Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Next thing you know, somebody from say, ... Massachusetts, will get re-elected to some high office on family name recognition alone.
You are right on, Holden.
You know folks, its not like we had some grand choice of candidates. Basically, it was a choice between a mouthy, sort of confused (but for the most part, honest) mayor or a political prostitute. Mitch Landrieu has been in office for 20 years, and I'll be darned if I can think of one thing he's done. He's nothing but a prince in a political dynasty, a typical Louisiana aristocrat. He acts as if he's entitled to hold public office because of his family history.
But I did hold my nose and vote for him (and I swore long ago I'd NEVER vote for a Landrieu). It would be easier to vote for the political prostitute than to try to explain to the rest of the country how Nagin could be re-elected.
Nagin was re-elected because the other choice wasn't any better. The Landrieu family in Louisiana is much like the Kennedy family in Massachusetts.
There is something Mitch Landrieu said in the debate that I liked. "You can't write off an American city." Has an historic American city ever been given up?
If the United States allowed a large, historic city to crumble, would that signal a weakening country?
