Some conservatives are giddy at the thought - kidding themselves that the general election will therefore be easy, that Obama will be another Dukakis. I was struck, though, in several conversations this week with McCain campaign staffers and advisers that they're pretty sober about the task ahead. Barack ...
Don't Do It, Bobby
rossdouthat.theatlantic.comFound 10 days, 12 hours, 55 minutes, and 9 seconds agoPerhaps the most prescient piece I've ever written (it's a short list) was a column for the Wall Street Journal in June of '06, which urged Barack Obama to run for President - because, I argued, "in presidential politics, it's usually better to run too early than to wait, and wait, for a perfect ...
How much you paying him NY Times?
firedoglake.comFound 10 days, 19 hours, 9 minutes, and 34 seconds agoOops Poor Bill Kristol...but mostly poor us. The Uriah Heep of war criminality cannot even mange to write malicious editorials anymore. Now they are just lame and pathetic. Wanting to get a few digs in about how Reverend Wright has buried Obama and all the Democrats for that matter, Kristol ...
Let him clean up Louisiana first
hotair.comFound 10 days, 11 hours, 48 minutes, and 3 seconds agoWilliam Kristol writes today that Bobby Jindal's time has come for a spot on the national ticket as John McCain's VP. […] Read the rest »
Vice President Jindal?
thecarpetbaggerreport.comFound 10 days, 9 hours, 41 minutes, and 5 seconds agoThe headline on Bill Kristol's NYT column today reads, " McCain-Jindal? " It suggests to the reader that the column is about John McCain considering Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for the Republican presidential ticket, as has been rumored elsewhere. ...
betsyspage.blogspot.com
Bill Kristol touts the possibility of John McCain putting Bobby Jindal on his ticket.Maybe that's why, in separate conversations last week, no fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal. ...
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 58 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
crooksandliars.com
The headline on Bill Kristol's NYT column today reads, " McCain-Jindal? " It suggests to the reader that the column is about John McCain considering Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for the Republican presidential ticket, as has been rumored elsewhere. As it turns out, the first three-fourths of Kristol's column was actually about Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama's chances in November.
Eventually, at the end, Kristol gets around to the point.
[I]n separate conversations last week, no fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal.
Found 10 days, 1 hour, 29 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
instapundit.com
BILL KRISTOL: McCain-Jindal?
UPDATE: Too early for Jindal? Seems that way to me.
Found 10 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes, and 34 seconds ago
washingtonmonthly.com
CONFRONTING THE AGE ISSUE.... Bill Kristol, the gift that keeps on giving: In separate conversations last week, no fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal. They're tempted by the idea of picking someone so young, with real accomplishments and a strong reformist streak.
It might also be a way to confront the issue of McCain's age (71), which private polls and focus groups suggest could be a real problem.
Found 10 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes, and 46 seconds ago
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
05 May 2008 12:20 pm
Larison urges Jindal to not join McCain on the ticket. Ross also questions the logic.
Found 10 days, 10 hours, 54 minutes, and 32 seconds ago
sayanythingblog.com
There's a lot of buzz about this Bill Kristol column which indicates that McCain staffers are throwing around newly-elected Louisiana Governor/political phenom Bobby Jindal's name for VP.
Personally? I think McCain needs Bobby more than Bobby needs McCain.
I like Bobby Jindal a great deal. I think his mix of reform-minded conservatism and youth/vitality would be the perfect antidote to McCain's weak-kneed conservative principles and rather *ahem* wintered visage. But even so, I think it'd be better to wait on Bobby.
Found 10 days, 23 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
imao.us
Isn't it way too early to make Jindal a VP nominee ? He's only been governor like for a week now -- sure he's accomplished more in that week than Obama has in his couple years in the Senate -- but give him time. Being VP stunts your growth; you don't do anything while VP. Let the guy rack up some more experience getting Louisiana on the right track, and by the time he's Obama's age he should be unbeatable. He's our young Reagan in waiting; let's not waste him.
Found 10 days, 6 hours, 38 minutes, and 20 seconds ago
theanchoressonline.com
I did it again! Opened up dozens of interesting stories and blog posts and now I have too much to write about, so I'll just link you to them!
Siggy brings us the Heavy Metal Puppy : you won't believe your eyes.
