Would somebody please explain what made Bobby J. an up-and-comer before tonight.

[BuyingThyme]

His name has been coming up for months, but I don't for the life of me understand why.

[PBS Poll-435]

1. (Not an elderly white man)

nt

[leftstreet]

2. (plus they failed with the woman-try)

[PylesMalfunction]

Pretty much

:crazy:

[FrenchieCat]

3. He's a brown Governor from a southern state?

That's all I can think of.

[camera obscura]

4. He's only 37 years old. They can wring more years out of him than Huckabee, Barbour, or Romney.

[wndycty]

5. Because he is a Republican of color. . .

LOL Oh vey. . .

[Avalux]

6. Republican Governor Romanticism and added bonus - he's "ethnic".

Being "ethnic" is all the rage now with the Republicans, dontcha know. ;-)

[BayouBengal07]

7. He's smart.

Educated at Brown, Rhodes Scholar, and was Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation.

[BuyingThyme]

9. Thank you.

[beac]

18. Educated, yet still ignorant. Believes in creationism and exorcism.

Against stem cell research and the stimulus. It takes a special kind of stupid to receive such a good education and still be a total asshat.

[EFerrari]

24. When he was 27. Gifted. It must suck to have to funnel all of that

into being a Republican. If we were smart, we'd bring him over.

[jakefrep]

8. Jindal wet the bed tonight.

Tonight was his big opportunity to present himself as a credible Republican alternative to Obama, and he choked.

[liberalmuse]

10. The Republicans found him "exotic"...

and mistakenly thought they could just put anyone with dark skin and a different name against President Obama and the Americans would buy it. Yes, they think we're THAT STUPID. Kind of like they did putting up Palin against Hillary.

[BuyingThyme]

12. An accessory politician.

[Clio the Leo]

11. he was kinda impressive two days ago I swear. NT

[Chulanowa]

13. Pretty much what PBS-Poll said

He's a brown Republican. Since Republicans think image is all that matters and that Obama won because of his melanin content, they figure Jindal's the next big thing.

He'll crash like Thompson if he steps into the primaries. Let's worry about the next three years, instead of the latter half of the fourth.

[beac]

19. We'll know he's REALLY the next big thing if his PBS poll becomes a zombie undead

menace that people will not stop the hell forwarding to you for months!

[PBS Poll-435]

20. BOO!

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

[beac]

21. Great. Now I'm gonna have nightmares.

:scared:









(Seriously... best. DU. name change. EVER. Bravo!)

[question everything]

14. First, he won in Louisiana when the GOP was in a free fall

a RW blog actually "predicted" that he was the signal that they are going to rise, again..

And the youngest governor, and an Indian, the "new face" of the party.

I hope that the people of Louisiana will protest in front of his mansion, once they realize that they are being left behind, again, this time for no act of nature.

[BuyingThyme]

15. Oh, yeah, he traded in all that cash to put his presidential hopes on the national stage tonight.

Tough night.

[old mark]

16. He has been receiving great amounts of case from large

construction companies working in the Saudi Arabia and from the verious energy and nuclear corporations. He evidently seen as "presidential materiel" because of his ethnic background,and the fact that he was a Rhodes Scholar. He evidently has been campaigning for national office for some time, was seen as a possible VP in 08 before Palin.

mark

[Hippo_Tron]

17. If you get elected Governor of a State at age 36 it is presumed you will run for President

And understandably so. If I were elected Governor at age 36 I would absolutely be arrogant enough to believe that I could be President of the United States based on that fact alone. Jindal may not run next time or the time after that but if he runs three election cycles from now he'll only be 49. Another election cycle after that he'll only be 53.

In other words Jindal is a big deal because barring scandal it is guaranteed that he will run for President at some point. The only question is when.

Being elected to a high office when you are in your 30's or 40's alone is enough to get you attention. Because the ranks of congress and the Governors mansions are mostly filled with old people.

[Undercurrent]

22. The GOP is brain dead.

They chose Palin to attract all of the women that supported Hillary. They elected Steele, and promoted Jindal to pull African Americans, and other minorities away from Obama. They assume that everyone is as shallow, and superficial as they are. That all the American people care about is genitalia, and skin color. They think we are idiots.

It's the same reason Jindal talked down to the American people like they are are 4th graders.

A pathetic little speech from a pathetic little man. Zero power. Zero command. And lies. It was like a slow motion car wreck. I wanted to stop watching, but there was something fascinating about the mind boggling stupidity of it.

[nadine_mn]

23. The same reason they picked Palin and Steele - generic versions of a brand

Its like if they make the package look similar (even if the content is crap) people will buy it:

Palin=Hillary
Alan Keyes, Michael Steele, Bobby Jindal... hmmm minority, young, and/or hard to pronounce name= Barack Obama


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