David Brooks opines on Jindal's speech, plus Paul Krugman

[Wetzelbill]

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[AlinPA]

1. Brooks: "...speech byJindal was just an unmitigated disaster"

[kstewart33]

2. Thanks for the post. Very interesting. nt

[Jefferson23]

3. Love it when the bash their own, good job Brooks.

[elmerdem]

4. WTF?

Brooks & I agree on something! Bobby "we can do anything" Jindal what a tool.

[DUlover2909]

5. "Americans can do anything!"

except smoke weed, have homosexual marriages, or breathe liquid nitrogen.

[ginnyinWI]

6. I agree with Brooks

Wow that's a switch.

[underpants]

7. Well to be fair Bill Clinton recovered from a long boring bad speech at the '88 convention

Jindal has some time. He will need it.

[solara]

8. Yeah, but that was Bill.. I don't think the charisma meter will even acknowledge Jindal

:patriot:

[Wetzelbill]

10. Bill Clinton had special political gifts Jindal doesn't possess

You're right about that.

I do think that the GOP is so bereft of political talent that it might not hurt him much with the party, but he certainly couldn't ever win a general election against a Dem, let alone Obama.

[underpants]

13. Can all Jindal postsswws be in his phonetic ssswwwsspeaking ssswwwsstyle?

[Lancer]

12. Rookie vs. Amateur

Looking back, I see Clinton's 1988 speech as having been more of a rookie mistake than anything else. Sure, he was an experienced politician but mounting the national stage for the first time is a whole different deal.

Jindal came off as embarrassingly amateurish from the first sentence. I have never seen a more condescending, patronizing and pathetically wrongheaded speech in my life. Even Sarah Palin was a better Charlie McCarthy for the GOP. I think the qualities Jindal needs to come anywhere close to Big Dog's oratorical skill level (much less Obama's) are entirely beyond his grasp.

And after last night the Republic is safe from him for good, I should think.

JMHO

[JJ]

9. Wow! Intellectual honesty from Brooks

Never thought I'd see the day. Notice the difference in his demeanor when he's telling the truth, less smirking and condescension.

[Wetzelbill]

11. sometimes Brooks is very good

He's weird like that, Brooks could say something or write something extremely interesting or even dead on, then the next day he's wallowing around in BillKristolville. He can be promising. I think he's fed up with the lack of good, fresh policy ideas from Republicans. He's an intellectual and the GOP has been so anti-intellectual in their imagery for so long that the party has been overrun with complete dumbasses with no ideas and no clue. Brooks has a different view of what works than you or I, but he doesn't fit in with the dumbing down of the GOP that well.