Poll: Vitter Leads Melancon By 10

I was visiting my in-laws in New Orleans last year and my father-in-law, who is kind of up on politics, had no idea about the Vitter prostitute thing. My mother-in-law was aware but apparently it was something they never discussed.

Of course, knowledge of that doesn't matter one bit...no way they vote for Melancon, even though he's a conservative local Cajun dude running against a fancy pants Rhodes Scholar diaper-wearing incumbent. They might vote for the guy running against Vitter in the primary but that's as far as they'll go. The hatred of anything connected to Obama - eg, Democrats - runs deep in Louisiana. (well, not among blacks, but you can't win in Louisiana when 70-80% of the white folks are set to vote against you) Vitter would have to bite the heads off kittens before a Dem could beat him. Plus, this is Louisana - as far as scandals go you pretty much have to be convicted and in jail (see, eg, Edwin Edwards, Bill Jefferson) before voters reject you because of some bribery or prostitution charges.

Note that my in-laws do usually vote for a Democrat in the New Orleans mayoral elections...but that's because the Republicans rarely field a viable candidate, if they field one at all. It's almost always a bunch of Dems with a smattering of independents (actually Democrats) running.

I'm just baffled by this. It could only happen in a one party state. If Richard Burr had been caught up in something like this, every damn person in this state would know it.

Oh well, that's what campaign ads are for.

What is wrong with that state?

More to the point, what is wrong with Democrats? Vitter is the perfect target against whom one can go super-negative and still not be accused for doing so. Do they not want to win?

Let's get on with diaper gate.

Newspapers still do most of the reporting, but it seems their stories have no impact unless TV chooses to pick them up. For a better indicator of why Louisianans are unaware of Vitter's problems, look at TV coverage rather than the newspapers.

Someone should put up an add with a baby in diaper with Vitter's head attached being wooed by a couple of professional women. Perhaps that professional who undid Spitzer in New York.

All of this is beside the fact that Vitter is certainly not a idol for family values, limited government or fiscal responsibility. Oh so they will say that all parties have their good and bad traits but I will reply that only the Democrats are honest about bigger government and government spending. The GOP just tells people that they are family values, tells people they are fiscally responsible, tells people they are for limited government but then get elected and go to washington and do nothing of the sort. Just look at the Reagan Years, the Bush years and it becomes quite clear that there has not been any results when it came to delivering on their message. But I guess we live in a society which prides it self on the "now" and loves a good show. Lord know we have people who identify with conservatism but heaven can not tell me why they vote for these people who ultimately fail to deliver.