From Jay Howser, Senator Landrieu’s campaign manager:
Dear Lamar,
The 2008 Congressional Power Rankings from the non-partisan Congress.org are in, and Louisiana’s Senator Mary Landrieu is rated among the most effective members of the U.S. Senate.
Senator Landrieu was ranked 10th in the Senate in the legislation category, which measures her effectiveness and success in navigating the legislative process and achieving results. Her overall “Power Score” of 32.67 is almost twice the average of the entire Louisiana delegation.
This is great recognition of Senator Landrieu’s outstanding accomplishments, something all Louisiana can be proud of. Her high ranking reflects her success passing legislation, her seats on key committees such as Appropriations, Energy, Homeland Security and Small Business, and her proven ability to reach across the aisle and build bipartisan coalitions.
Get ready to hear about why we should willfully forfeit Landrieu’s effectiveness, seniority, appointments, and political influence in favor of a newly-reminted Republican novice whose campaign (so far) is being directed and funded by national Republican Party insiders and the NRSC.
Kudos to Senator Landrieu.
CenLamar 
Right!
I campaigned for Kennedy last go round — in the election which Vitter won. Now I think he’s a hypocritical scoundrel. There’s absolutely no reason to run against the best advocate we have in Washington.
Kennedy is a fine state Treasurer, and we need him there, and we should leave him there.
You championed for Kennedy when Kennedy was running as a Democrat.
The Republican Party has been able to recruit and convert a couple of well-known conservative Democrats in recent years, namely Rodney Alexander and John Kennedy. In both cases, it seems like the conversion was coordinated with the national Republican Party. Kennedy was personally courted by Karl Rove, and if you remember, Alexander switched parties right before the qualification deadline (shutting out the Democratic Party’s ability to recruit and publicize a candidate and breaking an inherent covenant with the scores of Democrats who had already unwittingly donated to his campaign).
We’ve already seen the way in which the NRSC will go after Landrieu. Remember, less than half of Louisianans are registered Republicans; there are significantly more registered Democrats in Louisiana.
Desperate times may call for desperate measures, and given the initial chatter, it appears as if this election will require a lot of fact-checking.