‘Anybody But Bobby’ Campaign Accurately Describes State Of Louisiana Dems
Yesterday, WWL Radio reported that the Louisiana Democrat Party is giving away bumper stickers which read “Anybody But Bobby,” a first shot of sorts in the 2011 gubernatorial race against incumbent Bobby Jindal.
“Anybody But Bobby” is neither unique nor creative nor particularly entertaining as a slogan. But in the current context it’s hilarious.
Ordinarily, you’d play the “anybody but…” card when you have multiple candidates in a race. It’s a way to make a blanket endorsement while hedging your bets.
But in this case, the Democrats don’t have any candidates at all yet. And it’s April. We’ve only got six months before the primary election, Jindal has something on the order of $10 million in his war chest, and the Dems can’t even find somebody willing to commit to the race.
Sure, Caroline Fayard wants to run. But after last week’s donnybrook over her “I Hate Republicans” rant in front of a good portion of the Democrats’ muckety-muck ranks, it’s hard to see her as a serious candidate for any statewide race in the near future.
And if Fayard isn’t a credible candidate, the Dems are hard-up to find one.
Which is why “Anybody But Bobby” is funny as hell. With “Anybody But Bobby” as your standard for a candidate, people who are manifestly unqualified perhaps become worthy of the Democrats’ endorsement.
Maybe this guy would be a good choice…
He’s not Bobby. And neither are these two guys…
This guy is at least a hell of a dancer…
The point is, with the current state of the Democrat Party and their candidate recruitment efforts, “Anybody But Bobby” is pretty much the best they’ll be able to offer. The fact they’d advertise that plight shows in vivid detail that the folks running the show at the little plantation on Government Street aren’t likely to improve things anytime soon. After all, it seems the voters are a bit more likely to vote “Anybody But Democrats” into office this fall.
The slogan “Anybody But Bobby” just exemplifies that Democrats don’t have policy answers for the problems in Louisiana. They simply want to be in control. If they want to make things better for Louisiana then they should offer solutions through a candidate and give the voters a choice.
Just an indication of how stupid and desperate SOME Demos (including the leeches) are.
Especially the Leeches, whose name is all-too-fitting.
Let’s play tell the truth. The New Orleans area has the largest amount of Democrats per square mile than any other part of the state bar none. The days of New Orleans controlling Politics in Louisiana are over. North Louisiana minus 1/2 of Shreveport is 65 % Bobby country as well as anything west of the Basin and south of Alexandria. The Democrats have had there day in Louisiana and that day is gone and will not be back in the near future. Bobby will be Governor again and that is that. Oh and by the way…..Mary Landrieu had better enjoy her time in Washington. That also is coming to an end. She liked Obama way too much for the commoner in Louisiana. Mary and her Louisiana Purchase Vote sealed her fate. At least now more people understand her now and she is……TOAST. The poor old Democrat Party has been hijacked by the extreme LEFT and the good people of Louisiana have had it with them. The only people I know that still hang with the Democrat Party label are those that are 1. Uneducated as to the changing political spectrum, 2. Party Loyalist that have not seen the Light so to say, 3. Those that are part of the extreme Left that helped hijack the Democrat party.
Louisiana Dems are as pathetic as ever. Caroline — their only viable candidate — took her name off of the list of contenders with her self-inflicted foot shooting, and every other big-name LA Dem has already switched over to the Republicans.
Good riddance Democrats! You’ve destroyed our country and voters in Louisiana are too smart to allow you to destroy our state internally.
If you want to destroy Louisiana, you’ll have to do so via California Democrats in Washington.
The sentiments displayed in this article are the very reason I left the Republican Party. Nevermind that Jindal is doing a terrible job. Nevermind his questionable ethics or his desire to destroy public an higher education. Nevermind he’s used taxpayer money to help him fundraise. All that really matters is that he’s got that R behind his name and that big R controls the governor’s office. So what if another candidate could help the state? That isn’t what’s important. What’s important is that we couldn’t possibly allow a Democrat to take over the 4th floor of the Capitol.
So let’s throw all the negatives out the window and rally behind an awful, self-serving governor. He’s a rebuplican after all and what else really matters?
What an asinine comment.
The post expressed no opinion on the validity of criticisms of Jindal’s
performance, or even an opinion of Jindal in the first place. The fact is
he’s a mixed bag.
What the post expressed, however, was the silliness of the state Democrat
Party handing out bumper stickers saying “Anybody But Bobby” when they had
yet to recruit a candidate. It doesn’t make Republicans good when Democrats
are a disaster.
“So what if another candidate could help the state?” Which candidate? The
Dems don’t have one. Which is the entire point of the article, a point
you’ve missed completely based on your protestations.
Your supposed departure from the GOP is dubious, frankly, as you immediately
launched into a set of Democrat talking points without much regard to the
piece on which you’re commenting. One could easily conclude this was another
in an endless string of left-wing trolling we are constantly forced to
police here.
Anybody but a DEMOCRAT is more like it.. the Democratic Party is not working to HELP the WORKING People of this state/country. They want to take from the working class to give to those WHO CHOOSE NOT to contribute to society because the government makes it so EASY to live off the system.. Here’s a thought how about taking taxes out of all those welfare checks that are mailed out every month and how about making them pay the taxes on the free food they are getting with food stamps. Hey that would better than not contributing at all…
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