Posted on 10/24/2009 4:42:44 AM PDT by Proud23yroldConservative
Edited on 10/24/2009 6:23:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
With America’s first ever black president, there’s hope for ethnic minorities in the US to step forward. Bobby Jindal is one such man – the present governor of Louisiana is the youngest in the country and won with 88% votes. Bobby Jindal was touted to be John McCain’s running mate, before the position was taken by Sarah Palin (was it his dark skin? or did he turn down Mccain’s propsal?). Anyway, that has changed.
The republicans are now desperate to prove to the people of America that they hated Obama because of his radical ideas, not because they’re racist. What better way to do that than by nominating a successful, qualified and educated dark-skinned Indian governor for 2012?
Advantage Jindal: With all the heat around muslims and the cloud of “Who’s the real Barack Hussein Obama” all through this election campaign, Jindal, originally a Hindu who converted into Catholicism in school, will avoid that.
Who is Bobby Jindal? You can read the entire biography at wikipedia, I’ll jump to the interesting bits.
Piyush “Bobby” Jindal (pronounced “Jend All” in Louisiana) was born in the US to Indian parents, completed schooling at 17, was accepted by Harvard Medical School, but decided to go into politics and received a master’s degree in politics as a Rhodes scholar from New College, Oxford. Worked at Mckinsey and Company, advised fortune 500 companies. Got married in 1996 to present wife Supriya Jolly and has three children – Shaan Robert, Slade Ryan and Selia Elizabeth.
Palin fails on several of my non-negotiables.
Jindral will come off as another black man (I know, he isn't ... but I'm sayin' that's how he'll be described) ... and the worst that 'they' can say about Sarah is that she's "just a woman" or something like that.
We know that once she begins to speak, it is easy to get beyond her being a woman and get her as a tough and savvy politician/leader.
She's ready right now.
nice guy but he’s only prominent as a cnadadie-possible because of his color. He can’t inspire with his speeches- he’s deadly dull.
GOP needs to stop playing the “I’ve got a bracelet too” game with the democrats- it already brought us Michael Steele.
Which ones?
Most likely, but then Palin has been exposed almost daily attacks by the press a a nuclear level for a year now, ran as a candidate in a national campaign, has had her life, her families lives, her friends, business associates, acquaintances, people she has passed on the street at sometime in the past all vetted, wrote a sucessful book and is at least at this time a 100 times the speak Jindal is.
Yep. I will. Neither of Jindal's parents were naturalized at the time of his birth. His mother was pregnant with him when they came here.
Looking at the damage Rhodes Scholars have done to this country, pardon me for not being quite so starstruck by that particular "qualification," too.
He has all the media presence of Scred from the Muppet Show, and has demonstrated the RINO impulse during his short tenure on the national stage.
So ... no to Piyush Jindal, as far as the Presidency. Perhaps he'd make a decent cabinet member, if he were to have no authority to broaden government regulation in such a position.
Jindal is a charisma-less child—he just turned 38 this summer. Give him another decade to mature and to develop a stronger presence before he’s considered for anything nationwide.
And Alan Keyes failed, period. He's a brilliant writer and speaker, I'll grant you that. His heart is in the right place without fail. Beyond that, though, it appears he has no political future.
About this time I’d vote for anyone who’s not a muzzie-loving, American-hating Marxist with delusions of grandeur and a bag of cow-plop where his brains ought to be.
what?????
Palin blows away all of them and she hasn’t even started.
Jindal makes my skin crawl. He’s creepy with his car salesman-y way of talking.
Like Ron Paul, she’s “pro-choice for states.” That’s the big one. There are others. Judicial supremacy. “Pathway to citizenship.”
And yet, as I ponder who I think should be in the executive office, for the good of the country, I can’t think of anyone who even approaches him.
He looks too much like the evil boss on “the simpsons.”
I agree. Jindal is not qualified for the office of President because he is not a Natural Born Citizen.
Problem is with this way of thought.....we don’t need to “prove” we’re not racist by promoting a good man merely because of his color or background.
Anyone who thinks such is needed is not the one I trust or who’s strategy should be followed.
The key for me is get the best real world conservative with a proven an established record of votes.
Time to put PC out to pasture. Save the United States......not the thin skinned race baiters who pander for personal profit.
Reason I will vote for Palin or Bobby.
Her version of a path to citizenship is thru a controlled guarded gate in a border fence, port, or airport an legal immigration process.
Same as Ellis Island IMO.
Welcome to Free Republic?
“Jindal 2012? Jindal or Palin, none have the charisma or the broad appeal of a Clinton, Bush or Obama.”
Palin has no charisma? (Where have you been???)
As for Jindal, let’s see how he continues to do in LA. Personally, I’m looking for ACTIONS and not simply WORDS or charisma.
Lol! Plain-spoken TRUTH...
Deserves repeating: “About this time I’d vote for anyone who’s not a muzzie-loving, American-hating Marxist with delusions of grandeur and a bag of cow-plop where his brains ought to be.”
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