Posted By Rude One
Last night, Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, had her one
and only debate with her Republican challenger, Rep. Bill Cassidy, a
doctor with the face
of a cartoon pervert who gets off on putting his penis in your mouth
while you sleep, giggling, and running away on his tiptoes. Landrieu probably
won, if for no other reason than she's better at it than Cassidy, who
just didn't seem to try. But the conventional wisdom is "Who the fuck
cares? She's gonna lose."
And everyone knows why she's gonna lose. It's "changing demographics in
the Bayou State, the deterioration of the Democratic Party’s brand in
the South and President Barack Obama’s dreadful unpopularity," as US News and World Report
politely put it. But let's be honest here, shall we? It's because the
whites in the South hate the nigger president, and anyone who helped him
put his nigger hands all over the nice, white Lady Liberty is just a
nigger-lover who needs to be proxy-lynched for the nigger president, who
they can't vote out of office now.
Too harsh? Well, shit, Landrieu herself
knows it. Her ads that targeted white voters talked about how she
differs with Obama on issues like oil and gas drilling and the Keystone
XL pipeline. The subtext, of course, is "Hey, crackers, I'm not the
nigger president's ho." And her ads that target the black community?
Well, let's just say that if they showed Landrieu on her knees, sucking
off the president and giving a thumbs up, they'd be more subtle.
In other words, let's stop pretending that the completion of the
Republican near-sweep of the South is about anything other than race. It
isn't about government overreach, it isn't about economic policy, it
isn't about the president acting as an emperor or some such shit. It's
about showing Barack Obama that they can still call him "boy" by getting
rid of all the white traitor Democrats they could.
At the debate, Cassidy repeated, endlessly, "Senator Landrieu supports
Barack Obama 97 percent of the time," which was something her chief of
staff said at a secretly recorded meeting with African American leaders.
"Senator Landrieu represents Barack Obama. I represent you," Cassidy
continued, blowing that racist dog whistle so hard that hounds in Texas
started howling and getting out the rope.
Landrieu went out fighting over a scrap, accusing Cassidy of falsifying
his time sheets when he was a doctor at LSU hospitals. In general,
Cassidy bumbled, saying that he peeked at Landrieu's notes and offering
that, racially, things are "better than they were under Jim Crow," which
is not unlike saying that it's better to get kicked in the nuts than
have your house burned down. Sure, you've got a point, but could we
maybe work on not getting kicked in the nuts?
But, as ever, Landrieu hedged some of her even vaguely progressive
beliefs (and she is most definitely moderate-right in the Democratic
Party). She supports abortion rights called getting an abortion
"immoral." She supports the
Affordable Care Act, sure, but she has never been a fighter for it on
the campaign trail. She has never made Cassidy say what specifically he
would do to replace it or whether he would take health insurance away
from people who got it under Obamacare.
That's what Landrieu should have been doing this last month. She should
have been making a righteous case for the agenda that she has supported
instead of trying to hide it from whites. There is no fucking way that
whites who hate Obama are gonna vote for her. Trying to convince them is
like touching a burning cross repeatedly and hoping it doesn't hurt
this time. Instead, she should have tried to get the white progressive
vote, which exists, and pushed even harder for the black vote, which
could be overwhelming. Last time, 18% of whites voted for her. It will
almost surely be less in this run-off.
And, frankly, considering how many times she stood up for Obama the last
6 years, the Democratic Party should have spent a fuck of a lot more
coin on her campaign. They abandoned her, took their millions, and let
her fall alone.
Mary Landrieu's long political career will die, then, having given in to
the Republican racist narrative, even as she admitted that the
narrative exists. She could have pushed beyond it, showed it as a lie.
But she decided that it was better to try to convince idiots they're
wrong than say what's right. She probably still would lose, but at least
she'd lose with a bit of dignity by showing how dim, how devolved the
GOP worldview is.
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