GM Roper says we ought to be smarter than we're proving ourselves to be. He's quite correct.
Remember Sandy Berger and his theft of Top Secret documents on terrorism? The Clinton library ain't talking about it . It's amazing how many things the Clintons get away with not talking about.
Found 10 days, 53 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
dailypundit.com
McCain-Jindal? - New York Times
Found 10 days, 22 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
justoneminute.typepad.com
Obama And The Teamsters Consent Decree
Found 10 days, 11 hours, 48 minutes, and 1 second ago
tomwatson.typepad.com
Obama needs Clinton. No other VP short-lister (with the possible exception of Senator James Webb, we both believe) strengthens Senator Obama more in the areas where he needs strengthening all in one feisty, battle-tested package - with seniors, with Hispanics, with Catholics, with Jews, with party regulars, with defense hawks, with labor union members.
Found 10 days, 23 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
soccerdad.baltiblogs.com
In McCain Jindal , William Kristol sounds some caution: Still, Obama is the likely Democratic nominee. Some conservatives are giddy at the thought - kidding themselves that the general election will therefore be easy, that Obama will be another Dukakis. I was struck, though, in several conversations this week with McCain campaign staffers and advisers that they're pretty sober about the task ahead. About the Dukakis analogy, for example, one McCain aide said: If in 1988 Ronald Reagan had had a 30 percent job approval rating, and 80 percent of the voters had thought we were on the wrong track, Dukakis would have won.
Found 10 days, 16 hours, 35 minutes, and 32 seconds ago
chervokas.typepad.com
Obama needs Clinton. No other VP short-lister (with the possible exception of Senator James Webb, we both believe) strengthens Senator Obama more in the areas where he needs strengthening all in one feisty, battle-tested package - with seniors, with Hispanics, with Catholics, with Jews, with party regulars, with defense hawks, with labor union members.
Found 9 days, 17 hours, 29 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
gregsopinion.com
» NYT: '88 Campaign Offers a Lesson in Using Symbols as Bludgeons
Mr. Obama, of Illinois, has promised a different politics, one that rises above the fray and the distractions of wedge issues. As Glenn Greenwald, a columnist for Salon, recently put it, "The entire Obama campaign is predicated on the belief that it is no longer 1988."
That's certainly the gamble of the Obama campaign. The one good thing he's got going for him (assuming the nomination) is that the underlying environment of this cycle make it a particularly toxic time to be a Republican.
Found 10 days, 19 hours, 19 minutes, and 36 seconds ago
rajeev2004.blogspot.com
McCain-Jindal?
Found 10 days, 23 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
ultrabrown.com
. They're tempted by the idea of picking someone so young, with real accomplishments and a strong reformist streak.
It might also be a way to confront the issue of McCain's age… "You want generational change? You can get it with McCain-Jindal -- without risking a liberal and inexperienced Obama as commander in chief"… McCain spent considerable time with Jindal in New Orleans recently, and reportedly found him… personally engaging and intellectually impressive… [ Link ]
So: Dubya's incompetence with Hurricane Katrina enabled Governor Jindal .
Found 10 days, 16 hours, 35 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
expatyank.wordpress.com
Still, what about the Obama-Clinton "dream ticket"? The most current polling on that yours truly has seen is referenced by Bill Kristol in today's NYT, who also reminds us that Sen McCain will eventually have a running mate too :
… in the latest Fox News poll: McCain led Obama in the straight match-up, 46 to 43 .
Found 10 days, 15 hours, 2 minutes, and 10 seconds ago
lawhawk.blogspot.com
Can you say McCain-Jindal ? It doesn't quite roll off the tongue just yet, and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal isn't exactly a household name, but he has started to clean up the mess that is Louisiana.
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
seablogger.com
William Kristol ponders the possibility of Jindal as McCain's VP choice. Louisiana's loss could be the nation's gain. But I'd still rate Jindal a long shot. He has barely begun his work as governor of a very troubled state. Slightly older but still young, Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty has served a full term, and won reelection in a Democratic state. This has to count for something. And Pawlenty is host of the convention, which will be held in St. Paul, Minnesota's capital. I have always assumed this honor implied that the governor would make the VP short-list.
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
berkeleybubble.org
There's growing speculation that McCain may pick Bobby Jindal, the 36 year old Indian-American Governor of Loiusiana, at least according to Bill Kristol's Monday New York Times column . Kristol suggests that Jindal would help boost McCain's polling in a bad year for Republicans:
Another McCain staffer called my attention to this finding in the latest Fox News poll: McCain led Obama in the straight match-up, 46 to 43. Voters were then asked to choose between two tickets, McCain-Romney vs. Obama-Clinton.
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
instaputz.blogspot.com
of today's offering :
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
sajaforum.org
[ See all SAJAforum posts, resources, sources about the 2008 presidential race ]
Momentum grows for a John McCain-Bobby Jindal GOP ticket. Today, conservative New York Times columnist William Kristol considered how Republicans could lose this fall if Democrats are united, or if McCain picks a more conventional running mate, i.e., a white guy. From "McCain-Jindal?" : Maybe that's why, in separate conversations last week, no fewer than
four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible
vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby
Jindal.
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes ago
townhall.com
Bill Kristol's op-ed this morning focuses on the possibility that John McCain might pick La governor Bobby Jindal as his running mate. While that is an interesting possibility to discuss (personally, I think he needs to serve as governor for a few years), this excerpt about Mitt Romney caught my attention:
"Another McCain staffer called my attention to this finding in the latest Fox News poll: McCain led Obama in the straight match-up, 46 to 43. Voters were then asked to choose between two tickets, McCain-Romney vs.
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
qoae.net
Before I ever listened to anything Bill Kristol said ...
That reversal of a three-point McCain lead to a six-point deficit for the McCain ticket suggests what might happen (a) when the Democrats unite, and (b) if McCain were to choose a conventional running mate, who, as it were, reinforced the Republican brand for the ticket. As the McCain aide put it, this is what will happen if we run a traditional campaign; our numbers will gradually regress toward the (losing) generic Republican number.
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes, and 10 seconds ago
proecclesia.blogspot.com
Both Kathryn Jean Lopez and Ramesh Ponnuru think McCain-Jindal is a bad idea.
Found 10 days, 11 hours, 47 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
belowthebeltway.com
Congress for three years. If experience and being ready from day one are going to be part of McCain's fall campaign, then picking someone who has less political experience than Barack Obama, and no foreign policy experience, would be a big mistake.
Finally, Jindal himself has said he doesn't want the job.
Of course, McCain might still offer the spot to him, in which case Ross Douthat explains why Jindal should say no:
The downside is too far down, and the upside doesn't have enough up to it.
Found 10 days, 11 hours, 25 minutes, and 49 seconds ago
blogrevolution.com
Op-Ed Columnist: McCain-Jindal?
Found 10 days, 11 hours, 18 minutes, and 36 seconds ago
donklephant.com
And I say no…because Jindal, who's currently the governor of Louisana, is also only 36 years old.
Yep, there's nothing like picking somebody who's literally half your age to highlight just how old you are. Think McCain is that politically myopic? Unlikely.
Still, Kristol seems to be warming to the idea…
Found 10 days, 11 hours, 18 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
greenmountainpolitics1.blogspot.com
With all that's going on in the world, Kristol uses the first 8 paragraphs of his column in today's New York Times to talk about Wright?!!??
Found 10 days, 11 hours, 18 minutes, and 17 seconds ago
citizen.typepad.com
Don Cazayoux, the Democrat who just won the Louisiana-6 House seat long held by the GOP, campaigned and won on a fair trade platform. Here's what he told the Daily King Fish: I support fair trade agreements that raise labor standards for all
workers - both here in the United States and abroad - while ensuring
that American businesses remain competitive. I will vote to close tax
loopholes that reward companies for moving our jobs overseas. I oppose
the Colombian Free Trade Agreement in its current form and believe that
we need to renegotiate CAFTA and NAFTA to include more protections for
our workers.
Found 10 days, 11 hours, 17 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
blog.beliefnet.com
You want to know how bad it's likely to be for Republicans this fall? For the first time since 1974, my south Louisiana home district in the US House will be represented by a Democrat. Bush carried this district by close to 20 points in 2004. And it just turned blue in a special election Saturday night.
Bill Kristol says this is part of why Team McCain is not at all sanguine about the prospect of facing Rev. Wright's former BFF this fall. That, and:
Some conservatives are giddy at the thought - kidding themselves that the general election will therefore be easy, that Obama will be another Dukakis.
