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This Guy for President?
Wow. That second video is very damning for Landrieu.
I really like this line. I might have to steal it.
The Romanians are a very conspiratorial people, and I get the impulse to see conspiracy, and there are certainly cases of conspiracy that exist. But in general conspiracy theories are just away at avoiding the causes of problems. Plus communist were not that conspiratorial. They were very upfront about what they wanted to do, which is how wise and good people knew that they should be stopped and opposed. The real conspiracies are all fairly small and usually criminal in nature. Like conspiring to have your political opponents audited by the IRS to dampen their ability to campaign against you.
I watched the video earlier this morning and wasn’t aware he was a candidate until I read the comment string. Just haven’t paid attention to the LA SEN race. After watching it and knowing this guy is actually running against her, I’m wondering why there’s even a question who to vote for in LA? Mary Landreiu is a dolt. This guy is amazing!
Cassidy and Maness are the Republicans running against Landrieu. None will likely get 50%.
Bill Cassidy leads Sen. Landrieu in the run-off polls by about 4-5%.
@Valiuth- “It sounded a bit conspiratorial to me. I don’t think liberals came up with all their social do-gooderism to control black people. They did it because they are naive, and have an inaccurate view of the world and man kind. This blinkers them to the negative social consequences of their programs, and leads them to promote more of the same kind of bad programs to fix the social ills they create in a never ending death-spiral.”
Perhaps originally true for many, but decades of failed policies imply the continuing failure is intentional. Keeping them poor and dependent on government has been an all-too-effective policy for Democrats.
Thirded.
Blue Yeti? Can we figure out how to reach Sen. Guillory?
Oh come on now, you are seriously underestimating just how foolish people can be. Plus like all true believer hard core liberals do not see their failures as evidence of being mistaken but rather as the consequence of insufficient faith and commitment to their beliefs. Again, not a good thing but not a conspiracy.
I’d seen the first of those videos during the summer, but the ad opposing Mary Landrieu was new to me. Wowee… that is something else! That makes two terrific ads I’ve seen in as many days, the other being the great spot released yesterday by Marshall Tuck, who is running for California Superintendent of Public Instruction (Bereket Kelile shared that one in this post… it’s truly worth a look).
Of course, Thomas Sowell’s caution about the priorities of politicians cuts both ways and there have been plenty of Republicans who have, infuriatingly, shown the truth of it. But the crystal clarity and simple, grounded connection Elbert Guillory brings to this indictment of Mary Landrieu’s service is extremely powerful. And it doesn’t hurt that the ad is beautifully produced.
Keep ‘em coming, Sen. Guillory… yours is an important voice.
I think you may be taking him too literally. There is a certain amount of poetic license we permit people who are making a speech for effect. In this case I interpreted his statement as specifically meaning government or governmental institutions. The proof of that may be his statements regarding where he grew up and his continuous references to community. I might also venture to speak for Senator Guillory and say that he would view such relationships as mutually agreeable interdependence.
Also, I would say that I agree with your point regarding the liberal worldview but make this notation. In my experience I have come across two general categories (though I might list several sub-categories) of democrat. The first is the blue collar, working-class democrat whom I believe most fully fulfills your criteria when explaining their behavior. The other group I would list are progressives, whose particular ideology, though ephemerally based on notions of general welfare, really boil down to social engineering from the top down. Because their perspective REQUIRES vast control from a powerful, over-arching central government, they must by definition support a soft tyranny. Of course the ends justifies the means and also mitigates it in their minds and this is why they are the most dangerous form of citizen to those who wish to defend individual liberty.
What I want to know is why he was once a Democrat. Did he learn the history since taking office?
You naive fools. Don’t you see that this guy is a racist :)
His Wikipedia page clarifies a little bit:
The video that EJ posted, with 1,929 views, is not the original. The original is here with 1,143,871 views:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_YQ8560E1w
Thanks, Don, for the link.
Your profile says you live in Canada, so I will assume you are some what unfamiliar with local Southern politics. Even in Texas, one of the reddest states in the union, up until the late 80s and early 90s it was almost impossible to get elected to many local or state offices as a Republican. Lets just say that the party was not viewed favorably in the South after Reconstruction. I grew up in West Texas near San Angelo and it wasn’t until 2005 that Charlie Stenholm (D) ceased being our representative in Congress. To give you an example of how conservative that area is, in the 2012 presidential election, of the 3100 voters in my home county (Runnels) just over 500 voted for Barack Obama. Runnels County is currently in Randy Neugebauer’s district (you may recall a congressman shouting “Baby Killer!” at Bart Stupak during the Obamacare debates, that was Randy). In my opinion, west Texas is probably the least “Southern” area of the former Confederacy, so I can only imagine the change of party affiliation has been much tougher in the deeper, dirtier South.
Yup. I’ve had it explained to me a few times that the south is traditionally Democrat. How this all works still hasn’t sunk in yet.