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of the immigrant-hating son of immigrants, the former Hindu who exorcises demons in the name of the most Catholic Christ Jesus, tireless protector of good old-fashioned american values like race-baiting and witch-burning, staunch defender of your right to teach Young Earth Creationism to your neighbor's young'uns in our public schools, reknown enemy of all scientific progress (except for tech call centers) ...

Give it up for:

Bobbbbbbbbbyyyyyyyyyyy JINDALLLLLLLLLLL!

11/13/2008 3:36:31 PM

Obligatory: Thank you, Come again!

11/13/2008 3:51:01 PM

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"Quote : ""Republicans can help shore [these sectors of the economy] up without getting any more addicted to opium, other people's money. We need to have a rational discussion. What and when is enough enough?"" uhhh, wut? i guess i'd have to actually hear her saying that to see what kind of inflection or tone she was using, but either way.... that's a strange thing to say"

it occurred to me on the way home that this must have been a transcript error. I bet she said "addicted to [O.P.M.], other people's money"

11/13/2008 5:40:56 PM

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"of the immigrant-hating son of immigrants, the former Hindu who exorcises demons in the name of the most Catholic Christ Jesus, tireless protector of good old-fashioned american values like race-baiting and witch-burning, staunch defender of your right to teach Young Earth Creationism to your neighbor's young'uns in our public schools, reknown enemy of all scientific progress (except for tech call centers) ..."

The Right seems to be making a fashion these days of embracing people who turn on their own beliefs. Look at how they were talking up McCain when he adjusted himself during the primaries.

11/13/2008 5:46:09 PM

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" I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism" --Goldwater"

Goldwater nailed it. As long as the GOP keeps being the party of christian dogma, they will lose more and more elections.

The republicans are damaged goods. They cannot be trusted any longer to deliver the conservative message.

11/14/2008 12:31:53 PM

i am not a fan of this guy - he doesn't seem too bright.

edit: i think he's smart enough to be a slick politician, and i despise the possibility that he could espouse the postions that he does in the name of winning office.

i'd rather vote for Romney.




[Edited on November 14, 2008 at 12:52 PM. Reason : edit]

11/14/2008 12:44:07 PM

He's slicker than a used car salesman.

11/14/2008 1:08:50 PM

He's slicker than a greasy A-rab.

11/14/2008 4:40:28 PM

I wonder how Caucasians would vote if it was between a Biracial African American and an Indian American come 2012?

11/15/2008 3:46:47 PM

indian american

11/15/2008 3:47:32 PM

I wonder if Jindal got elected would some black guys paint "kill that sand-nigger Jindal" on the free expression tunnel?

11/15/2008 4:06:05 PM

^probably not...they're too stupid to know what India was...confusing him with a mexican

11/15/2008 4:32:31 PM

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"what India was"

11/15/2008 4:33:34 PM

looks like someone has some inside info

11/17/2008 2:12:05 PM

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"looks like someone has some inside info"

On exorcisms?

I have a hard time believing that this guy is the sort of lightning rod that a movement can use. What is compelling about him? Reagan could communicate. Without that skill, he would have been any number of other right-wingers around that time.

[Edited on November 18, 2008 at 5:10 PM. Reason : .]

11/18/2008 5:08:17 PM

Not sure if I know enough about "B." Purush Jindal to trust him.

11/18/2008 5:13:06 PM

PALIN/JINDAL '12

11/18/2008 5:19:18 PM

i still prefer Palin/Wurzelbacher 2012

11/18/2008 7:23:37 PM

bump by request

2/25/2009 2:01:29 PM

If Jindal is the GOP Obama, the Dems are looking good for the near future. That guy's just lame in every possible way.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKyeCP.LGe5s&refer=home

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"“A lot of Republicans I am speaking with were expecting this would be like Obama’s moment in 2004” when he spoke at the Democratic National Convention and gained immediate national fame, said David Johnson, a Republican strategist who advised Bob Dole in 1988. “He bombed out.” Democrat or Republican, any public official competing with the pomp and theater of the president’s address to a joint session of Congress is at a disadvantage. Still, some analysts and bloggers cited a flat delivery. Jindal “seemed more like a high school student giving a valedictory speech than a potential future leader of the party,” wrote Philip Klein of the “American Spectator.” "

[Edited on February 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM. Reason : .]