Found 10 days, 10 hours, 54 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
rising-hegemon.blogspot.com
The latest CBS poll , that shows this awesome damage to Obama?
Found 10 days, 16 hours, 35 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
rhymeswithright.mu.nu
But Jindal may be signaling his reluctance to sign on to the national ticket in today's Washington Times .
Found 10 days, 16 hours, 32 minutes, and 34 seconds ago
barkbarkwoofwoof.blogspot.com
William Kristol is still whipping the rotting corpse of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, trying to keep the name of Barack Obama's former pastor up high in the Google search for as long as he can. Obama has now repudiated Wright because of his remarks at the National Press Club last Monday. But Wright said nothing new there. AIDS could well have been invented by the U.S. government. Sept. 11 was at least in part "chickens coming home to roost." Louis Farrakhan deserves our respect. These views of Wright were known to Obama when he made his "I can no more disown him" speech in Philadelphia on March 18.
Found 10 days, 16 hours, 18 minutes, and 49 seconds ago
wohlstetter.typepad.com
Bill Kristol offers a realistic assessment, shared by McCain's people, that even with a damaged Obama the fall race will be uphill for the GOP. Said one McCain staffer, had Regan a 30 percent approval rating and 80 percent of Americans thought the country was going in the wrong direction, Dukakis would have won. Also, Mitt Romney does not run well a a Veep. So McCain spent lots of time, reports Kristol, in New Orleans with whizbang Governor Bobby Jindal. At 36 he barely meets the age requirement, but he has accomplished far more that Obama has at 46.
Found 10 days, 16 hours, 32 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
powerballplace.blogspot.com
Some stories claim Obama has rebounded. ( CBS News ) From another story: In the USA TODAY survey, taken Thursday through Saturday, Clinton leads Obama among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents by 7 percentage points, the first time in three months she has been ahead. Two weeks ago, before the controversy over comments by Jeremiah Wright reignited, Obama led by 10 points. ( USA Today ) From William Kristol: Some voters might think it would have been nice if Obama had been as angry in March at Wright's disrespect to the United States of America as he was in April at Wright's disrespect to Barack Obama.
Found 10 days, 12 hours, 22 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
pursuingholiness.com
Blogging will be light today as I'm up to my neck in work. But as the demotivator goes, hard work may pay off later, but procrastination pays off right now .
I didn't like the 70s the first time, and I'm not going to enjoy them this time either. An appeasing, liberal, fiscally illiterate President (no matter which of the three we get), plenty of protests , rage , radicals , chaos carried over from the 60s , and now courthouse bombings .
But the UN means well …
Stop it. Just stop. You can't have him until at least 2016.
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 32 minutes, and 21 seconds ago
roadto2008.com
"For any spiritually minded, up-wardly mobile African-American living in Chicago in the mid-1980s, the Trinity United Church of Christ was-and still is-the place to be. That's what drew Oprah Winfrey, a recent Chicago transplant, to the church in 1984. She was eager to bond with the movers and shakers in her new hometown's black community. But she also admired Trinity United's ambitious outreach work with the poor, and she took pride in upholding her Southern grandmother's legacy of involvement with traditional African-American houses of worship.
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 25 minutes, and 23 seconds ago
politicalderby.com
While it may seem that the McCain campaign is on their couch with a tub of popcorn, watching the shoot fight-to-the-death between Clinton and Obama, they actually are doing some work in preparation for the general election.
One of the key issue McCain will inevitably face is his age.
And how do you combat the fact that your candidate would be 72 on the day of his inauguration?
Simple - float the name of a 36-year-old governor as your Vice Presidential nominee!
Bobby Jindal's name has been mentioned by several McCain staffers in recent days, on the tail of McCain's spending time in New Orleans with the young Louisiana Governor.
Found 10 days, 9 hours, 5 minutes, and 15 seconds ago
weeklystandard.com
From the New York Times : McCain-Jindal? by the boss.
From the Daily News : In Iraq, A Storm Before the Calm , by Michael Yon.
From Hot Air: State of the Race , by Allahpundit.
From the Wall Street Journal : The Truth About Iraq's Casualty Count , by Max Boot.
