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New NRSC Ad: Mary’s Up To Her Butt In Alligators, Or Something
It’s entitled “The Lurking,” and actually what it says is that you’re the one with all the alligators to deal with. The long and short of the ad is your health insurance is in deep doo-doo thanks to Obamacare, and... (Continue reading)
SADOW: Stupid Remark May Doom Claitor From The Start
The omnipresent yet mythical tome on conducting a political campaign says you kick it off by wrestling into your possession all of the low-hanging fruit in sight, creating a first impression that dunks it home for your partisans and intrigues... (Continue reading)
Dan Claitor Is Now Running For Bill Cassidy’s Seat, But It Wasn’t A Smooth Entry
The conventional wisdom as the race for the open 6th District congressional seat currently held by 2014 Senate candidate Bill Cassidy progresses through its early stages is going to be that state Sen. Dan Claitor (R-Baton Rouge) is the favorite... (Continue reading)
VITTER: An Important Decision To Make
Wendy and I certainly hope your family had a great Thanksgiving. We did, with plenty of time to enjoy each other and reflect on our blessings. Many good friends and supporters have encouraged me to run for Governor in 2015–to... (Continue reading)
Vitter Finally Signals He’s Running For Governor In 2015
The worst-kept secret in Louisiana is now out in the open… After months of dodging the talk, U.S. Sen. David Vitter says he’s weighing whether he’ll run to be Louisiana’s next governor, with plans to decide by January. Vitter tells... (Continue reading)
The NRSC’s Memo On ‘Unelecting Mary Landrieu’
A lot of the reasons we here at the Hayride think we’re less than a year away from having a new senator from the Great State of Louisiana can be summed up in the following memo put out by Ward... (Continue reading)
The Judicial Crisis Network’s Brutal Mary Landrieu Ad
The Judicial Crisis Network, described by the leftist Right Wing Watch as “the primary outside group working to prevent the Senate from confirming President Obama’s three nominees to fill the three vacancies on the influential US Court of Appeals for... (Continue reading)
BREAKING: Guillory Endorses Cassidy
This represents the end of another rumored Republican opponent to Bill Cassidy for next year’s Senate race. Sen. Elbert Guillory’s name has been thrown around as a candidate for that race ever since he switched to Republican back in May,... (Continue reading)
SADOW: More Poll News Landrieu Won’t Like But Vitter Will
A poll about the fortunes of Louisiana U.S. Senate candidates next year and gubernatorial candidates the year after provided excellent news for Republicans in federal office and highlighted the continually deteriorating position of Democrats in the state. Among other things,... (Continue reading)
SADOW: Is This McAllister Guy Jefferson Smith, Or Barack Obama?
While, whether he realized it, Republican Rep. Vance McAllister echoed the fictional Jefferson Smith in words, his going to Washington, DC might have more in common with Democrat Pres. Barack Obama’s entry into the White House. In 1939’s Mr. Smith... (Continue reading)
This Looks A Little Like A Landrieu Plant, Doesn’t It?
So I come back from eating out tonight and there’s a press release from the Rob Maness campaign in my e-mail box… Politico is reporting that the campaign of Bill Cassidy has tweeted a photo altered to show Mary Landrieu’s... (Continue reading)
That Dude Really Zucks
Seems ol’ MacAoidh got us some publicity yesterday with that piece about Miz Mary an’ her vote on the fillybuster. Specifically, he got us some publicity about this… Somebody in Bill Cassidy’s campaign got a look at that pic and... (Continue reading)
Latest SMOR Poll: Landrieu 41, Cassidy 34, Maness 10
Those numbers are actually a little better for Maness than most folks would have thought, but what they really say is that Mary Landrieu is in a whole lot more trouble than anybody thought she’d be before the Obamacare debacle’s... (Continue reading)
If You’re A Maness Supporter You’re Certainly Welcome Here…
…I make that assertion because we actually try to hold to Reagan’s 11th Commandment here, and also because I don’t dislike Maness. I like that he’s a conservative who’s willing to put himself out there for public office – and... (Continue reading)
BEAM: The Favorable Qualities Of Congressman McAllister
Mr. McAllister goes to Washington. His first name is Vance, and he shook up the political establishment when he won Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District seat last Saturday by a 20-percent margin. The McAllister success story sounds an awful lot like... (Continue reading)
Krauthammer: Hillary Is A Paper Tiger, And Any Of The 2016 GOP Hopefuls Can Beat Her
Some interesting audio from the Hugh Hewitt Show earlier this week… Hewitt goes through virtually every one of the potential Republican candidates for 2016 – Christie, Walker, Kasich, Jindal, Cruz, Rubio, John Thune, Paul Ryan and Rand Paul – and... (Continue reading)
LAUGHABLE: LaDemo’s Carpetbagging Spox Lectures Us About Medicaid
We first introduced our readers to Andrew Zucker a couple of weeks back when he launched a Twitter project attempting to troll conservatives and Rob Maness supporters into hammering Bill Cassidy. Zucker, who is working for the state Democrat party... (Continue reading)
JINDAL: Forget About 2016; The Battle Is In 2014
Who’s running for president in 2016? Who’s up? Who’s down? Those are the questions that have the chattering class in Washington all atwitter, and all over Twitter, these days. All potential candidates have their own lines they use to deflect... (Continue reading)
SADOW: Myths And Facts About The 5th District Election
In the aftermath of Rep.-elect Vance McAllister’s surprising special election win for the Fifth Congressional District, its unanticipated nature has spawned more myth than fact about its meaning present and future. A sorting out of these statements is in order.... (Continue reading)
BAYHAM: Lessons From The 5th District Election
These are interesting times for reality television in Louisiana. Last week word spread that the A&E reality show chronicling the life of former four term governor Edwin Edwards and his young wife got shelved. And now a political newcomer can... (Continue reading)
Quote of the day
Quote Of The Day, December 6, 2013
”This, I feel, is one of the greatest tragedies of Communism. Read Lenin as he says ‘Lying, deceit and violence are justifiable means to bring about a classless society.’ This is where the principle of nonviolence breaks with Communism and any other method which holds to the same belief. . . . So, in the long run, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends, because the ends are pre-existent in the means.”- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.