Tag: 2010 Off Year Election

Jim Brown on David Vitter and a Brewing Fight Within the Louisiana GOP

Jim was kind enough to send us his weekly column on David Vitter and we’re very happy to run it. (Without a Youtube embellishment) 😉 – sop

Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Washington, DC

 

COULD INDEPENDENT VOTERS
BRING DOWN SENATOR DAVID VITTER?

 
An ongoing battle within the ranks of the Louisiana Republican Party may well determine whether Louisiana US Sen. David Vitter receives his party’s nomination for the coming 2010 senatorial election. The question for the party faithful is whether or not to allow independent voters to vote in GOP congressional primaries and runoffs. Look for the Vitter forces to strongly oppose any such movement. The issue will be brought to a head next month.

Vitter is in all-out effort to be the darling of conservatives, both nationally and in Louisiana. His reasoning is twofold. First, he wants his conservative philosophy to be the focus of the coming campaign, not personal peccadilloes thrust upon him for the past two years. As far as being accused of being too conservative for his home state, that serves Vitter’s agenda well. He feels he is playing to a favorable crowd, since Louisiana continues to be a stronger conservative Southern state. Only Alabama gave fewer votes to the new Democratic president than Louisiana. Vitter is quite willing to fight turf battles over philosophical issues in an effort to put his personal problems aside.

Secondly, Vitter is hoping to block off any potential challengers on the right. His particular concern is former Louisiana state representative Tony Perkins, who presently heads up the Family Research Council in Washington DC. Perkins ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002 as a protégé and former campaign manager of another senatorial candidate, Woody Jenkins. Perkins has built quite a conservative power base in Washington, and has become a major media spokesman for conservative family values. He has been approached by key national Republicans who feel Vitter may have an uphill fight in his reelection efforts, and some party operatives are trying to entice Perkins to come back home and take another run. Continue reading “Jim Brown on David Vitter and a Brewing Fight Within the Louisiana GOP”

Yeah, Yeah, YEAH WooooAhWooooo OH OH OH OH OHHhhhhh….Senator Vitter has a 2010 Opponent

He has been a good friend to both prostitute via repeated patronage and the slabbed via his support of the multi peril concept but I couldn’t resist this story once I saw the link Editilla hung on today’s ladder to the Bayou Buzz post on the topic. First let’s take a trip down memory lane to set this up courtesy of Youtube:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKZV1MSldJk]

Now some snippets from the Bayou Buzz post on Senator Vitter’s 2010 opponent:

They finally found a porn star to run against David Vitter.

An advertisement on the website Craigslist seems to imply that the search for a “female candidate with a history in the adult entertainment industry to challenge Senator Vitter” in the GOP primary has been fulfilled. Continue reading “Yeah, Yeah, YEAH WooooAhWooooo OH OH OH OH OHHhhhhh….Senator Vitter has a 2010 Opponent”