Vitter won statewide in 2004 and 2010, baggage and all. That’s pretty “electable,” looks to me like.
Yeah, but 2004 might as well be a lifetime ago and even 2010 was a long time in the past. In 2010 Jindal wasn’t dragging down the Republican brand. We needed somebody clean to overcome that, especially up against an Army Ranger with heroic-looking photos for his commercials and who wasn’t afraid of throwing lots of mud.
A smart political organization rolls with the punches, deals with the reality of today and doesn’t rest on what worked five or eleven years ago. We needed to be smarter.
Vitter’s baggage had not come out in 2004; wasn’t it 2007?