Jindal Revolution
Why so blue? Surber on GOP victory, near-victory, prospects:
A Democrat was elected to Congress from Massachusetts this week. Yup and a dog bit a man, a girl fell for some cheap line and a “cashier’s check” from a Nigerian e-mailer bounced. But as my friend Jules Crittenden of the Boston Herald pointed out, the margin was just 2 points — in a 10-point Democratic district.
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On Saturday, Louisiana elected Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal as governor after the Democratic incumbent Kathleen “Katrina” Blanco realized that she was going to get beat like a rug. He got 53% of the vote in a 12-man race.
Blanco beat Jindal for the job in the last gubernatorial election. And she sucked at the job. She screwed up Hurricanes Katrina and Rita so badly that half the people of New Orleans did not come back.
Hang on … I thought Bush was responsible for Katrina, coming and going! Global warming and Iraq turned the corrupt, violent, sub-sea-level swamp that was New Orleans into a … corrupt, violent sub-sea-level swamp! GOP is rewarded?
Surber suggests voter dissatisfaction with war, etc., is not going to translate into voter embrace of Hillary and Democratic policies.
Think not 1992, when Bush 41 was tossed out for saying “read my lips” and then breaking his no-tax pledge.
Think 1980. There may not be a Reagan out there, but if someone can make the whole shebang work again, America is hiring.
Louisiana just hired Bobby Jindal. Oxford educated. Young. Competent. The presidential candidates are on notice, as is Congress.
There is more and more talk these days about the inevitability of Hillary as the Democratic nominee and as the next president. But it’s a long way to November ‘08, and at this point her competition does not include people who are going to make an issue of co-president Bill and paint his beloved administration for what it was. The partying prelude to 9/11. Votes in blue Mass and Louisiana suggests that voter dissatisfaction doesn’t not equal voter derangement. GOP take note.
AP on Jindal and his win here.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:48 am on Sunday, October 21, 2007
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October 21st, 2007 at 10:58 am
The people saying Hillary is going to be the next president are the people who want a Democrat to be president, even if it has to be Hillary. They are not the people who are going to be responsible for voting her in.
October 21st, 2007 at 11:32 am
I’m not convinced that The Glacier is “unstoppable”; that’s a line from the Dem spin doctors. It’s possible, I concede, but not a given.
Surber is correct in his analysis. Show us an intelligent candidate genuinely interested in serving America*, and that’s a winner.
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*: This automatically disqualifies Hillary!!!!
October 21st, 2007 at 12:53 pm
While I am overjoyed at the possibilities Louisiana has as a result of this happy event, I am ideologically stunned. Democrats have run that state for decades completely uninhibited by dissent from mean, racist, selfish right wingers. Hell, it was the Soviet Union writ small in that regard. If everything the Left has lectured to us about education, crime, race and welfare for the last 40 years were true It should have been heaven on earth. A veritable workingman’s paradise. No crime, no poverty, no racism, no material inequality, no medical bills, two chickens in every pot and nobody has to pluck chickens. The fact that it was the exact opposite, with a huge portion of the population effectively neutered by socialist dependency should rock even the nuanced grandees in the liberal salons and media house organs of the sharing and caring set.
Oh, and with Gov elect Jindal’s clear eyed olive skinned good looks and beautiful young family, you’d think his upset of an entrenched, corrupt, powerful political machine would be heralded by the media as the second coming of Camelot!
It won’t. They will immediately launch into the criminalization of policy, hypocrisy detection, scandal mongering attack mode. And they will get away with it because they are the nice guys and they mean well.
October 21st, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I almost feel sorry for Jindal. Louisiana’s corruption goes deep and won’t be easily dealt with. Perhaps the people finally became embarrassed to be seen nekkid in the news. The debauched body politic was an ugly sight to see under the bright lights, even with the MSM trying like hell to spin it off onto the feds.
Don’t count Hillary out. The Chinese have a lot of dollars they need to recycle.
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:31 pm
“…voter dissatisfaction with war, etc.,…”
I’m becoming more and more convinced that it’s not fighting that Americans dislike, it’s losing.
Americans love a winner, and if Iraq continues to improve, Americans may prove quite satisfied with war.