re: Louisiana's Democratic party might have just imploded. Ted James Is Bailing Out.

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This would be good news if Louisiana Republicans were anything but worthless.

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What's the difference between Republicans and Democrats in the Louisiana State Legislature?

Not much to none at all.

What I don't get about Bobby Jindal is his pointless, stupid and shortsighted blood sport feud with David Vitter at the tail end of his time as Governor and using Scott Angelle as a stalking horse against Vitter.

It was a feud so catastrophic that it split Louisiana republicans up into factions and that was a harbinger of what 2015 was going to bring.

Bad things happen when the Governor and Senator of the same party are in a blood sport against each other.

It's a huge mark against Jindal. He failed to take good care of the standing of Louisiana republicans, refused to set them up as well for the future as he possibly can if it meant Vitter would be at the forefront of that and did not care about doing everything he could to make sure his successor was not a liberal democrat.

Jindal truly didn't give a damn about the conservatives that went to bat for him and left them with 8 years of the political twin of Edwin Edwards (JBE) to deal with.

The best thing going for Louisiana Democrat Party is the Louisiana Republican Party.

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They both wanted to be Alpha Dogs.

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And what did they get for their troubles?

A status as has-been nobodies chilling on the ash heap of history.

And the hard working producers of Louisiana are the ones paying the price for their stupid and destructive feud and suffering for it.

Shame on those two.

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Neither was a team player and both had higher aspirations and had no problem stepping on toes to get there.

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What they failed to understand is that to be a successful politician, you have to be good at networking, coalition building and gaining as many allies as possible. That's the very nature of politics and its to build consensus around issues and/or candidates.

If Jindal actually had good street instincts to go with those book smarts that he loved to advertise, he would've recognized that Vitter was the prohibitive front runner for Governor, buttered him up as much as he could for a possible appointment to the Senate seat that Vitter would've had to vacate and Jindal would still be relevant in Louisiana politics today and would be for a very long time.

Instead in this reality thanks to his failure to look at the long term big picture, Jindal is relegated to a Sunday morning column in the Wall Street Journal and a twitter feed with a smattering of followers. And nothing more than that.


The Lesson here? In politics, Don't burn bridges until you absolutely have to and have no choice and never as a first resort. You never know when you will still need those bridges until you actually need them.