Holy moly!
You ain’t kidding there, brother.
Back to the drawing board, GOP!!!!
I would add that someone needs to teach the GOP about youtube and other networking sites. From what I can tell, there's still no "official" GOP rebuttal video posted.
The first 10 minutes was a disaster. Oh wait, the speech was only 10 mins long? Well, I was hoping he would do well but did not impress.
We need four things four years from now. Personality, Can give a speech, conservative, and can raise $500 million.
I think the only person who can do all four is Palin. I did not connect with Jindal at all tonight and I don’t know if anyone else can raise %500 million.
This is a drive-by comment if I ever saw one. You need to be more specific. His message was that the American people will solve the current economic morass that the Congress has gotten us into and not more government. That is what I heard, and what could possibly be wrong with that message?
I didn’t hear the speech, but I did read a summary and that made valid points.
Jindal’s speech was a stinker. To begin with, I’m sick of hearing republicans going on and on about how the election of 0bama was so so historic. Jindal’s delivery was poor, and his attempts at personalizing stories kind of fell flat. I’ve heard him speak before, he’s a smart guy, but he’s very dull. If he were to get the nomination in 2012 he’d draw McCain size crowds, maybe a bit bigger. Bored, unenthusiastic crowds don’t volunteer, don’t donate, and sometimes don’t even vote. Last I heard he’s only rejected $98 million of the stimulus for Louisiana, which is just over ten percent. Palin has rejected about 50 percent of the $1 billion offered her state. All she’s taking are for construction projects.
Why not blame Jindal?
I didn’t watch it but the GOP needs to quit being so damn apologetic period. They need to learn how to deliver and keep talking points going beyond a news cycle. They need to choose talking points that resonate with the common man. No one believes that we can spend ourselves out of this mess. Keep it simple. The people don’t need to be reminded of how strong they are, they just need to be reminded of how corrupt and worthless our government is. The problem is far too many Republicans have a fondness for Washington which is not by chance one of the only cities not being hit by the current recession.
What has the government done to deserve our trust or our money? They have wasted our money and have betrayed our trust.
I thought there were a number of good points of fact and principle in the speech, but the delivery was rather flat.
If it had just been an average GOP Congressman giving that speech, I suspect there wouldn’t be much fuss. But let’s face it: Jindal and Palin are the two many conservatives and Republicans (not always the same thing) are counting on to turn the tide and bring conservative principles back into the White House. I think a lot of us went in with the idea this was going to be round 1 of the 2012 race rather than just a “typical” rebuttal to the State of the Union. By that standard, I think Jindal has some work to do.
An unmitigated disaster.
People who say "What about the substance, he had that" can pat themselves on the back for being about substance if they want, that's not the issue. If no one listens to you, it doesn't matter what you say.
The country likes Obama's style. Like it or not, Jindal looked like the same old thing, someone not prepared for the spotlight who thinks he can overcome inexperience by being fake-friendly. He came off like a hopped-up Mr. Rogers, and as sincere as a used car salesman during a Going Out of Business sale.
One can claim none of this matters, but it does, big time. I don't think Sarah Palin will be the nominee in 2012, but seeing this video showed you how a genuine communicator does it--and it ain't like Jindal. Palin is comfortable in front of the camera and talking to the televiion audience. Whatever the issues are that will keep her from being the next nominee, that ain't one of them.
If we learned anything about the media from the last 9 years it's that if you aren't a good communicator, you've lost the message war, and if you've lost the message war, you've lost, period.
Jindal is off my list for potential 2012 nominee. Which leaves...no one.
I heard Jindal on the radio earlier today. Sounded squishy.
A Republican should have gone on tonight and said:
Why have you spent over a million dollars keeping your birth certificate locked up?
Are you a natural-born citizen? Are you even a citizen?
Since your grandfather, father, mother, and mentor, and all your associates since childhood have been Communists—Why aren’t you a Communist? Or are you?
Why have you seized control of the census?
Why have you given ACORN $4 billion? Isn’t there enough thuggery and vote fraud to satisfy you?
Of course the “stimulus bill” had no earmarks—It was 100% PORK from beginning to end. Earmarks are pork! If a bill is 100& pork, there’s no need for earmarks.
Why is the money supply shooting up like a moon rocket?
And why have you spent over a million dollars keeping your birth certificate locked up? (I know—I want to see this question repeated.)
It is an insane expectation.
DC politicians bring in a fresh face and then apparently don't adequately prepare or support him, not a surprise.
I would rather get my gall bladder removed than watch a political speech from either party, but from what I am reading here people were disappointed that Jindal wasn't as smooth as Hussein Baraka.
At some point more free people will realize that this won't be solved at the ballot box or by professional politicians, but by outraged patriots taking to the streets and demanding that the socialists take their hands out of our grand kids pockets.
The GOP should have let Gov. Palin deliver the response for a number of reasons.
You guys are freaks. Jindal is a good man, good conservative. Nobody listens to the response except people of the same party. Mr. Jindal gets a whole lot more chances from me. Thank God he is the republican governor of LA.
My theory is he heard the echo and it threw him off.
It was a bad speech and a poor performance, but it really was a no-win situation. Obama just gave a stem-winder of a speech and promised the moon to everyone. Injecting a note of reality into the situation was something that had to be done but wasn’t going to be very popular. But the speech itself worked against Jindal more than his performance. The three biggest issues in the news today are the markets, the financial industry meltdown, and the housing problem. The speech ignored all of them. It made it look like the Republicans were out of touch and had no alternative to offer to Obama’s proposals.
Exactly. They took one of the best hopes and put him in a “no-win” situation.
They should have kept their powder dry.