A desperate Mary Landrieu smears the state she represents

The New Orleans Times Piscayne ^ | October 31, 2014 | James Varney

[Clintonfatigued]

Things must be going even worse for the Democrats than the polls suggest. The campaign of incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., for example, has hit rock bottom.

How else to explain her lame attempt to blame her electoral peril on racism and sexism? Modern illiberals are incapable of thinking their record or their ideas could lead to misfortune.

Landrieu has been in trouble in the polls for weeks now. Indeed, it seems increasingly unlikely she could beat either of her two top Republican challengers head-to-head, although she will almost certainly get the chance against one in a runoff.

Desperate, Landrieu went on NBC News. She allowed that sustained attempts to undermine energy production and thus make things much more expensive for us contributes to President Obama's unpopularity, which, in turn, dampens her own re-election prospects.

But then that's the uphill battle she must fight, Landrieu sighed, because in the South blacks and women have had it hard. She declined to explain how she has been elected three times as a senator by such a collection of unwashed knuckle draggers.

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In 2015, when Vitter wins the governor’s race, he will appoint his replacement. Not sure who, but it won’t be Jindal. Maybe John Kennedy.

Anyway, whoever the Dem’s put up in 2016, they’ll be running against an incumbent.