Would you vote for Bobby Jindal?

[stevo]

While I agree with you stevo, Jindel is (at this time) not electable. With help and a dam good manager he might be at some time in the future.
GOP needs to change their platform with regard to social issues. With the forever changed demographics of this country, no candidate will pull the votes in a national election to win. To further your agenda, you must first get your guy in position. No matter how much the GOP beats their chest in disgust of the liberal majority, they must first appeal to said crowd.

Sadly, I agree.

Stevo

[Slowhand]

While I agree with you stevo, Jindel is (at this time) not electable. With help and a dam good manager he might be at some time in the future.
GOP needs to change their platform with regard to social issues. With the forever changed demographics of this country, no candidate will pull the votes in a national election to win. To further your agenda, you must first get your guy in position. No matter how much the GOP beats their chest in disgust of the liberal majority, they must first appeal to said crowd.

Good luck with that. You'll hear a lot of agreement on here until it comes to crunch time, at which point they'll default to the bibles/guns/babies rhetoric.

[Forever_frost]

I disagree that there's a liberal majority and if you want liberal policies, you're not going to vote liberal lite, you're going to go for full on socialist. We need bold differences, not differing shades of the same thing

[sc281]

I agree with this. He has done some damn good things in Louisisana. His anti corruption laws alone should make him Governor for life. However his idea to kill the income tax was recieved very badly because he wanted to transfer that tax burden to sales taxes. Even the Republicans in the state house wouldn't get behind it.

Another issue is that he really isn't much of a speaker. Everyone moans at his response to the Presidents State of the Union speech from a few years ago.

Personally I'm looking at Rand Paul or Chris Christie (sp?). I know they are very different from a political stand point but they possess real leadership qualities that I think are more important than singular political issues. Obviously Rand would be my top pic. Jeb Bush would be 3rd on my list..

I was talking about Romney, but it could also be applicable to Jindal.

Rand Paul is my top pick, and unless someone comes along that is more libertarian leaning than him, he'll stay my pick.

I won't be voting for the lesser of two evils this time. I'd rather vote my beliefs and lose than sell my soul, vote for Generic Republican and still lose.

If we're going to hell I'm going honest.

[likeitfast55]

Good luck with that. You'll hear a lot of agreement on here until it comes to crunch time, at which point they'll default to the bibles/guns/babies rhetoric.

Slowhand, that is exactly what I am getting at. Then it scares the hell out of more conservative "swing" voters like myself who, WANT desperately to see a conservative in office. Bibles and baby (abortion) rhetoric are major turn offs to the swing vote. It totally eclipses any good fiscal platforms that the GOP has.

Now guns should be a non-issue. It is a constitutional right! Fing period! End of discussion. Don't like guns, no problem --- don't fucking own them. NFA in my opinion is way out of date and panders to liberal society.

[likeitfast55]

I disagree that there's a liberal majority and if you want liberal policies, you're not going to vote liberal lite, you're going to go for full on socialist. We need bold differences, not differing shades of the same thing

I appreciate and respect your hard line Frost. I understand that you are not alone in this. Bold scares the hell out of people. Dislike it or not it is a fact. To win a horse race, you must first have a horse.

Black and white works, sometimes. In politics there are shades my friend, dislike it or not.

[Slowhand]

Slowhand, that is exactly what I am getting at. Then it scares the hell out of more conservative "swing" voters like myself who, WANT desperately to see a conservative in office. Bibles and baby (abortion) rhetoric are major turn offs to the swing vote. It totally eclipses any good fiscal platforms that the GOP has.

Now guns should be a non-issue. It is a constitutional right! Fing period! End of discussion. Don't like guns, no problem --- don't fucking own them. NFA in my opinion is way out of date and panders to liberal society.

No disagreement on the guns in the very least, merely using it as in illustration as to what they default to in the end.

They refuse to campaign on the meaningful issues and instead get caught up in social minutiae that are either categorically flawed stances or are relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of the current state of politics.

The votes were there in '12; all they had to do was drop the moral agenda and not be disingenuous about fiscal matters, and they couldn't do either. I'm not holding my breath for '14, but I sincerely hope they can get their shit together.

[likeitfast55]

No disagreement on the guns in the very least, merely using it as in illustration as to what they default to in the end.

They refuse to campaign on the meaningful issues and instead get caught up in social minutiae that are either categorically flawed stances or are relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of the current state of politics.

The votes were there in '12; all they had to do was drop the moral agenda and not be disingenuous about fiscal matters, and they couldn't do either. I'm not holding my breath for '14, but I sincerely hope they can get their shit together.

Perfectly said.

[Slowhand]

Perfectly said.

You might want to duck; bricks may be thrown your way for agreeing with me in here.

[YALE]

If the GOP even thinks about Jindel, it will go badly.

While I agree with you stevo, Jindel is (at this time) not electable. With help and a dam good manager he might be at some time in the future.
GOP needs to change their platform with regard to social issues. With the forever changed demographics of this country, no candidate will pull the votes in a national election to win. To further your agenda, you must first get your guy in position. No matter how much the GOP beats their chest in disgust of the liberal majority, they must first appeal to said crowd.

Dude, don't you live in Louisiana?

[likeitfast55]

Dude, don't you live in Louisiana?

I live here in Keller. I was born and raised,educated in La. All my family lives there. I own property there, and hope to retire back there in a few years.

Taking nothing away from Jindel. He is a good governor, however he has reached his "Peter principle" top of the ladder in politics. Sad but true,IMHO.

Having said that, I have been wrong before - G.W. Bush is a good example. People underestimated his "dumb school boy" persona.

I do not see your point professor?

[YALE]

I live here in Keller. I was born and raised,educated in La. All my family lives there. I own property there, and hope to retire back there in a few years.

Taking nothing away from Jindel. He is a good governor, however he has reached his "Peter principle" top of the ladder in politics. Sad but true,IMHO.

I do not see your point professor?

Bold text owns you.

[likeitfast55]

Got me, my humble apology is offered.

JINDAL.

Is it hard to be semantic 24/7? I hear it taxing and drains cognitive ability? True or false?

[YALE]

Got me, my humble apology is offered.

JINDAL.

Is it hard to be semantic 24/7? I hear it taxing and drains cognitive ability? True or false?

I'm just yanking you, man. I appreciate your contribution to this thread, and as a half-Cajun, you appreciation for Louisiana.

[likeitfast55]

With a name of LeBlanc, there is no 1/2 for me. . Your pedigree is duly noted.