AS GOP SPIRITS SLUMP AFTER ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC SPECIAL ELECTION DEFEAT, CHENEY & ROVE MAKE A LAST DITCH EFFORT IN MISSISSIPPI

Yes, they will turn out the vote-- but for whom?

Democrat Don Cazayoux won the Baton Rouge congressional seat this weekend because he stuck to core Democratic economic issues, emphasizing his support for the middle class in terms of unions, trade policy, health care, etc-- and emphasizing his differences with the mistrusted and disliked Bush Regime policies and the rubber stamps congressmembers who act as enablers. Despite convincing statistics to the contrary, the clueless Tom Cole NRCC insists that if they had just spent an extra million dollars or so on negative TV ads trying to tie Cazayoux to Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Obama's ex-preacher, they would have won. The Baton Rouge district (LA-07) has an overwhelming Republican registration advantage and a PVI of R +7. A week from tomorrow there is another special election, this one in northern Mississippi's first CD which is far more Republican (with a PVI of R +10). Conservative Democrat Travis Childers was only 410 votes short of winning the open primary outright against a cookie-cutter Republican Greg Davis.

Having learned nothing whatsoever from their defeats in the Illinois and Louisiana special elections, the Republicans are out making the same mistakes again. Today we find out that the are shipping the most detested man in American, Dick Cheney, into the district to campaign for Davis, something that will in all likelihood, doom whatever chance he had to win. And if that weren't bad enough, if Karl Rove hasn't been arrested by then, he will also appear in public with Davis. There is nothing that will serve as better Get Out the Vote reminders to Democrats and independents than these two potent symbols of everything that Americans hate about the failed Bush presidency.

"We can confirm the vice president will be attending a get out the vote rally for Greg Davis," Jamie Breland, spokesperson in the White House Press Office of Vice President Dick Cheney, said Friday.

Tentative arrangements call for Cheney to appear with Davis in an afternoon rally at the DeSoto Civic Center in Southaven. Republican strategist Karl Rove will also appear with Davis in a separate event prior to the election.

Apparently McCain learned his lesson about campaigning for rubber stamp congressional candidates in Illinois, where his stumping for Oberweis did no good and made him look weak and ineffective. He avoided the Louisiana race and won't try to help Davis in Mississippi either. Here's the latest negative TV spot in Mississippi. Spots like this backfired on the GOP in Louisiana, guaranteeing that the East Baton Rouge voters who didn't vote for Cazayoux in the primary (but for Jackson) turned out in overwhelming numbers for him Saturday. The GOP just can't learn anything from their mistakes: