Posted on 06/07/2012 9:30:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is rising as Mitt Romney’s possible pick for vice president, according to campaign sources.
Last month, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist touted Jindal for the vice presidential slot in an opinion piece for Politico.
Norquist tells me he wrote the piece knowing that “Jindal is a leading option.”
Jindal is rarely mentioned in speculation about Romney’s possible choice. A rising star in the Republican Party, he suffered a setback when he bombed delivering the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s first speech to Congress on Feb. 24, 2009.
Adding Jindal to the Republican presidential ticket would bring to Romney’s fold neither a swing state nor a major ethnic minority. But such political considerations are not foremost in Romney’s mind. He has said he is only interested in choosing a candidate who would make a good president.
As he constantly points out, Romney is a conservative businessman, not a politician. He amassed a fortune of more than $200 million not by making cynical political calculations but by looking for the best — often novel — opportunities and by hiring people based on character, competence, and quality.
Jindal qualifies on all counts — and has an inspiring life story that epitomizes the American dream.
Jindal’s mother Raj was three months pregnant with him when his parents came to this country from Punjab, India in 1971. The daughter of a bank manager, Raj had a scholarship to study for a doctorate in nuclear physics at Louisiana State University.
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LET THE DEBATES ABOUT THE TERM -- NATURAL BORN CITIZEN -- BEGIN !!
Not interested in the NBC debate, but..
>> he bombed delivering the Republican response
Big time. I’m afraid a Veep candidate needs to be a good presenter and debater. Jindal fails here.
Next...
Can’t see it, Jindal brings nothing too the table.
Yeah, that whole leadership role he perfected during Katrina, and the more recent tornadoes, is overrated.
Now that’d be wise...Pick a guy who can’t legally run for President...
Maybe Romney’s trying to give the election to Obama like McCain did...
Oh boy, Chrissy Matthews is going to get a tingle over this. The left will be unrelenting in going after the birth issue. Regardless of whether or not it is valid.
Remember, their playbook is to assert something as fact, even if it is not and then keep asserting it with such conviction that people start to believe it as fact.
I worry for the great American sheeple.
there is NO debate, jindal’s parents were NOT citizens as the article eludes to. Will romney make a stupid mistake or name Sarah Palin as VP and show his smarts.
Now that’d be wise...Pick a guy who can’t legally run for President...And if anyone raises the issue, it blows up in Obama's face.
Regardless whether you buy the reasoning of the Birthers (I don't), Jindal is every bit as eligible as Obama.
Their playbook sounds vaguely familiar to some things I’ve read here on FR...
So the guy makes one bad speech (and it wasn't that bad, just not exciting enough for those who prefer stem-winders) and you're happy to throw out the incredible leadership he has shown over the last few years?
I've seen him speak in many other contexts and believe that the "response" was an anomaly. Then again you may be a member of your local Toastmaster's club and eminently more qualified to be vice-president because of it.
Besides the fact that he is not an NBC, there are too many other better choices.
Trial balloons an’ all that.
Jindal was a member of the House of Representatives during Katrina - what leadership role are you referring to, please?
Martinez for VeePee!
It could be fun, however, wtaching the DBM (which has said the parents citizenship is irrelevant to the natural-born issue) turn on a dime and a find a reason ONE parent has to be a citizen to confer natural born status.
Now that’d be wise...Pick a guy who can’t legally run for President...
Trial balloon, but this maybe a good way to get the qualification issue before the Supreme Court for adjudication.
Gaffer
Well worth it (if only for the inevitable Joe Biden “Macaca” moment...)
RE: Martinez for VeePee!
And how is Susana when it comes to fulfilling the “Natural Born” requirement?
I would rather see Petraeus as VP.
He has what Mitt lacks: foreign policy, military and anti-terrorism experience.
Jindal would be helpful in getting back some of the Asian vote to the GOP side. They vote way too Left.
Not necessarily; it's been pretty well established Obama has never made all the information on his BC public. My favorite theory (with tongue in cheek) is that it lists Eldridge Cleaver as the father; Obama could never release that becuase: 1.) Cleaver was a serial rapist and black power advocate; but 2.) After he reformed, he became a Mormon and a republican.
Obama would have been savaged by both sides!
Not eligible, next.
Besides, during the Gulf oil disaster, he just stood there on the tarmac and took a dressing down from Zippy instead of telling Zippy to go F himself, I’m building the dikes anyway.
Yeah, that whole leadership role he perfected during Katrina, and the more recent tornadoes, is overrated.
