…though we can say we knew it would be coming sooner rather than later. The ad is interesting on a couple of levels, though, which are worth exploring.

In case you haven’t seen this, here it is…

The basic gist of this is that if you elect Stephen Waguespack you’re getting another four years of the Bobby Jindal administration and wasn’t that a disaster.

And here’s the thing – if you’re going to run against Waguespack, that is the argument you make. Jindal has never been rehabilitated in the eyes of Louisiana’s voters from the end of his time in office, when his approval ratings were in the 20’s, so that stink is going to cover all of the people who worked in the administration.

Which means it’s an easy thing to just paint Wags with that brush. Landry was always eventually going to do it, and we’re really surprised we haven’t seen more of John Schroder, Richard Nelson and Sharon Hewitt doing it. Shawn Wilson is going to do it as well, though to what extent depends on how much of a threat Wags becomes as the race goes along.

And to answer this, Wags will have to rehabilitate Jindal. Either that or he’s going to have to repudiate Jindal. The problem with either is that it’s already June, and it’s a bit late in the game not to have already done either.

But like we said, we really don’t like this stuff, and for the reason we didn’t like the pro-Waguespack PAC ad accusing Landry of being the reason the state is in the middle of a giant crime wave. That ad started from a dumb premise, but the biggest flaw in it was the fact that Republican voters in Louisiana get infuriated at GOP candidates attacking each other because of the last two election cycles, when John Bel Edwards backed into the governor’s office twice thanks to Republicans beating each other senseless.

It isn’t a great look. Landry’s camp can at least say their PAC ad is truer, and that Team Wags hit first. And those are valid points.

But when Steve Scalise slapped Waguespack for that first attack ad on the basis of a distaste for intraparty mudslinging and then this attack came right after it…well.

Let’s try to have a more positive campaign than this, shall we?

By the way, there’s something else happening – our buddy Joe Cunningham addressed this at RedState in a post you should head over and read, but now that Garett Graves has endorsed Waguespack and Scalise has popped him, and now that Scalise and Kevin McCarthy seem to be on the outs, the backdrop to the governor’s race is beginning to have some national implications worth watching.