We'll see what happens. I wonder how Louisiana will deal with a party switcher like this? Are they that desperate to have someone run against Landrieu? Besides, she's Republican-lite anyway. What will be her down fall, if anything, is her placing too much faith in "HoJo" Lieberman.

He says that he believes that gov should be responsive to the citizens and other good things that make life better. If he really believes these things why is he joining the Repubs? They don't seem to believe any of these things. One more opportunistic twit from the brain of Rove. This is the sort of thing we can expect from Rove now that he is out of the WH.

Shorter Kennedy:

I'm a lying, cheating, perverted, greedy asshole, so I'm joining the GOP.

I think Mr. Kennedy is confused as to which party is which. He says he believes in certain bedrock principles such as government being accountable to the taxpayers, that ethics in government is critical and the values of family and personal responsibility. Mr. Kennedy also states that he believes in the power of ideas in referring to science and medicine. Does he known that Senator Vitter is a Republican or is he just mixed up like President Bush in not knowing the difference between the Sunnis and Shites?

Cooking???????

Science and medicine????? So he has stopped believing in evolution and stem cell research....

Landrieu's voter base (New Orleans) has been shattered due to Katrina, and Bush's failure to carry through on his promises. There has always been something of an attitude in the state against politicians from New Orleans; it has often been New Orleans vs the rest of LA in general elections.

Landrieu is tough, though. Her father was a long-time New Orleans politician, and she is very astute in the Louisiana political world.

Kennedy is a newby opportunist who got lucky. He smells blood, and he will fit right in with the modern Republican base -- he pretends to have ethics, and pretends concern for the ordinary citizen, and pretends accountability to taxpayers. Rove has probably swelled his head, etc.

If he is the only Republican running, the chances are it will just be him against Landrieu. The Democratic Party machinery, though, can make a big case about him switching as he has. Democrats in other parts of LA will not take that lightly and will be less prone to vote for him, even though Landrieu is from New Orleans.

Prediction: Landrieu will prevail.

IN RESPONSE TO DUCKMAN GR, who says, "Not just [Landrieu's] votes to support Bush, but the fact that she votes in support of Bush after what Bush and his appointees and his policies and his favortism have done for the state of Louisiana, she is a perfect example of a Dem needing replacement with a better one."

Believe me, the reason Mary Landrieu is in the Senate is that she had the political savvy and the organization to get out her vote. Any statewide Democratic candidate down here in Louisiana who takes a left-of-center approach cannot win. That's the reality. The voters' choice is either a Democratic realist or a Republican wingnut.
Which would you choose?

IN RESPONSE TO DUCKMAN GR'S STATEMENT:
"That way the Dems wouldn't have to deal with Mary Landrieu's moronic votes supporting The Man Who Let New Orleans Drown and Rot After the Flood."

Mary Landrieu is in the U.S. Senate because she's a brilliant political strategist who knew that, to get elected, she had to recognize the realities of Louisiana politics, i.e., nobody who runs statewide on a left-of-center platform gets elected. She knows that and her campaign contributors know that.
The choice for Louisiana is between a moderate Democrat and a Republican wingnut like Vitter. Which would you choose?

This has rove written all over it. It's all political...It's a shame the people of New Orleans are being treated this way to gain a possible political advantage.

I agree it has Rove written all over it. Let's not forget he was "in charge" of the recovery effort. That is, in charge of clearing all those black Democrats out of the city and dispersing them throughout the country to try to ensure LA is a red state.

This would seem to be the next step in his recovery plan.

The Democrats do not exactly have a sterling reputation in LA. For all the myriad faults of the Feds wrt Katrina, it was the Dems in charge of the crucial aspects of disaster response, and they failed miserably. Contrast this with Miss.

I suspect that Kennedy's biggest problem is that he was a Dem, and will be tainted with that responsibility.

Kennedy said, "...that education is the best safeguard of liberty; that ethics in government is critical to people’s faith in democracy; that the values of faith, work, family, personal responsibility and individual liberty are the building blocks of a prosperous society. I have concluded that the Republican Party is the party that best reflects my values today."

I wonder if he means the Republican Party of Bush, Cheney, Tom DeLay, Cunningham, Abramoff, Gonzales and on and on and on. Let's see, he did mention "ethics," didn't he. Oh well, at least he did not use the word virtue. Now if he had, I would have to take some exception to the party of complete corruption so claiming anything such as having a virtue.