"Oh God," muttered Chris Matthews, before Gov. Jindal had begun. If you're going to enter like a wannabe president the least you can do is have a clue what has come before you show up.
Michael Gerson should be hiding after tonight: Some have compared Jindal to Obama, but the new president has always been more attracted to platitudes than to policy. Rush Limbaugh has anointed Jindal "the next Ronald Reagan."
Happy Mardi Gras is how Gov. Jindal started. It got worse from there. Fox's Charles Krauthammer stated it simply: "Jindal didn't have a chance."
Following President Obama's incredible oratory, personal touches and serious content, Jindal's high school bio-driven blather, complete with a Katrina gaffe that included mentioning the sheriff that stood on the bridge with dogs and guns to keep people from crossing, you had to wonder if Republicans had ever heard the man speak before. Maybe they simply picked him because Michael Steele is the only other guy of color they've got and he was busy.
David Brooks drives in the final nail:
LEHRER: Now that, of course, was Gov. Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, making the Republican response. David, how well do you think he did?
BROOKS: Uh, not so well. You know, I think Bobby Jindal is a very promising politician, and I oppose the stimulus because I thought it was poorly drafted. But to come up at this moment in history with a stale "government is the problem," "we can't trust the federal government" -- it's just a disaster for the Republican Party. The country is in a panic right now. They may not like the way the Democrats have passed the stimulus bill, but that idea that we're just gonna -- that government is going to have no role, the federal government has no role in this, that -- In a moment when only the federal government is actually big enough to do stuff, to just ignore all that and just say "government is the problem, corruption, earmarks, wasteful spending," it's just a form of nihilism. It's just not where the country is, it's not where the future of the country is. There's an intra-Republican debate. Some people say the Republican Party lost its way because they got too moderate. Some people say they got too weird or too conservative. He thinks they got too moderate, and so he's making that case. I think it's insane, and I just think it's a disaster for the party. I just think it's unfortunate right now.
Republicans might have to rethink this Jindal thing.
Calling Sarah Palin? Yep, all Palin has to do is stay out of sight and study. They'll end up begging her to come back, with Rush and Sean Hannity leading the cheers. She can't answer the simplest questions but at least she can deliver a speech.
P L E A S E!! And let's not forget that Rhodes Scholar of yours up on screen, shaking his finger at the American Public and admonishing us "I DID NOT!!"
Get a life.
Oh well, W (that son of a Bill) laughs again as he walks away from a crash landing. I hope the current administration understands the task ahead of it. Saving the USA from a USSR-style caldera is the task at hand. Taiwan is watching closely.
Republicans need to dissolve and form a new party, maybe two. Their credibility is in the ash bin of history.
Then, the rambling about what he has done in Louisiana and speaking like he was reading to preschool children.
This is a nation in crisis and he talks about himself and stale of ideas? Not exactly a visionary, is he?
At least Bobby Jindal is a Rhodes scholar. He has brain.
What do Palin have? It took her four universities to barely manage to graduate! She has the mind of a criminal where she manipulates her power to promote her self interest, the latest being using state fund for travel cost of her children!
What's more, with Palin you won't have a United States but a Divided States -- one half American State and the other half UnAmerican State!
She will not be a builder of unity but a builder of a bridge for nowhere!
Sarah Palin. Still anyone for the taking? Going once, Going twice, Going.....!
It is a pity the GOP is running out of options. May be their last big hope is Joe the Plumber!
How distinguished...
This is a darn near perfect analogy to the GOP presidential primary process. During the 2008 games, Rudy and Mitt got zapped for straying outside the lines or thinking impure thoughts, while McCain developed nervous ticks from learning to stay in bounds so well. In the end he was defeated by Obama, who hadn't trained to stay inside confining little boundaries.
Anyhow, GOP the games are starting up early this cycle, to get a jump on defeat in 2012. We've seen the prelims. Palin's been roughed up, and Jindal looked ridiculous. It's early plenty of time to try out different political life forms and see who remains standing.
"400 Quatloos on Jindal".....
"50 Quatloos Palin gets subpoenaed next week"
"600 Quatloos Palin remains un-trainable"......
You talk like anyone can be smart if only they study. If four colleges were unable to teach Palin the one thing successful students learn--how to study--she ain't goin' to learn how to do it now.
Can you imagine Palin making the decisions during our economic turmoil? God definitely needs to close those doors before she gets anywhere close.
If you had told me three months, one month, one day ago, that someone would emerge to give Ms. Palin a run for her money as chief thorn-in-the-side humiliation of the Republican party, I would have laughed in your face.
Uninformed and misleading? These are traits I expect from many, many Republicans. And Palin and Jindal have those traits in spades. But the Bayou Stater actually made some of the Alaskan governor's performances look pretty good in comparison. He looked like a kid up there. And worse than that, you could almost sense that he KNEW IT.
Jeesh. Obama must be tickled pink.
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There's also that little thing called Katrina, just where you all those years, months before she hit? You didn't know your state was in for the fight of it's life, why wasn't Piyush aware of the poor construction of the levees? Or how about your being in congress, and other political appointed positions and not doing a bloody thing about abject poverty in your state?!!
You Dems are a piece of work. Get your facts in order before you show your ignorance.
jindal/palin 2012