How is he pro-rapists?

Also, Blanco was Mike Foster’s lieutenant, for the love of fair politics.

Just curious — I do get your more general point regardless of the answer, but were Foster and Blanco actually running mates? Lieutenant governor being a separately elected office in Louisiana, it would have been possible for the voters to simply have split their votes between the two offices.

And Maitri, I really do hope that you all don’t elect Jindal or Satan. I realize that as an NRNL (non-resident non-Louisianan), I may not be “welcome or entitled” to care about Louisiana politics as far as many of you are concerned. But the election of either of them as governor would immediately make it more plausible that one of them could get elected president, which might even be more than Abhi’s fists of fury can handle in NoDak.

That means a lot coming from Huffington. The last one is my favorite:

He has received twenty-nine honorary doctorate degrees from American colleges and universities and has lectured at the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan Presidential Libraries. In 2001, Washingtonian Magazine named Tim Russert the best and most influential journalist in Washington, D. C. describing Meet the Press as “the most interesting and important hour on television.” In 2004, ReaderÂ’s Digest said he was “AmericaÂ’s best interviewer.” Tim Russert has moderated numerous Gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and Presidential Primary candidate debates. His Election 2000 Meet the Press interviews with George W. Bush and Al Gore won the Radio and Television Correspondents’ highest honor, the Joan S. Barone Award and the Annenberg Center’s Walter Cronkite Award and his March 2000 interview of Senator John McCain shared the 2001 Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in Television Journalism. He is also the recipient of the John Peter Zenger Award, the American Legion Journalism Award, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society Journalism Award, the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism and the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Communication. He is a trustee of the Freedom Forum’s Newseum and a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington Boys and Girls Club and America’s Promise -Alliance for Youth. In 1995, the National Father’s Day Committee named him “Father of the Year”, Parents magazine honored him as “Dream Dad” in 1998 and in 2001 the National Fatherhood Initiative also recognized him as Father of the Year. [Link]

Even though I’m not a supporter of Jindal, he is a lot more efficient than Blanco or [insert non-existent opponent here]. At this critical time for Louisiana, I don’t care whether Satan gets elected as long as he gets the job done. And if you’re afraid LA will go the way of SoDak, you’ll always have Orleans Parish, which is quite liberal even with a lot of its core black constituency absent.