Posted on 11/26/2010 6:35:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You believe what you want. I live here in Louisiana and have so for sixty years. I’m immersed in Louisiana politics every day as a working reporter.
Jindal IS NOT the real deal.
You have been warned.
Well anyone can check his bio and see that he was born here of (legal) immigrant parents.
President James Garfield:
U.S. House of Representatives March 4, 1863 March 3, 1881
President of the United States on March 4, 1881
Ever notice that so many who rag on Jindal, Palin, Rand Paul, Christine O’Donnell, et. al., call themselves “conservatives”—??
I think it’s the latest ploy to make sure some sure-fire loser like Mitt Romney ends up nominated.
Why do you cut health care and higher education?
How about because that is where the money is. In tough times I don't starve my kids while I make the payments on my Lamborghini - well upon second thought.
There are those who believe that for a person to be a natural born citizen then both parents must be citizens. Jindal's parents were not citizens when he was born.
I know Tom Robertson and hes a friend of mine. He knows whereof he speaks about Jindal.
Yes, hes done a decent enough job as a supposed conservative here in Louisiana. But it wasnt because Jindal has deep-down conservative convictions.
Jindal did the conservative thing because there were some folks - talk radio host Moon Griffon chief among them - who stood over him with a baseball bat and MADE him do it.
Your “friend” needs to get a grip on what being a “conservative” is. Maybe he should go back and read Goldwater. To complain because a governor cut spending on education and health care and then call himself a conservative....
Look, you tell you bud-bud there that if budgets are EVER gonna be balanced health care and education will endure cuts.
Conservatives don’t COMPLAIN about cuts. They demand more.
Let’s just save everyone the trouble and make a list of the top ten potential Republican presidental candidates and have an associated “truth file” so we can torpedo each and every one of them before the campaign even starts.
Hooray for Obama in 2012!
As I said upthread, Jindal IS NOT the real deal. He is a Big-Government Republican.
You too have been warned.
Him, too
We see with the current occupant of the Whitehouse that someone with only legislative experience isn't up to the challenges of managing the Executive Branch on a daily basis. Whether or not someone has ascended from the House to the Presidency doesn't bother me as much as making sure whoever does become the next POTUS has actual, hands on management experience, preferably running a business and making a payroll, not just experience compromising in a legislative atmosphere. We need someone who is decisive and can think on their feet. Not someone who will defer to a committee or a "blue ribbon commission" to avoid responsibility for their actions, as is all too typical for people who come from the Legislative Branch of gubmint.
What is going on?
I keep reading articles by people who are supposedly conservatives knocking down potential conservative Presidential candidates one-by-one.
This morning there is no shortage of Sarah Palin criticism. I heard Newt Gingrich slammed this morning. Now Bobby Jindahl.
What gives? I didn’t think I was reading a left wing forum here.
Although you're correct that the highest office held by President Lincoln prior to his election to the presidency was that of US Representative, the previous poster had phrased the criterion thusly:
“I have not ever known a person who has gone directly from the House to the Presidency... does anyone know if we have such a precedent?”
Mr. Lincoln wasn't serving in the House of Representatives at the time of his election to the presidency.
sitetest
It’s the Free Republic way. It happened in 2000, it happened in 2008, and it will happen again in 2012. Every single Republican candidate will be torpedoed until we’re left with a sad sack like McCain with no chance of winning.
Legal immigrants are not citizens until naturalized.
When Jindal was born his parents were not yet naturalized.
Therefore, he is not natural born. He is native born, because he was born in the United States.
One unnaturally born President is already one too many.
It was McCain's turn. The Republicans have a long history of nominating "the next guy in line". Nixon, Ford, GHW Bush, Dole and McCain are all examples. The Republican establishment doesn't want a Conservative at the top. The only real stand out in the past 40 years is Ronald Reagan. The country clubbers couldn't stop him, but they sure tried, didn't they?
What are the “problems” with Pence?
They will always try, I believe, and unfortunately they are aided by people who push their candidates. There are many of those here. In 2008, in my mind the two best candidates from an ideological perspective were Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson. Hunter had little to no name recognition and was not the best debater. Fred Thompson would’ve been great, I think, but the fact of the matter is the guy just didn’t want the job. He had to be pushed into it. We were really left with Giuliani, Huckabee, Romney, and McCain. All were flawed candidates, but we ended up with the absolute worst of the bunch.
It will probably happen again in 2012. I wish it weren’t true. The country-club types will probably want to nominate the “his turn” guy, which I think is Romney. There are a bunch of candidates that are much better, of course, but people here who dislike Jindal (abb in particular has been complaining about him for years) will try their best to torpedo him before hand. Pence, Allen, and whoever else might be running will inevitably have dozens of detractors here who will ultimately help Romney.
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