Thursday, October 25, 2007
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Does Jindal's Victory Mean Landrieu's in Trouble?
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
5:26 PM
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Bobby Jindal's victory earlier this week gave Republicans something to be happy about. It might also be a harbinger of things to come in Louisiana.
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Jindal's election that he won Orleans Parish. This is significant as New Orleans is where Republicans have traditionally been beaten badly (or have had elections stolen) by the Democrat machine. The most famous recent victim of this was Woody Jenkins...
While it is true that Jindal is very popular and talented, there is also no doubt a post-Katrina population shift in Orleans Parish contributed to his success in this heavily-Democrat area.
Of course, the big news is that based on Jindal's numbers in Orleans Parish, it appears possible that Mary Landrieu may be in danger of losing her Senate Seat. As National Journal's Jennifer Duffy wrote: "In 2002, (Landrieu) won by 42,000 votes, and the question now is whether those 42,000 votes still exist."
Louisiana's French influence has always made it a very different state. Now, as the state trends more and more Republican, it once again seems Louisiana is on a different trajectory than the rest of the country.
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Landrieu knows the contempt for Trent Lott over in Mississippi. She has watched Sam Brownback and John McCain ruin their careers, as well as noticing that S.C. is looking for anybody to replace Lindsey Graham! So, she has been voting with the "NO AMNESTY" side of the GOP just like Robert Byrd........Illegal alliens are a career killer in Dixie!........Goodby Lott. |
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Jindal did not carry Orleans Parish. Independent John Georges did. Orleans was one of 4 parishs Jindal didn't carry. The writer should be more careful about his facts. |
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Nice to see tonight that the Dem AG had to drop out of the race and allow the Pub candidate to win by default. So that is one more GOP pick-up. So, who will face Landrieu?? And will that person by supported by the RNC?? And whether Lott wins in Miss. is still up to the voters. The real story in Miss. is that Thad Coch. might resign. |
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At last, our increase global warming, thus more hurricanes, thus flood N.O., thus alter population, thus political gain plan has paid off. I wonder if the tinfoil hat brigade is on to us? |
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She will go down in 2008! |
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...are Americans of Indian descent the Republican party's "people of color". They tend to have conservative values and concepts and they are very well educated. The Republican party should forget the Hispanic vote because it is what it is, either Democrat or open border, and embrace Americans of Indian descent who want to enter politics. |
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Karl Malone (yes the former NBA player) should run against Landrieu. He was one of the people who stepped up during the Katrina disaster, cut through the red tape and contrbituted his time, money, trucks, and employees.
Other good points include:
* He has state wide name recognition.
* He has been a very successful businessman in the automobile sells, timber and trucking industries, as well as owning numerous restaurants.
* He is an NRA spokesman, and is an avid hunter.
* He also worked as a Sheriff's Deputy, and has also showed strong support for law enforcement and US armed forces.
* He is a spokesman for family and Christian values.
* He is an American success story coming from a ridiculously poor family of 13 children, and growing up with out a dad, and having a mother who worked 3 jobs to raise her children.
His marketing/campaign team is going to have the easiest job on the world. His life's story sells it's self. Karl Malone for Senate 2008!!!!!!!
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It looks like the workers and earners of louiseana have finally had enough of the womb to tomb socilist runing the state into the ground. It took Katrina to show them just how bad off they were.
While the democrat party and the media tried to blame the President, the actuall people who work and pay all the taxes in that state saw through all the smoke of the liberals. Only in New Orleans where the non-workers out numbered the workers did the same old democrat win. All across the state the people turned to conserving the American way of life and rejected liberal socilist ideas.
I have seen the story in other places say "Aginst conventional wisdome, a republican wins as govonor in Lousiana after Katrina while the rest of the country goes democrat". I believe that the media may be in for a suprise. All the rigged ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN push polls are trying to SHAPE what they want "conventiona wisdome" to be. This election may be the beginning of what the true conventiona wisdome is going to be.
Who know, I hope the rest of the country is in fact also tired of supporting the loosing defeating liberal socilist way of life that has failed in every country.
Doc Wright |
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1. It is not the Jindal win, but that the political machine that the Landrieus are an integral part of in New Orleans is badly in disarray due to Katrina. The dead votes have been purged from the rolls, and they no longer have the list of addresses of voters that they pay legal "expense" checks to along with the slate to vote for and a free ride to the polls. |
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1. It is not the Jindal win, but that the political machine that the Landrieus are an integral part of in New Orleans is badly in disarray due to Katrina. The dead votes have been purged from the rolls, and they no longer have the list of addresses of voters that they pay legal "expense" checks to along with the slate to vote for and a free ride to the polls.