2/25/2009 2:04:24 PM

I can see Jindal gaining traction if he can do something about the perception of extreme religious beliefs. He is a good speaker and comes off as intelligent.

And it's funny to me that Bobby is not only not his real name, he picked it based on a TV show.

2/25/2009 2:05:46 PM

You saw the speech last night right?

It was weak and he often picked on the exact wrong things.


'durrr, yea a volcanic monitoring system is dumb, trust me, i come from Louisiana and we've NEVER had any natural disasters'

2/25/2009 2:27:04 PM

As I understand it last night's speech was uncharacteristically bad for Jindal, but I confess I haven't heard him speak much.

Apparently the new GOP grand strategy is to take otherwise likable and straightforward candidates, pack them to the gills with talking points and bullshit, coach them until their speech loses any appealing qualities, and then turn them loose on the public.

2/25/2009 2:37:38 PM

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"He is a good speaker and comes off as intelligent."

He came off as a TERRIBLE speaker last night.

2/25/2009 2:38:23 PM

^^^ nope didn't see the speech last nigh

2/25/2009 2:45:48 PM

well, your not seeing his speech, would explain why you think he's a good speaker.

there's no doubt that Jindal *is* a smart guy, but he did lousy.

Republicans and conservative pundits across the net are extremely disappointed. Even Fox News' Brit Hume and Juan Williams both were critical.

2/25/2009 4:38:49 PM

Republicans must be desperate to join the minority bandwagon these days following Obama's success.

Picking a black guy to be head of the GOP and than picking the first Indian Gov to make the GOP rebuttal last night.

"Look America we can be racially accepting to"
LOL i think this will actually backfire since the GOP relie and needs the racially biased WASP support.

2/25/2009 4:40:40 PM

2/25/2009 4:51:09 PM

^^ I agree, it'll backfire. Or foment more racial tension as the white people freak out that anglo-centric politics are starting to break down.

2/25/2009 5:44:03 PM

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"As I understand it last night's speech was uncharacteristically bad for Jindal, but I confess I haven't heard him speak much."

this is what i find funny

people keep sayin UNCHARACTERISTIC and HE'S A GOOD SPEAKER NORMALLY ("he speaks so well!")

wheres a fuckin youtube link to back that up

2/25/2009 9:00:33 PM

these GOP douchebags need to focus on quality instead of palying the race card or propping up another folksy retard. they need to pair up some young socially agnostic yet fiscally conservative person with Romney. Romney gets it and knows how to fix shit. guys like McCain don't come around as often as i'd like - and they blew that chance to hell in 2000.

i know many of you aren't able to grasp it due to the religion you call "conservatism" - yes, i said religion; but the country is in good hands with this executive branch. it'll just be a matter of curbing the hooliganism that this congress is capable of. the retard-worship and gimmicks of the GOP need to stop, otherwise we'll descend into Liberal led stagflation after Obama is done in 2016. yes, 2016.

2/25/2009 11:05:06 PM

rawr

2/25/2009 11:17:32 PM

^^all i wanna know is what a guy's gotta do to get some term limits in this motherfucker

i bet we could be done with a binary party system within a generation of inserting term limits on congress

2/25/2009 11:40:57 PM

i would love to see congressional term limits, but i doubt the career politicians would cut their own lifeline by passing that amendment

2/25/2009 11:49:39 PM

career politicians....

they get to be first against the wall

2/25/2009 11:50:14 PM

i wonder if revoking their pay and making it a civic duty again would deter some of them from hanging around long. Probably not, but it's interesting to think about at least

2/25/2009 11:52:08 PM

REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION 1994



republifuckers seriously made "term limits" a plank in their Contract With America. And I bought their shit right up. Even campaigned for the assholes in David Price's own neighborhood.

2/25/2009 11:52:58 PM

I don't think term limits would do much to eliminate party politics. It hasn't helped as far as presidential elections are concerned. That's not to say it wouldn't help eliminate career politicians (assuming you can keep them out of washington) but that's a completely different benefit.

[Edited on February 25, 2009 at 11:55 PM. Reason : asdf]

2/25/2009 11:54:28 PM

^^yeah, those guys were supposed to be done last year, right???

