Posted on 10/24/2009 4:42:44 AM PDT by Proud23yroldConservative
Edited on 10/24/2009 6:23:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
With America’s first ever black president, there’s hope for ethnic minorities in the US to step forward. Bobby Jindal is one such man – the present governor of Louisiana is the youngest in the country and won with 88% votes. Bobby Jindal was touted to be John McCain’s running mate, before the position was taken by Sarah Palin (was it his dark skin? or did he turn down Mccain’s propsal?). Anyway, that has changed.
The republicans are now desperate to prove to the people of America that they hated Obama because of his radical ideas, not because they’re racist. What better way to do that than by nominating a successful, qualified and educated dark-skinned Indian governor for 2012?
Advantage Jindal: With all the heat around muslims and the cloud of “Who’s the real Barack Hussein Obama” all through this election campaign, Jindal, originally a Hindu who converted into Catholicism in school, will avoid that.
Who is Bobby Jindal? You can read the entire biography at wikipedia, I’ll jump to the interesting bits.
Piyush “Bobby” Jindal (pronounced “Jend All” in Louisiana) was born in the US to Indian parents, completed schooling at 17, was accepted by Harvard Medical School, but decided to go into politics and received a master’s degree in politics as a Rhodes scholar from New College, Oxford. Worked at Mckinsey and Company, advised fortune 500 companies. Got married in 1996 to present wife Supriya Jolly and has three children – Shaan Robert, Slade Ryan and Selia Elizabeth.
Will Bobby Jindal emerge with a ticket for 2012, or will he still be some governor vouching for a place in the senate?
Unless he firmly comes out against outsourcing NO WAY.
Bobby is a good possibility...
Bobby won’t be ready until 1216 at the earliest, he hasn’t been tested enough. He needs more experience and tempering.
He’s a weakling, and his high praise of Obama made me want to vomit.
No
No
Total rubbish!
What a stupid reason to chose a candidate for office.
“Hey, you have a dark skin, and since we don't want to be seen as racist, here is the presidential nomination for you”.
I like Jindal, but to suggest that Republicans nominate him as their candidate in 2012 because he is dark skinned, is an insult not just to Republicans, it's an insult to Bobby Jindal himself. Yes, he is very competent guy, but he is going to have to fight for the nomination just like anyone else. He is not getting any passes just because he has a dark hue. That's how we ended up with 0bozo in the first place.
Ugh. Jindal is a loser.
well, i did think his body language when he entered the room awkward. He entered the room, walked down the aisle then immediately started talking. He should take some time, take out a piece of paper, adjust his suit or something before launching straight into the speech
“With America’s first ever black president, there’s hope for ethnic minorities in the US to step forward.”
Nah, I think that America will vote a woman into the White House in 2012.
The pea-brained voters will feel like this: Okay, we felt good about voting for the black guy, but he turned out to be pretty much of a turd. But, color barrier’s out of the way. So let’s take care of the gender issue and feel good about electing a gal - break that old glass ceiling, don’t ya know.
Meantime, the country suffers for a lack of executive skill and leadership. Geesh.
Jindal lost me when he recently said we need to work WITH obozo on his healthcare. Appears lil’ bobby has thrown in with the Newt RINOs.
I have nothing against Gov. Jindal, but nominating someone just because of their ethnicity is bad policy.
Besides the Republican Party already nominated an American Indian for vice president (twice), how racially groundbreaking would it be to nominate an Indian American?
NO. Jindal should be proposing his own health care plan.
I agree.
Conservatives/Republicans fell into the trap of believing that we have to run a minority to prove we’re tolerant.
What we need is a strong conservative voice that can articulate our case convincingly.
When I watch Jindal speak, he comes across as weak as Bobby Brady, whose name he borrowed. And he also comes off as a bit weird. I wanted to believe he was the “One” from our side as so many conservative pundits tried to make of him, but it just isn’t working for me.
I was going back and forth on Palin, wondering if she could undo the damage the MSM did to her.
She has been kicking the ass of our opponents and doing so in a very subtle way.
Bachmann is also doing a good job, though I need to know more about her positions on the issues.
I don’t care that they are women/from a PC group. What I care about is that they are flipping the bird to the RINO establishment and standing up for conservatives.
Not a speaker of passion.
And Palin will be ready for 2012?
Those who claim that Obama is not a natural born citizen because his father was not a U.S. citizen will have to make the same claims about Jindal.
The author of this article needs to free himself/herself from the trap of identity politics.
It is a childish, ad hominem game, at this point. We’ve all proven we’ll support anyone who represents our ideology well.
We need to prove NOTHING.
And if the author of this article wrote this piece because he/she is an Indian and Jindal is Indian, then HE/SHE is the one that needs to prove something, because just about every Indian I know VOTED FOR OBAMA.
Perhaps minorities need to prove they aren’t simply looking to vote against whites.
Palin fails on several of my non-negotiables.
Jindral will come off as another black man (I know, he isn't ... but I'm sayin' that's how he'll be described) ... and the worst that 'they' can say about Sarah is that she's "just a woman" or something like that.
We know that once she begins to speak, it is easy to get beyond her being a woman and get her as a tough and savvy politician/leader.
