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Eddie Rispone's grifting carpetbagger campaign manager is aw shucksing the loss
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:02 pm
WWL
This dude works in politics and is telling us that approval ratings mean the same as electoral polls and raw vote data. Clinton had better favorability numbers than Trump and she still lost.
In the first round in October, 52% of the state voted against John Bel Edwards in the primary, 53% if you count Dantzler's vote. What's more, JBE did not poll above 50.1% in any credible poll whatsoever and did not either at any point in the runoff cycle. JBE never got past 50.1% until the runoff on election day.
That's like a football team constantly trailing all game long and finally getting the lead on a game winning field goal. That means the loser had the upper hand on the other team all game long and lost it at the very last second.
Someone needs to tell Bryan Reed that Rispone lost to JBE because he took a complete unknown candidate and gave too many stupid and emotional people a reason to vote against him.
What's really frustrating is that Eddie Rispone had a great backstory of growing up dirt poor and how he came into his wealth by building his own company that now clears 350 million a year in annual revenue that also employs thousands of people. He's also a great philanthropist in Louisiana and has constantly done more to help people than John Bel Edwards ever has in his entire life.
That's a story that should've been the biggest part of his campaign and how he wanted to do the same for Louisiana. And with the millions Rispone was spending on TV ads, it would've been a smashing success and someone people in Louisiana wanted to vote for and going negative against Abraham would've never been needed.
But no, you made him go all in on the cringe worthy mini-Trump bullshite that turned out to be a big flop so bad that Rispone was forced to go negative against Ralph Abraham just for a spot in the runoff with bullshite ads that pissed people off and that was a disaster too as Edwards took advantage of that and spent millions reminding Abraham voters of that and got as many as 15% of Abraham voters in the runoff.
And that's why Eddie Rispone was a candidate without a message when y'all made sure he did not talk about issues that were relevant to life in Louisiana. I hate JBE but he had a story to tell even if it's a bullshite illusion and some off it's practically fear mongering and did everything he could to remind his voters what was at stake.
You ran a shite campaign that was completely tone deaf, constantly passed on solid messaging opportunities, based the candidacy on a mini-trump argument that was completely inappropriate for this race, insulted too many people on both sides of the aisle and refused to make the race about issues that were relevant to Louisiana life.
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Eddie Rispone’s campaign manager said Wednesday that the Republican challenger lost because Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards is a strong candidate and popular governor.
Bryan Reed defended the Rispone team’s strategy of trying to nationalize the race, linking Rispone to Donald Trump and repeatedly describing the moderate Edwards as a liberal similar to Democratic Party leaders in Washington. But Reed said polling showed Edwards maintained strong approval ratings, despite repeated GOP attacks.
“On Election Day, our exit poll had John Bel Edwards’ approval rating at 56%,” Reed said. “
This dude works in politics and is telling us that approval ratings mean the same as electoral polls and raw vote data. Clinton had better favorability numbers than Trump and she still lost.
In the first round in October, 52% of the state voted against John Bel Edwards in the primary, 53% if you count Dantzler's vote. What's more, JBE did not poll above 50.1% in any credible poll whatsoever and did not either at any point in the runoff cycle. JBE never got past 50.1% until the runoff on election day.
That's like a football team constantly trailing all game long and finally getting the lead on a game winning field goal. That means the loser had the upper hand on the other team all game long and lost it at the very last second.
Someone needs to tell Bryan Reed that Rispone lost to JBE because he took a complete unknown candidate and gave too many stupid and emotional people a reason to vote against him.
What's really frustrating is that Eddie Rispone had a great backstory of growing up dirt poor and how he came into his wealth by building his own company that now clears 350 million a year in annual revenue that also employs thousands of people. He's also a great philanthropist in Louisiana and has constantly done more to help people than John Bel Edwards ever has in his entire life.
That's a story that should've been the biggest part of his campaign and how he wanted to do the same for Louisiana. And with the millions Rispone was spending on TV ads, it would've been a smashing success and someone people in Louisiana wanted to vote for and going negative against Abraham would've never been needed.
But no, you made him go all in on the cringe worthy mini-Trump bullshite that turned out to be a big flop so bad that Rispone was forced to go negative against Ralph Abraham just for a spot in the runoff with bullshite ads that pissed people off and that was a disaster too as Edwards took advantage of that and spent millions reminding Abraham voters of that and got as many as 15% of Abraham voters in the runoff.
And that's why Eddie Rispone was a candidate without a message when y'all made sure he did not talk about issues that were relevant to life in Louisiana. I hate JBE but he had a story to tell even if it's a bullshite illusion and some off it's practically fear mongering and did everything he could to remind his voters what was at stake.
You ran a shite campaign that was completely tone deaf, constantly passed on solid messaging opportunities, based the candidacy on a mini-trump argument that was completely inappropriate for this race, insulted too many people on both sides of the aisle and refused to make the race about issues that were relevant to Louisiana life.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:03 pm to Sentrius
By the way, Brayn Reed managed Rand Paul's campaign in Iowa and was absolutely convinced that Ron Paul voters would not abandon Rand when they actually went to Ted Cruz on election night in January 2016.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:04 pm to FightinTiga
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JBE is a sleezeball
And Rispone's campaign was so incompetent, terrible and inept enough to give people reasons to vote for that sleazeball.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:05 pm to Sentrius
I don’t disagree. They tried to nationalize the race and it was not successful. Rispone was a weak candidate...what’s funny about it?
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:10 pm to patnuh
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They tried to nationalize the race and it was not successful.
