You're placing a huge emphasis on friends that's likely not there and never was.

Dardenne was a career politician that was running for anything and everything and he sucked at role playing as a republican including trying to be GOPe to the core or be conservative, he sucked arse at it.

Dardenne's very limited resume and appeal was never going to go beyond Baton Rouge and he had no business running for Governor.

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If you are Vitter and you go around Acadiana denigrating Angelle, then you piss off Cajuns and they don't like to see some little pansied arse sissy boy from New Orleans doing that . He may have been a RINO, but he was their RINO and a likeable guy despite his flip flopping and slim conservative credentials. Vitter was not likeable

Then explain Angelle getting his shite pushed in a year later by a youtube reality star cop by those same people who you say considered him "one of their own".

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If Vitter had kept his mouth shut the 30 days before the primary election and just played stupid and just ignore Dardenne and Angelle,

Dude, they were going into the gutter of character assassination for several months because they didn't have shite on him regarding a good resume, conservative credentials and policies.

If you're the type to ignore that like a chicken shite and let them get away with disgusting tactics, then go right ahead for your own political race. It should work out well for you. Trump had the same shite pulled on him and he fought back like hell and won. Problem for Vitter was that he only had a month until the runoff while Trump had several months to heal the divides in the GOP.

What they did was a murder suicide tactic that put a tax and spend liberal in the governors mansion and Dardenne was smart enough to know it was over for him in the GOP after that hence going to work for JBE to get a paycheck like the whore he is.

Angelle was stupid enough to think he still had a political career and people in Acadiana weren't going to come to their senses a year later when cooler heads prevail and they really reflect on Angelle's tactics and JBE being the tax and spend liberal he is.

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Edwards played politics and proved to be the superior politician. He went and reached out to Angelle and Dardenne the NEXT morning , promised Dardenne a job and promised Angelle his support should he make the Congressional runoff. That is how you play politics.

So you're congratulating JBE on buying a political whore in Dardenne and giving fake support to Angelle that wasn't going to do anything in Acadiana and he never advertised that to all the republicans that voted for JBE there?

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Blame Vitter for being a little punk .

Actually I blame Vitter for not laying one hand on JBE until it was too late. JBE walked into the runoff practically unnoticed and it was next to impossible to set a narrative against him with only one month while Vitter was still dealing with catastrophic damage that Dardenne and Angelle did to him.

Not touching JBE until it was too late and relentless character assassination from GOP challengers is why Vitter lost.

He could've possibly survived if only one of them happens but not both. Vitter was way too comfortable and therefore ran a terrible campaign that showed no urgency to cover all their bases.

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Posted by KiwiHead

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Member since Jul 2014

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Posted on 3/17/17 at 6:11 pm to Sentrius

Dude....... Vitter was a career politician. Like I said, the hooker bordello thing was not something most voters cared about. It had been known for years that he was seeing hookers and if you ever met his wife you would know why.

Angelle is the run for everything kind of guy, I will admit,but Dardenne had been in the legislature with Vitter when he was always whining about EWE.... from the LA Rep. Party's view he had bona fide credentials.

Let you in on a little secret, it was not Dardenne and Angelle who were running the ads against Vitter. It was a law firm fighting some oil companies who formed the super pac that ran those ads.....those guys were Edwards' friends. I knew what was going on as did a lot of people and Vitter should have known.

Vitter thought he could waltz in. He thought he could declare late, skip the debates and not put in the footwork that was necessary in order to win an election like governor. Then Dardenne and more importantly Angelle was gaining on him and taking away from his vote. Then he decided to get in the game. But it was too late. Vitter had been defined by his opponents both Republican and Democrat. He shows up for the last debate and starts trashing Dardenne and Angelle. That showed:

1) Vitter was not likeable

2) Vitter sounded whiny

3) Vitter would say and do anything to win...he had not worked, he thought his name recognition as US Senator would carry him

From a philosophical point of view, I vote Republican especially for President and federal elections. I really do not consider Edwards to be a really liberal guy( I was not a huge fan of his). I lived in places like New Jersey in the late 90's and I can tell you that Edwards up there would be considered right wing....to the right of Christie even.

I do appreciate competent campaigning and someone who knows how to work a campaign. Edwards had that. Vitter did not. I appreciated Obama's organization and discipline...I never voted for him , I in fact worked on Romney's national campaign and they did not know their head from their arse. Difference is, Romney is a likeable guy, Vitter, if you ever met him, is not. He was winning because he had an R after his name, that was it.

I would bet though that if Vitter was governor, faced with the same things, he would do much the same that Edwards is doing. The state constitution and the dedicated monies would give him little choice but to go that route.

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