We need someone to articulate the conservative principles. People like Bobby and Palin,need to go these congressional districts and campaign for the election. Both can exhibit their knowledge on the issues and it will help in the primaries. Also meeting the base helps in building the party at the local levels.
“I’ve often thought that the founding fathers got it right,” Jindal said. “They wanted the states to be laboratories of experimentation, and they wanted the federal government to learn from what works in each of these states.”
Jindal blamed this year’s GOP’s losses on the party straying from the themes of fiscal conservatism, anti-corruption and policy innovation that worked in the previous decade. “You can’t beat something with nothing,” Jindal said. “For too long it seemed the Republican message was, ‘vote for Republicans because the other side is worse.’ And that’s simply not a good enough reason to win elections.”
Jindal gets it and he’s smarter than most Republicans twice his age. I suspect that Jindal and Palin, regardless of what office they run for, will be the true leaders of the GOP for a long time.
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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.