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Is Jindal the new face of the GOP?

Is Bobby Jindal the new face of the GOP?

  • No

    Votes: 8 34.8%

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 17.4%

  • Not sure

    Votes: 11 47.8%
  • Total voters
    23
  • Poll closed .
Captain America said:
I was thinking the same earlier. Give this guy a "Sham-Wow" or maybe a "Veg-a-Matic" and I think he'll go far. Anybody has got to be better than Billy Mays.
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That guy that sells the Sham-Wow is good though.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
I watched it last night. Judging speaking ability is certainly subjective. However, I would put a paycheck on the vast majority of people agreeing with me rather than you on Jindal's speaking ability compared to Obama.

Moreover, it was a horrible speech with a terrible argument on Jindal's part. The last thing the American people want is to be taken for a bunch of idiots. If you are a state that is the recipient of tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars in federal aid due to Katrina, and if it were not for all the jobs being financed by that federal aid your state would have one of the worst, if not the worst, unemployment rates in the nation, then it is the utmost in hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty to rail against big government. Its like a welfare recipient, on medicaid, drawing food stamps, that derides socialism.

Then, for him to argue that during the past 8 years Washington Republicans "went along with huge spending increases". They did not "go along with them", they wrote the bills that paved the way for those huge spending increases. They were the ones that handed us more debt than all previous administrations combined. So if the good governor wants Americans to trust the Republican Party again, then he should start by being honest with the American people himself.
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Given the fact that democrat is part of your name, i must take your opinion with a grain of salt. It is not that i think he is amazing, instead, i get the feeling he is going to resonate quite well among republicans. Jindal's speech was loaded with southern emotional appeal to disenchanted republicans who are in disarray. It was a rally speech, nothing more.
 
Goldenboy219 said:
Given the fact that democrat is part of your name, i must take your opinion with a grain of salt. It is not that i think he is amazing, instead, i get the feeling he is going to resonate quite well among republicans. Jindal's speech was loaded with southern emotional appeal to disenchanted republicans who are in disarray. It was a rally speech, nothing more.
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His speech was loaded with a bunch of 3rd grade intellect and Apple Dumpling Gang style language. I use the name SouthernDemocrat, because I am from the South originally, and Southern Democrats are historically the most conservative Democrats in the party. Just the same, I am more of a pro-business bluedog / dlc democrat than anything.


Here is the problem. Yes, Jindal is going to appeal to Republicans, and his speech probably resonated with the party base, just like Palin appealed the base, and talk radio appeals to the base. The problem is that the base needs to figure out that they need to rally behind someone that appeals to others outside of their base. The Republican base is small. They are not going to win just preaching to that little choir. In fact, if anything they will loose more of the middle by doing so.
 
Obama talked about Americans. Jindal talked about Republicans and Democrats.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
His speech was loaded with a bunch of 3rd grade intellect and Apple Dumpling Gang style language. I use the name SouthernDemocrat, because I am from the South originally, and Southern Democrats are historically the most conservative Democrats in the party. Just the same, I am more of a pro-business bluedog / dlc democrat than anything.


Here is the problem. Yes, Jindal is going to appeal to Republicans, and his speech probably resonated with the party base, just like Palin appealed the base, and talk radio appeals to the base. The problem is that the base needs to figure out that they need to rally behind someone that appeals to others outside of their base. The Republican base is small. They are not going to win just preaching to that little choir. In fact, if anything they will loose more of the middle by doing so.
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I do agree up to your view on the speech. The republican voting base is lacking the normal working man and woman, which was what this speech aimed, and hit IMHO. I am willing to "bet a paycheck" that he is the GOP's nomination for president in 2012, barring any crazy stories of his personal life surfacing :mrgreen:
 
Khayembii Communique said:
Jindal was probably the most laughably terrible speaker I've ever heard/seen. I invited my apolitical roommate in and we had a laugh over it.
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I have to admit that was not only laughable. It was downright painful.

I know some here believe he'll somehow 'find his speaking legs'. But I disagree. Jindal is Governor of a state... he's already had plenty of time to hone his speaking skills and work on his image. This is not a diamond in the rough we're looking at. This is a stone that's already been cut and polished quite a bit. And frankly, it's not going to suddenly turn into a precious gem.

Is it possible Jindal could be the 'new face' of the GOP for 2012? Sure. Or so could Sarah Palin.

If the GOP can't come up with a better candidate than either of those two, lord help us. We'll be in for a repeat performance of 2008 next election that will be disastrous, reminiscent of the horrendous Democrat nominees during the 1980s... Mondale & Dukakis.

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Goldenboy219 said:
Watching Obama's speech, i have to admit he is quite a motivating speaker. His part on education was nothing short of amazing. Following his address to congress, CNBC aired a republican response by Bobby Jindal.

He is young, of Indian decent, and easily rivals Obama from an oratory standpoint.

My question: Is Bobby Jindal the new face of the GOP?
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Sigh. Is this what the future of American politics is supposed to be?

Who has more, less represented minorities. I hope he is not the future.
 
If Jindal is the new face of the GOP...the GOP is in serious trouble.
They would be almost better to have Palin as the face of their party.

Jindal's speech represented basically everything that gave Obama the election in November. Jindal basically represented everything that the Republicans were rebuked by the voters for.
I was actually amazed that the Republican party has learned so little in the last two elections that they would continue down this same road.

If Jindal is the new face of the GOP...that means only good news for Democrats.
 
What I find funniest is that there is anybody in the right wing of the political spectrum who thinks they'll get anywhere with a guy who publicly makes no secret that he opposes abortion even in rape and incest cases. :doh - Have fun hiding that from the majority of this country who doesn't wish to see Roe V. Wade overturned.
 
