[Louisiana Governor] Jindal rises in GOP's next generation

The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune ^ | November 6, 2008 | Jan Moller

[Ebenezer]

Ousted from power, party now turns to fresh faces

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal is among a short list of Republicans whose political stars stand to rise as the party looks for new ideas and leadership in the wake of Tuesday's landmark Democratic victories.

With the GOP out of power in both the White House and Congress for the first time since 1992-94, analysts expect attention to shift to the states, where many Republican governors remain popular with constituents despite the national repudiation of presidential standard-bearer John McCain and the GOP losses in Congress.

"This party is going to take on a new face and new leadership and younger leadership and he would seem to fit that bill pretty well," Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor with the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said of Jindal. "Right now it's a party without a leader, so there's a great void to be filled."

[cookcounty]

I think Bobby’s fantastic.

But look out for Rahm Emanuel’s Oppo Sharks.....they are already in the water.

Someone should start a blog to knock down all the invented “scandals” the dirty Dems will spew. This week would be a good time to start.

[zwerni]

i REALLY love Palin and supported her steadfastly since the day she was announced BUT... i do not see her at the top of the ticket. And I am not sure she would be willing to run as VP again.

[Ranjit]

Jindal, palin, Paul Ryan and all these ambitious people need to talk regularly in radio talk shows and every 15 days, they need to get out and go to another state and participate in building the local organizations. We will not win the election, if we don’t have local structure

[FrankR]

"the national spotlight has not been kind"

National Spotlight = MSM

The one thing we have to worry about is thinking that what the press says and thinks, is what the people say and think.

The ONLY way to defeat the hard left media in this country is to grow this from the grass roots. That's what obama just did, and it obviously worked!

Sure, he had the press in his corner, but he also had millions out there knocking on doors and standing on street corners hawking his wares.

We need a conservative version of ACORN (minus the corruption) to canvas neighborhoods and get the word out. Given the bent of the MSM, it seems to be the only way.

The civil rights movement started in churches - even though they were not supposed to talk "politics" without losing their tax deduction, they did it anyway.

If the leaders of our churces shudder in fear at the thought of losing a tax deduction, then fear of the government radiates to the congregation, and suddenly we have a bunch of people shivering in their boots to stand up to a corrupt government.

There was a reason for "of the people, for the people, and by the people" - it was to build a country from the ground up as the forefathers knew they would get no quarter from the English. We stood up - together - against them, and built the greatest country in the history of the world - until the mid-50's when the decline started.

Seems we're poised now to just give all that up and give it back to England...who is now almost owned by Muslims.

[Badabing Badablonde]

Agreed. Jindal will have had some executive experience as governor by 2012, and he has also worked inside the Beltway for a number of years. He has the public experience, and his “resume” is quite impressive. I’m for Jindal/???? in 2012.

[MinorityRepublican]

We need to formulate a strategy to reach out to Asians. Now how do we deliver the message to them? Once we are able to reach out to Asians, they could help us keep our majority in Texas and recapture Virginia from the Democrats.

[Ranjit]

You are absolutely right. It is not just about our party. Politics is a dirty business. We need to borrow from Rahm Emanuel in destroying the opposition. He took one republican at a time. He started the process in the middle of 2005 and also nominated conervative candidates in the south. I will attribute most of this success of democrats to Rahm Emanuel and Dean. Actually, Dean did something very different. He started spending lot of money in Republican states. you see those efforts in states like North Carolina.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

I totally agree with you...Jindal is Brilliant...hope the GOP does NOT screw things up by electing a NON electable person in 2012

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Whoever says Jindal has zero charisma does not know him.
He puts Clinton to shame and he is a southern boy.

[imfrmdixie]

I am sorry but this morning I am just totally ticked at the negativity around Sarah Palin. After O’Reilly’s load of caca last night...a story without the name of the accuser spouting trash about Sarah....I was screeching at the TV. All this woman did was accept a nomination to be the Vice President of this country and she was INSTANTLY attacked in the most viscious of ways. She took that without complaint, held her head up high and did so with grace and verve.

She worked tirelessly every day to pump energy into a campaign with a candidate that should not have been on the ticket and saved him from being humiliated.

If she lost her temper, or she appeared in a bathrobe after taking a shower in front of her staff, or she bought her own clothes after being chastised for having clothes bought for her...SO WHAT?! I would have shown up naked with a knife in my hand if I had to deal with that bunch of idiots.

