Jon Bel Edwards has not been kind to Lady Louisiana in his time as Governor. More taxes, more spending, expanded government welfare programs, promoting gender confusion and fear of climate change, destroying the State’s health, education, and economy through his covid policies, and all the rest of it – the election of 2023 for a new Governor can’t come soon enough.
Or can it?
Conservatives/Republicans have an easy electoral win waiting for them, but as we have seen time and again, they are great at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And if they are not careful, it could happen in 2023. Jeff Sadow describes the nightmare scenarios:
If just Schroder and Nungesser, or even adding Landry, as major candidates Nungesser at present enjoys the best position. Presumably Landry or Schroder would knock one another out in the blanket primary/general election, or Schroder if no Landry would advance, to join him in a runoff, where in that scenario Democrats join enough Republicans to put him over the top in a rerun of the 2019 election except with the winner sporting a different party label.
But things go sour quickly for the Lt. Governor if a quality Democrat, especially a white one, enters the race. If Landry doesn’t jump in, with only Schroder on the solid right, Nungesser probably doesn’t even make the runoff, so if a Democrat tosses in his hat Nungesser has to hope Landry enters and that’s enough to split the GOP vote while he fights off a good chunk of his potential voters sloughing off to the Democrat. And Nungesser is history if each of a quality white and black Democrat contest, for then it won’t be a matter of trying to prevent a Republican-Democrat runoff with Nungesser on the outside, but stopping a Landry-Schroder runoff that ought to send every Democrat operative in the state scurrying to discourage quality Democrats from entering the fray.
Louisiana does not need a Schroder-Landry grudge match that weakens one or the other as he goes into office, or worse that allows Lt Gov Nungesser to ride into the Governor’s Mansion. What we need is something from the Southern political tradition: a gentlemen’s agreement that sees one bowing out of the Governor’s election for the good of the State.
Edwards has left Louisiana in tatters; we need the best man possible to take over in 2023 to help heal and rebuild our State. Both Landry and Schroder have done good things while in their respective offices, but Mr Landry looks like the stronger choice, the one with the fire in the belly necessary to institute needed reforms, while Mr Schroder has shown he is capable of making bad decisions (see his record on taxes and spending per Mr Sadow’s article above).
This being so, our gentlemen’s agreement for Landry and Schroder would have Schroder agreeing to withdraw from the Governor’s election, staying on as Treasurer, and giving his full support to Landry. In 2026, when the traitorous Sen Cassidy is up for re-election, Schroder would enter that contest, with the full backing of a Gov Landry.
We cannot emphasize how important such an agreement would be. Christianity is on the decline; poll after poll confirms this. A Christian example of cooperation from our political leaders would be helpful in slowing or reversing that decline in Louisiana. The alternative is the godless Hobbesian and/or evolutionary model of brutal competition, in which the image of God in man is obscured and beastliness emphasized.
We would rather have the Christian vision for Louisiana, concord and cooperation between Schroder and Landry:
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore (Psalm 133).
How long has it been since we have seen Christian statesmen who put their faith into action by sacrificing their desires and their comfort and their whole lives in order to glorify God, like these senators from Roman times?
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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2022/01/garlington-landry-schroder-must-avoid-louisiana-gop-civil-war/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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