This is the Future of the Republican Party. BRILLIANT MAN Jindal (sorry for the Vanity)

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[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

Jindal, He is BRILLIANT, he can TALK, he is the Future..YOU WANT TO WIN in 2012, this is the Man for the job....Listen to him...he is better than Romney...Quicker

[McGavin999]

Well, whoever we run is going to have to have megawattage when it comes to charisma.

[RaceBannon]

http://www.carolinajournal.com/articles/display_story.html?id=5081

Dems Target Private Retirement Accounts
carolina Journal ^ | November 04, 2008 | Karen McMahan

RALEIGH — Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration.

Triggered by the financial crisis the past two months, the hearings reportedly were meant to stem losses incurred by many workers and retirees whose 401(k) and IRA balances have been shrinking rapidly.

The testimony of Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, in hearings Oct. 7 drew the most attention and criticism. Testifying for the House Committee on Education and Labor, Ghilarducci proposed that the government eliminate tax breaks for 401(k) and similar retirement accounts, such as IRAs, and confiscate workers’ retirement plan accounts and convert them to universal Guaranteed Retirement Accounts (GRAs) managed by the Social Security Administration.

(Excerpt) Read more at carolinajournal.com ...

Here’s someting else, do a GOOGLE search for OBAMA + NEW + ECONOMIC + ORDER

[fieldmarshaldj]

Jindal can’t (nor should) run for the Senate in 2010. Mitch Landrieu would become Governor and would likely preside over redistricting (and, yes, he probably would be outright elected Governor in 2011). Vitter did something dumb, but by 2010, it will largely be forgotten. If he does decide to step down, one of the 5 Congressmembers could take a run (Alexander, Boustany, Scalise, Cassidy or the 4th district winner next month).

[fieldmarshaldj]

Should Reagan have “gone away” after losing the nomination for President in 1976 ? Palin lost a race for Lieutenant Governor in 2002 and she didn’t give up and go away, she took on the subpar Governor 4 years later and beat him decisively AND beat a popular former Democrat Governor favored to win his old job back in the general. Unlike Gerry Ferraro, Palin has a Governorship to go back to, while Ferraro was totally out of her House job in January 1985. The difference between the two is light years apart.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Next year, Vitter needs to gauge support for himself and do a thorough tour of the state. If it is found they are forgiving of his personal indiscretion, he should run again, but if it is shown he is trailing against a Dem, he should stand aside. No seat should be needlessly risked in 2010.

[Impy]

I was wondering about Vitter.

My thoughts were that nobody would care about the adventures of his allegedly small endowment by 2010.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Congressman Boustany would be my man in 2010 if Vitter doesn’t seek reelection. Boustany is a Protestant from Cajun Country, so he should play well in both Baptist North LA and Cajun South LA.

Gov. Jindal should run for reelection in 2011 (with a strong Lt. Gov. candidate) and then run for president in 2012.

[mrsmith]

*52% of this country’s voters are very shallow at best..*

That’s 52% of those who voted, about a third of those eligible.

The largest block of voters this election was -as always- those who didn’t.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Boustany would be fine (and I believe he now becomes senior Republican from the House delegation in January).

Mitch Landrieu has a dilemma. He can either run for Mayor of N.O. in 2010 (since I believe the office is term-limited) or he can hedge his bets and run against Jindal in 2011 (he can probably win the former with Nutty Nagin out of the way), or perhaps even audaciously do both. I made the mistake of underestimating Mitch last year, and I believe he ended up getting more votes for Lt Gov than Jindal did for Governor. Although it’s unlikely Jindal would lose, Mitch would be about the strongest a challenger the Dems could put up, and there may be enormous pressure brought on him to run, especially since Jindal is seen as a potential challenger for President in 2012, and the Dems are going to want to cripple him (a la George Allen in 2006).

[Imperialist]

Let’s run Palin again and see what happens...

What’s that saying...

something about being crazy or something (not you, or anyone here for that matter)...

Keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time, though it comes out the same way again and again...

Let’s run McCain again! McCain/Palin 2012!

