If Sen. John “Foghorn Leghorn” Kennedy still insists on joining that cadre of fools bent on CHALLENGING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS on Wednesday, then the Louisiana Democratic Party needs to immediately launch and all-out effort to recruit a viable candidate to oppose the state’s junior senator in 2022.
If Trump’s Saturday telephone conversation with George Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger isn’t enough to change Kennedy’s mind, then it must be assumed that Kennedy is just as deranged and incompetent as President Tweet Thang.
You can listen to the full hour-long conversation HERE.
Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, who was instrumental in bringing down Richard Nixon nearly half-a-century ago, says the Trump phone call was “far worse” than Watergate. I don’t know about all that; I’m not qualified to judge, although I vividly remember the Watergate story as it unfolded. I was a reporter with the Baton Rouge State-Times during those turbulent days of Watergate.
But I do know Trump’s attempt to coerce Raffensperger was nothing short of outright Mafia-style politics – an outrage that surpasses even that call to the Ukraine president in its sheer audacity and naked intimidation attempt. It was an extension of a coup attempt that has been underway since Joe Biden’s victory.
Kennedy’s fealty to Trump over the past four years was sickening enough without Saturday’s revelation that he planned to join with 10 other senators and senators-elect to oppose the results of the election that Trump lost by more than 7 million votes.
Kennedy, in his four years in office, has done damn little to address the real problems of the country in general and Louisiana in particular. All that was asked of him was that he do his job but he has been a miserable failure at that because of his loyalty to Trump which he obviously considers to be a higher priority than joblessness, housing, health, economic and educational problems facing this state.
Hell, he won’t even provide a direct response if you should be so foolish as to attempt to contact him on an issue – any issue. Instead, you get a canned response generated by a computer, not a person, which as often as not does nothing to address your concerns. How’s that for representation?
And is anyone aware of any town hall meetings he’s held in his four years in office?
He has chosen to turn his back on the state so that he can do his part in propping up a would-be dictator and that, my friends, borders on abject betrayal. To take matters a step further in challenging a democratic election that 50 court decisions (so far) have upheld, is even more serious; it’s sedition – and treasonous.
This country for more than two centuries has been the model of democratic principles. Kennedy’s decision to undermine that process is a threat to that very pillar of freedom of which we have been so justifiably proud – until now.
Kennedy has shown himself to be the shameless sycophant that he is rather than the leader he holds himself out to be. He is little more than a two-bit drugstore philosopher rather than the sage he would have us believe him to be.
Rather than evoking images of Thomas Jefferson, he elicits memories of the political wisdom of Archie Bunker – without the charm.
Instead of standing for freedom and justice for all in the manner of say, Martin Luther King, he is more reminiscent of the politics of a Willie Rainach, Leander Perez or Stephen Miller.
John Kennedy is not a man who represents the true interests of Louisiana. I don’t know who the Democrats might choose to run against him in two years or which independent, if any, might try to unseat him, but I can think of several imminently more-qualified candidates.
Larry the Cable Guy comes to mind immediately.
Too bad he’s not a Louisiana citizen.
Louisiana Voice 
John Neely Kennedy fully understands what he needs to say and do to hold on to his supporters in Louisiana.
He understands confirmation bias, which is the tendency to look for information that supports, rather than rejects, one’s preconceptions, typically by interpreting evidence to confirm existing beliefs while rejecting or ignoring any conflicting data (American Psychological Association).
He understands what his supporters believe and want. For example, his (and tRump) supporters watch Fox because of their tendency to favor information that confirms their existing beliefs or hypotheses.
Yes, Kennedy is full of it, but he full well knows what he is doing. And it plays well in Louisiana! Unfortunately.
Yes. He clearly plays to the conspiracy theorists among his constituents and is playing the numbers game that says they constitute over half our voting population. It is up to us to prove him wrong.
The LA Dem State Party should be aggressively finding a contender already–phone call or no phone call. Kennedy is a disgrace. Lied to my face before switching to the Rebub Party. Kissed the rump of real estate developers while pretending to listen to the aggrieved populace.
Our Louisiana problem seems to be in finding strong, electable candidates. Too often the Democrats in my district are weak, have no message that appeals to the majority of voters and never, ever do any personal contacts. They seem to think Facebook stuff is enough to win and the State Democrats seem disinterested in giving full support. However, perhaps the U.S. Senate race is different and the threat of competition is good. However, incumbents seem to have a guaranteed edge. We can only hope and vote!
Great article and excellent analysis of Kennedy. If there’s anything good that comes out of the Congressional circus this week: it’s that these folks are clearly identifying themselves and their naked intent. We have two years to identify and nominate a suitable replacement.
CJG, I completely agree. Kennedy is a master of political manipulation. It’s the only true talent that he has.
Kennedy has been the biggest disappointment. While Higgins is the absolute worst in our delegation, we knew what to expect from him. We thought Kennedy was an intelligent, well-educated, somewhat reasonable man. Then he turned into this cornpone caricature who has abandoned ALL his principles. What does Trump have on him to command this allegiance? He has lost his soul.
Seems like Kennedy actually drank the weed killer!
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The Honorable John Kennedy is doing what should be done. Please unsubscribe me from your emails.
Well, since you apparently subscribed in the first place, you’ll have to be the one to unsubscribe. Otherwise, I’d be happy to oblige because we all would rather just read ideas with which we agree and never entertain opposing viewpoints, right? (and speaking of disagreeing with another’s views, there’s this word “honorable” that you used for Col. Kornpone, I feel one must first have honor before he can be called honorable.)
Yep, it’s at the bottom of your email, labelled: “Unsubscribe”.
Ms. Adley, I will agree with putting “Honorable” before his name, because he is a US senator. However, I think we have to include “Kornpone” in there somewhere, because that’s what he looks and sounds like. I don’t know how long you have been aware of Kennedy, but I remember when he was a promising executive counsel for Buddy Roemer. That administration had a lot of promise. I don’t know what happened to Kennedy. I admired him then, but I can’t today.
A viable Democratic candidate should be found and supported in a run against Kennedy, no matter what he says about “the phone call.” Kennedy has proven himself ineffectual, eager to grab attention, but all talk, complete with phony accent, and no action. It will be an uphill race, but we have to start somewhere, and the time is now.
Absolutely love the article and reasoned comments. Trumpites will never go away. I love Archie Bunker’s satire/comedy but Trumpites are above laughing, I swear I got one FB praising him for his conservatism. Fear, ignorance, and prejudice, personal attributes we all have. Nothing is really new, We must love always, love always ron thompson
Once again, we have to remember that kennedy went off to Moscow that 4th of July. Still wondering what that was about.
Brian Williams of MSBC, when he has to address something about Kennedy, refers to him as “John-no relation-Kennedy”.
This is nowhere nearly harsh enough:
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_67412ab4-4e24-11eb-8683-d7e66e4846dc.html#utm_source=email&utm_campaign=BRDaily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=read%20more&uid=b4ae95c4586d43d8f98407c3f04e8ef5
To me, Komrad Kennedy’s best opponent is obvious: Governor John Bel Edwards. He will be 3rd year of his second term, can run without having to resign, is a proven statewide office winner and it would be the next step up for his political career.
That thought had occurred to me before. I would vote for him regardless of the other names on the ticket.