Bobby Jindal is brilliant, honest, hard-working, educated, experienced, and deeply conservative.
That's not nothing.
How many people here actually watched that “Speech” by Jindal?
Or have you just heard how terrible it was from the media?
I watched it and was surprised at how the media cut Jindal down just as they do any minority candidate in the republican ranks. It was Jindal’s first introduction to a national audience, and he may have come off as a bit too energetic. So does Sarah Palin. Couldn’t fault the substance though, and I liked his fervor.
Bobby Jindal is brilliant and hard-working as you say. He is also the best extemporaneous speaker I’ve heard in a long time. He is incredibly informed and would put teleprompters out of business.
I don’t think Romney will select him. Where is the Asian vote decisive? Louisiana is a given for him. He might get a cabinet post,but his talents are wasted there. With his gung-ho executive experience he is best suited in some private enterprise initiative - like school reform.
Louisiana is the first state to be initiating a state wide school voucher system next Fall. Every time a student receives a voucher his local public school will lose a chunk of state funding. Public schools have to feel the pain to ever change their ways.