Discussion for article #242511
The old saw about politics making strange bedfellows is certainly true in this race.
I’m glad he responded. It’s enough of an uphill battle in Louisiana without being Willie Hortonized.
It’s also ironic that at a time when the national consensus is that criminal justice reform is desperately needed, specially in terms of reduced sentencing for nonviolent offenses and fairer sentences for minorities, that Vitter would run this garbage. I’m not holding my breath, but, boy, do I hope he loses.
Oh what the Hell! Just carpet bomb Vitter with his own tawdry professional and personal history - over and over and over to the point when people have a massive wave of nausea just thinking of him… or even more intense than they do now.
"One expert told The New Orleans Times-Picayune that he thought the ad was intended to “scare white people with black people.”
Less blatant than last time, but still the language of hedging. He didn’t say he thought it. He just said it affirmatively, period.