On what issues do you believe him not to be conservative enough? I think he does deserve his due on education reform. That will do wonders for this state.
I've met Gov. Jindal and talked to him one-on-one several times. It always strikes me how much attention he pays to what a person has to say and how he will quickly admit that he doesn't know the answer to a question if he doesn't. He will darn sure find out and get back with you though. That means a lot to me that he is not your typical politician.
“manner” was supposed to be “matter”. sorry.
Immediately after he took office in 2008 - and this is all documented right here on FRee Republic - Jindal did three “non-conservative” things.
He busted the state spending cap and increased state spending about a billion dollars.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/state_senate_waives_spending_c.html
State senate waives spending cap; Jindal can spend additional $1 billion
by Ed Anderson
Friday March 14, 2008, 3:22 PM
He then opposed the rollback of the Stelly Tax and then supported a legislative pay raise until he got his brains beat out on the issue.
All that happened within his first six months in office.
For the past couple of years, he’s been more fiscally conservative that he was at first.
But I still don’t trust him, not a bit. He’s a politician, and he would change his spots in an instant, if he thought that’s the way the wind was blowing.
All that said about Jindal, I still voted for him last year, as I did in 2007. And you are quite correct about his pro-life and pro-family stance, which I think he’s quite sincere about.
But if you were to rate him on a conservatism scale of 1 to 10, with Ronald Reagan approaching a 10, Mittens a 2.2, George Bush a 4.5, Newt a 6.9, Perry a 5.7, Vitter a 9.0, I would rate Jindal a 6 or 7.
That’s just my opinion, though.