The Great Republican Hope? (Yahoo speaks of Bobby Jindal)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

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Which young, thin, non-white, Ivy League-educated politician who has a foreign-sounding name and prominent ears is changing the face of politics as we know it?

Oh … and whose name is not Barack Obama?

Whuh?

That’s right, the president-elect may hold a monopoly on current buzz, but some in the GOP are looking to their own whiz kid to lead them out of the proverbial wilderness the Democrats have just left behind.

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Jindal has consistently stated he's focused only on winning the 2011 re-election in Louisiana. But UPI is already calling the governor and his family “the other Obamas.”

Presumptuous, perhaps. But in 2004, who'd have thought that a first-term African American senator with a last name that rhymed with the country's enemy number one and a middle name that matched enemy number two's would be our next president?

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl147

By the way, the author of this article is incorrect in referencing the UPI article. That article is referring to a variety of young politicians as the "other Obamas", not Jinal's family.

[camera obscura]

1. The only appealing thing about Jindal is that he actually has a decent education

even though it apparently went to waste when he became a fundie.

Otherwise, I just don't see him as a very exciting guy at all.

But why not. Might do the Republican party so good to run a POC and watch them deal with wingnut racism for a change.

[d_b]

2. I can't wait for the linda blair endorsement.

[democrattotheend]

3. Interesting. Remember, in 2004, Barack Obama was one of the few good things that happened

When he got to the Senate a lot of people told him he was the one bright star in a dismal year for Democrats, the best thing that happened to the caucus. I guess that's how they see Jindal now...he does scare me a little, but I'm not focused on 2012 yet. I saw someone suggesting that we dig up dirt on Jindal, but I don't think that's a good use of time right now. I'd rather us invest our time in helping our new president lead this country and gearing up to defend him against the right wing attack dogs who will probably go after him constantly the way they went after Clinton.

[TlalocW]

4. Gee... I wonder what could possibly derail Jindal becoming a major leader in the GOP

Except for possibly he inherent, deeply-ingrained racism of his party?

TlalocW

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Jindal won't run in 2012.

If he does, he'll lose to Obama and it'll be the end of his political career. He'll hold out for 8 years and then do it.

[DrToast]

17. This is important. If things go well for Obama, the GOP will be looking for another Dole...

...to put up. Nobody in the Republican party wtih a future is going to want to get trounced by a very popular and successful President Obama.

[Drunken Irishman]

18. Yup.

I mean, maybe Obama does struggle, but let's be honest here: things are bound to improve, at least marginally. They did from 1980 to 1984 and gave Reagan a landslide victory. Obama is the type of leader where he can create the perception things are slowly moving in the right direction. Reagan could do it, Roosevelt could do it and this is something I think Obama will do.

So come 2012, he'll probably have a decent approval rating and no one will want to run against him.

[Colobo]

6. I love how the GOPs think: "WE HAVE A COLORED GUY TOO!"

[NYC Liberal]

8. Just like Palin: "Hi Hillary voters! Vote McCain because his running mate is a woman too!"

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. Don't forget Alan Keyes

[NYC Liberal]

14. Yep. Republicans don't get it. They think it's only about image.

Having a good image is necessary, but you also need substance.

[NYC Liberal]

7. He opposes ANY abortion even when the mother's life is at risk, and is a creationist.

Yeah he's gonna appeal to a broad range of people :eyes:

He'll be another Palin if they nominate him: not dumb, but a Republican attempt to put a minority on the ticket thinking other minorities will vote for him JUST because of that fact.

[camera obscura]

9. Well, it worked for Alan Keyes... oh, wait

:sarcasm:

[saltpoint]

11. I don't see a lot of oompf behind a Jindal candidacy for 2012.

I don't see him out-flanking Huckabee or Romney in Iowa or New Hampshire.

In Iowa, he'd be competing for the same nutbag fundie vote as Huckabee and Palin.

I am not seeing a Jindal nomination in the cards at all.

[jobycom]

12. Didn't know Obama's middle name was Cheney...

And Obama does not rhyme with Bush.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. ...

[Occam Bandage]

15. Obama:Jindal::Clinton:Palin

That's all I have to say, really.

