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Posted on 11/07/2008 12:26:51 AM PST by nickcarraway
The Republican Party is in tatters. Over the next few years the party will have to rebuild itself and even select new faces in the coming decade. Among the top candidates for the job is the Indian-born governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal. “Jindal is going to be one of the big gainers from a full-scale Republican defeat,” said a key Indian-American political fund-raiser.
The Republicans are roughly at the same stage in their history that the Democrats were at after the Ronald Reagan wave. What was notable about John McCain’s defeat was how many traditionally red states turned blue. Virginia, for example, has not voted Republican for 44 years.
The Grand Old Party will need to carry out three separate reforms.
First will be to find working ideology. McCain’s defeat indicates that the Reagan mix of Christian votes and tax cuts can no longer win independent and moderate votes. Without these, the party cannot win the presidency.
Jindal is part of a younger generation of Republicans who retain the conservative values but combine it with high levels of administrative efficiency and a squeaky-clean image. It helps that Jindal made his mark in the field of healthcare, one of the issues that led many working class Americans to defect to the Democrats. Jindal is scheduled to visit Iowa next month, a pilgrimage that all presidential hopefuls make.
“Indian-born Jindal”?
Bobby Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Are we going to have a bunch of ‘Bobby Jindal birth certificate’ nonsense in 2012?
Where is Phil Berg and Andy Martin?
We’ll see with Palin, Jindal, Paul Ryan, etc. But can Romeny please just not run again? He’d never win a national elction.
After 4 years of marxism, the left will vote republican.
He’ll govern from the center to get re-elected and then in his second term...hardcore left. Emanuel is there to keep the loons in line until the time is right.
McCain’s defeat indicates that the Reagan mix
what reagan mix? I sure didn’t see it with mccain bashing Wall Street and competing with Obama over who can regulate the economy the most. I sure didn’t see it with his support for the bailout and the Hillary mortgage plan.
Rahm is not going to appeal to the left. they will be jumping and screaming.
+ = Of course they don’t like him because he’s there to keep them at bay.
There’s some truth to that. Most of my lib friends say they detest Rahm who reeks of Clinton..so they say. Plus he’s a Jew and we know what the last powerful Dem Jew (Lieberman) did the last time.
I don’t like the suggestion that Jindal being Indian matters one whit. That’s Obama’s and the Dems’ game, not ours.
Jindal can stand on his merits and character, just as any candidate should.
The author obviously is clueless. Jindal was born in La, and that red states didn’t turn blue. If anyone looked at the elctoral map, county by county, it’s the same BUT the heavily populated centers turned bluer. The author’s brain must be fully of tandoori chicken and curry to sound this ridiculous without any research.
Bobby Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Red Stick. Tigertown. Get. It. Sorted.
should be interesting
Tigertown?
Two week from this comming Saturday it is going to become a depressed area.
well style is still important as long as it is backed up by substance. That’s the way of the world.
No they won't. They'll vote Clinton. And if Shrillary is too wrinkled & shrivelled up by then, enter Chelsea. (ugggh)
boowahahaha lol!
Other very good electoral analysis maps here: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
Only if there's an election. Remember the marxist credo:
One man, One vote, One time
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