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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:10 pm to GeauxTrain
Rispone said something nasty about JBE and West Point and it was the talk of the state including this board.
And there was zero money spent on it.
And there was zero money spent on it.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:11 pm to magildachunks
It’s an uncanny situation. LAGOP threw a lot of its resources into Jindal and Vitter over 10 years, and they both flopped in the end. Dems seized on the ensuing alienation of conservative voters by nominating Edwards.
Who’s next down the pike? Garrett Graves? I don’t know.
Who’s next down the pike? Garrett Graves? I don’t know.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:15 pm to Sentrius
Rispone spent a ton running the ads attacking Abraham. Those aren't going to be countered by a Facebook post or Tweet. Abraham needed to respond with massive ad buys of his own countering the attack but lacked the money to do so. This isn't opinion, this is fact backed up by campaign finance filings.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:22 pm to magildachunks
The Democrats won because they ALWAYS vote Democrat (free shite doesn't hurt). The 10% of the "Republicans" that didn't vote for Rispone are the problem. The Democrats are waging war and the idealist Republicans are looking for the perfect candidate that makes them feel warm and fuzzy. To be fair, the Louisiana GOP could probably pick a better candidate randomly at a Super Wal-Mart at 2 in the morning. It's like they aren't even trying.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:22 pm to NikolaiJakov
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That would've been Abraham, but Louisiana voters believe anything they see in a political ad.
Ralphy might have been the second coming of Reagan, but I wouldn’t know cause I didn’t even know who he was until the first debate aired. For a guy who claimed he’d traveled the state meeting people, I’d never even heard of him. Rispone might’ve been Elmer Fudd running on Trumps coattails, but at Least he was running. Abraham was just a name in (one) sign I saw in a yard.
Republicans need to get an appealing, sharp, likable , enthusiastic candidate and start running him for Governor NOW.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:23 pm to tigerinthebueche
It’s entirely possible. Louisiana is filled with residents that have a single digit IQ
Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:25 pm to GeauxTrain
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Rispone spent a ton running the ads attacking Abraham. Those aren't going to be countered by a Facebook post or Tweet. Abraham needed to respond with massive ad buys of his own countering the attack but lacked the money to do so.
What makes you think if Abraham had money, that he would've gone negative against Rispone in response?
He has never struck me as that kind of guy, especially in the wake of 2015 when everyone knew that was the one thing that republicans cannot do and Rispone still did it and it greatly contributed to his defeat in the end.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:29 pm to tigerinthebueche
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Republicans need to get an appealing, sharp, likable , enthusiastic candidate and start running him for Governor NOW.
For reference's sake, John Bel Edwards announced he was running for Governor in the 2015 election all the way back in February of 2013.
That's 2 years and nearly 10 months to the runoff in 2015. Nobody paid any attention to it and thought he was going to win but JBE made the right call announcing that early.
This post was edited on 11/18/19 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:29 pm to magildachunks
I’m pretty sure the results will be the same...the problem is the people in the Louisiana GOP are from Louisiana.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:40 pm to Sentrius
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What makes you think if Abraham had money, that he would've gone negative against Rispone in response?
He had to at least respond to the lies. Calling Rispone a liar would've been negative (but true). The Abraham campaign desperately wanted to but didn't have the money. Rispone had essentially unlimited funds.
The Hayride has some good analysis on this and how Rispone was fleeced by his inept campaign staff:
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:51 pm to GeauxTrain
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He had to at least respond to the lies.
And they did and it was impressive debunking of Rispone's attacks but there's a difference between that and shitting on Abraham like Rispone did.
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Calling Rispone a liar would've been negative (but true).
We have different opinions of negative here. What Rispone did to Abraham was absolutely not fair game as those ads were misleading half truths that count as lies.
Abraham giving Rispone the same treatment is what I would count as negative, not a through debunking of those bullshite ads Rispone gave the green light to.
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The Hayride has some good analysis on this and how Rispone was fleeced by his inept campaign staff:
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I read those earlier and they are absolutely eye opening. Those carpetbaggers should absolutely be blackballed from working in GOP politics ever again.
If political malpractice was something you could sue over, Rispone would have a great case against them.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:58 pm to magildachunks
Yup.
Mississippi GOP got lucky. Haley came in and cleaned house. He rebuilt the State GOP and created a good bench. Louisiana hasn't done that.
Mississippi GOP got lucky. Haley came in and cleaned house. He rebuilt the State GOP and created a good bench. Louisiana hasn't done that.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 11:02 pm to prplhze2000
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Mississippi GOP got lucky. Haley came in and cleaned house. He rebuilt the State GOP and created a good bench.
Big scare though with Tate Reeves being a candidate so terrible that he barely won by 5 points in red arse Mississippi against a good democrat candidate in Jim Hood.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 11:36 pm to magildachunks
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The party is complete shite. Stop telling people to vote against something and give them something to vote for.
I mean, the same could be said for the Democrats on the national stage. I'm not condoning either. There is very little to vote "for" these days. It's almost always pitted against someone else.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 5:14 am to Sentrius
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reference's sake, John Bel Edwards announced he was running for Governor in the 2015 election all the way back in February of 2013.
It would certainly help if the Republicans picked a candidate early, got him out there in front of the voters so they could get familiar with him and put together some sort of plan to run as opposed to waiting till the last minute and half-assing their efforts like they appeared to do this election
Posted on 11/19/19 at 5:25 am to magildachunks
The guy everyone here told me was “the next savior”, Bobby Jindal, put Edwards in office for second term.
Every time a Republican loses all i hear is, “he’s a terrible candidate”. The problem for you guys is, you’re right. However, he was the best you got.
Every time a Republican loses all i hear is, “he’s a terrible candidate”. The problem for you guys is, you’re right. However, he was the best you got.
This post was edited on 11/19/19 at 5:26 am
Posted on 11/19/19 at 5:59 am to Kickadawgitfeelsgood
Rule #9 of Political Fight Club: Bad Republicans always lead to worse Democrats.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 7:22 am to magildachunks
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The party is complete shite.
It has been for a long long long time. Its a joke.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 8:34 am to magildachunks
I loathe posts and threads like these.
There is no secret GOP illuminati pulling the strings and setting up governors candidates. The candidates make their own decisions. There is nothing to burn down and rebuild.
To the extent there is any attempt to recruit candidates it is done by elected officials. Jeff Landry (et al) lead a very successful campaign to recruit and elect more conservative members of the legislature. The GOP party apparatus doesn't really get involved in that because RINOs are technically party members too.
And the only time in modern history something like that happened at the governor's level was when Mike Foster cleared the path for Jindal to run for governor. He told Vitter to cool his heels which was the start of the Jindal-Vitter schism.
And again, that wasn't the party, but the Governor.
Kennedy was his own man when he dropped out of race after holding everyone up. Landry was his own man when decided against running. Abraham was his own man when he decided to run. And to the extent there was a GOP party establishment candidate, it was Abraham. You saw how successful that was.
Rispone ran because he said "screw it, JBE needs beating and I can pay for it myself."
The GOP are support staff for candidates. There might be some recruitment, but only at lower offices. And frankly LABI probably does more of that then the GOP does.
So the problem isn't that the power players sit around a marble conference table in a torch-lit dungeon and pick the "wrong" candidate...it's that no such cabal actually exists.
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