campaign, even since before the beginning of the start of this run-off election.

[Prolifeconservative]

Just an interesting aside to this whole discussion:

I live here in Louisiana and have paid very close attention to this Senate race and it's implications. What has happened here in recent weeks is that yard signs with the message - PLEASE VOTE PRO-LIFE - are popping up everywhere. In my neighborhood alone there must be 20 to 30 of these signs. It is extremely heartening to see this happening. It's as if, this entire State knows the issue and there's no need to mention any candidate by name, except PLEASE VOTE PRO-LIFE!!!!!! Gotta love it.