[StBernard] LA Dems confirm they can live with Boasso but not Jindal

[Westley Annis]

LA Dems confirm they can live with Boasso but not Jindal 

Two Louisiana Democrats, from different parts, even factions, of the party
both recently delivered the same confirmation of the party's statewide
election strategy - prevent at all costs the election of Republican Rep.
Bobby Jindal as governor this fall.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco, when asked what will become of the $3 million or so in
her campaign coffers now that she will not run for another term, didn't have
any specific answer. Blanco can use it for any non-personal, legal purpose
as long as she remains in office. What many in a similar situation have done
is refunded a portion to contributors, who then may turn around and give to
other candidates, or can directly and indirectly give to other candidates.

Translation: Blanco doesn't like Democrat candidate Public Service
Commissioner Foster Campbell, or doesn't like his chances of winning, or
both, and she is not going allow any assistance to filter its way to
candidate and Republican-in-Democrat-clothing state Sen. Walter Boasso. It's
an admission that Campbell cannot win, and that state Democrats need to cut
their losses by pinning their hopes that Boasso, who can self-finance his
campaign to a degree, can win - but that a loyalist Democrat like Blanco was
not going to directly assist him in any way.

It's a similar message as that sent by the party's Chairman Chris
Whittington, who conceded the party's main strategy would be to attack
Jindal. Again, it shows the state party has little faith that Campbell can
win, that no major contender from their side is going to enter, and that
Boasso is the lesser of two evils. If they truly accepted Boasso, they would
come to his aid, and if they really thought Campbell could win, they would
put big money behind him.

Translation: as predicted, the Democrats' main concern, no doubt goaded by
the national party, is to do anything to stop Jindal, which is why if they
can't get a genuine Democrat with a chance of winning to run, their only
choice is to launch a ferocious attack on Jindal which will feature absurd
charges, illogical accusations, and gross distortions that hopefully will
poison the state's politics enough to allow a relative unsullied Boasso to
beat Jindal.

It's not likely to work, because Jindal is by now a seasoned campaigner with
plenty of campaign resources and does a good job of contrasting the
superiority of his core conservative, reformist beliefs with the inferiority
inherent to that of power-hungry liberalism and populism. But Democrats will
not lay down without a fight because their loss of power, while good for the
state, obviously they don't desire, and that's why a torrent of mud with
little discussion of constructive policy will be dumped by Democrats by
summertime.

posted by Jeff Sadow | 5/06/2007 01:45:00 PM   

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