And the thing is, they nearly pulled it off. Just missed it by two points.
And it was a completely incompetent, inept dumpster fire of a campaign for Rispone.
JBE was completely beatable and they blew it.
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Rispone was a weak candidate
Because his staff made him into a weak candidate when he had the potential to be a very strong one.
But that's on Eddie, he hired those grifters and has no one to blame but himself.
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what’s funny about it?
That he actually stuck around long enough to defend it.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:10 pm to Sentrius
Jeez, how did Abraham lose to that guy?
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:11 pm to Sentrius
Eddie Rispone was a horrible candidate. Talking with some folks this week two things kept coming up. He is really shady, business wise and other financial dealings. Also he pissed off a lot of the heavy hitters and old money by taking their donations then not giving them the time of day.
This post was edited on 11/22/19 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:13 pm to Sentrius
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And the thing is, they nearly pulled it off. Just missed it by two points.
Perhaps that just shows what a shitshow JBE is.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:14 pm to Damone
If Abraham had made it to the runoff he would have won.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:19 pm to Damone
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Jeez, how did Abraham lose to that guy?
Abraham understood that politics is a relationship business in Louisiana and that was why he was able to secure a lot of endorsements.
Rispne's campaign told louisiana politicos to frick off did no such outreach and thought Trump sycophancy was enough to get him into the runoff until it became painfully obvious that was not happening and he was going to have to go below the belt on Abraham to get that spot.
And then there's also the fact that Rispone did not have Ralph Abraham out there stumping for him in TV ads, on the campaign trail and getting photo ops together with Rispone on the stage with the President.
From what I've heard, Abraham's price for that was to help him raise money to retire his campaign debt and Rispone refused to do that and the rest is history.
Edwards won as many as 15% of Abraham voters in the runoff.
Don't piss off voters you will need later.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:22 pm to Damone
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Jeez, how did Abraham lose to that guy?
Stupid romanists. And Abraham was not a fighter, but Rispone showed zero fight and real strategy to win runoff except "I'm a Trumper" such as phony message.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:23 pm to GREENHEAD22
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If Abraham had made it to the runoff he would have won
lol
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:27 pm to Sentrius
Preach brother. And what little hope we had to turn the state around now turns to hope that we have some actual Republicans in the legislature that will spend the next 4 years gridlocking things and not responding to the threats that have already started coming from Honor Choade
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:28 pm to Taurus
One more thing, Rispone fricked up making bashing New Orleans a campaign tactic like he did.
It's no accident that JBE won Orleans Parish by 10 points more than Obama did in a presidential election year in 2008. He just simply let democrats go completely ape shite there and if he had contested it and got it down to like 70-80% Edwards, decent chance Rispone would be Governor-Elect and just finished like his 2nd or 3rd presser about the transition today.
Rispone wants to compare himself with Trump?
As brash and boorish Trump may be, he never made the stupid mistake of insulting voters and specific locations like Rispone did with New Orleans.
It's no accident that JBE won Orleans Parish by 10 points more than Obama did in a presidential election year in 2008. He just simply let democrats go completely ape shite there and if he had contested it and got it down to like 70-80% Edwards, decent chance Rispone would be Governor-Elect and just finished like his 2nd or 3rd presser about the transition today.
Rispone wants to compare himself with Trump?
As brash and boorish Trump may be, he never made the stupid mistake of insulting voters and specific locations like Rispone did with New Orleans.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:30 pm to Icansee4miles
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And what little hope we had to turn the state around now turns to hope that we have some actual Republicans in the legislature that will spend the next 4 years gridlocking things and not responding to the threats that have already started coming from Honor Choade
Any republican thinking about making a deal with JBE should look to Julie Stokes and Ryan Gatti as cautionary tales.
Two RINOs that was shamed out of running for reelection this year and the other defeated by 10+ in the runoff last Saturday.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:31 pm to Sentrius
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As brash and boorish Trump may be, he never made the stupid mistake of insulting voters and specific locations like Rispone did with New Orleans.
And as for as I'm concerned he ignored(insulted) EBR too. I just think he relied too much on his romanists ties and "I'm a Trumper" and that would be enough. He was truly a terrible candidate.
This post was edited on 11/22/19 at 7:32 pm
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:37 pm to Taurus
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He was truly a terrible candidate.
Right.
Because he talked and acted like one at the insistence of his campaign and that's on Eddie as he hired those grifters that treated his campaign as more of a get rich scheme than a political campaign.
It didn't have to be that way considering the amazing rags to riches back story he has and status as a pillar of Baton Rouge.
No one to blame but himself.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:38 pm to Sentrius
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Clinton had better favorability numbers than Trump and she still lost.
While I agree with much of your original post (I voted for JBE btw), I think the Clinton/Trump comparison is off. Clinton beat Trump solidly in the popular vote, but lost the election because popular vote is not that meaningful, it's all Electoral College. Unlike Louisiana's election which turned on popular vote alone. Favorability matters a lot more in a state election.
Posted on 11/22/19 at 7:40 pm to ExtraGravy
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While I agree with much of your original post (I voted for JBE btw), I think the Clinton/Trump comparison is off. Clinton beat Trump solidly in the popular vote, but lost the election because popular vote is not that meaningful, it's all Electoral College. Unlike Louisiana's election which turned on popular vote alone. Favorability matters a lot more in a state election.
IIRC without looking at the data, my statement re: Clinton and Trump favorables held true in the battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
That's a fair point you bring up though.
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