^chicken/egg

2/25/2009 11:56:35 PM

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"i wonder if revoking their pay and making it a civic duty again would deter some of them from hanging around long. Probably not, but it's interesting to think about at least"

all that would do is make it even LESS likely that non-rich people could be congressmen. and there would likely be even more shady backroom dealings.

2/26/2009 12:25:22 AM

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"this is what i find funny people keep sayin UNCHARACTERISTIC and HE'S A GOOD SPEAKER NORMALLY ("he speaks so well!") "

I think I was fairly clear on a key point here, namely "I confess I haven't heard him speak much."

Maybe he's consistently terrible. I'm basing my assertion in this case on the statements of others, as well as my own common sense -- it's hard to get elected governor of anything speaking as shittily as Jindal did last night, and all the more so in Louisiana, which has a history of colorful governors who can attract attention.

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"republifuckers seriously made "term limits" a plank in their Contract With America. And I bought their shit right up."

Don't act like this shit is a party thing. Nobody is going to vote their job away. Admittedly, shit on the Republicans for promising such an improbable thing, but shit on you too for believing that a sizable percentage of Congress was going to say, "Nah, we're good, we'll leave in just a little bit."

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"That's not to say it wouldn't help eliminate career politicians"

I'll take an unpopular tack here and say something in defense of career politicians. They are, at the very least, well-versed in politics. And if your only goal is to consistently get re-elected, at least you're less likely to work for payoffs that only come after you're out of office.

And, if rarely, there's the best case scenario, that of people who are actually dedicated to public service, and who are actually competent. It does happen, actually. And since corrupt assholes are a given in any political system, I almost think I'd rather hold onto those kernels of goodness before banning them just so that I can get a greater variety of selfish idiots.

2/26/2009 12:52:28 AM

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"I think I was fairly clear on a key point here, namely "I confess I haven't heard him speak much." Maybe he's consistently terrible. I'm basing my assertion in this case on the statements of others, as well as my own common sense -- it's hard to get elected governor of anything speaking as shittily as Jindal did last night, and all the more so in Louisiana, which has a history of colorful governors who can attract attention."

so instead of rebutting my point (which really has less to do with you than you think

and you still don't have a youtube for me

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"Don't act like this shit is a party thing. Nobody is going to vote their job away. Admittedly, shit on the Republicans for promising such an improbable thing, but shit on you too for believing that a sizable percentage of Congress was going to say, "Nah, we're good, we'll leave in just a little bit.""

uh, you do realize he's not talking about every rep, or even "a sizable percentage of Congress"
and he's instead talking about a select group of rep's who ran on a promise of limiting their own terms, right?

2/26/2009 1:02:43 AM

I think he is more of a pretender than a contender...maybe he will be Senator some day though.

[Edited on February 26, 2009 at 1:08 AM. Reason : w]

2/26/2009 1:07:09 AM

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"uh, you do realize he's not talking about every rep, or even "a sizable percentage of Congress""

Nothing in his post implied as much. He gave a very strong impression of speaking about the party in general. "Republifuckers," "planks," "the assholes"...I don't know, his commentary didn't seem very particular.

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"so instead of rebutting my point (which really has less to do with you than you think"

You posted something I said, and then wrote commentary about it. Forgive me if I take it as being a response to something I said.

I clarified myself, which is all I intended to do. Good job completing your sentence, though.

2/26/2009 1:35:35 AM

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"REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION 1994"

and yours was just the latest posting of such

2/26/2009 1:39:13 AM

"Republican Revolution" was a catchphrase of the party, not some select subset promising something unique.

As to the other part, fine. I defended myself, which I don't think was at all unreasonable given the circumstances. My comments were used in a certain way, and I reacted accordingly.

2/26/2009 1:47:11 AM

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/02/what_was_up_with_bobby_jindal.html#comment-list

BOBBY JINDAL!!

2/26/2009 8:25:03 AM

On the speech, the delivery was bad. The message was mostly good though. The whole super-religion thing is troubling - but the only really religious thing I've noticed in his poltics has been intelligent design.

2/26/2009 10:35:53 AM

go figure a indian republican christian governor of Louisana.

What is next a gay jewish black senator from Kanasas.

2/26/2009 10:45:54 AM

those crazy gay jewish black people

2/26/2009 11:40:06 AM