This has nothing to do with anything but the party unable to control a candidate with a prostitute problem and convince him not to run. Vitter convinced himself he was viable. Edwards went after him on morality issues to which he was vulnerable.
You want to personalize this. It’s not about that. Vitter had a prostitute problem and upon being reminded of it however many thousands of times, the electoral decided not to elect vitter.
That’s why you don’t run a candidate with a prostitute problem.
No amount of castigating the voters changes the fact that vitter did himself in by having a prostitute problem.
Pointing that out politically isn’t claiming moral superiority. It’s bad politics to have run vitter for governor.
It will be bad if he tries to run for reelection now.
He can make his peace with God. I don’t care. Just do it outside of politics now that the people have spoken
You must be confused about how someone becomes a candidate. The days of party machines dictating who does and doesn’t run don’t exist any more, and for sure it doesn’t here in Louisiana.
The candidate makes that decision. If someone doesn’t like who runs, then they can get off their ass and run themselves. That way, there will be no issues with the “lesser of two evils” excuse that so many FReepers use.
I don’t favor the open or “jungle” primary over a closed party primary, but I’m not a member of the legislature that gets to make that decision.
Vitter was the best of the lot that chose to run. It’s that simple.