Posted by
skep41 on Monday, October 29, 2007 10:51:25 AM
Louisiana
has been a Democratic State since the days of Huey Long in the 1930's.
Even though it started voting Republican in the national elections in
1968 the local elections, especially in New Orleans, still put plenty
of Democrats into office. Enough to make it an economic backwater,
depending on the oil and chemical industries to keep its economy
afloat. But slowly that had been changing as the successful governments
of neighboring states showed the folly of the
tax-the-wealthy/give-more-handouts philosophy of government. Things
were beginning to change. The Dem's started losing their edge.
In
2002 on election day, when it looked like Mary Landrieu was going to
lose her Senate seat, 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. But three years
later, when Hurricane 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
has become 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 that were supposedly managed by the Demo cronies on the
levee commissions.
And when the governor's race rolled around all
the usual candidates were swamped by Bobby Jindal, a free-enterprise
conservative. The once faithful and plentiful school-bus voters in the
New Orleans slums had migrated to fatter welfare checks in other states
and there werent enough remaining to turn the tide for the libs. Now
that snivelling panhandler Mary Landrieu has her job on the line. With
fewer brain-dead welfare slugs on the voting rolls her prospects look
dim in '08, especially with a Clinton ticket mobilizing conservatives
to get to the polls upstate.
The Corrupt Big Government past of the
Dems has come back to haunt them here. 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.