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He has really dropped off the national radar. Should be on the VP list.
Why Bobby Jindal (still) matters
Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake at 07:23 AM ET, 10/24/2011
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal thanks supporters during his re-election victory party at the Renaissance Hotel in Baton Rouge on Saturday. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Michael DeMocker)
It was a marked changed from this time four years ago when Jindal’s victory — he was the first Indian American to win a governorship — drew national headlines and installed him as a major rising star within the GOP.
Despite the relative lack of attention that Jindal’s re-election garnered, it’s worth looking at its breadth — and the way he won it — for signs of what sort of candidate Jindal will be when his time on the national presidential stage comes. (And, yes, it is coming.)
Jindal won 66 percent of the vote in a 10-way primary, the highest victory percentage for any candidate since the state instituted its so-called “jungle primary” in 1978. He won every one of the 64 parishes (they’re Louisiana’s counties).
Jindal’s political domination in the state over the past four years was evident downballot as well, as Democrats failed to field candidates for lieutenant governor or secretary of state.
In his victory speech, Jindal sounded rhetorical themes that could easily be ported into a national campaign sometime between now and 2020. He insisted he wouldn’t talk about what the state had accomplished over the past four years because “that was yesterday, and as Louisianans and as Americans ... we are relentlessly focused on the future, not the past.” (Hello, Ronald Reagan!)
The New Orleans Times Picayune’s Stephanie Grace described Jindal’s victory as a “mandate,” adding that the governor is likely to make major pushes on education and health care reform over his next four years — issues with major resonance at the national level.
“Jindal may be a lame duck in Baton Rouge, but that doesn’t mean his days of positioning himself for the next election are over,” Grace added.
What will be interesting is, with worries about re-election behind him, how forcefully Jindal emerges as a spokesman on the national stage — and what he says and does with the platform afforded him.
In a recent speech at a Republican National Committee gathering in Tampa, Jindal warned his party against the folly of “hating” President Obama.
“I have no doubt that President Obama loves this country, I have no doubt that he spends every day trying to make things better, and I have no doubt that President Obama wants the best for this country,” Jindal said. “I also have no doubt that what President Obama thinks is best for this country is in reality a complete disaster.”
That’s an interesting argument to make to a Republican Party in which large swaths of the base simply do not believe Obama is working to make things better.
Jindal’s might not be a winning argument in 2012. But, he isn’t running for president. Yet.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/why-bobby-jindal-still-matters/2011/10/23/gIQAr9fACM_blog.html
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creepy as fvck.
seriously. highly intelligent, but slinks around like some sort of weird alien.
also, with the anti-muslim emotion that the GOp has fostered, they ain't putting him on a nat'l ticket.
"He's an arrrrrrrrrrrrr-ab". Prickly old lady talking to mccain, 2008.
Jindal will be a smooth policy wonk for the next 30 years. But he ain't built for election in the current gop environment.
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creepy as fvck.
seriously. highly intelligent, but slinks around like some sort of weird alien.
also, with the anti-muslim emotion that the GOp has fostered, they ain't putting him on a nat'l ticket.
"He's an arrrrrrrrrrrrr-ab". Prickly old lady talking to mccain, 2008.
Jindal will be a smooth policy wonk for the next 30 years. But he ain't built for election in the current gop environment.
Whatever How is your heroes Crist and Carolyn Kennedy doing?
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Whatever How is your heroes Crist and Carolyn Kennedy doing?
thy're great. we just had dinner, drank merlot, and sang the kenyan nat'l anthem while eating some cheesecake bought with foodstamps (EFT).
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Im a big Bobby Jindal fan, but I hope in the future he makes wiser decisions than, say, endorsing a candidate before he even starts debating. Hah ha!!!
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Im a big Bobby Jindal fan, but I hope in the future he makes wiser decisions than, say, endorsing a candidate before he even starts debating. Hah ha!!!
that's political immaturity. cain has it too.
love him or hate him, romney is politically mature.
when a candidate is too eager to please, it shows. Obama was like that bad in 2008, hilary was certainly NOT.
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that's political immaturity. cain has it too.
love him or hate him, romney is politically mature.
when a candidate is too eager to please, it shows. Obama was like that bad in 2008, hilary was certainly NOT.
Thats why Im supporting Romney, pretty much by default. For all his flaws, he seems to be the only one serious about the Presidency, and he doesnt say stupid shit or say any embarassing gaffes.
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Thats why Im supporting Romney, pretty much by default. For all his flaws, he seems to be the only one serious about the Presidency, and he doesnt say stupid shit or say any embarassing gaffes.
i agree with you. I'd choose ron paul in a second. But so many repubs are tools of the "we need 10x the nukes of everyone else, 5x just won't do" mindset, it'll never happen.
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When Jindal delivered the GOP "response" speech in that little sing song attempt, he doomed any future aspects of higher office he might have had.
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Thank God almighty BB doesnt have the power to make politcal decisions that make any real difference.
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When Jindal delivered the GOP "response" speech in that little sing song attempt, he doomed any future aspects of higher office he might have had.
if nothing else, he certainly dug a deep hole from which he has to climb back out
I can't see the guy on a national stage
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When Jindal delivered the GOP "response" speech in that little sing song attempt, he doomed any future aspects of higher office he might have had.
Hardly. It was a flat speech, but I doubt most people even remember it. He'll be a player.
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Hardly. It was a flat speech, but I doubt most people even remember it. He'll be a player.
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Hardly. It was a flat speech, but I doubt most people even remember it. He'll be a player.
it was his largest exposure to a national audience
it will be THE primary thing that most people outside the state will remember
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creepy as fvck.
seriously. highly intelligent, but slinks around like some sort of weird alien.
also, with the anti-muslim emotion that the GOp has fostered, they ain't putting him on a nat'l ticket.
"He's an arrrrrrrrrrrrr-ab". Prickly old lady talking to mccain, 2008.
Jindal will be a smooth policy wonk for the next 30 years. But he ain't built for election in the current gop environment.
Bobby Jindal's a Roman Catholic Indian, you stupid fuck. His parents are Indian immigrants. And if he could get elected in Louisiana of all places then I think he's good to go with the rest of the country.
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Hardly. It was a flat speech, but I doubt most people even remember it. He'll be a player.
I agree. As he gets more experienced he'll get better. I don't see one flub blocking his entire political career.
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Hardly. It was a flat speech, but I doubt most people even remember it. He'll be a player.
No he won't.
Unless he dons a red sweater and starts a Mr. Jindal Jingles Neighborhood show the dude is done and over.
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Bobby Jindal's a Roman Catholic Indian, you stupid fuck. His parents are Indian immigrants. And if he could get elected in Louisiana of all places then I think he's good to go with the rest of the country.
I doubt it. Look at that appalacain mountain range, where the morons went on CNN and admitted they prefer hilary because she's white.
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No he won't.
Unless he dons a red sweater and starts a Mr. Jindal Jingles Neighborhood show the dude is done and over.
Doubt it, but we shall see.