Reader To Louisiana GOP—Dump Rove, Read Sailer!


November 18, 2003

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It`s time for Louisiana Republicans to start reading
Steve

Sailer
!  In a second brilliant triumph of electoral
generalship in barely a year, the state GOP has

blown
a statewide race and succeeded in electing a

mediocre female Democrat
, against the regional
trend.

Last year, rabid

Roveism
cost the Louisiana GOP a

Senate seat
, this year, the Governor`s
mansion—making Louisiana the only Deep South
governorship that the Republicans have recently failed
to capture.

The reason? Poor candidates with little appeal to
conservative, mainly Protestant, whites in Northern
Louisiana—i.e. the GOP has not been appealing to its
base, ignoring the fundamental point of the “Sailer
Strategy
.”

In 2002, the national GOP essentially imposed a

New Orleans Catholic woman
of Armenian extraction.
Her defeat (she lost again this year in the

race
for State Attorney General) also cost the party
the

5th District House seat
, the Northern
Louisiana district whose popular three-term Republican
incumbent had been expected to get the Senate
nomination.

This year, the Republicans excelled themselves,
nominating for Governor the 32 year-old

son of Indian immigrants
.

He lost too.

To be fair, this major-league

affirmative action
beneficiary—Brown University,
Rhodes Scholar, holder of important offices granted by a
doting President and Governor—did achieve notable
successes. He reached out to the black vote and
doubled
the Republican share – to 9%!

He also generated considerable excitement in the
Indian community—a whole 0.2% (maybe) of Louisiana`s
population!

And at least one Hispanic group

endorsed
him!

But outside (relatively) trendy New Orleans, he won
less than half the white vote, in a state where the
Republicans need at least two- thirds to win.

Whites basically saw little reason to support a
beneficiary of their dispossession. And they were right.
In contrast, USA Today

reports
that Kathleen (Babineaux) Blanco had no
reservations about stressing her Cajun maiden name to
rally votes in South Louisiana.

Instead of

wittering
wonkishly about the failure to

deflect attack ads
on health care—no doubt by
spending more on campaign consultants—GOP analysts need
to grasp one simple fact:

Scorning the

group interests
of their key voting bloc spells
D-E-F-E-A-T.