I have to admit that watching Jindal self destruct was amusing. If this is the best the GOP can do then they just ought to declare bankruptcy.
“You know, I think Bobby Jindal is a very promising politician,” said New York Times columnist David Brooks, appearing on PBS, “and I oppose the stimulus because I thought it was poorly drafted. But to come up at this moment in history with a stale “government is the problem,” “we can’t trust the federal government” – it’s just a disaster for the Republican Party.”
I have to admit that I am really disappointed in this. I’ve seen Bobby Jindal speak on a couple of topics and even though I disagree with some of his positions, I’ve been impressed with his ability to provide reason and thought behind them. Now, it seems like he’s just repeating mantras.
I hope he gets over this phase. I had hoped for a bright future for him and still do, but not if this is the direction he actually wants to go.
OTOH, Jindal looked like a rock star compared to Pelosi. All she needed was pom poms and a mini skirt and she could have been that stupid cheerleader from Saturday Night Live.
OTOH, Jindal looked like a rock star compared to Pelosi. All she needed was pom poms and a mini skirt and she could have been that stupid cheerleader from Saturday Night Live.
Agreed. Someone needs to help her dress too.
while I am not a fan of the Messiah’s politics, I’ve always been a huge fan of his public speaking ability. He IS the master salesperson (and why he “sold” so many people…but I digress).
However, his advisors better have a chat with the TV directors and take control, because nothing works great oratory crafstmanship than having complete visual meltdown (Biden and Pelosi behind him). Those two just LOOK dumber than a box of rocks. My girlfriend even commented that she thought Pelosi had to go to the bathroom or something because of all the twitching and weird facial expressions she was making.
Again, this isn’t a comment about their politics…just a noting that while Jindahl wasn’t very impressive for me either (it looked too staged/rehearsed and was quite robotic), at least he didn’t have two moronic looking twits behind him making it worse
The vice president and speaker of the house always sit behind the President at this speech, it was Cheney and Pelosi behind Bush last year, I doubt Obama had a choice.
I understand who sits behind the President. I also understand how their visibility has been controlled in the past. It was simply a comment that they may want to change their depth of field on the cameras, angles, etc.
I wouldn’t count Jindal out too quickly, he has a lot of talent and is someone the GOP could do well to rally around. I did not see his speech last night so cannot comment but from what I have heard it was disappointing.
I have read a lot about him and from what I have seen, the GOP could do a lot worse (*coughPailincough). He has a few years to get himself ready but if he does run for the nomination later, he will be a force to be reckoned with.
You guys are so predictable; President Obama makes a great speech, its followed by a dud from your new rising star Bobby Jindal, so your fallback position is to make fun of Nancy Pelosi’s mannerisms and dress. I hope she has a long 8 years of taking your shit.
Anyway, back to Jindal. The GOP made a big mistake picking him to rebutt Obama last night; first and foremost he is clearly out of his depth and not ready for primetime yet. Obama is a rare political talent and you guys just threw a rookie in against him and he got his ass handed to him. More importantly, Jindal is running gor the GOP nomination in 4 years, and we all know that the first thing a candidate always does is shore up the base…that 20% of people in the country who currently think the GOP is doing a good job. Jindal ran hard to the right last night, much further to the right than a national audience has a taste for. If the GOP want to remain in the wilderness for the next 8 years dithering in their own ineptitude and waiting for the Dems to self destruct, then roll out Palin for the next State of the Union rebuttal, and Hayley Barbour after that, then and maybe Michelle Bachmann should be given a turn too just for giggles.
The GOP is running at about 20% in the polls right now and people are not happy with their obstructionism and negativity. They need to find a new message and a new person to deliver it because the current cast of characters aren’t getting it done.
I have to admit that I am really disappointed in this. I’ve seen Bobby Jindal speak on a couple of topics and even though I disagree with some of his positions, I’ve been impressed with his ability to provide reason and thought behind them. Now, it seems like he’s just repeating mantras.
That and he went for folksy, and folksy really didn’t work for him. Add in some bad temeprompter skills, and my Republican until 2005 husband was howling with laughter at him.
He was disastrous. If he’s the best they got, they’re in a lot of trouble. Then again, he’s no worse than Palin and certainly much smarter.
Huntsman might be the guy to take advantage of this failure. The problem is that he may end up in a Romney-like situation - an reasonably moderate guy who looks at the landscape and decides that he needs to go hard-right in order to win the nomination, and then dooms his general campaign while looking like a hack doing it.
Jindal thinks monitoring volcanoes is wasteful. I agree. And while we’re at it, let’s do away with National Hurrican Center. I bet Jindal would support that.
His speech was really bad. Drill baby drill, government is bad, tax cuts are the solution to every problem…
He is also trying to be all folksy and it doesn’t work…
He was on meet the press on Sunday and came across much better than this speech. I think his handlers or “image consultants” or whatever they are did him a grave disservice.
