I think Mary Landrieu of LA would make a fine VP nominee in '08

She has experience, brains, and looks. She comes from LA and will do a great deal to remind the electorate of the incompetence of the Bush administration in it's response to Katrina.

I think she would be a good choice for almost any of our potential nominees--except maybe Hillary.

I mean baggage in the sense they'll blame her for everything except Clinton's BJ trying to smear her.


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unfairly. I don't see the Mississippi Senators being blamed.

they'll be slammed whether it's their fault or not.

Perhaps now they're not being blamed, but if they try and go for higher office the other side will get nasty.. it's their way after all.

Because she DID the BEST she could under the circumstances.

Senator Landrieu would kick the Repuke pigs ALL over the block, she's got a real fighting spirit, she's an attack dog in an election. She's scorched earth, and that's what we need.

With Steve Jardine and Mudcat Saunders running her campaign if she EVER became our nominee.

Mary is great! I also hope Mitch Landrieu runs for mayor of New Orleans. :)

I've heard that rumor about Mitch running for Mayor of NOLA.

You know, this time next year if Governor Blanco's poll numbers are still so low...I think she should stand down for the good of the party, Mitch would then become Governor and he'd have a full year to establish a record and in 2007 I think he'd be elected Governor in his own right.

I don't know about Mayor, Mr. Swamp Rat...UNLESS he could be Lt. Governor AND Mayor at the same time :)

I could support her as a last resort only, she is way down the list IMHO

her Senate voting record is moderate and inline for a Southern Democrat (ADA gives her a voting record of 60-70 percent). She certainly isn't the most liberal member of the Senate but she's far and away from being the most conservative. It's easy for Boxer or Pelosi to have high liberal ratings because they represent a state like California.

on too many key votes.

Mary Landrieu could possibly even run for President in 2008--if Clark does not run, and I personally think she would win-- getting 70% of the vote.

See my post number 6 and it's link to earlier comments in another thread I gave on WHY and HOW Landrieu could win.

Landrieu's a Mainstream candidate and she could win crossover votes, that we NEED to win.

She's fab, I've always liked her, she's a good person. Rational, pragmatic and logical reasons I've given too, EVEN if I do say so myself :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5489166

Boxer/Pelosi will rock the house. LOL

She is far too cozy with the oil industry in my opinion.

and so did Kerry (the resolution) and Clinton.

And produces 25% of ALL of the oil that the United States uses. It'd be suicidal for her to tell the oil industry to fuck off.

Politicians HAVE to be LOGICAL and PRAGMATIC...politicians RARELY can be PURE and IDEOLOGICAL...unless they want to lose of course.

candidates: can they bring their own state into the Democratic column? Perhaps Louisiana in the wake of Katrina will turn blue but, with the evacuation of many black voters, I have my doubts. I don't think Landrieu is that strong.

Landrieu could make up for losing Louisiana, by bringing in Virginia and Nevada, that cancels out Louisiana. I also think she could win Ohio and Missouri.

Landrieu would win Louisiana, because the Landrieu family are VERY popular in the state.

Unfortunately, Democrats need to plan on ways to win that do not depend upon the southern states. They cannot now count on most southern candidates to even carry their own states, e.g. Gore, Edwards, Bentsen.

Had of read the link that I posted in my comment number 6, you would see that I had already previously this evening pointed out that Landrieu wouldn't necessarily need to even win the South, or many Southern states.

Landrieu is a Moderate Mainstream Democrat, as such she would play well in the MID-WEST and the MOUNTAIN STATES, and gain Independent votes and Rockefeller Republicans.

So, by EXPANDING her base, as one needs to do in order to win, she could afford to lose 10 Southern states and win just ONE Southern state. She could even win by losing ALL of the Southern states.