She gave her all to that old man and he NEVER ONCE stood up to the media and told them to back off. He NEVER ONCE defended her in public for the pain she was being given. The Republican Party allowed all of this terrible atrocity on her to happen and NOT ONCE did I hear them proclaim her innocent or attacked.

The Republican Party and that goofball McCain should hold their heads down in shame and disgrace. Instead of teaching this woman who had not been on the national stage how to handle this bunch of snakes down here in the lower 48, they threw her out to fight for herself...and when she did...and after the wonderful campaign is over...what do they do to show their gratitude?....they join the snake pit and attack her on their own.

She should have used her Alaska instincts and told them where they could go and what they could do when they got there...but she didn’t. She took it and she took it in style.

Sarah Palin will always be a heroine to me. She will always represent what a woman should be...soft but strong as steel....a lady who can take the heat. Shame on any of you that put her down in any way whatsover and believe anything that the lying media puts out.

Doesn’t know that Africa is a continent?...give me a friggin’ break...she was raised by two school teachers, for God’s sake. I believe Africa may have come up once in a while...even in a land far away like Alaska.

[zwerni]

Jindal/Pawlenty 2012 ??

[relictele]

If so let’s not get caught up in a game of tokenism and oneupmanship i.e. ‘we’ll see your minority and raise you one.’

John Boehner won’t run for president and I can’t fathom why.

[cookcounty]

I liked Palin a lot, but the one VP choice I would have preferred was Jindal. At the same time, he has even less time in the Governor’s seat than Palin (Both have done remarkable things in record time).

I like both of them, it’s way too early to tell, we need to avoid battles over personal loyalties, we need to be a team, a TEAM right now. Primaries will come soon enough.

[bailmeout]

The future is indeed bright for Conservatives if we don't go wobbly. Jindal, Palin, Cantor, Ryan, Pence, et al. I'd add Michael Steele, but I'm not convinced he's a Conservative. Outside of BHO, it's hard to find legit, young stars on the other side.

The task at hand for Conservatives is to root the RINO flotsam out of the GOP to pave the way for these young turks.

I'm not a fan of identity politics, but the Dems lock on 1/4 of the electorate that votes monolithically ethnic (blacks & Hispanics) is a problem. It would be helpful to find young, principled Hispanic Conservatives to highlight in future campaigns.

[ari-freedom]

we should pick the best candidate for the job, period. If that happens to be a woman or a minority, great! But we shouldn’t be making affirmative action picks

[Ranjit]

I am sorry but this morning I am just totally ticked at the negativity around Sarah Palin.

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This is all about 2012. Somone is getting ready and started the process by destroying Sarah Palin. Carl cameron wants to keep his job in fox news. He gets a news like this one, he knows that, people will all click on you tube to see his presentation.

[areukiddingme1]

Okay — please let me qualify;

First, can anyone really tell me what Governor Jindal has accomplished? I sincerely do not know and don’t mean that in a negative or derogatory way either — just asking the question, so, please, don’t flame spray me...

Second — what occurred to me this morning on the way in to work was “why not,” a Gingrich/Palin ticket in 2012?

Hear me out; Obie kept framing the argument — his words, “I want to talk about the future — John McCain wants to keep talking about the past.” Because once Wright, Ayers, etc…came out and were hurting him — he didn’t want to talk about the past.

So, IMO, the only reason Newt hasn’t run for President is because of the past.

But, using obies own tactic to beat the left to death with it — you clear Newts past.

Then, especially at a time like this, with Palin as his VP…they, because of Newts sound Conservative Principles and Values and his hands down, no questions asked, undisputable knowledge of what it will take to get the country moving in the right direction and keep it moving in the right direction, both economically, politically, and internationally and her ability to draw the kinds of crowds that she drew in the 08’ election win this thing 2012.

Again, simply for what its worth IMHO...

[Ranjit]

If palin is serious about 2012, come out and talk to the media. She needs to clear the issue. Don’t allow people to talk for 48 hours and it will be Tina Fey again. Someone is giving materials to SNL

[zwerni]

“Unfortunately, I think she’s going to have too much baggage.”

—you have bought what the media was selling you. The most ironic thing is is that there is no baggage.

with everything the media did to her she is quite pure. all negativity is media-smear. if you don’t believe it just ask someone critical of her and note their answer.

by the way “she’s stupid” is not real criticism - it may have worked for bush but we cannot count that critique of all republicans...

[ari-freedom]

I’d put it a bit more diplomatically but...you’re right.