How do you think Sen. Kennedy is feeling this Monday morning?

He has his faults but he generally MAGAs. So ill allow it.

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Less of a shite-head than your average Louisiana politician.

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I'll agree with this, but sometimes he tries too damn hard. I feel like he relies on his own intellect maybe too much, and should ask his advisors a few more questions before coming out for or against something. The way he's done it a few times is just weird...his approach.

This is a really weird thread.

Is the OP a gigantic libtard or just a kennedy hater?

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You'll never get to that political pinnacle of Governorship in Louisiana

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I would take being Senator living it up in DC for 6 years with another easy 6 on the way over Governor for 4-8 years of a state that has so many institutional problems.

I liked him as Treasurer and personally suggested to him about five years ago that he should run for governor. But since he was elected Senator he has put on this Senator Cornbread act that I find to be annoying as hell. He should go back to being the Vanderbilt, UVA educated policy wonk that he seems most comfortable being.

The governorship of Louisiana is among the most powerful in the country. He or she controls more than just the agenda. The cost of living in BR is far below that of DC, as everyone knows.

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His buddy, Dave Vitt, couldn't get the Governor's seat in our Red state. 

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His buddy would be Governor of Louisiana today if he had learned to keep his pecker in his pants.

Vitter screwed us all.

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Then you don't know Louisiana politics.

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Oh really I do.

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. For nearly any Louisiana politician, the governor's seat is a pinnacle.

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Ok?

Louisiana Governor as of right now is a business as usual position.

Meaning that you're still Governor of a state that has so many problems that if you tried to fix even one of them, the special interests and career politicians will bring out the knives and pitchforks and come after you so hard.

Vitter had the most detailed policy platform ever out of any candidate in Louisiana history and everybody went after him hard.

While JBE had nothing but platitudes and virtually no policy platform, just jindal bashing and Vitter's hookers.

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His buddy would be Governor of Louisiana today if he had learned to keep his pecker in his pants.

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Vitter won reelection in 2010 when the scandal was much more fresh.

Where VItter fricked up was that he ran a lazy, completely incompetent and overconfident campaign that underestimated JBE's appeal to moderates and didn't appreciate the threat that he would pose in the runoff. Vitter let JBE sneak into the runoff without so much as airing one single ad spot or sending out even one mailer against him.

Vitter earned and deserved the loss because he assumed that it would be an easy win like his senate campaigns. He was mistaken.

But the scorched earth tactics from the RINO ankle biters in Dardenne and Angelle was also a significant factor and made sure Vitter had no chance. They riled up the moderate republicans and conservative democrats that usually vote GOP so bad that Vitter had no chance of winning them back in time for the runoff.

If Dardenne and Angelle was willing to go that far agains a front runner they had no hope of defeating, they better win as otherwise, they have no future in the Louisiana GOP and they absolutely don't today.

Kennedy could beat JBE this year if he wanted the job.