Why Landrieu deserves the hate sent her way.

[rpannier]

50. It's not necessarily black and white thinking

She often muddied the message of the party.
She vocally took positions that were at odds with the party, even so much as criticizing the idea.
Name one Republican that does that.

Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe had positions that were in opposition to their party, but they didn't (don't) distance themselves from the party.
They don't give Democrats the opportunity to use them against the party.
They vote and then pretty much shut up about it
That is also true of Ayotte (NH), Kirk (IL) and so on down the line
You will not see Kirk or Ayotte running in 2016 as something other than the party. This will be true for Republicans in blue states around the country.
Landrieux did not run as a Democrat, she doesn't articulate why she is even in the Party.
In the end, she tried to get African-Americans and women out to vote for her, but she ran into the same problem others do; She can't get them to vote for her because she only seems to care what they think at election time.

My late Eisenhower-Republican, Kennedy-Democrat voting grandfather used to sayt, "I'd rather get stabbed in the stomach than get knifed in the back."