[AuH2ORepublican]

Riser is a rock-ribbed conservative with the record to prove it. McAllister is the “Tea Party” candidate solely because apparently some conservatives are convinced that some random guy off the street with no record one could look at to prove or disprove his conservative bona fides *must be* more conservative than an elected official, because, like, people in elective office cannot be true conservatives (but, wait, that “Tea Party” guy is now in elective office—he’s no good anymore!).

McAllister isn’t just squishy on Obamacare, he also came out in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens and for “reparations” for descendants of slaves. Yes, the “Tea Party” candidate ran to the left of Mary Landrieu. McAllister blatantly tried to attract black and liberal votes in the runoff (it was a general election, so Democrats could vote)—he even had ultraliberal black Democrat ex-Congressman Cleo Fields do robocalls for him!—betting that his liberal positions wouldn’t scare off mouthbreathers who will stop reading after they see that he calls himself “Tea Party” and that the other candidate is a state legislator. Well, it worked. I truly hope that McAllister was lying during the campaign just to win liberal votes, because otherwise he’s pretty much a Democrat in the House.

Voters have to freaking start reading and thinking before jumping on a candidate’s bandwagon. If you don’t know anything about Candidate A, and you know a lot about Candidate B and it’s 95% positive, why the heck would you support Candidate A just because he claims to be “Tea Party”?

[Theodore R.]

McAllister won because Jindal was backing Riser and tried to engineer a rigged outcome for Riser. Jindal has lost much popularity in the state. Riser though would have probably been more conservative in his voting record than McAllister, but I think McAllister will be more conservative than Rodney Alexander was. Time will tell. I was surprised that Riser lost.

[deport]

(it was a general election, so Democrats could vote)

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LA CD 5th Primary Results

General or otherwise LA doesn't hold separate Party Primaries. All Candidates
run on the same ballot. The primary was held on Oct. 19, 2013 with 14 candidates
on the ballot: 5 GOP, 4 DEMS, 2 LIBS, 2 Others, and 1 Green. Top two get into runoff.

Top four were:

Riser, GOP        31.96%
McAllister, GOP   17.79% 
Mayo, DEM         14.82% 
Holloway, GOP     10.88%
  

[BillyBoy]

>> McAllister isn’t just squishy on Obamacare, he also came out in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens and for “reparations” for descendants of slaves. Yes, the “Tea Party” candidate ran to the left of Mary Landrieu. McAllister blatantly tried to attract black and liberal votes in the runoff (it was a general election, so Democrats could vote)—he even had ultraliberal black Democrat ex-Congressman Cleo Fields do robocalls for him!—betting that his liberal positions wouldn’t scare off mouthbreathers who will stop reading after they see that he calls himself “Tea Party” <<

Yikes. I wonder if he's related to the "electable" RINO with the same last name who ran for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s vacant seat in Illinois. Lenny McAllister was some carpetbagging pro-abortion, pro-affirmative action, anti-tax cuts, liberal from North Carolina that the mainstream media falsely promoted as the "lone" Republican candidate in the district, AND he had a bunch of gullible or fake "Tea Party leaders" touting his candidacy and demonizing any ACTUAL Republican who dared enter the race. Amusingly, Fieldmarshaldj also noted that he looked like the spitting image of a younger Barack Hussein Obama:

Of course, the main difference is the outcome. Our McAllister came in a distant third place in the GOP primary. Conservatives just weren't drinking his kool-aid, and the threat of the "Tea party" people to take their ball and go home if their RINO didn't get nominated didn't exactly endear people to their candidate. The bitter McAllister supporters carried out their threat and were content to let the corrupt marxist Robin Kelly win the seat in the general when their guy wasn't the nominee. If there's one thing I hate worse than backstabbing RINOs, it's backstabbing RINOs who dress in "Tea Party" drag.