So I missed the news cycle again. What, this surprises you?

Your humble correspondent was perusing the blogroll tonight when he found a post over at Cabal of Doom saying that the brother of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) would be running against incumbent New Orleans Ray Nagin. Mitch Landrieu, the current Lieutenant Governor of Lousiana, is expected to announce his candidacy some time this week.

Back when the hurricane thing was happening, I watched Nagin with a bit of morbid fascination, sort of a Guide of What Not to Do when Disaster Strikes. I always came away from seeing him thinking, "There's a man who has collapsed under the hand he's been dealt". Not that I particularly blamed him for the chaos of the city; no point in that. I was just looking for some sign that the guy had gotten back on his feet and was responding intelligently to the situation that had presented itself.

I never really saw that sign. And then he went and made his "chocolate speech", which didn't make a whole lot of sense. Maybe it's just because I'm a white guy in rural Virginia---praise be upon our hallowed Commonwealth---or perhaps I'm bad at metaphors, but enh. At any rate, it will be interesting to see how that race turns out. The joke that went around amongst some of my colleagues was "If nobody's moving back to New Orleans, then Mary Landrieu's just lost her base."

P&C to Joey: Stop being a relativist and take the beer goggles off. Just because Senator Landrieu isn't Dianne Feinstein or Barbara Boxer doesn't mean she's automatically desirable. On the other hand, she's ahead of every national Democrat in elective office that I can think of. Then again, that's not saying much.

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