Jindal in Iowa this weekend.
Jindal in Iowa this weekend.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) traveled Friday to Iowa, “a state that is pivotal to a presidential campaign, in a trip that has heightened speculation that [he] is planning a presidential bid in 2012.” Jindal tamped down the speculation, stating, “I’m not running for president.” The highlight of Jindal’s visit will be tonight’s keynote address at a “Celebrating the Family” banquet hosted by the Iowa Family Policy Center, a conservative Christian group that promotes issues important to social conservatives such as home-schooling and opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage:
The center is a nonprofit organization that says it is dedicated to family values. The center’s president, Chuck Hurley, backed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in the recent presidential race. Hurley’s ties to religious conservatives are credited with helping Huckabee win the Iowa caucus in January.
“I think the American people are tired of campaigns. They’ve had enough. We haven’t even sworn in our next president,” Jindal said.
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Guess there’s not much going on back home in New Orleans anymore.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 pmsarc/off
He is Sarah Palin without the dress and moose shooting, he is a fundamentalist Jesus freak. He does have a better education than 5 college Palin, but book smart doesn’t equal real world smart with this guy (Piyush Jindal, BTW)
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:20 pmI was going to say, for a governor he certainly is out of his state a lot. At least Sarah Palin has been sequestered to her little corner of crazy.
(Also, Jindal likely spends most of his time in Baton Rouge, LA, not New Orleans.)
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:21 pm“I think the American people are tired of campaigns. They’ve had enough. We haven’t even sworn in our next president,” Jindal said.
So what is he calling what he is doing? It sure looks like campaigning to me.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 pmShoring up the base, just what the Rethuglican Party doesn’t need to do to convince the vast majority of Americans that it has any relevance to their lives.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:26 pmGo Bobby go, run Bobby run. See Sarah smile.
Ok mark it down on the calendar. He said he would serve out the two terms of Govenor of LA if so elected, and since the second election happens in 2011, he has now gone on record as saying he is OUT of the race for 2012. [from the last link in the post]
“…in a trip that has heightened speculation that Jindal is planning a presidential bid in 2012.
But Jindal said the speculation is misplaced. He said he’s running for re-election and has no plans to seek the White House.
“The most important thing for me is to be the best governor for the state of Louisiana,” the governor said in an interview. “If the people of Louisiana will allow me, I’m going to serve for two terms.”
There ya go. Buh-Bye, Bobby
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:29 pmLiberalVoter Says:
So what is he calling what he is doing? It sure looks like campaigning to me.
No, LV, he is appealing to all of the Louisiana residents living in Iowa. C’mon, every Gov does that 4 years out of the state election, doncha know.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:32 pmGeez, man, get with the program. /snark
Alecto, one caveat. His lips were moving when he made the above statements.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:33 pmAlecto, GRIN. Not quite awake this morning. You have hit it exactly.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 pmIowa Family Policy Center, a conservative Christian group that promotes issues important to social conservatives such as home-schooling and opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.
Yeah because home-schooling and opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage are the most pressing issues for America today. Idiots!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:36 pm.
Do I have to be Christian to have “Family Values”?
Can my “Family Values” include being gay?
Why is it that Republicans control the definitions in this Country?
It’s not “Family Values” if you’re not a Republican ChristoFascist…
… NO?
.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 pmPalin/Jindal 2012
(promising a Turkey on every table, really really fresh ones)
¶ AIO
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 pmi just can’t trust a man
without eyebrows.
i just can’t.
*
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:39 pmI think he is a muslim (snark snark)
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 pmThey had a chance to pick him as VP but they pick the Moose Lady with no brains. Now it’s sad to see some old Republican idiot thinks color might make the difference. Please someone call the RNC and tell them the Movie is over and everyone has gone home.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:42 pmMax-1, spot on! The right has been controlling the message for way too long. It is time for voices on the left to take the lead. Where do we start? Of my senators, Feinstein is a waste of time. Boxer tries I guess. Flooding politicians on the left with pleas to frame the message may be the way to go.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:43 pmHey, people did move to places like Iowa after the hurricanes.
Anyway, more of the same misguided and inept GOP politics. Anyone who willingly goes to a group like this and is socially conservative would vote for a GOP parakeet (”Squawk, Drill Baby Drill”) over a smart Democrat.
There’s basically a 30% that would never vote for Obama, though they thinned that down with the economy. So who is the GOP going after? The 30%, obviously. As long as they can win the primaries and get trounced in the general, to the point they had to steal Ohio in 2004 with an incumbent (then call it a mandate), they’re destined for failure.
The largest group is single women, they exclude GLBT, they lose the young vote, frighten seniors with privatized SS, and most independents are more off put than excited about their “message.” Perfect.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:45 pmThree words:
Do . . . Not . . . Underestimate
Yes, this guy is a Christianist. Yes, this guy is has extreme right-wing views. Yes, this guy is not Sarah Palin — he’s smart, he does well in interviews, he’s personable.
He is, in short, a potentially dangerous competitor.
Do Not Underestimate.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:57 pmHOG,
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:01 pmIt is friggin 2008, they will totally beat the horse and the pocketbook dry if they start now. Let them start getting all the other “candidates” out in full force so we can see the crazies now, and tweak every program and message to be a silver spiked nail to render these vampires DEAD, DEAD, DEAD.
