Jindal? The guy just took office.
Jindal needs more experience, and LA needs him to clean up the corruption in that state.
Jindal's a good story, but he's politically green as grass, and I don't mean grass-roots. He let Mary Landrieu and her creature Kathleen Blanco beat him five years ago for the Louisiana goobernorship with some really savage gutter-politics (racist as hell) that Jindal, my Louisiana relatives tell me (who include some Indian-Americans) Bobby Jindal simply would not unbend enough to answer in language that would be clear and clearly understood to Louisiana voters. He wouldn't condescend to fight -- something that RiNO's in particular esteem in a politician, since "above politics"/"too good to brawl" is part of their value system, and their politics of "I'm objectively better than you are". Call it the politics of Yankee snobbery, which RiNO's mistake for oxygen.
Bill Kristol simply doesn't want McCain to pick a conservative, esp. a Southern conservative. That's what this is about. One of Kristol's contributing editors at the Weekly Standard wrote a philippic against Southern conservatives right after the RiNO's had engineered the Bob Dole debacle in 1996, and then this guy took it on the road for five years, telling every GOP conclave and seminar and anyone who would listen, that the GOP had, simply had, to walk away from the South. Southern conservatives, who had brought the GOP back to the majority in Congress only a few months earlier, in the 1994 triumph, not only had lice -- they are lice in the Neocon construction. This is way beyond sour grapes, this is enmity talking.
So put it on your calendars, kids; there's going to be a showdown between the Southerners and western conservatives, on the one hand, and the urban-liberal (formerly Trotskyite) Neocons on the other, for the future of the GOP. The conservatives brought victory in 1994 and 2000, and they've been rewarded in every other election since 1994 by having their teeth kicked in. Even in 2000, while Karl Rove was telling the Christian contingent at the GOP convention how wonderful they were, George W. Bush was personally attending a dinner with the Log Cabins to tell them, both personally and through advance-woman Mary Matalin, how very welcome gays will be in the GOP of the future -- they and their fat wallets. (And never mind the pederasty scandals; we're bigger than that.)
That all said, I don't doubt McCain will listen to Kristol, howbeit that Kristol's writing this article suggests that Kristol isn't convinced himself that he has McCain's ear.