From the Washington Post : Strike From Afar , by the editors.
Found 10 days, 9 hours, 40 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
righthandthief.blogspot.com
It's coming from national conservative pundits like William Kristol , and it involves Governor Bobby Jindal. In a column titled "McCain-Jindal?" Kristol strokes our boy wonder whiz kid, arguing that the McCain campaign is naming him as a possible Vice Presidential choice:
Found 10 days, 7 hours, 59 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
nomoremister.blogspot.com
At a moment when the Louisiana governor is being talked about as a possible McCain running mate, we all need to know what was reported here when he was running for governor in 2007:
Found 10 days, 6 hours, 54 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
d-day.blogspot.com
So I guess professional fabulist Bill Kristol today proposed a McCain-Bobby Jindal ticket for the Republicans, suggesting that the young governor of Louisiana would defuse the age issue while riling up the conservative base with his staunchly pro-life views.
Found 10 days, 5 hours, 50 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
passtheroti.com
…in separate conversations last week, no fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal. They're tempted by the idea of picking someone so young, with real accomplishments and a strong reformist streak.
It might also be a way to confront the issue of McCain's age (71), which private polls and focus groups suggest could be a real problem. A Jindal pick would implicitly acknowledge the questions and raise the ante.
Found 10 days, 4 hours, 46 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
holycoast.blogspot.com
According to Bill Kristol in the New York Times, John McCain is looking hard at Bobby Jindal, the newly elected GOP governor of Louisiana, as a Veep choice : That reversal of a three-point McCain lead to a six-point deficit for the McCain ticket suggests what might happen (a) when the Democrats unite, and (b) if McCain were to choose a conventional running mate, who, as it were, reinforced the Republican brand for the ticket. As the McCain aide put it, this is what will happen if we run a traditional campaign; our numbers will gradually regress toward the (losing) generic Republican number.
Found 10 days, 22 minutes, and 32 seconds ago
lettersinbottles.blogspot.com
Indeed, Bill Kristol provides additional fodder for the concept with some evidentiary tidbits in a NYT column today :
Found 10 days, 22 minutes, and 18 seconds ago
brothersjuddblog.com
McCain-Jindal? (WILLIAM KRISTOL, 5/05/08, NY Times)
Found 10 days, 21 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
sistrunk.net
Kicking off his judicial surrogacy duties, Fred Thompson took to Instapundit's " Glenn and Helen Show " today for an interview. Aside from his DA role on "Law & Order," recall that Thompson was John Roberts' Senate sherpa back in 2005 and first got his spurs working as a young lawyer for Howard Baker during the Watergate hearings.
Found 9 days, 15 hours, 10 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
apologus.wordpress.com
Neo-conservative Bill Kristol writes in the New York Times op-ed piece that Barack Obama needed to be as angry at Jeremiah Wright's attack on the United States as he was when Wright disrespected Obama. One way or another, Wright may just be Hillary's new best friend.
The situation before Tuesday's primaries remain dangerous for the Obama campaign. Should he lose both Indiana and North Carolina, it will be nearly impossible to remain composure. The undecided super delegates will begin to think a bit deeper about their pick.
Found 10 days, 20 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
brendan-nyhan.com
Despite all of the questions that are being raised about the electability of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the reality is that the political fundamentals are heavily tilted in their favor. Yesterday, Bill Kristol reported that the McCain campaign realizes how difficult a task it faces:
Some conservatives are giddy at the thought - kidding themselves that the general election will therefore be easy, that Obama will be another Dukakis.
Found 9 days, 14 hours, 23 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
toddseavey.com
OK, this is only partly a sci-fi-nerd question, but: What do Iron Man, Bobby Jindal, and I all have in common? Grappling, as conservatives, with Brown University.
•At least, one antiwar reporter character who gives Tony Stark a hard time in Iron Man is described as a Brown grad (and goes on to reveal other behavior patterns often associated with Brown alums).
• My problems with Brown have been related in multiple installments of my Retro-Journal , you'll recall .
•And Jindal -- for whom if I remember correctly I was briefly a writing tutor, though it's all pretty fuzzy now, I admit (so if I blog of him in the future, let this be my permanent disclaimer that I'm not saying I was some sort of mentor to him) -- became Catholic and conservative while at Brown, going on to serve (with a special emphasis on health care and a fondness for free markets) in the White House, the Louisiana congressional delegation, and the Louisiana governor's mansion, with some ( like William Kristol ) now saying McCain's v.