Reagan was a huge star before he ever got into politics, his stardome definetly helped him overcome his initial losses... IMHO

[Imperialist]

“Well, whoever we run is going to have to have megawattage when it comes to charisma.” (McGavin999)

That’s really all I’m trying to get across, and to not keep doing reruns of past losers. Jindal won’t make the charisma cut, Palin did well, but she’s damaged goods after 2008. Maybe she could have come back after a loss in a different contest, like if she ran with GHWB and lost to Clinton, but this year was very dirty politics, after 8 years of Bush bashing from our opponents, they feel they defeated Bush by thwarting McCain/Palin. That’s going to be hard to get around for Palin. JMHO

[Imperialist]

*52% of this country’s voters are very shallow at best..*

That’s 52% of those who voted, about a third of those eligible.

“The largest block of voters this election was -as always- those who didn’t.”(mrsmith)

I have to kindly disagree. The largest block of voters were the 52% who voted for that dork who is not my president 0bama. Those who didn’t vote but could have, do not count. We are concerened about the ones who do vote. If you don’t vote, you are not a voter and not part of a voting block. Non voters have no effect on the tallies in the end...

[Imperialist]

We need fresh blood in the Republican party. None of the names I’m hearing on this thread, or many others, are getting me amped up.

I did ask for forgiveness when I jumped in here because I have no fantastic names to drop either...

We do need a star like Reagan though, who could that be? It is not anyone that has been in politics for very long. I had a funny discussion again at work today about Stephen Baldwin! It’s a preposterous idea, but it was funny. His single word campaign could be “Conversion”, like 0bama used “Change”...

We are adrift at the moment.

[Per-Ling]

Does anyone know General Petraeus’ political leanings? Does anyone know his separation date?

[Edgewood Pilot]

This was my first look/hear at Gov. Jindal.

Wow !

What a wonderful, capable, competent American. I wish him the very best and maybe we will be future benefactors of his leadership and talents.

[lonestar]

but our shallow minded fellow electorate won’t go for him,

I think you're projecting your own feelings!

[mrsmith]

#We are concerened about the ones who do vote.#

But who votes depends upon the issues and candidates.

We don’t want a candidate that appeals to Dems- like Reagan did- because the Dems aren’t going to overstep again. They’re going to keep following the “boil a frog slowly” method of socialism.

We need to find out what could get many nonvoters to vote and change WHO are the ‘likely voters’.
Then we can pick the candidate to win among that new bunch of ‘likely voters’.
There’s too many fish in the sea to beg the old voters to come back.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Did you read what I wrote ? You obviously seem to have some strange hatefest for Governor Palin, and who the hell suggested McCain ?

I explained to you that she’s not out of a job and unlike Ferraro, will loom large in the public eye as a party leader over the next 4 years and is now the equivalent of a rock star to the Conservative base. Kinda like Reagan after 1976. There’s nobody else now that can rally the party like her, unless you have another name to offer ?

[Imperialist]

Yes I did read what you wrote.

We suggested McCain twice already. Many here are suggesting Palin again. No thanks.

I have no hate for Palin, she got me excited for the McCain ticket, which I voted for. Are you suggesting that I voted for people I “hate”?

She was great. Was. I’d like to see us move forward and make some gains. We need fresh names. No, I have no suggestions at this time unfortunately and I’m not going to pump a couple of lamos like Jindal and Palin just because of that.

I hope we eventually come up with something better than Jindal/Palin or Palin/Jindal.

I don’t see Palin like a rock star right now, and I’m part of the “base”. She’s not going to loom large. She’s going to go back to Alaska and finish up her term, that’s about it.
I do appreciate what she did for 2008, but it was not enough, and some of it was damaging. But we can deal with that, she did what she could given McCain as her running mate.

Her best move would have been to decline McCain’s offer as running mate to preserve her electability in the future. She didn’t do that.

[Imperialist]

Really? Just being objective is all I’m projecting. I am certanly not the first to recognize that a lot of people vote on image alone, regardless of the message, just look what happened and who is now our president elect...