Bobby Jindal? Seriously?

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/2/29/191229/341

Bobby Jindal? Seriously?

by BooMan
Wed Feb 29th, 2012 at 08:29:07 PM EST


Erick Erikson thinks that Bobby Jindal is the man to step in and save the Republicans from the horror of Mitt Romney. Forgive me, but I don't see how Jindal is much different from Tim Pawlenty. He's a fairly popular governor, but he isn't ready for primetime. He doesn't excite anyone. The GOP is going to win Louisiana anyway, at least if they have any chance of winning the general election. I don't think Jindal would shift the demographics of the vote much. It's just a stupid idea to put your hopes in Bobby Jindal. He reminds me of the Kenneth character on 30 Rock more than he strikes me as a plausible president.

However, I can't disagree too much with this:

When you have a candidate few people really like, whose support is a mile wide and an inch deep, whose raison d’etre (a 4am fancy word) is fixing an economy that is fixing itself without him, and who only wins his actual, factual home state by three percentage points against a guy no one took seriously only two months ago, there really is little reason for independent voters in the general election to choose him if the economy keeps improving.

Seriously, putting it bluntly, conservatives may not like Barack Obama, but most other people do. And when faced with a guy you like and a guy you don’t like who says he can fix an economy that no longer needs fixing, you’re going to go with the guy you like.

My only questions are, what would Bobby Jindal say differently and why would people like him? Is Jindal going to say that the economy is great and doesn't need fixing? Is he going to become charismatic overnight?

Erikson identifies the problem. He doesn't' realize that it's a problem without a solution. See you in Tampa!!

[liberal N proud]

1. Well, I still contend that none of the clowns in the car will be the candidate.

[rurallib]

7. lot of clowns outside that car also

Is there a law that someone has to run. Maybe they should pass this year?

[Blue Owl]

11. The GOP jalopy is full of surprises

I'm kinda enjoying watching the desperate, rolling freakshow sputtering on the last fumes of insanity.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Why not Bobby Jindal? After all, their blacks are better than our blacks,

according to Ann Coulter................

[KeepItReal]

4. Piyush "Bobby" Jindal ain't Black

Homeboy's (we both were in high school in Baton Rouge) parents are Indian.

[TheDebbieDee]

12. I'd bet you dollars to donuts that racists won't care that Piyush

is brown because he's descended from Indians instead of Africans. Bobby Jindal is black and that is a fact.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Bring him on. He believes in forced castration

for sex criminals. Some of them want castration. They think it will help them But, automatic, fcored castration? Makes me squirm

[butterfly77]

5. More fun..

for us.

[Thinkingabout]

6. Jindal should be sent packing.

He sure does not mind cutting the pay of state employees and force higher contributions to their retirement. A double pay cut. All the things he promised to do in Louisiana is still waiting. Go Away Boy

[FSogol]

8. Doesn't anyone have the photo of Jindal's construction equipment underwater?

The guy is useless in any crisis.

[demosincebirth]

9. If so, he'd better come with his birth certificate.

[brooklynite]

19. Doesn't matter if he does; he's inelgible to be President...

...according the the "anchor baby" wing of the Birthers, you have to be born in the US AND have two citizen parents.

[southernyankeebelle]

10. Little Bobby Jindal? My goodness he reminds me of Howdy Doody. His suit looks to big for him.

Gee a man child. Sorry just don't see it.

[auburngrad82]

14. More of a Mister Rogers character nt

[southernyankeebelle]

16. No not Mr Rogers. He was wonderful.

[Bake]

18. He's just SO ... "presidential."

Bake

[southernyankeebelle]

21. That surprises me that he is governor.

[auburngrad82]

13. I got into it back in 2008 with a conservative over my Obama bumper sticker

He started giving me shit and I asked him, "what have the republicans got? Bobby Jindal?" He laughed. He said, "that ain't gonna happen. He's the wrong color."

I'm not worried about Jindal.

[WI_DEM]

15. The nominee will be Romney or Santorum--most likely Mittens.

[Connie_Corleone]

17. Barack Obama VS Mr. Rogers?

Yeah. Okay.

[Arkana]

20. Here's the ugly truth:

NO ONE IS GOING TO SWOOP IN AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR.

The GOP seems to be operating under the delusion that someone's going to be drafted at the convention. This has zero chance of happening in the age of state primaries. The other candidates would be bullshit that they went through the meat grinder and have nothing to show for it, and to be perfectly honest, I wouldn't blame them for being pissed.

There will be no Jeb Bush riding in on a white horse wearing shining plate armor. There will be no avenging angel Bobby Jindal. And Sarah "Madame DeFarge" Palin will do what she does best--grift her idiot fans out of millions and then scurry back to her hidey-hole in Alaska.