Oh brother. Give it a rest. Katrina is ancient history and tornadoes? Who knew. So if you want to brag about Katrina and Tornadoes he did as his job requires, fine. But that gives the Republicans Louisiana and Mississippi which will go for the RINO (Romney) anyway.
ONLY if Petraeus justifies his ROE. I respect the man for the most part, but I do believe the ROE were his idea.
I believe her parents are nautral born. Her grandfather came legally to US.
Sorry. I meant Hurricane Gustav.
One thing is for sure: anybody mentioned this early is probably NOT going to be the eventual VP pick. Every potential pick will get his/her “week in the sun”.
>> I meant Hurricane Gustav <<
Doesn’t matter. The NBC folks will bash you and Jindal about some other issue — anything else will do!
That being said, I think Jindal’s time hasn’t yet come. 2020 will be soon enough, at which point he’ll probably have my enthusiastic support.
He’s against the legalization of same sex unions. He’s 100% pro life. He’s pro 2nd Amendment. He’s against illegal immigration. And, those are just the easy ones to define. What more does he need to bring to the table?
I absolutely agree with you. I think he still needs more experience.
That's very good to hear; Jindal is a great man and great governor. I hope he has a bright future in government.
I wasn't basing my post on the one speech; I have seen him speak and interviewed other times; but, not a great deal, likely not as much as you have.
thanks for your reply.
With all these “Bright Stars” I need sun glasses.
Don't think Sarah would accept as she has her eye on the prize. If Romney won he'd be young enough for re-election in 2016 and that would delay Sarah. If he loses, the path would be open for Sarah Palin in 2016. That's why she'd prefer the sidelines.
Beware of Jindal. He was spineless when it came to legislature pay raises. He vowed not to raise taxes, but instead tried to raise fees which the legislature shot down. His ethics reforms included tougher laws on all but the governor’s office. And now he is giving $8500/ low income student to attend the same private schools I’m paying thousands out of pocket for my child to attend. While I’m no fan of public schools, allowing the public school students to attend private school with no money out of their pockets isn’t going to fix the lack of motivation that is a problem in the public schools. It’s just another handout/redistribution scheme that tries to use money to equalize outcomes.
jindal is a “moistened finger in the air politician.” If he was a resident of Maryland or michigan, he’d be a Democrat.
It likely was but the DemonRats would ballyhoo it far and wide.
Then bring those items up. I have no problem with Jindal except his speaking ability and I am not sure he is NBC. Otherwise, bring him to the table.
Yeh I seriously doubt Jindal is on the short list.
Next...
Have you ever heard the expression "single point trend analysis"?
Bobby Jindal is brilliant, honest, hard-working, educated, experienced, and deeply conservative.
That's not nothing.
Are you being sarcastic?
I think Gov. Jindal's leadership during Katrina and the numerous subsequent storms, as well as during the oil spill, have been exemplary.
This is nonsense.
If they want Jindal then I say bring it.
And like you, let the NBC debates begin....
Are you being sarcastic?
Take another look.....I didn't say that. The poster to whom I provided your Jindal opinion did. We're of the same mind on this one.
Not necessarily; it's been pretty well established Obama has never made all the information on his BC publicOK, but none of the things you mentioned have any relevance to his eligibility.
And, it's not the Birth Certificate itself that's important. Many (most?) people born in this country prior to the 20th Century didn't even have birth certificates.
“Yeah, that whole leadership role he perfected during Katrina...”
Jindal was not the La. governor during Katrina. It was Kathleen Blanco and was a “fail” in leadership.
See post 28
There are, of course, other possibilities. He could be listed on his birth certificate as "White", which would have probably sunk his chances of election.
My point is not to rehash the NBC thing again - my point if that if the republicans nominate someone who is not the child of citizens, Obama may prove he is the child of 2 citizens and the press and democratic position that NBC means born in the country would INSTANTLY change to one requiring being the child of citizens.
P.S. The last U.S. President born before the 20th century was Eisenhower.
That airhead, Kathleen Blanco, was the Governor of LA during the Katrina hurricane. She was joined in incompetence with that super mayor of NO/LA, Ray Nagin. With 2 do-nothing Democrats in command, the people of New Orleans were sitting ducks.
Blanco sat on her hands fretting while the school buses were stranded in a parking lot in NO. I’m sure you all remember the case of the young teenage boy who somehow got the keys or otherwise jerry-rigged the motor and then drove a bus full of people out of NO toward the great state of Texas.
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