Newt to save the G “Old” P? Yeah…ok….
I heard someone touting Newt Gingrich today as the “reformer” of the Republican party. Then I heard someone else mention Fred Thompson. I thought to myself…are these guys serious?? Didn’t Republicans learn anything on election day? Then I stumbled onto an interesting interview with Governor Bobby Jindal from Louisiana.
If the GOP really wants to become the G “New” P, how about something out of the ordinary? Something fresh. Something that’s just…well…wickedly different. I know, how about someone who isn’t a relic of the past…someone maybe…like…Bobby Jindal.
Now that’s a refreshing step in the right direction. Better yet, how about they start listening to the issues people actually care about. Here’s a Hint: Google and twitter trends…that might be a good start.
Jindal voted yes on making the PATRIOT Act permanent, voted in favor of the 2006 Military Commissions Act, supported a constitutional amendment banning flag burning, and voted for the Real ID Act of 2005. Jindal has an A rating from Gun Owners of
America.
Jindal also supports co-payments in Medicaid.
In 2006, Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (H.R. 4761), a bill to eliminate the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling over the U.S. outer continental shelf, which prompted the watchdog group Republicans for Environmental Protection to issue him “an environmental harm demerit“.
Jindal supports the teaching of intelligent design in public schools.
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Sounds like the same “Old” stuff to me.
Jonathan,
What’s your point? Jindal is a conservative Republican, not a liberal Democrat. A lot of these races are won not on issues, but on leadership skills. Obama won a lot of votes because he’s the liberal version of Ronald Reagan. People on all sides admire their story and see them as leaders. Elections are about issues and ideas, but they are also about people. If it was just about issues then we’d just vote on platforms in each election and not on candidates.
The point about Gov. Jindal is that is that he’s a dynamic new leader the GOP needs. He’s young and smart and is extremely popular in LA. I really think he’s the front runner for the nomination in 2012 if he wants it.
I was referring to whether or not his politics are in touch with the people and their needs, not whether or not he is charismatic. My point is that besides his smooth facade, he promotes the same failed policies of the Republican party. My feeling is that if you re-package the same ideas with a fresh face, you won’t have much improvement. In fact, you will just dig the hole even deeper because people will be distracted by his charm.
You probably feel this way about Obama, eh? ;)
By the way, I have never understood Reagan’s attraction, beyond the obvious. He was an actor for crying out loud. The very fact that he got elected in a landslide proves the point that I am trying to make (I don’t agree with his politics at all).
James, do you really think that having all of our freedoms described in the Bill of Rights eradicated for the sake of the War on Terror is a good thing? Do you honestly believe lifting environmental protections on oil drilling has America’s best interest in mind, in terms of energy and pollution? Can you tell me that the right to own guns saves more lives every year than it destroys? Or that our already struggling education system should improve itself by teaching everyone “alternate” theories from the Bible? Because these are the ideas that Bobby Jindal and you, apparently, support.
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