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The GOP right suggests some gumbo to spice up McCain’s ticket
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a youthful 36, is earning plaudits from the GOP’s rightward side as a running mate for Republican presidential presumptive John McCain.
Cybercast News Service, a creation of the conservative Media Research Council chairman Brent Bozell, gives Jindal a plug today, with endorsements from Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed.
According to CNS:
“Bobby Jindal is a great American,” Grover Norquist, president of the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), told Cybercast News Service. “He is great on guns, great on taxes, a Roman Catholic, a Southerner and an Indian-American. Bobby Jindal would be great for the GOP and perfect for McCain.”

“Bobby Jindal is one of the more outstanding shining lights of the Republican Party,” said Bill Donohue, president of the conservative Catholic League. “Everything we have learned about him so far is very positive.”

“Bobby Jindal is a rising star in the Republican Party — he is an outstanding governor,” stated Ralph Reed, a political strategist and former president of the conservative Christian Coalition. “He has moved swiftly to recover from [Hurricane] Katrina and also usher in a new era of ethics and standards in Louisiana.”
Jindal was sworn in only this January.
The article argues that Jindal’s youth would offset questions about McCain’s age. Jindal would be the second youngest vice president if he’s selected and if the ticket wins.
Apparently, Jindal-mania has been brewing since Febuary, since radio guru Rush Limbaugh compared the new Louisiana governor to Ronald Reagan.
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Comments
By RaferJanders
May 28, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this
They talk about Obama being wet behind the ears, Just because a Fat, Pill head, says he is Reagan does not make it so. All I see is assination insurance
By JanderRafers
May 28, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Jindal has done more in 36 years than Obama has done in 46. As former director of the Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals, he took a department $400 million in debt and turned it into a department generating $220 million in profit in just two years time. Chief advisor to the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, three years as a US Congressman, and governor of Louisiana.
What has Obama done aside from campaign for himself and listen to his hate-spewing pastor?
By Debbie
May 28, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this
My family lives in Louisiana and they love Jindal.
I think he would make an excellent choice for VP. It would excite the conservative base….
By Chuck Scherl
May 28, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
Isn’t Jindal too young to be VP ? I thought the VP had the same eligibility requirements as President… e.g 45 years of age.
By Geoff
May 28, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
Please, no. I would like to vote for Sen. McCain but I cannot vote for Bobby Jindal. His belief that he has partaken in exorcisms, his toothless ethics reform (judges are not held accountable and no body is named to enforce the ethics reform) and his work with DHH scare me. Yes he saved a lot of money when he cleaned up DHH, but he also cut a lot of services and now people that depend on state services for special needs must make extremely long commutes in most parts of the state.
Tim Barfield, the current Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Labor appointed by Gov. Jindal said recently (May 14th) that the biggest professions we need to bring to Louisiana state-run facilities are doctors and nurses. Gov. Jindal still has a hiring freeze on all state facilities for - you guessed it - doctors and nurses.
Please, pick anyone else!
By Churchill
May 28, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this
Brush up on the constitution, Chuck. You are wrong. I know it is not your fault, you probably did not take a civics or government class, while you attended your government-run school. Really, how embarrassing!!
By TXCourtney
May 28, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
Article II, Section I, Clause 5:
“No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
By The Snark
May 28, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
The United States Constitution (Article II, Section 1) requires that one must be 35 to be eligible for the Office of the Presidency. There are minimum age requirements to be a Senator and Representative, but there actually is no age requirement to be Vice President. Of course, if the Vice President is under 35, then he (or she) cannot assume the Presidency upon the death, resignation or incapacity of the President, so it doesn’t make much sense to name a VP candidate who will not be 35 or older on inauguration day.
The more interesting question is what are the requirements to be a “radio guru”? Apparently it doesn’t require any actual experience or education in government, and you can base your opinions on “facts” that are little more than urban legends or Republican party talking points. While you’re high on illegally obtained pills.
By Loyola
May 28, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this
Roma Vincit Omnia!
Roman Catholic-trained McCain and rabid Son-of-Mother Church Jindal must now rise to power and build on the success of George W. Bush!
Billions of dollars have been lost due to judgments by liberal judges against Holy Mother Church’s priests’ merely helping our youth to know the loving touch of God.
As Mother Church directs, succors and protects our faithful arriving day and night from the south, whose ancestors had stolen from them what the Anglos now called the U.S., our faithful who control the Oil Industry are shaping the conditions to place America’s Middle Class in the correct position for our completion of the Construction of the Kingdom of God, right here.
As during Vietnam and IranContra our operatives in Organized Crime and Government Intelligence and Law Enforcement are doing magnificently with their sales of Afghan heroin in the cities and streets of America.
Our prison industry is flourishing.
