Posted on 11/21/2015 6:35:35 PM PST by Timpanagos1
Early Results
(Excerpt) Read more at staticresults.sos.la.gov ...
good. vitter needs to go away. as a candidate, he was a walking corpse.
It’s what happens when you run a flawed candidate.
Pretty sucky night, although we retained Lt. Gov easily and Landry thumped Caldwell.
Although now that Vitter has announced his retirement from the Senate, we’ve got to make sure he is succeeded well and not replaced with a RINO.
I didn’t want indigestion following the election tonight. That Landry is winning by a wide margin in the AG race is a shocking (and pleasant) surprise.
Yes, and quite a few Republican office holders supported Edwards.
The turn out was light.
First, the responsibility for this goes to the stupidity of voters in this state and secondly to Jindal, who tried desperately to shaft Vitter this week, and ran for president for 8 years.
landry is a good guy. tea partier going back to the begining.
Jindal may ultimately be to blame for Vitter’s loss. It’s very difficult with an incumbent party member with high disapprovals to pass off the seat to a member of the same, even if they hail from different wings. I’m reminded of Ohio in 2006 with the very unpopular RINO Gov. Taft rubbing off anti-GOP negativity on Conservative Ken Blackwell. Even here in TN in 2002, Sundquist, who was unpopular, got Van Hilleary partly saddled with his negativity (although in Hilleary’s case, he had little money to compete against Bredesen, but still just barely lost).
Jindal won’t run for the Senate seat, at least. His negatives would be hard to keep the seat. I was going to suggest Landry run if he had narrowly lost tonight, but since he didn’t, he’ll likely be a strong candidate for Governor in 4 years. Other than that, I’m not sure who would be the best candidate to run for the Senate who would match Vitter’s excellent record.
if either angelle of dardene faced bel edwards, we would have won. in fact, if the jungle primary was between vitter and edwards, the dem would win outright.
New Orleans comprises all of Orleans Parish. The law in LA says that a city cannot expand beyond Parish limits.
Well you just got to give the name EDWARDS credit in Louisiana politics.
Time to get back to handing out some of them favors at the Parish level.
Don’t think so... I just came back from BTR. The ads against Vitter are brutal.
I wouldn’t vote for him for dog catcher.
Louisiana is conservative, but still has a strong Democrat base,
Give Jindal some credit. He didn’t knock himself out to help Vitter.
His spokesperson attacked Vitter a couple days before the election. They despise each other.
I’ve heard Rep. John Fleming (LA-04) talked up as a Vitter replacement when it looked as if Vitter was going to win the governor’s race in a walk and end up appointing his replacement. He’s had the highest conservative rankings in the LA delegation last I looked, but I hadn’t checked the ratings since Abraham (LA-05) and Graves (LA-06) were elected. Graves, BTW, has been talked up more recently as someone who could move on up, but like I said, I haven’t checked the overall record of the LA House members very recently.
RINO Boustany (LA-07) is part of the House leadership and is (thankfully) unlikely to run.
Scalise (LA-01) is majority whip, very unlikely to give that up for a Senate run especially when he could plausibly become majority leader or Speaker someday, although his voting record has taken a turn for the worse, and as of now I don’t plan on voting for him next time.
State Treasurer John Kennedy is also mentioned as a candidate, which would mark his third try, his first while still a Dem that ran to the left of then Dem Chris John in 04, then switched to the GOP and got beat by Landrieu in 08. My take: why? We have a deeper, better, and younger bench to pick from, and people who frankly have more reliable conservative credentials.
Phil Angelle (one of Vitter’s two Republican opponents) has been rumored as a candidate to primary Vitter if he ran for re-election. Don’t know if he’d run now, but I’ve never been crazy about him, so pass.
“Jindal won’t run for the Senate seat, at least.”
Jindal is going to go run his own think tank, where he can be irrelevant in comfort.
As for Vitter, he was out campaigned, and ran almost exclusively on negatives about his opponent at least on radio. Edwards ran warm, fuzzy, security blanket ads of assurance about his military service, pro-life and pro-family goodness. His wife cut a particulary effective ad for him.
“Louisiana is conservative, but still has a strong Democrat base,”
Yes it is. Every time I hear that Louisiana is “deeply red” I just cringe. Louisiana is a purple state, that leans right on cultural issues, and left on fiscal issues. There is also a distinct cultural difference between the north and south which requires different approaches even on the same issues.
is mary landrieu running again?
the state is a third black. which means dems are never out of it.
“we’ve got to make sure he is succeeded well and not replaced with a RINO.”
Damn right.
I’d cringe, too, since Red is the color of leftist totalitarianism: Communist/Socialist/Nazi (and foisted on the GOP on Election Night 2000 from the Democrats). Any Republican stupid enough to allow himself to be called a “Red” ought not even be anywhere near a voting booth.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.