Le Bon Temps Roulé!
Posted on 10/21/2007 12:15:35 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Bobby Jindal won tonight. I may live in Georgia now, but I'm Louisianian through and through. This is historic. No one has ever won a gubernatorial primary outright in Louisiana until tonight.
I cannot really express what this means to me.
It's like how the exiled English felt when Mary I died and Elizabeth was crowned. It was safe to go home again.
If you don't live in Louisiana, you have no clue what it is like. You may think you do, but you don't. You make think your state sucks, but it doesn't really compared to Louisiana. Louisiana sucks in a way that is soul killing because it is such a wonderful, beautiful, wonderful place, and yet it is so dysfunctional it saps and taxes (quite literally, they tax everything there) your talent and your energy and you leave if you can, like I did.
Think of the United States if Reagan had claimed victory after 200 years of Carter, instead of just 4. That's what this is like. That's the closest equivalent.
It's safe to go home now. Freedom stirs.
I won't go home now because I've made Georgia my home with my wife and child. But I could now without regret. Others will and they will help Bobby Jindal begin rebuilding the state. And it will be glorious.
Today is not a good day for Republicans. It is, but it isn't really. Today is instead a good day for Louisiana and for this country. If a state like Louisiana can overcome its legacies and histories and vote for a guy named Jindal of East Indian heritage and make him the Governor of Huey Long's populist-socialist mecca, this nation can overcome anything.
But don't hold your breath on the media talking about a staunchly southern state electing a guy who is a minority to the Governor's Mansion as a Republican. That'd disrupt their narrative too much.
Argggggh. You have planted a nightmare in my head.
May the country sit up and take notice of this day.
Imagine...53% out of a field of 12 contenders! What a statement!
Great gnashing of teeth in Foggy Bottom
Right on!
A great day, indeed. And you can bet that the media will do their very best to write him off or bury him, as they have done with Clarence Thomas.
There is nothing they hate worse than a member of a designated minority who refuses to spout the party line.
And the mediaWHORES have already crowned the BEAST666?!! Get ready for the “RED REVOLUTION” across our nation! Can you say a RUDE AWAKENING for the RATS!
Huh?
Too late. They are already calling it “buyer’s remorse” for the sins of the Blanco debacle.
He only one because Katrina washed the “Democrats” out to the garhole that Houston has become; and no, it’s not safe to return to Louisiana, least ways not New Orleans unless your one of the Chocolates. The City is toast and the STate will soon follow.
I hope your not implying RUDY as our Presidential nominee; I wouldn’t get too exicited since he would do just the opposite, and give us 4 years of Hillary
It’s a good day for the GOP and the conservative movement, and an even better one for Louisiana. I’m happy for you guys. Now let’s do something about Corporal Eight-Ball and the other knuckleheads down in New Orleans.
Let me guess: the blue area represents the state employees around Baton Rounge, right?
No, today is a great day for freedom loving individuals all over the country.
Perhaps the writer meant it was more of a great day for LA than Republicans.
And to compare Jindal to Reagan is offensive. Jindal was ready to vote to override the S-CHIP veto and Reagan would have never dreamed of introducing Socialized Medicine.
That’ll work, too.
You need to bone up on your Louisiana Geography.
Actually, in 2003 the people of Acadia not New Orleans gave the election to Blanco.
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