Goldenboy219 said:
Watching Obama's speech, i have to admit he is quite a motivating speaker. His part on education was nothing short of amazing. Following his address to congress, CNBC aired a republican response by Bobby Jindal.

He is young, of Indian decent, and easily rivals Obama from an oratory standpoint.

My question: Is Bobby Jindal the new face of the GOP?
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After watching his speech, I can say that Jindal is not a leader that can take America down the road to fiscal responsibility, but not many people are - They simply lack the charisma to pull off successfully running for president.

However, Jindal IS the new face of the GOP in that, in his capacity in the Senate, if he successfully runs, he can help craft the Conservative policies that have been sorely lacking in the Republican party for many years. Jindal needs to run for Senate.

Jindal is an asset to the party, and yes, the face of it too.
 
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Goldenboy219 said:
Given the fact that democrat is part of your name, i must take your opinion with a grain of salt. It is not that i think he is amazing, instead, i get the feeling he is going to resonate quite well among republicans. Jindal's speech was loaded with southern emotional appeal to disenchanted republicans who are in disarray. It was a rally speech, nothing more.
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And therein lies the problem ladies and gentlemen.
 
Goldenboy219 said:
I do agree up to your view on the speech. The republican voting base is lacking the normal working man and woman, which was what this speech aimed, and hit IMHO. I am willing to "bet a paycheck" that he is the GOP's nomination for president in 2012, barring any crazy stories of his personal life surfacing :mrgreen:
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After Palin, nothing will surprise me. I wouldn't take that bet.
 
Hatuey said:
What I find funniest is that there is anybody in the right wing of the political spectrum who thinks they'll get anywhere with a guy who publicly makes no secret that he opposes abortion even in rape and incest cases. :doh - Have fun hiding that from the majority of this country who doesn't wish to see Roe V. Wade overturned.
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Actually, with someone like Jindal, the veiw of anti-abortion could become the majority again. Remember, abortion didn't used to be always be acceptable ;)
 
danarhea said:
After watching his speech, I can say that Jindal is not a leader that can take America down the road to fiscal responsibility, but not many people are - They simply lack the charisma to pull off successfully running for president.

However, Jindal IS the new face of the GOP in that, in his capacity in the Senate, if he successfully runs, he can help craft the Conservative policies that have been sorely lacking in the Republican party for many years. Jindal needs to run for Senate.

Jindal is an asset to the party, and yes, the face of it too.
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I agree. And I hope we does well. His future is yet to be written. But my references were all in the context of his oratory skills and chrisma in comparison to Oblama's.

But I remember similar talk when Obama first hit the scene several years ago as the future democrat goldenchild and lo and behold... :roll:

Jindal may the GOP's next golden child for sure. But, if he is, they are, as they say in Louisiana, "in a heap o' trouble boy."

Yeah, Obama's gonna really have to screw things up to ever let Jindal take his chair. Obama can talk his way out of a tied-up toesack.
 
DarkWizard12 said:
Actually, with someone like Jindal, the veiw of anti-abortion could become the majority again. Remember, abortion didn't used to be always be acceptable ;)
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Yeah, I'm sure he would shove some wedge issue to the forefront. Either abortion, or gay marriage, or gerbils, or something. Anything to keep the focus off of those boring issues like education, infrastructure, health care, job exportation, environment, equal rights and all that other pesky stuff that keeps getting in the way.

Or maybe, just maybe, the Michael Jackson will get charged in a Bahrain Islamic court for child molesting and we all will turn our thoughts away from these mundane issues altogether.
 
DarkWizard12 said:
Actually, with someone like Jindal, the veiw of anti-abortion could become the majority again. Remember, abortion didn't used to be always be acceptable ;)
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That abortion was not acceptable 100 years ago says about as much about the support for it as homosexuality not being acceptable in Iran. Sure. It might not be acceptable because the people in charge are religious fundamentalists. But that doesn't mean there aren't millions of Iranians who do not care about whether a person is homosexual and thousands of gay Iranians just waiting to get out of the closet.
 
Im sorry but if you thought Jindal was good you must be delusional i dont think ive seen a worse speech in recent history.I couldnt believe how bad it was it was the sesame street explanation of conservative politics.


Sorry Bobby you aint ever gonna be president at least not without some major changes in your style.
 
Hatuey said:
That abortion was not acceptable 100 years ago says about as much about the support for it as homosexuality not being acceptable in Iran. Sure. It might not be acceptable because the people in charge are religious fundamentalists. But that doesn't mean there aren't millions of Iranians who do not care about whether a person is homosexual and thousands of gay Iranians just waiting to get out of the closet.
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There are plenty of rich Iranians who are well out of the closet.
 
When Jindal runs for the GOP nomination in 2012 he is going to hope that this performance is deeply buried.
 
Wasn't Palin called the "New Face of the GOP?"

It's rather hard to call anyone the new face when the GOP itself doesn't know what it is.
 
obvious Child said:
Wasn't Palin called the "New Face of the GOP?"

It's rather hard to call anyone the new face when the GOP itself doesn't know what it is.
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Just having a new face does not win you converts anyway. I remember when David Duke was "the new face of the Klan". You can have who ever you want as your poster boy, if your ideas are bad, they are bad regardless of who promotes them.

What the GOP needs is new ideas.
 
RightinNYC said:
I've got no problem with religion and think it's great when people have a strong faith. That's entirely different from someone who hypes creationism and believes that he participated in an exorcism.

Listen, the dude is absolutely mind-bogglingly earth-shatteringly brilliant. He was a Rhodes Scholar who was accepted at Yale Law School and Harvard Medical School and turned them both down. I have no qualms about saying that he's probably one of the most brilliant people in the country, let alone in politics. It's just a shame that he had to be so public about something that will obviously cast a shadow over any future ambitions he has.
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Okay, now I understand.
 
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