re: If Rispone loses the reason will be lack of plans

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Those are broad, empty generalities.

I am against crime!

I am against evil!

Observe my substance!!!

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Calling for a constitutional convention when we all know we need a change and your opponent says he won’t is a big deal. It’s not like saying I’m against crime.

Calling for tort reform when your opponent blocks tort reform is another big deal.

Calling for accountability in schools And rewarding those that improve when your opponent is for across the board raises is a big difference.

Vouchers versus the status quo advocated by Edwards and the unions is a big difference. I could go on, but the notion that Rispone is an empty suit is propaganda.

He has outlined numerous differences between his positions and his opponent’s.

I voted for him.

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Really? Compared to what substance on JBE's side?

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He is the incumbent.

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I think it will be a lack of hustle by his campaign. He really wasn’t anywhere near as visible or engaging as you would think he could have been with that war chest. His campaign often seemed lazy and out of touch with Louisiana.

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I don't think lack is hustle is quite it. He isn't that good of a speaker. So he mostly avoided those venues.
He had a lot of cash, so he dumped it into ads.

He played to his strengths.

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He’s an empty suit.

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The lack of a detailed description of any of his policy intentions doesn't justify calling him this

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He is the incumbent.

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So for you he doesn't have to say what he will do, because you can go back and look at what he did. The past is the best predictor of the future, so to speak.

Fair enough.

But, as a self-proclaimed conservative, you looked at JBE's tax and spend ways growing the budget by 50%, passing the largest tax increases ever, going to war with business through tax policy and openly suing them (and when twarted by the legislature and AG) encouraging locals to sue them, supporting teacher unions with an across the board pay raise and said:

"I got to have more of that"

I would get it if you were a liberal and you thought government spending was the key to prosperity. That would at least make sense.

If he loses, it’ll be because voter inference and inducement

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Finally convinced my Mom in north La. to vote for Rispone. Dr. Abraham was her physician and she is still pissed. She just wasn’t going to vote for either. She called to tell me she pulled the lever for Rispone after all. I think a lot of Doc’s voters will ultimately do the same.

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I've heard this is happening a lot. Rispone learned a valuable lesson. This was not a campaign cycle for conventional, boilerplate political strategy. A lot of amateurs miscalculated the core support of Abraham's base, which includes a majority of voters who stuck with Vitter last cycle in the primary and runoff. That's important because those are generally the strongest conservative voters across the state.

Although technically inaccurate, Rispone was viewed by many as a Dardenne/Angelle in the primary because he was far less visible physically campaigning across the state. The late hour carpet bombs against Abraham backfired. But most of Abraham's conservative base is coming home.

The real problems today are the RINOs who were with JBE in the primary and are sticking with him in the runoff. Those are the government-tit, faux blue-blood types who aren't conservative; they're the ones who empathize with lawsuit culture, and/or make serious money off state contracts and Medicaid expansion.

I'm optimistic Rispone wins.

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Everyone on this board criticizes Dems for voting lock step, but now you hate others for not doing the same.

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He's better than the alternative. I will never understand how people can be stubborn enough to help elect a leftist.