re: How awkward is Rispone’s commercial?

I will say this about the Louisiana R party. The best thing about it is that we haven’t had any true Republican force around long enough to have any true GOP establishment.

The truly entrenched dirtbags who have run Louisiana into the ground are all Democrats, or politicians who have been around long enough to be Republican converts from the Democrat Party. (Ex. John Alario).

I think the sole exception to that rule may be former gov, Mike Foster. He switched his party to R, when it was still a little bit rebellious to do so.

When it comes right down to it. louisiana is neither Democrat, nor Republican, liberal nor conservative. We’re populists, who like to give the middle finger to the rest of the country. Only a populist candidate can be a successful governor here. Louisiana politics are otherwise inexplicable.