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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
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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?
 
It might be too early to tell, but it is possible.

Speaking of President in and President out, if Jindal beats Obama in 2012...

My god..... President in President out.
 
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.
 
He would be the absolute perfect candidate if he hadn't had a "religious awakening."
 
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.

I agree he was awful. But the things he did badly, enunciation and sing-songy speech can be fixed. So can the choice of setting, which was poor.
 
I agree he was awful. But the things he did badly, enunciation and sing-songy speech can be fixed. So can the choice of setting, which was poor.

I bet the temperature was not helping either.
 
You guys are gonna hate this, but it's crossed my mind that Jindal is The GOP's Obama, as it were. Sorry. He could be a big deal in a couple of years. He shares a number of qualities with our current chief: He's sharp, he's young, he's a writer, he's non-caucasian. He's hip, in a way. He's got a relatively clean record, I think, but then blemishes have a way of making themselves known when one walks into the spotlight. He's a little rough around the edges right now, but if the GOP decides that he's their man, he'll have plenty of time to clean up.

I've had a tough time accepting the rationales for a Palin-lead GOP, but I could see Jindal at the helm of the vangaurd. He should be careful of potentially over-exposing himself too soon.
 
He would be the absolute perfect candidate if he hadn't had a "religious awakening."

Was it wrong with that? It is hard to be a Conservative and not have a great respect for traditional belief systems and religions.

Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles and were, indeed, the result of both combined: I mean the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion.
Edmund Burke

Personally these people, Obama, Kevin Rudd, this guy, seem like clones of Tony Blair and perhaps not quite even matching up to him. They have the media savvy, the spin doctors and a certain amount of PR and publicity ability but they don't have seem to have the oratory ability that a Burke, Patrick Henry or Disraeli had in their little fingers.
 
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Jindal is clearly an opportunist, taking advantage of the GOP's need for an Obama clone. If he had his own opinions he might be refreshing, but he has obviously bought into the Republican hive mind, and spouts only authorized talking points. Like John McCain, Jindal decided to sell his soul for the support of the Republican party. He is simply the GOP's token "darkie", a lawn jockey who has the advantage of not being black.
 
I've had a tough time accepting the rationales for a Palin-lead GOP, but I could see Jindal at the helm of the vangaurd. He should be careful of potentially over-exposing himself too soon.
That's exactly what I was thinking about his speech.
 
Was it wrong with that? It is hard to be a Conservative and not have a great respect for traditional belief systems and religions.
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There is nothing wrong with that, my problem would be those who want to legislate their belief system on others. A few months back he signed a bill to have public schools teacher Creationism or Intelligent Design (I forget which one) as an "alternative" to Evolution. It raises a Red Flag IMO.
 
Was it wrong with that? It is hard to be a Conservative and not have a great respect for traditional belief systems and religions.

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.

Jindal is clearly an opportunist, taking advantage of the GOP's need for an Obama clone.

Know what's most amazing about this? Jindal actually KNOWS THE FUTURE and was able to predict that the GOP would need an Obama clone, so he decided to serve as Asst. Sec. of HHS and then run for Governor before anybody outside of Chicago had ever heard of Obama.

Pretty brilliant plan to copy Obama if you ask me.

If he had his own opinions he might be refreshing, but he has obviously bought into the Republican hive mind, and spouts only authorized talking points. Like John McCain, Jindal decided to sell his soul for the support of the Republican party. He is simply the GOP's token "darkie", a lawn jockey who has the advantage of not being black.

Because you don't agree with him and because he's Indian, it's not possible that these are actually his opinions? He had to have been forcefed them by whitey?
 
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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?

Dude....

Puh-leeeze. :roll:

I ain't even gonna go there.
 
He is young, of Indian decent, and easily rivals Obama from an oratory standpoint.

Easily rivals Obama from an oratory standpoint???

Comparing the oratory ability of Bobby Jindal to President Obama is like comparing sprinting ability of an 80 year old man with a broken hip to Usain Bolt. The two are not even remotely comparable.

The last Republican with the kind of speaking ability that Obama is gifted with was Reagan.

If the Republican base had any sense about it and about where the country is today they would make Charlie Crist the face of their party.
 
I think if you give it 2 years, he will be.
Pawlenty and Jindal will be in the election 2012
 
Easily rivals Obama from an oratory standpoint???

Comparing the oratory ability of Bobby Jindal to President Obama is like comparing sprinting ability of an 80 year old man with a broken hip to Usain Bolt. The two are not even remotely comparable.

The last Republican with the kind of speaking ability that Obama is gifted with was Reagan.

If the Republican base had any sense about it and about where the country is today they would make Charlie Crist the face of their party.

Did you not watch his response last night? If not, here it is:2wave:

YouTube - Gov. Bobby Jindal's Republican Response To Obama's State of Union Address; Part 1/2, 02-24-09

YouTube - Gov. Bobby Jindal's Republican Response To Obama's State of Union Address; Part 2/2, 02-24-09
 
Almost as bad as Two Girls and a Cup. :rofl
 
Did you not watch his response last night? If not, here it is:2wave:

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.
 
I suppose he is for now. He's certainley getting all the attention from the right wing media, to set him up as the new face. Whether or not he can become a viable Presidential candidate over the next 4 years is simply too hard to predict.
 
Sounded like an f'n infomercial...Well maybe a really late night one, not the one with the energetic guy who claims we're gonna love his nuts.
 
I think he did more damage than good. The new "please give us another chance, we'll do better " message he was speaking threw the party under the bus.
 
Sounded like an f'n infomercial...Well maybe a really late night one, not the one with the energetic guy who claims we're gonna love his nuts.

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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