The only negative against Jindal was that a speech he gave (as a rebuttal to the State of the Union) got panned as boring (I didn't sse it myself).
Condi is someone who looks good on paper but the reality doesn't live up to the billing.
Reminds me of something I read recently of a man in a pastry shop admiring a beautifully-decorated cake. The baker was an honest man and told him, "I'm afraid, sir, it won't be much for eating."
For that speech he was told not to speak in his usual style, but rather slow it down and be deliberate. The result: it bombed.
Jindal has a quick, almost Brooklyn style of speaking (some parts of LA have accents and speaking styles that are indistinguishable from Brooklyn, NY—it’s kind of amazing/weird). He is a good public speaker, but not in the conventional sense.
The fact that he is soooo out there recently (making speeches, on TV & radio) representing Romney recently makes me think that the Romney campaign is behind it. They’re getting the national press accustomed to him, so when he’s announced as the VP pick there won’t be any of this he speaks funny or looks funny stuff.
I don’t see any other potential VP candidate making the rounds like Jindal has been. Certainly not as an outright Romney surrogate the way Jindal has been doing. That leads me to think it’s all but a done deal.