Solid Democrats would vote for her anyway, except the ones who always threaten to vote Third Party and I'm not sure what the heck I'd call them especially in 2008...90% of Democrats in the end would vote for Landrieu to stop the Repuke Fascists getting back in...so there would be no need to go out preaching to the choir...instead Landrieu could go and expand her base by talking to Independents and Rockefeller Republicans...if she ran, her running mate could be sent to talk to the choir.

On Edit: Spelling error.

Lost his home state of Tennessee. I know he won, but this thread isn't about that and my comment was in response to that other poster saying if Landrieu lost her home state...and I correctly pointed out that Gore lost HIS home state too.

So you SEE, you CAN win the Presidency WITHOUT winning your HOME state.

Huh? I'm right aren't I? Yep, I think I am.

"And if Gore had carried his home state, he would be President"

That was the statement I was replying to. If I clicked the wrong post, my apologies.

"So you SEE, you CAN win the Presidency WITHOUT winning your HOME state."

Yep. :) That was my point too.

Post 17 said that if Gore had won Tennessee he would be President now. So I said you can win the Presidency WITHOUT winning your home state, as President Gore proved.

How embarrassing...and I haven't recently EVEN been hit on the head by anything ;)

:thumbsup:

Thanks.

You're welcome :thumbsup:

Wouldn't do it for me. Too conservative, for one thing. Katrina baggage, for another.

No, we can do better.

And don't even bother defending her. Her voting record is deplorable.

I couldn't agree more.

say nothing more

of course oil and gas. Controlled by gas and oil companies. Sorry, she won't cut it with me .

n/t

Not everybody we choose has to vote the party line, we need diversity. She's just as good as any other Democrat and picking apart her record for every little thing we don't like is silly, because she mostly votes the right way. She might not have all the views we want, but she's still a good Democrat.

She's Lieberman in drag.

who she's married to, and that's saying something!

Seems the Landreu family has a long history in LA politics, which have been notorious for their crookedness.

But, other than that, I'd probably vote for her if she had no skeletons!

Yes the Landrieu's have been in Louisiana politics for the last forty years.

So can you post some proof of the accusation that the Landrieu's are corrupt?

If not, I don't kindly take to rumor and innuendo being thrown our way, and I would ask you to please try and refrain from doing this again, unless you can support your comments with some form of proof.

Just sayin'

I still can't get over the image of her with that painted on smile.

and Abramhoff. Think she took lot's of bucks. Also, she really casts some bogus votes some times.

And ended up with a further $22,000.

HARDLY the millions that the Repukes took.

She casts some bogus votes...so do 40 out of our 45 Senators from time to time.

Zell Miller. She has been in the wrong party for years.

NO to this DINO.

you might be right.

There's also that little lack of experience thing, but Edwards had that, too and it didn't seem to hurt too bad.

You should get a VP nod for being a good Democrat...meaning going along with the caucus. She's a turncoat Democrat. And don't give me that crap about her living in a red state.

The population wants people who stick up for thier values.

Most people oppose 80% of what the Republicans fight for in D.C. but vote for them because them anyway.

Her outbusrts agains Mike Brown not withstanding Landrieu is a whimp. She votes conservative because she's afraid to stand up for our Democratic values.

The Liberman as VP disaster should make the future nominee twice about nominating a DLC blessed republican in democratic clothing.

and fix the bankrupcy bill. Not insurmountable problems. A maybe.

They have been on the same page together for several years. She is not the direction I wish the Democratic party to go. I hold her partly responsible for the shape we are in today. She has voted for virtually every thing Bush* has asked for...

To many times on the senate floor where her vote wouldn't have helped the Dem's tremendously and she went the other way. No Thanks.

Fool me once
shame on YOU

Fool me twice
Shame on ME

nt

I just spit my coffee!

She sides with BushCO 88% of the time, she's a repug-lite. The ONLY time she came out against this Admin was during Katrina that was for self preservation only. 3 weeks later she was right back under their thumb. I can't stand her! I hope LA kicks her ass out and puts in a real Dem.