re: JBE comes out in public support for F. King

GOP partisans only wish it was so simple.
The real problem, which you refuse to acknowledge is that eight years of Bobby Jindal elected JBE. And Jindal as governor with GOP majorities in both houses yielded a pure- Grover Norquist record for all to see and enjoy. And it nearly killed us, just as it nearly killed Kansas.
The real problem for any GOP nominee is ultimately: How is your vision different from Jindal/ Norquist?

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And a Democrat hasn't won a straight D-vs.-R race in Louisiana since 2008 when Landrieu beat Kennedy to keep her seat in the Senate.

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The Democrat was the incumbent in that statewide race too, and there's a lot of people who have been added to the Medicaid rolls since then as a result of the incumbent Democrat governor.

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GOP partisans only wish it was so simple. 
The real problem, which you refuse to acknowledge is that eight years of Bobby Jindal elected JBE. And Jindal as governor with GOP majorities in both houses yielded a pure- Grover Norquist record for all to see and enjoy. And it nearly killed us, just as it nearly killed Kansas. 
The real problem for any GOP nominee is ultimately: How is your vision different from Jindal/ Norquist?

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Only left-wing partisans give a shite about Grover Norquist. He's not much of a talking point.

And nobody has seen hide nor hair of Bobby Jindal since 2016. He's also irrelevant. What you also forget is we no longer have the stupid bullshite feud between Jindal and Vitter splitting the Republican Party in the state like you had in 2015.

"John Bel saved us from Jindal" is hardly a winning message when you've run 100,000 people out of the state over the past four years, you've shrunk the economy two years in a row, you have the highest unemployment rate in America or damn near it and youve grown the state budget by $10 billion in four years without a single new road or bridge. Do you really think people are going to give a damn about Jindal?

Please.

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the stupid bullshite feud between Jindal and Vitter splitting the Republican Party in the state like you had in 2015.

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Two things here.

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What the hell was this stupid fight about? Control over policy items? Vitter rightly recognizing Jindal as a phony or not being pure enough? Vitter fricking up some policy items for Jindal?

Second....

I will never forgive Bobby Jindal for doing everything he could to defeat Vitter even if it meant putting a liberal in the Governor's mansion.

Jindal put money and staff behind Scott Angelle and I believe that he encouraged him to go scorched earth on Vitter to the level he went.

And Jindal timed his exit from the presidential race the same week as the Gubernatorial runoff to frick over Vitter one more time to put his face and name in the news cycle one more time as a wedge to use against Vitter.

Jindal was not a team player and he especially showed it when he abandoned Louisiana and stabbed conservatives in the back by attacking Vitter.

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Doing your best to pretend there never was a Bobby Jindal and he had no adverse impact on the brand in La.?

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If JBE is basing his campaign on jindal bashing and calling the republican candidates more of the same, then that's just more evidence that JBE has nothing positive at all to run on that deserves reelection.

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Doing your best to pretend there never was a Bobby Jindal and he had no adverse impact on the brand in La.?

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You Edwards guys can’t run on the Edwards record so you have to try and run the 2015 election again.

The fact is Edwards taxed the state into a recession, pushed people to leave La. while increasing the size of state government.

Now if Edwards had taken steps to cut out wasteful programs like the Film Credit deal, if he had reformed nursing home rules, or pushed tort reform that Jindal neglected then you could point to things Edwards accomplished that Jindal facilitated. However, you can’t say that.

All you can really say is Edwards pushed through a huge tax increase and he expanded Medicaid thus state government.

Nothing else.

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Doing your best to pretend there never was a Bobby Jindal and he had no adverse impact on the brand in La.?

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What you're doing is admitting you don't have a message. Bobby Jindal is over. He was over four years ago. And like Sentrius said, Jindal played an active role in torpedoing Vitter's campaign, which is something that won't be the case for either Doc or Eddie this time.

To bring this discussion back to what it was originally about, what JBE just did was to put to bed any argument over whether he owns F. King Alexander. He does. And that's going to either be a political albatross around his neck with a big chunk of Louisiana's swing voters, or it's going to be embarrassing for him when he jettisons King this summer.

Should have kept his mouth shut. Doc and Eddie are both going to harp on the crappy leadership at LSU which isn't fixed yet and they're going to hang King on JBE.

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jbe will be out of office very soon.

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Of course. They're both loyal soldiers of the Democratic Party.

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It's a fact that the last Democratic governor left a $2 billion surplus.

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I'm sure a windfall of Katrina money from the feds had nothing to do with that at all.

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Now you want to criticize JBE for picking up the pieces and trying to right a sinking financial ship.

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JBE brags about having a surplus of tax dollars while 1700 families lost a job this past year.

From a few days ago. The Advocate: Louisiana sheds 1,700 jobs over 12 months through March, with biggest hit in construction