re: Robert Mann: “Cassidy’s vote to impeach Trump could help him for Governor’

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Closed party primaries is what’s needed here. We need finality, order and consensus around a single candidate.

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Cassidy and JBE (and Garrett Graves for some odd reason) have come out in opposition to this; they both know they, or people like them, would never make the general election.

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I would like Cassidy to run for Governor

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I don’t want him to run at all. Period.

I want him to never appear on another ballot ever again.

Elections have real consequences and you want to play games to settle a score just for shits and giggles like it’s a toy.

No one definitively has any idea what effect Cassidy on a ballot would have on GOP base consolidation for the runoff.

Not you or Bob Mann.

Keep that genie in the bottle.

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I would like Cassidy to run for Governor bc he’d most likely lose in humiliating fashion, because he won’t be able to make it to the runoff bc he’ll only split the Democrat vote and take left leaning independents in the primary. So worst case scenario we wind up with a Republican Governor that isn’t Cassidy and Cassidy stays in the senate.

That said if Cassidy makes it to the runoff for governor, he would beat whatever R he ran against with JBE’s voters, bc D’s and left leaning independents and Trump hating RINOs have no where else to go. If the person he beats is Landry (which would be the likely adversary under this narrow set of fricked up facts), Landry beats JBE in the special election when Cassidy steps down to be governor, even if Cassidy appoints JBE in the interim as a reward for his endorsement.

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Sweet political fanfiction I guess.

Even if it’s just confused ramblings.

Big problem though, democrats don’t cross over and vote GOP. Never have, never will.

And the democrats have a floor of at least 42% in Louisiana, especially if they unite around a single candidate thus guaranteeing a runoff spot.

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Elections have real consequences

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Yes they do. Every time a candidate that Dan Satterberg Republicans like you support wins, the left gets stronger.

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I want him to never appear on another ballot ever again.

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I would like a pony.

You and I can’t control what that weird fricker does, and we can’t get him out of the senate. We’re stuck with his arse. And wow- isn’t it amazing that your blind loyalty to GOP didn’t work out? I voted for Cassidy not bc of Trump’s endorsement but because the alternative was a B-List version of Warnock that nobody ever heard of.

If you’re so confident the Ds won’t cross over in the primary, what are you so worried about. He will do less harm to the state, our country, and your precious Republican Party - if he runs for Governor than if he sits still.

Cassidy has already shown he won’t keep
his mouth shut. His impeachment vote was just random showboating to people like Decatur who he could convince he was principled in his hatred for the Orange Man. We’ve now figured out his motive courtesy of Mann.

So short of Cassidy resigning as Senator or taking a job as a lobbyist, this is the best bad option for all of us.

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now will you run for office?

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I’ll run for Governor against Cassidy.

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I’ll run for Governor against Cassidy.

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I'll help!

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In 2011, Dems got a collective 29% in the general. Jindal won with 66% of the vote.

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That was a lost cause like Cantrell’s reelection

I need odds btw that Jindal serves again in any elected office. He’s still pretty young

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If you’re so confident the Ds won’t cross over in the primary, what are you so worried about.

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GOP voters crossing over or staying home for the runoffs.

We just saw this in Georgia for the senate runoffs, North Carolina electing Roy Cooper twice, Kansas electing democrat Laura Kelly in 2018 for Governor, and JBE winning 2015 and surviving the 2019 squeaker.

GOP voters like YOU cross over and vote democrat or stay home.

This is not the case with the democrats because they’re a collectivist party by nature and they’re also big believers in incrementalism and it works really well for them.

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I need odds btw that Jindal serves again in any elected office. He’s still pretty young

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Jindal’s current and future calling in life is a column in the Sunday morning edition of the Wall Street Journal and occasional posts on his twitter feed.

Nothing more than that.

He’s a has been nobody chilling on the ash heap of history.