Found 9 days, 14 hours, 58 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
lunkhead.dailykos.com
OK, so Bill Kristal is suggesting Bobby Jindal as McCain's running mate .
Ignoring the obvious, Bill Kristal is always wrong on everything , I would bet serious odds against this.
Why?
First, the Republican base, which looks like this:
Found 9 days, 14 hours, 58 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
cvilleblogs.com
John Cole is a genius :
We should have a January 20, 2009 countdown ticker at this blog, and I think we should have a national celebration when this criminal leaves office. I mean a truly national celebration , with fireworks, street parties, city proclamations, etc that would be televised all over the world. I want President Bush's last day in office to be the most huniliating experience of his life - one where the American people show him how absolutely jubliant they are that he is no longer the leader of this country.
Found 14 days, 15 hours, 19 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
idrunk.com
William Kristol writes today that Bobby Jindal's time has come for a spot on a national ticket as John McCain's VP. […] Read a rest »
Original post by Ed Morrissey and software by Elliott Back
Found 10 days, 13 hours, 58 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
marcambinder.theatlantic.com
05 May 2008 10:04 am
John McCain is keeping close counsel on his vice presidential musings. Only five staffers -- campaign chief Rick Davis and advisers M. Salter, M. McKinnon, S. Schmidt and C. Black -- are officially privy to the official thinking from The Man. The five have sworn to each other not to leak.
(Surely, McCain will -- and has -- talked about the choice to his friends, and surely, he is apt to small talk about it at fundraisers, where donors feel emboldened to offer up their suggestions).
Found 10 days, 11 hours, 49 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
jezebel.com
Meet Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal! He's the frontrunner to be the running mate to the presidential candidate closest to death , so it will surely please you to know that, in his brief 36-year life, he has endured many difficult things, including the presence of SATAN HIMSELF. Well, it was either Satan, or a melodramatic college junior whose desire to fuck him made him worry he was gay or something. But we're going to go with Satan, since he's running for vice president, and what better proof that the Devil Remains At Large than the current holder of the vice presidency?
Found 10 days, 11 hours, 16 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
economist.com
FRIDAY at the National Press Club, Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, held a luncheon that felt a whole lot like an audition for higher political office, while vocally disavowing interest in any job but the one he's got. Still, it's not hard to see why Bill Kristol is just one among many who think the youthful Republican would make an attractive addition to John McCain's ticket. Mr Jindal comes across as the GOP's answer to Barack Obama: A son of Indian immigrants who has flourished in a southern state and won plaudits for shaking up its notoriously corrupt political culture.
Found 10 days, 10 hours, 53 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
thedemocraticstrategist.org
In an especially blatant example of a journalist letting himself be used to send up trial balloons for a political campaign, Bill Kristol's New York Times column today announces that all sorts of people in John McCain's political operation are thinking fond thoughts about Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal as a potential running-mate for the Arizonan.
Just to make sure the campaign's purposes are served in exquisitely nuanced detail, Kristol spends a big chunk of the column making it clear that the Jindal Option will only be considered seriously if (a) Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, and (b) it appears likely McCain's going to lose unless he throws something of a Hail Mary pass.
Found 10 days, 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
niralimagazine.com
McCain-Jindal?
Found 161 days, 13 hours, 9 minutes, and 31 seconds ago
retthatcher.com
I love Bobby Jindal…He has a huge future but let explain why the article below is not a good idea…
Maybe that's why, in separate conversations last week, no fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal. They're tempted by the idea of picking someone so young, with real accomplishments and a strong reformist streak.
It might also be a way to confront the issue of McCain's age (71), which private polls and focus groups suggest could be a real problem.
Found 10 days, 20 minutes, and 20 seconds ago
wjno.blogspot.com
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal doesn't think McCain will choose him and neither do I but there are many people pushing his name around. Bill Kristol posted an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday talking about the Jindal push and Newsweek elaborated online . Many have compared him to Barrack Obama but I just don't see him pulling in conservative or blue-collar voters on a national level. I still say Romney, Pawlenty and Huckabee are the most likely.
Found 9 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds ago
