Palin finally posts to Facebook about her encounter with a slimy bayou inhabitant. But enough about Rob Manness.

Picture courtesy of Facebook. Hair courtesy of Willow's extensive training in hair design.

Courtesy of Mama Medusa's Facebook page:

It was so nice to be back in the bayou campaigning for a great patriot, true conservative, and proven fighter for America – Col. Rob Maness! Most enjoyable was visiting with Rob's supporters who see in him what the rest of America will be blessed to see – his selfless drive towards solutions and his positive conservative message that resonates not just in Louisiana but all across this great nation. (Yes a message that resonates so well that the majority of he country has no flipping idea who this is.)

Rob’s momentum has really got the permanent political class scared back in D.C. – the democrats obviously dread Rob's inevitable momentum building as the November 4th U.S. Senate election draws near, but now the GOP establishment is starting to go nuts! The professional politicians are snapping at the Colonel like a hungry gator; they're spreading all sorts of anonymous bunk to try to get him out of the race, mocking his humble public servant's heart (Okay who had "servant's heart" on their Sarah Palin babble bingo card?), and... well, you know the game they play by now. (Hey, with all due respect, good ol' boys in the GOP machine – after you've served America for 32 years wearing our nation's uniform, after being in combat, after sacrificing as much as Rob and his family have in the name of true public service for our country, and after you’ve literally FOUGHT for our freedom like Rob has, THEN you can kick your feet up on your comfy desk in some swank office and talk to us about who gets to run for office and who doesn’t.) (And you have done all of that when?)

Remember Rob's first campaign ad? (http://youtu.be/aBNQBx6JOcw) He had me at gator wrestling! (Well of course! Watching a cold blooded creature, with horrible skin, wrestled into submission while its mouth is being taped closed probably reminds her of her wedding night.) He's obviously tough enough to take on the career politicians and the alligators in the swamp. Speaking of which, thanks to Bryan & Brooke Zar and the Restaurant des Families staff, we got to serve up the best tasting gator dishes I've ever had! (Ok, the only ones I've ever had.) The fried gator was amazing and I got to fly home with some of it! (Yeah why throw it away in Louisiana when there are perfectly good trashcans here at home?) Thank you, too, InstaGator team, for bringing the surprise guest that also afforded me a first. Holding that local reptile made me admire you Louisianans even more! 

Louisiana, the contrasts in your U.S. Senate race couldn’t be clearer. This really is a race between "two of them versus one of us": two Washington politicians versus an American hero, Col. Rob Maness. He's got the momentum; please keep it up and thank you for sharing this fighter with the rest of America. We need him!

Yeah like a hole in the head, they need him. 

But the facts are that Louisiana will never get Maness, because he is going to come in a distant third.

A recent CNN/ORC poll released Sunday morning shows 43 percent support for Landrieu and 40 percent for Cassidy, while Rob Maness only garnered 9 percent of the support from respondents.

However with him on the ticket it might keep Mary Landrieu from getting the 50% she needs  to win, and that will force a runoff in December.

There is little chance that Maness will get enough votes to participate in that runoff, however it might give Republican Bill Cassidy the time he needs to launch a more cohesive campaign and actually take the Senate seat away from Landrieu.

And one has to wonder if that was not the goal all along?