re: Why is Landry not a good conservative choice for Governor.

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend

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If you mean Edwards is your enemy, then I agree.

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I think Landry actually went to Southern.

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Loyola, although that's splitting hairs other than tuition.

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But the dude makes up for it bc he is fearless.

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But he's not, though. He waits for a political message that's developed by others and he jumps on it once it becomes popular.

Being fearless would require him to, you know, lead and create these policies/messages first. He's a politician, not a leader.

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He will take a difficult position and will not be nice about it. Which is why I think he’s endeared himself to many on this board.

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Perfect example of above. He's saw Trump be petulant and tries to mimic it to endear himself to the people who like that about Trump. This is similar to RDS, but RDS actually can do this in real time and has policies he created that buck the trends. Landry can't do this.

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I believe some of the corruption whispers but I think any of it results from bending the law, not breaking it. The refusal of the FOIA request about Guidry’s perving is one such example.

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Um, he clearly broke the law there (and made a bigger story than what it originally was, like an idiot).

The stuff with Guidry wasn't "bending the law". It was fraudulent investigation of a person without legal justification to do so, on behalf of a major donor (and employee who created the investigatory unit, which creates a major conflict of interest on multiple levels). There is a reason JPSO's noped the frick out of that shite immediately.

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There’s no way if he were truly a criminal I would have had to read about it in the Advocate.

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He's not a criminal as much as a slimy Louisiana politician. He is "the Swamp" and ran his agency in that way.

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His solicitor general is a mousey sour grapes who i cannot fathom winning an election

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She's a better candidate to run Louisiana than Landry. She is literally the only thing people can point to in order to defend Landry's actual record as AG of LA.

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His major plus is that he does have the balls to kick over the apple cart on America First positions, which is required in our current situation.

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Explain how this helps Louisiana, specifically, and how he would accomplish "America First" goals.

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Nungesser

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Actually worse.

The status quo in Louisiana is not good, primarily bc ppl get into office and continue it.

Landry has been a fire breathing conservative since he was first elected. This kind of right wing populism he’s running on is the same wave he rode to his congressional seat. At some point in life he was my state HR Guy, and I actually voted for Boustany.

Landry has made it a plank of his campaign to amend the constitution- which could bring institutional change in out state gvt which is sorely needed. The fact that he’s caused career Gvt lawyers to leave isn’t all the way a bad thing. Further - Have you seen another gubernatorial candidate run on amending the constitution ? I haven’t. But I’ve seen lots of bitching from many of you about how we need to change it.

I am in no way saying Landry is ideal. But I am saying that playing well with lifelong, unelected government employees isn’t a positive so far as I am concerned.

Who is your suggestion? I’m all ears. So far your choices are Nungesser, Landry and the Democrat that will continue this JBE shitshow. Of the 3, I’m leaning Landry. His policy priorities match with mine.

Graves and Johnson aren’t running.

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It's not a "who" it's a "what", and that suggestion is to leave.

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What exactly is stopping you?

I love my state and the people who live here.

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It's not a "who"

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If I had my choice it would be Mark Wright.

I actually trust him.

The rest - nope.

That’s because they really want a Democrat who will tax the shite out of businesses and give them a bunch of free shite.