Soon, with McCain and Jindal in the White House (we still have five of the nine Justices on the High Court), we can build better camps than we did in Germany, Austria and Poland. Protestants, Jews, Baptists and Freemasons will bear the full burden for scorning us all these years.
The world is ours. It is our holy duty to help those who reject our communion to know once and for all that G-d gave us the world and all on it.
Bush has done well. The McClellan matter must be dismissed by our minions in the media. To discredit him get the films of him and Mark Foley after that party at the White House…but be sure to blur the images of Bush and Rove.
By Kevin in Houston
May 28, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
Wouldn’t a Jindal VP add some curry to McCain’s ticket, not gumbo? (or maybe both?)
By Bob Wynn
May 28, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
The Jindal-Reagan comparison came from this blog:
http://oddnewsawards.blogspot.com/2008/02/louisianas-retro-governor-is-next.html
By Bob
May 28, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this
Here is an article that explains why Jindal should not be the V.P.
http://oddnewsawards.blogspot.com/2008/02/jindal-is-way-too-smart-to-be-mccains.html
By Susan
May 28, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
Ok. It is a given that Louisiana politics is like no other state. Jindal has already had to pay an ethics fine and only a few months in office. He delivered poorly as a Congressman and was elected as Governor because he told the voters he could access federal funds more easily as Governor than a Congressman. Of course, they bought into that malarkey seeing as how everyone is after Katrina money. His first agenda as Governor is to do away with all business and corporation taxes - just tax the working class, afte all they can afford it once they get the Katrina money from the rest of us taxpayers.
By Yo Mama
May 28, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
‘Swill,
You must of fallen of the little bus onto your head the day they taught manners at the retard camp
By JC Watts
May 28, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
How ‘bout McCain/Watts-we all no that brother could bowl better Obama-what a wuss.
By Churchill
May 28, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
Wow. The libs hate Jindal? Is this just more of the racism that you guys have been showcasing during your Democrat primary? Hey, libs, keep your racism to yourselves. Jindal is a good candidate. But McCain has no reason to pick a veep until our convention. It will be after the Riots the democrat party will have in late Aug. He needs to keep the speculation up and refrain from making a choice until he knows what the left’s ticket will look like. As side from the fact that it will headlined by either a liberal socialist from IL or NY. Peace.
By Copyleft
May 28, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this
I see Churchill is still confused. The Socialist Party candidate is Brian Moore of Florida; Obama is the Democratic Party candidate.
C’mon, at least TRY to sound like you know what you’re talking about! Do I compare McLame to the American Nazi Party candidate just because they have similar goals and followers? Whoops, I guess I do! (snicker)
By Churchill
May 28, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this
Sure, right Copyleft. I should have called them Stalinists, that is more accurate. My bad. Peace.
By ByteMan
May 28, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this
Picking someone like Jindal would be very much in keeping with my pet theory that McCain needs to pick one of the rising stars within the GOP for VP so that he can help position him/her — win or lose — for a run at the big chair in 2012. McCain/Jindal somehow wins, he gets to be VP; they lose, and it’s not going to be Jindal’s “fault” and he’ll have huge name recognition on a national level AND still have his job as governor. It’s a win-win for the GOP VP pick, provided that McCain actually buys into the same theory and picks a rising star and not someone who won’t run for Pres in 2012, like Richard Lugar.
By BARR RULES
May 28, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this
Mc-old-fart should pick someone willing to wipe food of his chin when he dribbles…
By Churchill
May 28, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this
RU/ BARR ‘08
By A passer by
May 28, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this
To Geoff and Byteman: McCain’s candidacy/presidency is 100% about policy approached with good old-fashioned judgement (and that’s why people vote for him), not about someone’s political carrer. Whatever about Jindal, America matters.
To Loyola: Yes, Roma vincit omnia, including your dellirant non-logic. Give people a break from “scientific Marxism”, would you.
By CurryMan
May 29, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
I’m an Indian-American and NO WAY will I vote for a McLame-Jingles ticket. Jindal is a traitor to minorities. He’s a black faced fraud. The republicans are hiring more of these darkie clowns to fool the public into thinking it’s an “inclusive” party when 99% of the party is made up of rich whites (and some not-so-rich dummass whites).
Good luck traitor. Spread that fiction of a religion to the dark masses.
By Jane
May 29, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
Selecting Mr. Jindal as a running mate would discourage independents from voting for Mr. McCain. Mr. Jindal’s views on teaching “intelligent design” in schools make independents feel uneasy. I think that many people would rather not vote or vote for a Democrat. We want Mr. McCain to win.
By wtf
May 29, 2008 10:56 PM | Link to this
So we have one Negro running for president and one getting elected for Vice president? GOD help us!
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