Posted on 02/26/2009 12:33:56 PM PST by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Rep. Tom Tancredo assessing the performance the other night of Gov. Bobby Jindal in giving the GOP Response to President Barack Obama's address. In short, Tancredo says Jindal's content was great but his delivery was lousy. In fact, he says it was so lousy that his performance may have "put the last nail in the coffin" on his chances of becoming President. Tancredo says Jindal is a great intellect but did not show himself to be a "leader" in his speech.
Tancredo believes Gov. Mitt Romney is best positioned now to lead the GOP forward in 2012. Tancredo made the comments during an interview at CPAC today, February 26, 2009.
As I said the other night, I believe Jindal's content was great but his delivery certainly could have been better. But I just don't think that speech will end Jindal's chances for the Presidency. He still has a very bright future, and could be the next GOP President in 2016 if not in 2012. Remember, everyone laughed off Bill Clinton after his disastrous speech at the Democratic Convention in 1988 that went on and on and on. But four years later, he became President. Four years is a very long time in politics. I would not count Jindal out just yet. . . . . (Watch Video)
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Define anti-hispanic for us, please.
Okay, this ought to make more heads explode than Slim Whitman in “Mars Attacks!”.
No! We must desert him, toss him to the trash heap and forget he was ever a total success in bringing LA back from the brink, has great bone fides and is a fine man. He supposedly muffed a speech and now must be abandoned. Tancredo has lost his mind. Anyone who gives a rats rectum what old repubs think is nuts and politically suicidal. Out with the old regime!! They just stink up the place.
What anti-hispanic rhetoric? I recall he put his foot in his mouth about bombing mecca but have never heard him say anything I thought to be anti-Hispanic.
Of course Jindal's career is not over. That is ridiculous. However I do think he needs to fire the person who decided to have such a gay presentation. Very cheesy.
Tanc is backing Willard? WTF?
Let him jump on the 10th Amendement bandwagon, and the spirit of the "tea parties" ---and people will not give a wit about his "style" .
There is no way, I would ever praise anything Ears did or says, look at how Ears has treated Bush. Maybe Ears is not the appropriate name now because his head is getting so big his ears don’t look so big. I never thought that US would elect him, someone who wouldn’t put his hand over his heart during National Anthem.
That’s not what I said, but their scholarship to Oxford is paid for by the Rhodes Scholarship...do you know anything about Cecil Rhodes and WHY he set up the scholarship?
Yeah, they will make clips of it to haunt him. But who is actually going to remember, much less be influenced, by one poor speech delivery three weeks from now?
This is why a variety of people should be chosen to make the Republican responses. And Jindal should get another chance later. As should Tom Tancredo, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and even Mike Huckabee.
You don't bench one of the best people in your pitching rotation for one poor outing.
I thought Jindal was flat. But I’m more than willing to let him go through the primaries and see how that turns out.
No more Romney though.
Alot of these types we have now lost for probably several election cycles saw a segment of our party putting ALL of the blame on the immigrants and not the system the encourages it. And you better believe it people on the GOP side were speaking out of both sides of their mouth on this issue. You had some playing to base while at the same time enjoying the cheap labor immigrants provide whether their here legally or illegally. You can discount that all you want, but people of Hispanic dissent (some related to me or are very close friends of mine) saw that, and it alone turn their vote the last election. We were NEVER going to round them all up and send them back. Fences will not work. And if the attitudes don't change amongst some on here, we will be the all old man White party the media is suggesting we are on the path to become. We had the perfect counterbalance in our grasp to counter the Rats and their voting blocks and we lost thanks to a bunch of politcal chest thumpers that loved to get their face on TV and on Hannity's radio show. Maybe some folks on here and on the Conservative side will see the light about 2016 or so when we are down 25 Senators and 100 members of Congress?
I prefer men who have passion, men who agitate, radicals.
We have gone thru decades of the opposite. It has not worked.
I wanted him to explain to an ignorant modern day public, the moral roots of America's zeal for liberty.
To be an apostle for liberty, to jumpstart millions upon millions who do not understand or simply do not respect the limitations deliberately placed upon government that created the most successful example of self-government the world has yet seen.
To reconnect Americans with our past.
A Rhodes Scholar would not “throw the game”, if they are part of the Round Table, which I do not know his total involvement.
Now, your ignorance about facts that you can find anywhere on the internet including the Wikepedia makes you the idiot...not me.
He’s not a natural born citizen. When he was born neither parent was a US citizen. I don’t care if he’s a reincarnation of George Washington.
I “thinketh the ??? doth protest too much”.
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