Jindal to Endorse Perry

CNN ^ | September 13, 2011 | Mark Preston

[Quilla]

Tampa, Florida – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is backing Rick Perry for president, a major endorsement for the Texas governor as the campaign for the Republican nomination enters the crucial fall stretch of the primary calendar, a source tells CNN. Jindal is on his way to Florida and will be Perry's guest at Monday night's "Tea Party Republican Debate" broadcast on CNN from Tampa, the source said. Jindal is expected to formally make the announcement prior to the debate.

[napscoordinator]

a source tells CNN.

Typically that would be laughed out of town but since it is Perry it will be treated as credible. Look I am not a fan of him. However, I am going to listen to him tonight and see.

[Retired Greyhound]

Take that, TPaw. I would much rather have Jindal’s endorsement than Pawlenty’s.

Jindal’s star really faded after that corny SOTU response in 2009, but he has been a pretty good Gov.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

Isn’t it early for all these guys to be endorsing? Not that I care, but I thoght they usually waited a while. (Maybe that was just the impression I have left over from 2008).

[CharlesWayneCT]

I don’t put credibility in an “endorsement” until I see the endorsement letter, or see a quote from the person doing the endorsing.

I would expect Romney has his campaign team furiously calling Jindal and his aides, seeing what kinds of money they can use to try to buy off his endorsement.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Actually, it might be getting late for endorsements.

My theory of endorsements — politicians want to be relevant. They want their endorsements to be relevant. So, they want to make endorsements of candidates who they think can win, and they want to make the endorsements when they can at least pretend that their endorsement meant something.

I don’t think that is true of ALL endorsements, but big-ticket endorsements (like Pawlenty because he was a candidate, and Jindal because he’s a popular conservative governor), you’d expect them to come when they could make a difference.

It could well be that Perry had Jindal’s pledge for endorsement to use at any time, and called him up today to say “This is when it would be most effective”. Or not.

[Sudetenland]

Perry posted last night on his Twitter account that there would be a "special guest" at the Monday night debate. It's pretty clear Jindal has already made his endorsement in private.

I doubt Jindal can be bought off.

[Sudetenland]

Why would they want to wait if they have a favorite candidate with whom they agree? Perry and Jindal are very compatible and both have been great governors.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Thanks for the information. That pretty much puts my theory to bed.

[DRey]

The Jindal endorsement lights a fire. Pawlenty endorsing Romney only further establishes Perry as the people’s nominee versus the establishment. I would have preferred the Palin endorsement just to get that done and out of the way, but really I think Jindal’s is about as exciting as we could get for today.

[CajunConservative]

Here it is from the horse’s mouth.

https://www.facebook.com/bobbyjindal/posts/272885322730369

Bobby Jindal
I’m proud to support Rick Perry tonight at the debate as he spreads his message to get America working again! Find and like his page here: http://facebook.com/governorperry

[CajunConservative]

You obviously don’t know Jindal. He and Perry have a close working relationship and often fight the same battles with the zer0 administration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9dUMJyzjtA&feature=related

http://www.rga.org/homepage/about/

[IMissPresidentReagan]

I would think, especially as a governor, it would have more impact to endorse closer to the primary when it’s fresher in everyone’s minds, but that’s just my thinking; what do I know. :)

Then again, I think this whole political season has started far too early, so I’m probably a little jaded.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

First - I want to be clear that I wasn’t knocking either person. (Frankly, endorsements very rarely mean much to me. Politicians that I follow and strongly support have endorsed candidates that in good conscience I could not support, so I don’t just blindly support whomever one of my “guys” supports; and I don’t fault a person when they do endorse someone I don’t agree with.)

I would have just thought an endorsement would be more meaningful closer to a primary. This far away from actual voting seems like it could get lost in the mix, or become “old” news, while the “dirt” never stops getting thrown at the candidate.