Posted on 09/15/2015 2:27:58 PM PDT by maggief
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) said on Tuesday that conservatives could only win in 2016 by abandoning GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“Sane conservatives need to stop enabling him,” Jindal wrote in an op-ed published by CNN.
“They need to stop praising him, stop being afraid of him and stop treating him rationally,” he said. “Conservatives need to say what we are thinking: Donald Trump is a madman who must be stopped,” added Jindal, himself a Republican White House hopeful.
Jindal argued that Trump is duping voters by seeking to present himself like former President Ronald Reagan on the campaign trail.
“Like a kid in a superhero costume, Trump compares himself to Ronald Reagan, wearing the Gipper’s slogan on his forehead as if he just thought of it,” he wrote, referencing Trump’s frequent insistence that he will “make America great again.”
“But whereas Reagan was a terrible entertainer and a great statesman, Trump is a great entertainer who would be a terrible statesman,” the Louisiana governor added.
Jindal also said that letting Trump become the Republican nominee would virtually guarantee a Democratic victory in the general election next year.
“The problem with Donald Trump is that he will never be president,” he asserted. “His nomination as the Republican candidate would gift the White House to Hillary Clinton.”Failure to speak out against Trump is an endorsement of Clinton.”
“If you want to stick it to the man so badly that you are willing to see Clinton win, vote for Trump,” Jindal added. “But if you want a politically conservative revolution, I’m the guy who can lead it.”
Jindal began assailing Trump’s campaign during a scathing address at the National Press Club in Washington last week.
Trump countered by stating that he only responds to “people that register more than 1 percent in the polls.”
Jindal ranks 14th out of 16prominent Republican White House hopefuls, with less than 1 percent, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average..
Trump, in contrast, commands first place with the support of 29.8 percent of Republican voters nationwide.
“And obama is a.nice guy in a little bit pver his head”
We do have to wonder whether he’d have to be enduring Obama today if the Republicans could find ONE TENTH as much Vitriol to aim at the President that they seem to find for Trump.
Jindal, unfortunately, is a whiny a$$ crybaby that needs a pacifier to shut him the heck up.
In both recent elections, puritannical conservatives helped elect the Marxist-Socialist Democrat. They were too pure to soil themselves with an imperfectly conservative Republican.
This!
lol
ok... Trump a madman?
a little dramatic dont ya think Jindal?
For that matter, Bedtime for Bonzo, was actually quite a good movie, with a good cast, just a very dumb name.
You’d almost think he was throwing holy water on demons.
:)
Trump is neither a Republican nor a conservative.
As for the earlier elections, there were several good, conservative GOP candidates, but the ones who actually made it to the top were not particularly conservative and got to the top of the heap only through money (both Romney and Trump were/are virtually self-funding). So with Trump we get another wealthy non-conservative candidate, just like Romney, with the only difference being his TV show (which apparently most people here believe to be qualifications enough).
Bobby, just go away.
If Trump is the nominee, how is Jindal going to walk that back?
Anyone? Buehler?
The anchor baby has a bad case of sour grapes.
Send in the guy in the explosive vest with his thumb on the trigger to negotiate....
It’s the way of the GOPee.
I thought better of Jindal before today...
Still running? Jindal is now in the pits.....
I was actually referencing Obama.....
Sorry to see him reach so low, he’s toast and desperate.
>> I was actually referencing Obama <<
You were equating Dear Leader Trump to Dear Leader Obama?
My bad. I thought you were equating DLDT to somebody who drew REALLY YUGE crowds, like Juan Peron or Benito Mussolini. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I was thinking of some of the big 1930’s guys in terms it amazing the masses. But people get very sensitive if you compare their candidate to the evil man who ever lived. And the comparison is crowd size, not behavior. But, folks get so worked up these days.
I think The Donald is fun to watch. I think he has the executive skills to gather a good team. I don’t worry about him screwing up more than Obama. We’ll see what happens.
>> I don’t worry about [DT] screwing up more than Obama <<
That’s setting the bar kinda low, doncha think?
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