2. Kennedy, a conservative, recent switch to the GOP ran unopposed for re-election as Sec. of Treas. It is widely rumored that his switch in parties was to oppose Landrieu.
3. If there is any footage of Landrieu at LAOEP immediately after Katrina, other than showing up for the MSM cameras, you would have seen someone in total meltdown. Do you understand, "Thorazine Shuffle?" While Vitter was working his tail off, I saw her wandering around the lobby aimlessly with a blank stare and not acknowledging any attempted greetings or discussion, even by her aids. This was for about 1-1/2 hours each on two consecutive days.
4. Landrieu has been playing as a puppet for the DNC since Katrina. To any observer, she has gone decidely more to the left. Louisiana, outside of New Orleans, has long been and still is conservative. |
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The major portion of the LA electorate that lib/dems like Blanco and Mary Landrieu pandered to and kept on the plantation were swept away with and displaced by Katrina. Sure Nagan kept New Orleans but only because the dem vote generating machine was still in place.
She sees the train a-coming - when would she ever have thought of voting against the senate dem mob as she did on the so called 'dream act'.
Louisiana is undergoing a renaissance and there's no place for Moon's manipulating, dimwit daughter in it. |
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Military Mary has voted when necessary, against her party, and will campaign as a moderate or independent emphasizing those few specific votes. Republicans need to hammer her relentlessly on her liberal votes. She's the most liberal LA Senator in the state's history as compiled by the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, with a liberal ranking comparable to Diane Feinstein and better (or worse for LA) than Dingy Harry Reid. She also plays the system by voting in committee or in procedural votes to keep issues like the partial birth abortion ban from coming to a full Senate vote, then if and when it makes it out of committee, she votes in favor of the ban, knowing LA is pro-life (and she being a good Catholic, don't you know?). Republicans should even pull out the Harry Reid smear letter trying to use government to silence Rush Limbaugh which she and her comrade Hillary Clinton signed onto. |
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The vast college student army that campaigned tirelessly for Jindal for the past year. Some took a year off of school to go door to door. I have seen these young fresh faces around for months usually in groups of 4-6 canvassing.
No amoung this group of workers is a good number of students of Southern University. For those who are not familiar, this is a holdover school from the separate but equal days and LSU's black counterpart that remains predominantly black.
Do I hear young black Republican Conservatives? Does this mean the death of the Democrat Party in statewide Louisiana elections? |
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Jindal's victory is just sweet revenge for the Republican administration who DELIBERATELY ignored New Orleans for days after Hurricane Katrina? Why? Because the wrong party was in charge of the state and worse still, the now former governor and a now vulnerable senator from Louisiana are both WOMEN! What a great opportunity to showcase women leaders as weak sniveling cowards in the face of a crisis. Only macho men can take charge. We need tough guys like Ah-nold who sneer in the face in danger and take quick decisive action to calm down frightened sheeple.
Sleep tight, New Orleans. Now that a REPUBLICAN is governor is safely in the state house , you can be certain of quick response from the feds the next time a killer hurricane decides to pay you a visit!!! |
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In 2002 on election day, when it looked like Mary Landrieu was going to lose Bill Clinton and Donna Brazile got on the phone to party hack officials in New Orleans and within an hour the school buses were out of the parking lots and into the neighborhoods, picking up Democratic voters and delivering them to the polls. When Katrina approached the phones were silent. Instead of doing their duty the hack officials fled and the buses stayed in their parking lot. Karma Baby! Its funny that the state that George Bush (according to all you libs) gave the back of his hand to is so firmly Republican. Maybe the price of decades of pure Democratic corruption (Ms. Landrieu's father being one of the worst)sunk in to the people of Louisiana as the water started pouring over the levees hat were supposedly managed by the Demo cronies on the levee commissions.We can win seats in the Senate and the Presidency on issues like this. The Dems are weak in a lot of places on the corruption/competence issue if we go on the offensive. |
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The Blank Zero administration, I'm sure is taking orders from the DNC like it did immediately after Katrina. It sat on BILLIONS of Federal Aid for months claiming that it was still waiting for the money. In the meantime, an honest Sec of Treas was offering proof that the funds had been deposited in the State's bank account.
That has been the problem with the slow recovery, particularly in the large liberal socialist mecca known as New Orleans. The money was given to the state, the "Road Home" program is really the Road to Nowhere Program put together by an administration completely devoid of compassion for its voters.
In the meantime, the lone Blank Zero campaign supporter (Shaw Group) out of big business has racked up contracts galore that would make the LBJ Whitehouse's connection to Brown & Root seem as peanuts. Doesn't anyone remember the floor at the Lamar Hotel in Houston owned by B&R where Lyndon usually stayed when not at the Whitehouse? Heck it sure made Ladybird the largest stockholder in Halliburton. |
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