Landrieu Ad Touts Border Fence She Once Called "Dumb"

realclearpolitics.com ^ | 9/10/14 | Scott Conroy

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Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu is running a new TV ad that accuses her Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, of being soft on border security for opposing a fence on the Mexican border.

The problem? Landrieu herself called the fence “dumb” in a speech on the Senate floor last year, when she expressed regret for her earlier vote in support of it.

In the three-term senator’s new 30-second spot, a narrator notes that Cassidy has been criticizing Landrieu on the illegal immigration issue, even though he has opposed building a border fence.

The ad then cuts to video footage of a 2010 town-hall meeting, in which Cassidy says, “Our threat is not the folks coming across the border.”

The ad then notes that Landrieu “voted to double the border patrol, build triple-layer fencing, and voted nine times to block amnesty.”

But in her 2013 speech on the Senate floor, Landrieu struck an entirely different note on triple-layer fencing.

“I voted for the dumb fence once,” she said at the time. “I’m not going to do it again because I learned my mistake when I went down there to look at it and realized that we could build two dumb fences or three dumb fences, and it’s not working. So I am simply not going to waste the money to do something that I know will not work.”

Landrieu’s attempt to turn the immigration issue to her advantage is especially notable in light of President Obama’s announcement over the weekend that he would not use executive action to implement immigration reform until after the midterm elections.

Obama’s decision was quietly hailed by Democrats who face tough re-election battles in deep-red states where the immigration issue remains particularly toxic.

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Every progressive I know is a man of his most recent word.

Not to be sexist, Every progressive female is a woman of her most recent word.

Doesn’t surprise me. I expect it. No values, no virtue and no honor.

[Norm Lenhart]

As always, reality got in the way of his verbage. See his continued reliance on hiring illegals in his own home after getting caught doing it once before. Personally, I don’t care if ‘the contractor’ hired them or not. they were there. I would not let my family/wellbeing be entrusted to illegals in my very house. Thet he did, knowingly, shows how little care he has for his own flesh and blood. Imagine how much less he’d have had for us.

His words proved meaningless every time he spoke them.