Can GOP win the Louisiana governorship in 2019?

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Can GOP win the Louisiana governorship in 2019?

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Yes.

It just depends on having a good candidate and some factors beyond that candidates control.

I'll start with the good candidate here.

1.) A good GOP candidate has to be had and he must work as hard as he can to engage with the voters, listen to their concerns and honestly look like he gives a shite about their problems. That's not hard to do at all and it's what Vitter failed. It's simple retail politics and that's why he earned the loss himself.

2.) A good canddiate also has to do the very best job to illustrate and demonstrate why John Bel Edwards has been a shitty governor and he is not the conservative blue dog democrat he claimed to be but is actually a huge fraud. He has to demonstrate why his policy of high taxes, insane spending, bloat of red tape everywhere and relentless lawsuits against oil and gas is terrible for this state.

Now for some factors out of the candidate's control or rather just one really.....

1.) The field has to be as small as it possibly can be to make sure we do not see a repeat of the feuds that we saw between Vitter, Dardenne and Angelle.

It was mostly Dardenne and Angelle but what those three did burnt down the house of unity for conservatives in Louisiana and made sure that Vitter had no hope of consolidating the GOP base to defeat JBE. We cannot have that happen again as those are deadly and dangerous in jungle primaries.

The biggest goal for the Louisiana GOP in 2019 is getting the base out and making sure JBE cannot win enough of those same republicans he won in 2015 and that includes making sure every candidate is constantly attacking JBE and making sure he does not sneak into the runoff uncontested again.

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Scott Angelle and Jay Dardenne aren’t good either.

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For good reason.

Those clowns had no business running for Governor in first place against one of the most qualified and well credentialed candidates Louisiana has ever seen.

But of course that's why they had to drag Vitter into the mud of character assassination as they didn't have shite on his conservative and professional credentials and it worked.

Worked all too well as Vitter lost the election in the runoff and a tax and spend liberal won the election.

Angelle got beat like a rent mule a year later losing a house race to Clay fricking Higgins as people were pissed the frick off at him for his bullshite and refusal to endorse and I heard a lot of people in the state GOP and people connected to Vitter, John Kennedy and Jeff Landry made crushing Angelle a primary; they poured a lot of money into a superpac for example to do that.

Dardenne to his credit was smart enough to know his shite was done after 2015 and he was never winning another election so he decided to sell his endorsement to JBE or rather whore himself out to JBE and then take a job on his staff to fatten up his pension for retirement.

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Clay Higgins would be a great choice. Not part of the establishment, name recognition and respect, a US Army veteran and police officer, loved and respected by many across the state and nation. He definitely has a base he can mobilize to fund his campaign and doesn’t need PAC money, he can’t be bought. CLAY HIGGINS 2019!

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I appreciate Clay's service in putting that piece of shite sleazeball Angelle back in his sinkhole swamp where he belongs but he's way too big of a risk to let JBE get four more years.

Everything you say is true except that while I appreciate Higgins and like him he's more of a novelty and nowhere near what we need for a governor.

And especially, frick Angelle and Dardenne.

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Can GOP win the Louisiana governorship in 2019?

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Yes. If they back the right candidate. It’s not Kennedy, not Higgins. It’s this guy, Stephen Waguespack. President of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.

Stephen Waguespack

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I hope they don’t win. We are in a difficult place already. Republicans will finish their intentional destruction of our education system if they

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You say this like it's worth preserving

If Steve Scalise or Garrett Graves run, they will win.

Don’t count out Dr. Craig Green

Not many guarantees in life, but the GOP winning Louisiana in 19 is a slam dunk

We need our version of Trump...a candidate that only cares about jobs and making Louisiana great again!

The real question is, how does JBE think he can win.

He has raised taxes, he has cut TOPS, and he never balanced the budget long term.
In the last special session, the Republicans and Black Democrats rebelled from his plans.

With so much blood in the water, candidates will be lining up. He might see significant Democratic challenge. Even Vitter would win a rematch, but he probably won’t run.

Greene will definitely run. He’s also the best of the bunch. Jeff Landry is an idiot. Greene could beat the crap out of him - literally and figuratively.

Edwards election was a fluke. I voted for him only because he was a one term proposition.I don’t care who anybody has sex with. Just own it. We would have been stuck with Vitter’s scorched earth politics and hypocrisy for 8 years has he been elected.

The republicans could run Elmer Fudd or Jeff Landry and I would probably still vote for him. it isn’t so much JBE I have a problem with as the corrupt, iincompetent Democrat throwbacks he’s brought along with him.