Do you think Bobby Jindal will be a good choice for next President? If we need a passionate articulator of conservatism - if that is the key - then he is the man. The only problem is he’ll have to come out of his governor’s race and right into the primaries.
My concern is that Jindal has made some dumb mistakes that could’ve been avoided (the thing with the pay raises especially — it made him look bad). He’ll grow in office, but he’s got to avoid dumb stuff like that.
There’s gonna be enormous pressure brought by the national Dems on Mitch Landrieu (who received more votes than Jindal did last year statewide), who will have to either run against him or for NOLA Mayor, especially when, as you said, he’ll have to go practically straight from a reelection campaign right into the primaries, and Landrieu (or whichever Dem candidate) will accuse him of abandoning the state and his duties to go after the Presidency. The state may not like that...
I’m backing Palin now unless something occurs to change that. Jindal I can see as a running mate, but otherwise he’ll face that aforementioned problem if he tries to go for the Presidency.
Of course, the biggest problem in ‘12 will be stopping Slick Willard again. He absolutely needed McCain-Palin to lose, and worked hard through his surrogates to undermine them, and continues to do so against Palin. He needs to be publicly denounced once and for all NOW. This guy is a malignant cancer.
I think 2012 is between Sarah and Jindal. Let the two of them battle it out and the best man or woman win... they both walk the walk and talk the talk from what I’ve seen.