Posted on 04/23/2015 8:10:35 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
“As the fight for religious liberty moves to Louisiana, I have a clear message for any corporation that contemplates bullying our state: Save your breath. … If we, as conservatives, are to succeed in advancing the cause of freedom and free enterprise, the business community must stand shoulder to shoulder with those fighting for religious liberty. The left-wing ideologues who oppose religious freedom are the same ones who seek to tax and regulate businesses out of existence. The same people who think that profit making is vulgar believe that religiosity is folly. The fight against this misguided, government-dictating ideology is one fight, not two. Conservative leaders cannot sit idly by and allow large corporations to rip our coalition in half.
… Conservatism faces many challenges in today’s America. Hollywood and the media elite are hostile to our values and they tip the scales to our liberal opponents at every opportunity. Yet the left has lost repeatedly in state elections all over America. Republicans control 31 governorships. We control nearly 70 percent of state legislative chambers, the highest proportion since at least 1900.
Liberals have decided that if they can’t win at the ballot box, they will win in the boardroom. It’s a deliberate strategy. And it’s time for corporate America to make a decision.
Those who believe in freedom must stick together: If it’s not freedom for all, it’s not freedom at all. This strategy requires populist social conservatives to ally with the business community on economic matters and corporate titans to side with social conservatives on cultural matters. This is the grand bargain that makes freedom’s defense possible.” -Gov. Bobby Jindal
Arguably, Governor Jindal is the most conservative on a variety of issues, including immigration, right to life, military strength, taxes, regulations, trade, etc.
Thank you Gov. Bobby.
Right now we have some clear thinking and speaking conservative leaders. If people would listen and compare it to the gobbledygook that is coming from many on the left, the positive results would be amazing for our country.
Governor Jindal seems to suffer from the delusion that the top management of corporations is interested in advancing free enterprise. I see precious little evidence of this in general, though there are rare exceptions, most notably the Koch brothers who are so heavily vilified precisely because they actually favor free-market measures, rather than being easily bought with government contracts or regulations that advantage their business against competitors or potential competitors.
By and large pro-business has ceased to mean pro-market. Corporate managers by and large seek to use government policy to cement their market position and are happy with a great deal of regulation, since regulation harms new entrants and small enterprises far more than it does large incumbents in the market.
I really like Jindal. The problem here, however, is that boardrooms reflect shareholder sentiments. CalPERS and other collectivist entities own enough shares to determine board composition. They vote their values, which are collectivist.
This kind of unequivocal steadfastness is a reason that Jindal is one of the only GOP-er’s besides Cruz that I even remotely bother to pay attention to.
I like him. He is a great man and would make a great VP for President Paul.
Points taken. But look at it this way. How many of our GOP “leaders” have actually had the guts to come out like this and send a shot across the bow, directly to corporate America? Jindal was clearly signaling them that if they join up with the leftist radicals in an attempt to destroy religious liberty in his state, he was more than prepared to fight them.
This doesn’t look to be a repeat of Indiana, when Mike Pence transformed into a spineless, cowtowing jellyfish.
This must be driving the left crazy. The GOP has four potential candidates of color in Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and Bobby Jindal. Looking at the potential cast of clowns, er characters, who might take on Hillary. Hmm. Let’s see here Fauxahontas Warren, Uncle Joe Biden, Martin O’Malley, Comrade Bill de Blasio, Commissar Bernie Sanders, and Algore. Those are all white candidates. What happened to the Democrats and all that diversity talk of theirs.
Fake Native Americans don’t count Lizzie Warren.
yea, because a cashless society is a homo society ...
/eye-rolls
whatever
That is a very cogent point you made. Diversity in the Rat party is all about keeping the minorities on the plantation.
I like him. He is a great man and would make a great VP for President Paul.
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You fail. Rand Paul believes in gay marriage.
At 58 seconds he tells the female reporter that she should be able to marry another woman if she wants to. The key word, which is palinly used by Rand, is MARRY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kKZQsjKs7s
Although I can dispute your claim that Ted Cruz is a man of color. His father was a descendant of Spanish ancestry. All Hispanics are not people of color. Some are lily white. In my youth I dated a Mexican Hispanic woman in Chicago who was fair skinned, blonde hair and blue eyes. Hardly a woman of color.
And he is one of the few actually speaking up and saying what needs to be said.
Yes, and that may be the reason he got elected governor twice in red neck Louisiana.
“Arguably, Governor Jindal is the most conservative on a variety of issues, including immigration, right to life, military strength, taxes, regulations, trade, etc.”
And he leaves the state in financial shambles. Jindal talks a big talk if he thinks it promotes Jindal. He has cut $700 million from colleges in Louisiana and is going for a cool billion. College will be beyond multitudes in Louisiana.
Wow, check out your dizzying intellect!
I think it has more to do with the idea that he’s ‘standing firm’ on something that he really can’t do much about while doing nothing to stop the march toward a totalitarian state.
and a totalitarian state is a homo state.
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