Posted on 11/06/2008 6:20:19 AM PST by Ebenezer
Ousted from power, party now turns to fresh faces
BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal is among a short list of Republicans whose political stars stand to rise as the party looks for new ideas and leadership in the wake of Tuesday's landmark Democratic victories.
With the GOP out of power in both the White House and Congress for the first time since 1992-94, analysts expect attention to shift to the states, where many Republican governors remain popular with constituents despite the national repudiation of presidential standard-bearer John McCain and the GOP losses in Congress.
"This party is going to take on a new face and new leadership and younger leadership and he would seem to fit that bill pretty well," Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor with the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said of Jindal. "Right now it's a party without a leader, so there's a great void to be filled."
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Gov. Palin may be as pure as the driven snow. However, in politics, perception is everything. The media, in its maniacal crusade for obama, effectively painted Gov. Palin as an inexperienced, unintelligent, book banning creationist.
Doesn’t matter that obama accomplished nothing, associated with terrorists, is actually a socialist and views the Constitution as an unfortunate barrier to power.
It sucks, but that is the way it is.
Conservatives are just going to have to learn how to favorably guide these perceptions in the face of a hostile 80% self-identified liberal media.
I disagree.
Reagan was not "well educated", as the term is used in politics. (Harvard/Yale, law degree, etc.) It's a well-worn Liberal talking point that a candidate must be "well educated" in the formal sense of the word.
And Obama is not really well educated, but well indoctrinated. He's an affirmative action sock puppet. He had a speech writer who was able to create stirring prose, but the man himself is average at best.
I would bet on Sarah Palin in a fair test of intellect and real education (minus the speech writers and handlers) against Mr. Obama any day of the week.
Let’s face it...the media and the Democrats will portray ANYONE badly that will challenge them. Jindal will be no different than Bush or McCain or Palin. Republicans get more than their share of media beatings. We just need to nomiate people that can actually take it and throw it back at them...Jindal and Palin can do that. McCain and Bush do not.
I think Jindal will surprise the MSM before the MSM surprises Jindal.
Women are not the minority of the sexes but are treated as such.
153.6 million The number of females in the United States as of Oct. 1, 2007.
The number of males is 149.4 million.
but reagan had a very well developed world view. He was a philosopher.
On the other hand if we were doing reagan again, he wouldn’t win because he would be too old for this generation.
yeah we need people who can fight now, not just 30 years ago.
I am not as positive as you are, I have yet to see a Republican with a spine...get out in front of the media, get on camera and tell it like it is. Maybe a few, but not enough, we have to fight, hell, even Fox news is running a constant loop of Palin and McCain camp in fighting and towel wearing crap. Where is anyone to her defense? and I do not mean bloggers or print media. our elected LEADERS!
That’s because all the “mainstream” Republicans are RINOs. The “underground” ones are the younger and morew feisty crowd. Palin made magic in Alaska and she was forced to campaign the way McCain wanted her to campaign. If she was on her own, you’d see her fight.
Jindal is the same way, only he’s way smarter than his opposition.
Very wise, that you see this. Jindal cannot be rattled by the MSM they cannot touch him.
I think Jibaholis is right - the message of personal responsibility should be front and center. So should driving home the fact that you can succeed better with persistence and hard work than getting hand outs.
I remember the Asians guarding their businesses on the roofs with rifles during the Rodney King riots. The look on their faces said “This is mine, I worked hard for this. You try to take it, you get shot.”
But, this has to be done soon. The young, second or third generation Asians are being exposed to MTV, the MSM, American Idol, etc. and damage is already being done.
Jindal/Romney for the economy.
Jindal/Rudy
Jindal/Gingrich
I remember reading McCain had weakness- in boots on the ground he didn't spend the money.NO OFFENSE to McCain but we need old school OUT!
So, how did that go for us in this general election?
"Everybody Else Who is Not Conservative" greatly outnumber conservatives in the United States of America and they also get to vote. What "Everybody Else Who is Not Conservative" sees in Palin is somebody that was not a good enough "communicator" to be able to hold her own against Katie "Colonoscopy on TV" Couric and, at least, rattle off the actual names of four or five of the dozens of newspapers and magazines all of us on FR post from and critique constantly.
How many FReepers could not automatically rattle off that, on the Internet, they regularly read articles from the Washington Post, the Washington Times, The New York Times, the New York Post, the National Review, The Guardian (UK), the Wall Street Journal?
To the majority of American voters outside of conservative circles, Sarah Palin, rightly or wrongly, has become a Dan Quail in a skirt. In other words, a punchline in a joke.
You cannot win a general election with such a candidate.
He’s the smartest person I have ever seen in politics. ..... ari-freedom
This is what Bobby Jindal brings to the table:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal
Following high school, Jindal enrolled, and eventually graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with honors in biology and public policy where he was a member of the Society of the Pacifica House. Although he had thought of a career in medicine or law and was accepted by Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, he chose to pursue a political career. He received a master’s degree in political science from New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. After Oxford, he joined McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, where he advised Fortune 500 companies.
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Such a man would not be caught looking like a deer in the headlights when the likes of Katie Couric asks him where he gets his news.
Right. The weakness with the Republicans at this point is that we do not have an effective message. We need to create one and be able to make it “hip” at the same time still retain our core principles.
Right. The weakness with the Republicans at this point is that we do not have an effective message. We need to create one and be able to make it “hip” at the same time still retain our core principles.
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I concur. Helping other candidates get elected is the way to start a network of allies and fundraising prospects. It's a mixed bag as to who would be more effective in doing this for 2010.
Palin is much better known and would be a better drawing card, but she faces re-election herself in 2010. Jindal is, IMHO, more knowledgeable and articulate. He does not face re-election until 2011, thus more free to campaign for others as November 2010 approaches.
LOL (to your reply) - come on though, Jindal is a good conservative. Though I too prefer Gov. Palin.
she has been dan quayled. I could spend days talking about the current media bashing being BS but it is over.
Palin is toast as anything but maybe a VP
This is just me, but I am sick of eastern educated elitists.
I would like a regular guy or gal for once.
With a growing rate of Indian immigrant Jindal in California plus will favors both the Asian and Latino community a Palin/Jinal would take the Whitehouse in 2012.
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