re: Eddie Rispone's grifting carpetbagger campaign manager is aw shucksing the loss

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“On Election Day, our exit poll had John Bel Edwards’ approval rating at 56%,” Reed said. “

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That's because your campaign strategy for the month prior to election day utterly failed jackass.

He and his out-of-state cronies were paid upwards of a million cash for that analysis too, while squandering another $10 million of Rispone's money.

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He and his out-of-state cronies were paid upwards of a million cash for that analysis too, while squandering another $10 million of Rispone's money.

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Look I hear you, and any losing campaign has plenty of blame to spread around, but the buck's ultimately got to stop with the candidates in any election. The candidates make the final decisions on what their strategy is going to be. If the candidate doesn't know better than to reject bad advice, then that's the candidate's fault. Rispone may not have been through campaigns personally before, but he was experienced, very smart, and politically astute, because he'd seen politics from the backroom angle for decades. If a 70 year old man can't tell us what issues he wants to focus on as governor, he's hopeless.

So I'm assuming these ideas for nationalizing the campaign either originated with Rispone, or were approved by Rispone as his considered judgment that they were the best available.

And I think it was 100% Rispone, rather than his out of state consultants, who thought it was better for Rispone not to travel around the state and make more appearances. I think he really thought that his money was going to win this for him.

I don't think the "that hid him from gaffes" was the real reason. I paid attention to the campaign and yes, Rispone was awkward, Elmer Fudd-like, and he did make some gaffes. But he didn't make a lot of really bad ones. Especially when he wasn't put on the spot. If he had made it a priority to personally barnstorm north Louisiana after the primary, appearing before rallies and sympathetic audiences to give his stump speech, he might have made up the difference that he lost by. I think, at 70+ years of age, he was happy living more of the life he had at home and didn't want to deal with all of that.

There's no guarantee of course that he would've won if he had worked harder. But the fact remains, he put a lot less work into this campaign than he could have.

The blame lies totally with Rispone, I was only commenting on the excuse the weasel grifter made. With a competent strategy JBE's approval wouldn't have been at 56% on election day.

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And Rispone's campaign was so incompetent, terrible and inept enough to give people reasons to vote for that sleazeball.

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s'all I'm sayin. . .

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Roaad

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I meant when I said that Rispone gave stupid and emotional people a reason to vote against him.

Congrats on being one of those stupid and emotional people.

Dude, you’ve got no principles..

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Abraham beats JBE

Good job folks

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The man didn’t have enough money. He couldn’t get his message out, He had no shot head to head v Edwards. No shot.
He ran out of money in the first primary..

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GOP share of the electorate was at 52% in the first round.

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Wrong 52% of the voters in the first primary, not nearly 52% of the electorate.

Rispone upped the vote against Edwards, but he couldn’t offset the Dem machine which went into overdrive to increase their turnout while Rispone failed to fire up hid side near as much.

Rispone tricked you guys into believing he was a legitimate candidate. Those of us with common sense saw right through him.