Well, I think I will stick around for another 4 years.....

"Jindal was just some suck ass bureaucrat who could get on the good graces of people in power. He had nothing to recommend him to the Governorship. Good riddance. "

Are you sure you are not talking about Blanco? Again you have proven you just unable to get it.

 

How come it is always Cottonbowel bringing up race, playing the race card, calling members here "your kind" and "you people", ...etc but yet it is all of us who are the rasict right wing nuts? I really feel kind of sorry for him, because he is not joking.

 

I think Jindal has a reasonable chance of taking the Bennett Johnston route - after losing a governor's race, he ended up in the senate for the rest of his professional career. La would be more inclined to vote for boy wonder to the senate and let his great ideas work into national policy. But, something inside tells me he did the best he can do (although I have no idea of what dem will run in that race). And did he even congratulate Blanco in his concession speech? [/B][/QUOTE]



I strongly disagree. Jindal's political career is over. Jim Mc Queery is going to run for the US Senate and I am almost positive that either David Vitter or Richard Baker is going to run also.

The Republican Party will get behind one of those guys and Jindal will get passed by. Bobby Jindal cannot be elected to the US House of Reps and he is done. Jindal will end up in a consolation job in Bush's administration in Washington.

From there is is political oblivion.

 

I hope you are right in that Chris John will be our next US Senator.

I hope Vitter especially will not go any higher, but I have been told that he is planning of moving on up.

My point was that the Republican Party would quietly push Jindal aside to support McCreary or Vitter for the US Senate race. This should effectively end Jindal's political career.

 

That's why I think Jindal has a chance - the house republicans from La are ridiculously weak.
Yes, John has the lineage - John Breaux was groomed the same way 30 years ago.

As long as the republican national committee thinks La is a clone of Alabama, repulicans will have a problem (they ruined henson moore 17 years ago and still haven't learned).

 

The Republicans are slow to react to problems...

The last one was the commercial before the 2nd statewide televised debate. That was a joke of a commercial, but I'm guessing it worked on the masses who were uneducated about the realities of the situation.

Haik Terrell was good riddance. No one needs the Scare Crow in office, and her Wizard of Oz, "If I only had a brain" refrain about voting how GWB wanted her to vote was an absolute death wish in a state that's desperate for their own piece of the pie in Washington, D.C.

People want you to vote on what's best for Louisiana, not what's best for GWB and any possible personal battles betwixt himself and any others that skirmish with him in Congress. She didn't get that, because she'd never run a statewide campaign, and she knew nothing about political leanings or the temperature of the populace in regards to their aversion to a strong presence of authority from somewhere other than Baton Rouge.

Haik Terrell was merely a tool of the Conservative groups in DC who wanted to dethrone the Democrats and help complete the coronation of a Republican Congress with the late "V" in La. Louisianians don't take kindly to outsiders telling them how to run things and what to do.

It didn't work for Henson Moore-as JD mentioned-and it propelled a little known Cajun Congressman John Breaux into what ultimately became a very powerful and fruitful political career.

It didn't work for Roemer, who depended on George Bush the elder to campaign for him and raise da big bucks for him in Nawlins. It backfired in a huge way, and again, a lesson was not learned from the past. That's all on Roemer, because he should have known better, having cut his teeth as a campaign manager and strategist in the early going.

It didn't work for Moore, Roemer, and Terrell. They all didn't react to the handwriting on the wall quick enough. Jindal didn't react either, though his window for reaction was much smaller, as he had one business week to rebut the ridiculously old time political stylistic commerical that Blanco and her campaign cut.

Now we see why Jindal wanted to keep it positive, because he knew that he could not win a negative campaign. His record was easy enough to defend, and he could have made his numbers and stats hum loud enough to totally drown Kathy out, but that wasn't his angle...

Republicans need quicker thinkers and better strategists in this state. Jindal didn't lose by much, but I guarantee you that commercial cost him votes...Was it 50,000, I just don't know, but I know that one hurt him so late in the campaign.

 

I want to be clear that I was not wanting Jindal to win because I am a republican. I'm actually a Democrat, or at least I used to be. I wanted Jindal to win because he actually had ideas, something this state has been lacking for a long time.

But now that we have to live with Blanco in office, please, by all means, fill me in on what we have to look forward to for the next 4 years Cotton and JD?