Louisiana Voice

Three grown-ass men are falling over each other in their childishly submissive attempts to win the anointment of Donald Trump in their efforts to oust U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy in next year’s mid-term elections.

It’s truly a sad to watch these men who eschew issues like inflation, unemployment, homelessness, human rights and dignity, civil rights and even our very freedom and future in favor of bootlicking in hopes of getting the endorsement of a convicted felon.

The candidates are State Sen. Blake Miguez of New Iberia, State Treasurer John Fleming and Public Service Commission member Eric Skrmetta of New Orleans.

Miguez says he is “the MAGA choice,” whatever that may mean. Fleming, for his part, sniffs that he helped develop the MAGA movement way back when, as a member of Congress, he founded the House Freedom Caucus. That’s nothing, says Skrmetta, who point out that it was he who gave the speech that pledge the state’s 47 delegates to Trump at the 2024 Republican National Convention. (Credit the Baton Rouge Advocate)

Wow. With those credentials, how can we Louisianans lose? (Sometimes, you just have to inject sarcasm.)

You might have noticed that not one of those three Repugnantcans cited a single qualification other than their blind loyalty to a clown. Nothing about pledging to support the Constitution or to advance the interests of the gret stet of Looziana. Nothing about addressing real problems.

It would be interesting to hear them address the dangers of chemical pollution along the Mississippi River that has come to be known as “Cancer Alley.”

It would’ve been great to hear them pledge to fight to save our vanishing coastline.

It would’ve been refreshing to hear them condemn the treatment of people of a darker skin tone by a rogue outfit calling itself ICE, but who the hell knows who they really are with their faces covered and having no warrants to justify their harassment and brutality.

And it would at least be interesting to hear them address the issues of education, poverty and others in which the state ranks near or at the bottom of all such lists.

It escapes all logic to understand why any adult would attempt to advance his or her career by swearing allegiance to someone of such dark character as Pumpkin McPornhumper who appears to possess the mental acuity of a child.

Regrettably, that seems to be precisely what we have come down to in selecting our leaders. We are living in a political vacuum where common sense has been replaced by pathetic fealty to an individual over allegiance to principles and ideals or to the country.

One has to wonder how many recite the Pledge of Allegiance without ever thinking about what the words, “and to the republic for which it (the flag) stands” really mean.