[blitzen]

16. Why this is full of shit: Jindal has zero charisma, and is in fact the un-Obama

[ecstatic]

19. If I recall, he has charisma but there is zero chance of republicans

rallying around him. I guess that's a minor consequence of allowing the KKK into their big tent.

[Hippo_Tron]

20. Jindal is certainly ambitious enough to think he will be President one day

And frankly if I were a hare away from being elected Governor at age 32 and actually elected at age 36 I'd probably think the same thing.

There is no doubt he is going to run at some point. We'll see how far he gets, though.

[Danger Mouse]

21. He's a fundie nutbag AND he's black.

His fundie nutbagness will turn off moderates. His blackness will turn off the KKK arm of the GOP.
I think he should definitely run in 2012.

[Unsane]

22. He isn't charasmatic like Obama at all, is short, and is extremely young (37). He'll wait to run.

Running in '12 may look gimmicky.

[TheDonkey]

23. Jindal is a joke, being propped up to make it seem like rethug party isn't just old white men BUT

that is where the party power is. Look at the 10 individuals who made up the 2008 primary. Case closed.

[Historic NY]

24. His legal real name is Piyush Jindal he is a Hindu........

Do you really think the Palin wing would vote for what they call "dot heads"? Come on the base hates them ...because the own all the 7/11's, gas stations & dunkin donuts.

[boppers]

27. I'd be happy with a Hindi president.

I'd *love* to see him campaign in cattle country, even.

:evilgrin:

[Historic NY]

31. Holy Cow!!!! ....

Never thought of that....BBQ

[GreenEyedLefty]

32. He's Catholic, like Jeb.

[olegramps]

34. He is a convert to Catholicism like Jeb Bush.

[MrSlayer]

25. He's supposed to be heading to Iowa in a few weeks.

Presumably to test the waters. It would be a mistake for him to go for it in 2012 against Obama but 2016 seems right on target. He'll be 45 with two terms as Governor of Louisiana behind him. Jindal up against Biden at that time may look similar to Obama against McCain this time. Without the disastrous consequences Bush left behind of course. People are fickle. After Obama rebuilds this nation and re-fills the coffers by his second term, you would think we'd continue on in the same vein but we won't. The neos will come back in to steal it all and break it down again.

[Marsala]

26. Biden won't run in 2016

He'll be too old. We'll have someone else. If Mark Warner is interested, he would be practically the ideal candidate by then: a popular Southern governor with national experience in the Senate.... but forecasting these things eight years in advance is crazy.

[MrSlayer]

29. I tend to agree but Biden would be the heir apparent.

By natural right. And if he's still mentally and physically fit I do believe he would run, it would be his life's culmination to become President. Unless, in the waning days of the Obama administration, he firmly states he will not run for President, he would have to be beaten in a primary to not get the nod.

[gatorboy]

28. The Palin mouthbreathers would go for this guy? Not bloody likely.

This guy looks way too ethnic for their tastes. We've witnessed more than enough bigoted, hateful behavior this election to understand what the conservative base does and does not want in a candidate. And it's definitely not this guy.

[fujiyama]

30. Could he really take Palin, Huckabee and Romney on?

Look, if the Dems as a supposed progressive party had such a fight to elect a black guy nominated, could the republicans, a party literally made of a coalition of moneyed interests, religious freaks, and out and out racists come together behind a brown Catholic also with a funny name?

Jindal has one thing going for him. He's not an idiot. He could easily take Palin on but as we've seen she'll resort to some nasty attacks. He'd be competing with Huckabee for the religious nut vote. And then there's Romney, who still strikes me as the smarmiest bastard in all of politics. Of course all depends on how things are going two years from now. We may yet see a dark horse.

If by some chance Jindal is nominated, maybe we'd see the racists collectively commit suicide. That'd be the end of this country as far as they know it!

[olegramps]

33. Some suggest that due to his ultra-conservative Catholic beliefs:

That he may be a member of the radical Opus Dei sect that now has a number of their members in powerful positions both in the church and political positions. If this is the case and it can be proven it would bring about his immediate down fall. Remember Hanssen, the FBI agent that spied for the USSR? He was a member of this sect.

[WinkyDink]

35. Obama isn't inaugurated yet, and we're asked to think about a REPUBLICAN'S future? Thanks, but...