Part 2--Assessing Conservative Presidential Candidates

Conservative Examiner ^ | 2/1/2010 | Anthony G. Martin

[Welshman007]

In the first article of this series an assessment was provided for some of the most popular of the assumed conservative Presidential candidates for 2012.

Now we come to Part 2.

[ChrisInAR]

Son in the Senate, father inthe White House! :-)

[SuziQ]

But despite his popularity as Governor of Louisiana, his reputation on the national stage is tentative due mainly to his lackluster and uninspiring GOP response to an Obama address last year. It remains to be seen if Jindal can recover and show the national electorate some chutzpah.

Why are conservatives so quick to dump someone who doesn't live up to our lofty rhetorical standards in every single appearance? Folks heaped coals of scorn on Bobby Jindal after his appearance last year in responding to the President, the same way they did to Sarah after her ONE interview with the Perky Katie Couric!

Good grief folks, give them a chance, would you? Did you see the Democrats dumping Bill Clinton after his disastrous speech at the 1988 Democrat Convention? Heck no, they embraced him and he went on to two terms as President! Same with Obama, though the media continues to proclaim him as some rhetorical genius, simply because they like his stand on the issues.

Let's not be so quick to throw good folks under the bus, because of one or two lackluster speeches. Look at them overall, and bolster them!

[Friendofgeorge]

I only just now read part one and this is what I found that I agree with.................................................

At the top of the list of many if not most conservatives today is Sarah Palin. She is pro-gun and pro-life, and she supports lower taxes, smaller government, and fiscal restraint in Washington.

Palin has also proved that she can raise money and sell books. Before her new book was even published she had pre-sold enough copies—over a million—to make it to Number One on the Amazon best-seller list. Among politicians she is in a small, elite group in that regard. Only Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have managed similar feats although Palin’s accomplishment is unprecedented.

And let's not minimize the fact that on the stump she can give a speech that fires up the conservative base as no other.

[conservativebuckeye]

Maybe we Republicans have higher standards than the rats. It also doesn’t help Jindal’s cause that McDonnell gave very effective response last week.

[SuziQ]

May be, but I still don’t think we ought to trash perfectly good possible candidates because of ONE poor performance!

[conservativebuckeye]

You make a good point, but we don’t have much to go on with Jindal. He was a solid Congressman, but not at the level of a Mike Pence in terms of influence or ideology. I’m not sure what he’s done so far as governor. I also have to admit that him being a Rhodes Scholar makes me nervous. I don’t want the Republicans nominating another globalist.