The Republicans of Louisiana just nominated David Vitter to be their U.S. Senator for another six years. He got 88% of the vote. How’s that for family values? Cheat on your wife and have a prostitute dress you up in a diaper, and the social conservatives give you 88% of their votes. The only sign of weakness for Vitter is that about an equal number of people voted in the Democratic primary as in the Republican one, and that breaks a recent pattern of significantly higher voter turnout for the Republicans. Also, in Louisiana’s Third District, it appears that another teabagger beat the GOP Establishment’s chosen candidate. Teabagger Jeff Landry is hovering right at the magic 50% mark that would allow him to avoid a runoff against GOP-choice Hunt Downer. It’s highly unlikely that Downer could win a runoff though because the third candidate is a teabagger, too, and their votes will probably transfer to Landry.
So, the insanity continues with no break in sight.
Boo…one man’s (sorry, “person’s”) insanity is another person’s “dream come true”.
Here’s my favorite 2012 ticket so far…Marco Rubio for President (normally wouldn’t select someone with only two years experience in the Senate…but it worked for Obama!), and Chris Christie for Vice-President!
Wow!
So, you’re excited about David Vitter?
Boo…no, as a faithful husband, his behavior is despicable.
Answer this…who’s behavior was worse…Vitter, or Clinton receiving fellatio in the Oval Office?
Listen to Rubio’s response today (FYI…he’s a minority!)
Rubio and Obama have an epic, karmic battle in 2012…a contest for the Ages!
Does it make it more of a sin to cheat on your wife if you are the president instead of a Senator? How about if you are a total hypocrite? Clinton told people before he got elected that he’d caused pain in his marriage. We all knew he’d cheated before and might cheat again. Vitter is out there telling us to wear chastity belts and practice abstinence. He’s running on being a family man. Clinton never did that. He just tried to solve problems. Some of his policies sucked, others were great, but he wasn’t a hypocrite.
Guess what insult Jesus threw around the most? It was that people were hypocrites.
Boo…You are right…Jesus was about love and forgiveness. In his day, he condemned the religious authorities…as he would do today. He would definitely not be a “Christian”.
I am a big fan of compassion…but Government is coercive. Hence, my love of Conservatism, but my sympathy for Progressivism.
Neither’s behavior is despicable. If that’s how they conduct their family lives, that’s their business.
Why is it your job, as a conservative, to be a judgmental prick of how they run their private lives when it has absolutely zero effect on your own?
“Judge not, and you will not be judged…condemn not, and you will not be condemned…”
I love Vitter, and I love Clinton. I am not judging them as people, but their behavior was wrong. Like them, I have committed wrong acts in my life. An understanding that certain acts are wrong is not contradictory with love and forgiveness (especially for yourself!)
But what does that have to do with the fact that no one should have to pay more than one-half of their income (federal, state and local) in taxes?
Pray tell, why were their acts ‘wrong’? They were, at most, socially inconvenient.
The point is not that they have committed acts that are wrong, it is that they and their constituents are total hypocrites.
Yes, that’s part of it and they’re hypocrites too. So what?
They are living examples against the principles they profess to defend and that their supporters claim to demand. If you can’t do anything with that, you’re not much of politician.
Still unanswered is exactly where they found a diaper large enough.
I imagine a giant safety pin. And a lollipop. I wonder if he had a big binky?
Some good news from Nola, dems nominated Cedric Richmond to run against Cao in New Orleans. Cedric is a young, African American, who I believe was a city councilman. He’s a well known name, I’m visiting NOLA this wknd & I heard my aunt and uncle talking about him today. I think he has a good chance at beating Cao.
One of the great nativist waves in US history was the “Know Nothings” of the 1840s and 50s. To give an example of how powerful those waves can be, here’s an excerpt from the Massachusetts Historical Society’s website:
“In the 1854 Massachusetts election, all successful candidates for statewide elected office were affiliated with the American Party. In addition, candidates supported by the American Party won elections for all forty seats in the state senate; all but three seats in the very large state house of representatives; the entire state delegation to the United States Congress; and many local government offices, including in the City of Boston.”
So, for those who say it couldn’t happen here in the US, it already has. For those who fear the tea partiers are something new and unprecedented, they’re not. For those who fear today’s nativists can’t be stopped, they can.
P.S. Yes, in those days you could buy Know Nothing tea.
Yeah, the diaper/prostitution thing is one part of it. The other part is knowingly keeping aide Brent Furer on staff knowing that he had attacked his girlfriend with a knife and had outstanding warrants against him.
I read a poll recently where most Louisianans had NO idea about these charges against Vitter. No idea. Sigh.
“The only sign of weakness for Vitter is that about an equal number of people voted in the Democratic primary as in the Republican one, and that breaks a recent pattern of significantly higher voter turnout for the Republicans.”
Not knowing the ins and outs of this, but what strikes me is that this is in a mid-term election with supposedly low Democratic enthusiasm, and in the deep South.
And how many of those “Democrats” are Dixiecrats who never changed their registration to Republican.
I would think not many. Where I grew up, in a deeply conservative part of Florida, most folks even near the center-left part of the spectrum were registered Republicans. Only the few die-hard lefties were registered Dems. The reason was that everybody knew that Republicans were going to win all the elections that mattered. Thus, the “real” elections happened during the GOP primaries, so if you wanted your vote to count at all you registered as a Republican (they were closed primaries).
Might be a different situation in LA, but that’s how it was in my part of the South.