She's ready right now.
nice guy but he’s only prominent as a cnadadie-possible because of his color. He can’t inspire with his speeches- he’s deadly dull.
GOP needs to stop playing the “I’ve got a bracelet too” game with the democrats- it already brought us Michael Steele.
Which ones?
Most likely, but then Palin has been exposed almost daily attacks by the press a a nuclear level for a year now, ran as a candidate in a national campaign, has had her life, her families lives, her friends, business associates, acquaintances, people she has passed on the street at sometime in the past all vetted, wrote a sucessful book and is at least at this time a 100 times the speak Jindal is.
Yep. I will. Neither of Jindal's parents were naturalized at the time of his birth. His mother was pregnant with him when they came here.
Looking at the damage Rhodes Scholars have done to this country, pardon me for not being quite so starstruck by that particular "qualification," too.
He has all the media presence of Scred from the Muppet Show, and has demonstrated the RINO impulse during his short tenure on the national stage.
So ... no to Piyush Jindal, as far as the Presidency. Perhaps he'd make a decent cabinet member, if he were to have no authority to broaden government regulation in such a position.
Jindal is a charisma-less child—he just turned 38 this summer. Give him another decade to mature and to develop a stronger presence before he’s considered for anything nationwide.
And Alan Keyes failed, period. He's a brilliant writer and speaker, I'll grant you that. His heart is in the right place without fail. Beyond that, though, it appears he has no political future.
About this time I’d vote for anyone who’s not a muzzie-loving, American-hating Marxist with delusions of grandeur and a bag of cow-plop where his brains ought to be.
what?????
Palin blows away all of them and she hasn’t even started.
Jindal makes my skin crawl. He’s creepy with his car salesman-y way of talking.
Like Ron Paul, she’s “pro-choice for states.” That’s the big one. There are others. Judicial supremacy. “Pathway to citizenship.”
And yet, as I ponder who I think should be in the executive office, for the good of the country, I can’t think of anyone who even approaches him.
He looks too much like the evil boss on “the simpsons.”
I agree. Jindal is not qualified for the office of President because he is not a Natural Born Citizen.
Problem is with this way of thought.....we don’t need to “prove” we’re not racist by promoting a good man merely because of his color or background.
Anyone who thinks such is needed is not the one I trust or who’s strategy should be followed.
The key for me is get the best real world conservative with a proven an established record of votes.
Time to put PC out to pasture. Save the United States......not the thin skinned race baiters who pander for personal profit.
Reason I will vote for Palin or Bobby.
Her version of a path to citizenship is thru a controlled guarded gate in a border fence, port, or airport an legal immigration process.
Same as Ellis Island IMO.
Welcome to Free Republic?
“Jindal 2012? Jindal or Palin, none have the charisma or the broad appeal of a Clinton, Bush or Obama.”
Palin has no charisma? (Where have you been???)
As for Jindal, let’s see how he continues to do in LA. Personally, I’m looking for ACTIONS and not simply WORDS or charisma.
Lol! Plain-spoken TRUTH...
Deserves repeating: “About this time I’d vote for anyone who’s not a muzzie-loving, American-hating Marxist with delusions of grandeur and a bag of cow-plop where his brains ought to be.”
That’s not what she said during the late campaign.
“Bobby Jindal 2012?”
No. He’s cozied up with McCain & Co.
Dude, that would mean he’d have to invent a time machine!
If you believe Palin doesn't have the charisma necessary, you haven't been paying any attention.
Until we get through the revolution of 2010, deciding on ANY candidate for 2012 is a useless discussion.
True conservatives, including Palin, are rejecting the elitist picked Repub candidate in NY for a true conservative in Hoffman. That needs to happen country-wide.
[Questioner] Governor, let me ask you about immigration. How many undocumented immigrants are there in Alaska?
[Palin] I don't know, I don't know. That's a good question.
[Questioner] As governor, how do you deal with them? Do you think they all should be deported?
[Palin] There is no way that in the US we would round up every illegal immigrant -there are about 12 million of the illegal immigrants- not only economically is that just an impossibility but that's not a humane way anyway to deal with the issue that we face with illegal immigration.
[Questioner] Do you then favor an amnesty for the 12 or 13 million undocumented immigrants?
[Palin] No, I do not. I do not. Not total amnesty. You know, people have got to follow the rules. They've got to follow the bar, and we have got to make sure that there is equal opportunity and those who are here legally should be first in line for services being provided and those opportunities that this great country provides.
[Questioner] To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?
[Palin] I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.
I see a potential beltway RINO. They all start somewhere.
Well, I heard they all picked their noses in school, so...
McCains talking points position on immigration is what your refering to due her second fiddle position ?
I didn’t like that either yet that was McPains campaign. She can NOT be so smart an conservative an so dumb to allow blanket Shamnesty on a tuesday. Process vs free pass.
She gets my vote.
Hope yer well !
No, Jindal is a geek, and it shows (being a geek myself, I can legitimately say that). But his DEMONSTRATED intelligence and ability are higher than any of the other prospective candidates. Read up sometime on his actions during Hurricane Katrina, and tell me again that he is a "loser".
The above is why I favor a Palin-Jindal ticket. Palin has the needed charisma, Jindal has the brains and experience.
I guess that isn’t one of your non-negotiables.
You too.
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