Why, oh why, do the Republic partians flock to people who hear God speaking to them. As a wise man once said, If you speak to God, you are praying. If God speaks to you, you have schizophrenia. Let’s all work towards universal health care in the United States, so that folks like these can get their badly needed medications!
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:04 pmImpeach,while There’s Still Time!
Hemlock for Gadflies Says:
Three words:
Do . . . Not . . . Underestimate
Yes, this guy is a Christianist. Yes, this guy is has extreme right-wing views. Yes, this guy is not Sarah Palin — he’s smart, he does well in interviews, he’s personable.
He is, in short, a potentially dangerous competitor.
Do Not Underestimate.
57 million people voted for that old coot and Bible Spice, so point taken. I never underestimate the stupidity of The American electorate, 2004 proved that to me (2000 was bad enough, 2004 was a disgrace)
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 pmHuckabee is a Christian zealot, can speak well, and can be personable. Plus he’s a WASP.
That doesn’t mean he could have won any Kerry states in the gen. election that he failed to in the primaries.
GOP candidates, other than Paul, do not give enough IDEAS. They basically burned their promises in 2000 and lost all trust.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 pmWhat he is fluke. He won governor because New Orleans people were displaced.
What has he done for NO lately?
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm‘Family Values’ again…
While the country and the world is suffering from a big economical problems,and while we have two wars with no end in sight, Republicans still talking ‘family values’.
Republicans seem not to learn from the last two big elections lessons that selling ‘family values’ when people have no jobs,and no health coverage and no security will not work.
We do not elect a preacher..we elect a president who runs the government using collected tax dollars wisely and get us out of wars and financial problems. A president who has a plan..and not just selling us ‘family values’ talk.
Unless Republicans understand this..they will be losing and shrinking even more in numbers.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:42 pm#23 Game of Life: What Jindal has(n’t) done for New Orleans is, to the national conservative electorate, largely irrelevant. And, frankly, the less he’s done the better as far as they’re concerned.
Let’s keep our eyes on the ball. The year to think about isn’t 2012 — it’s 2010. And historically the governing party LOSES seats in the mid-terms. Assuming that pattern continues, the Republicans would be coming off a “win” in January 2011 — exactly the time frame that Jindal would need to ride the wave of positive media frames over the “Republican recovery”.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:46 pmHemlock for Gadflies Says:
I agree 100% this guy is no Palin. He is VERY smart he is also competent and gets his way. He is an all new level of dangerous from Sarahcudda.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:27 pmThis is going to be intolerable if we start the 2012 campaign now. The last two years before this election was bad enough.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:08 pmI have said before, and I’ll say it again. Don’t take Bobby Jindal lightly. He is very smart, savvy, personable and popular in Louisiana. All you out there making fun of his first name, or comparing him to Sarah Palin are making a huge mistake.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:16 pmHe may not have his sights on 2012, but perhaps 2016. He is still very young and will have the right amount of “seasoning” by then.
I agree with Hemlock… Do Not Underestimate.
I think the nation is more sick of Jesus running things than campaigns, Bobby Jindalingoo. Now go up to Iowa and bash fags for the weekend. There’s a good pukabeara.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:32 pmwas there an exorcism going on?
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:03 pmJindal is smart?
Oh really?
Any so-called “minority” in the US who’s a repug isn’t so smart.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:20 pmtired of elections stolen from us,
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pmjust like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeXpwabuUbY
Hemlock for Gadflies Says:
Let’s keep our eyes on the ball. The year to think about isn’t 2012 — it’s 2010. And historically the governing party LOSES seats in the mid-terms. Assuming that pattern continues, the Republicans would be coming off a “win” in January 2011 — exactly the time frame that Jindal would need to ride the wave of positive media frames over the “Republican recovery”.
Well said. Mid-term elections will be arriving, unfortunately, sooner than we realize. I’m sick to death of politics right now, and would enjoy a breather. But Hemlock is definately right here.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 pmTrue, the Democrats are “supposed to” lose some seats in 2010.
Of course they were all but printing Rudy v. Hillary ballots one year ago, so what’s supposed to happen can evaporate.
Ixnay on the 2010, IMO. 2008 isn’t even over, there’s Georgia!
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:50 pmLouisiana Masala. Why do I think even four years of cheerleading by goopers won’t make an Asian exorcist that sucked as governor palatable, to the left-center America? LOL
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:51 pmOh and party seat losses might not be bad. If the Dem isn’t getting the job done, get an independent in there.
Hopefully they pass the bills that are pretty much consensus, then show some splits over more progressive measures vs. corporatism.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:56 pmI believe what will happen is that the spineless dems will lose to dems that have a spine.
repugs can forget about winning a dog show let alone anything to do with the government for years to come.
Reid days are numbered.
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 pmNew Orleans and Iowa are getting “jindaled”–sounds terribly kinky somehow
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 pmI love the parade of people going to Iowa and announcing they aren’t running for president in ‘12. What other reason would anybody have to visit Iowa? It’s IOWA. If you’re not either involved in the corn industry or looking at a bid in the next Presidential cycle, then there’s no reason of national importance to be there.
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:23 pmThe man thinks “The Exorcist” is a documentary…bring that up every time he speaks and see what he does!
November 24th, 2008 at 8:04 amThe GOP will never chose Jindal as their nominee for president. He’s too brown for them. Kindal can talk all that culture warrior-crap as much as he wants, but it won’t change the reality of the racist base of his party.
November 24th, 2008 at 9:47 am