Posted on 11/29/2008 8:14:06 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com
-- Last weekend, 18 days after Barack Obama decisively defeated their candidate for president, a mostly Republican crowd of self-described conservatives received their first introduction to someone many prominent members of the GOP think could be the party's own version of Obama. [snip}
No less an aspiring kingmaker than Steve Schmidt, the chief strategist of McCain's failed presidential bid, sees Jindal as the Republican Party's destiny. "The question is not whether he'll be president, but when he'll be president, because he will be elected someday." The anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist believes, too, that Jindal is a certainty to occupy the White House, and conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh has described him as "the next Ronald Reagan." [edited for effect-full article at site]
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I hope Jindal would pick Hunter to be in charge of the border and Palin in charge of energy. This way, they’d actually get to do something.
Are raising the dead, giving sight to the blind, walking on water and turning water into wine not enough for you?
Paul Sperry, author of the new book, Infiltration, in an interview calls Grover Norquist "an agent of influence for Islamists in Washington." When asked by FrontPageMag.com why a Republican anti-tax lobbyist should so passionately promote Islamist causes, Sperry implied that Norquist has converted to Islam: "He's marrying a Muslim, and when I asked Norquist if he himself has converted to Islam, he brushed the question off as too ‘personal.'" As Lawrence Auster comments on this exchange, "Clearly, if Norquist hadn't converted to Islam, or weren't in the process of doing so, he would simply have answered no."Indeed, Norquist married Samah Alrayyes, a Palestinian Muslim, on April 2, 2005, and Islamic law limits a Muslim woman to marrying a man who is Muslim. This is not an abstract dictum but a very serious imperative, with many "honor" killings having resulted from a woman ignoring her family's wishes.
Alrayyes (now known as Samah Norquist) has radical Islamic credentials of her own; she served as communications director at the Islamic Free Market Institute, the Islamist organization Norquist helped found. Now, she is employed as a public affairs officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development – and so it appears that yet another Islamist finds employment in a branch of the U.S. government.
Grover Norquist has for some years now been promoting Islamist organizations, including even the Council on American-Islamic Relations; for example, he spoke at CAIR's conference, "A Better America in a Better World" on October 5, 2004. Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. has researched Norquist's ties to Islamists in his exhaustive, careful, and convincing study, "A Troubling Influence," and concludes that he is enabling "a political influence operation to advance the causes of radical Islamists, and targeted most particularly at the Bush Administration."
But if Grover Norquist is indeed a convert to Islam, it could be that he is not just enabling the Islamist causes but is himself an Islamist.
What language is that?
If Jindal is that good, he won’t let Steve Schmidt anywhere near him or his campaign.
“He can also connect to minorities.”
That never works for Republicans. I am not even sure what that means. John McCain was supposed to garner the Hispanic vote due to his going to bat for them time after time. Didn’t work.
Couple things...
Jindal seems to have been against the repeal of the Stelly tax?
Why did he lose against Blanco? She was the lame ditz who helped make the Katrina thing much worse. What happened?
Why didn’t he veto the pay raise he said he was gonna stop if elected?
In other words...
Palin: Department of Energy.
Hunter: Homeland Security.
That what you had in mind?
I agree with you, Jindal is impressive...he has a million mile per hour mouth....GOP better not elect another shattering fool....
The trash are already entrenched, they have already built networks and organizations and have already run primaries, we need to build a firewall around them right now if we stand any chance of their rino asses being blocked from snatching the next “old rino in line, gold ring”.
Our young firebrands need to be promoted, defended, and reinforced if they are to stand a chance of pushing aside something like a well funded Romney.
If Jindal is that good, he won’t let Steve Schmidt anywhere near him or his campaign.
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Steve Schmidt- LOL- Runs a campaign that tried to hide Gov. Palin’s conservatism- back stabbed her with leaks-—and now wants to leach on to a conservative rising star-—
wonder why people don’t trust DC insisders?
True!! Faith of the father and etc!!!
“Of course I still want Hunter with his military experience. “
Hunter is gone, he retired.
I realize that but Schmidt is pretty much a RINO backer, so why is he backing Jindal. It may just be him trying to get in on the ground floor in a career move, but it does make me wonder.
Yes, he retired from the House.
I want him in the WHITE House.
Time to un-retire him.
So what is the problem?
Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Are you familiar with Louisiana politics? Have there been
many republican governors there lately? I believe Jindal
made a huge leap in Louisiana to get elected as a governor
on 2nd try. On his first run, I recall the dimocrats had lot of negative attacks on Jindal based on his skin color. But
to the credit of LA voters, they recognized the extra-ordinary
qualities in candidate Jindal and elected him.
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