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GOP sees Bobby 'The Exorcist' Jindal as its Obama for 2012

by: Pam Spaulding

Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 10:59:44 AM EST


No lie. Boy this party is in more trouble than I thought. Now that the bloom is off of the Sarah Palin rose, apparently GOP movers and shakers are ready to gamble on the governor of Louisiana. Must be that whole diversity thing nagging at them. Sorry pals, he's still a fundie.
Like the president-elect, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is young (37), accomplished (a Rhodes scholar) and, as the son of Indian immigrants, someone familiar with breaking racial and cultural barriers. He came to Iowa to deliver a pair of speeches, and his mere presence ignited talk that the 2012 presidential campaign has begun here, if coyly. Already, a fierce fight is looming between him and other Republicans -- former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who arrived in Iowa a couple of days before him, and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who is said to be coming at some point -- for the hearts of social conservatives.

..."The Republicans really have no choice except to look at some people more youthful if they want to have a better chance of winning," said Betty E. Johnson, an independent and the wife of a Cedar Rapids pastor, who voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 but who went for Obama over 72-year-old John McCain. "I liked Obama's energy and hope. I don't know, but maybe a younger person would give Republicans a feeling of more energy, openness."

Exactly -- a feeling of more openness. It takes more than being born in the last half of the century to actually project a nod to diversity and openness, but whatever, the GOP is all about imagery and imagination rather than reality. Look at the sea of pale old folks who attended its convention. But I guess fronting is about as good as the Republicans can do.
....Meanwhile, others around the country were talking him up. No less an aspiring kingmaker than Steve Schmidt, the chief strategist of McCain's failed presidential bid, sees Jindal as the Republican Party's destiny. "The question is not whether he'll be president, but when he'll be president, because he will be elected someday." The anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist believes, too, that Jindal is a certainty to occupy the White House, and conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh has described him as "the next Ronald Reagan."

..."If anything, McCain's candidacy suggests that age is not always a positive -- and sometimes is a negative," Norquist says. "As Republicans, you have a real problem now with younger voters and immigrants. If you were going to central casting for a candidate to deal with all that, who do you have? Jindal. He is young, and he looks young. . . . He's a great communicator. And his record is that he's sharp and quick with policy."

Jindal supporters regularly evoke the Reagan parallel, fueled by a confidence that their hero's brand of social and fiscal conservatism, coupled with his sunny folksiness on the stump, can rekindle the Reagan flame.

Wait -- Reagan!? I thought that Sarah Palin was the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, according to his son Michael:
Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she...Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.
Anyway, this bit of business below the fold is the nugget to pay attention to...
Pam Spaulding :: GOP sees Bobby 'The Exorcist' Jindal as its Obama for 2012
Jindal is his own invention, in the mold of an Obama. Born in Louisiana as Piyush Jindal to highly educated immigrants from India, he decided as a young child to nickname himself "Bobby," after his favorite character on the TV show "The Brady Bunch." Raised as a Hindu, he converted to Catholicism while in college and later wrote a lengthy, intimate story that provided a window on his religious evolution, in a manner that fairly calls to mind Obama's books about his own grappling with issues of self-identity.

...The record is still evolving, like the rest of him. But social conservatives like what they have heard about the public and private Jindal: his steadfast opposition to abortion without exceptions; his disapproval of embryonic stem cell research; his and his wife Supriya's decision in 1997 to enter into a Louisiana covenant marriage that prohibits no-fault divorce in the state; and his decision in June to sign into law the Louisiana Science Education Act, a bill heartily supported by creationists that permits public school teachers to educate students about both the theory of "scientific design" and criticisms of Darwinian evolutionary concepts.

Yes, there we are. Nothing new, just a new hue to the same bible based policy promotion by the GOP. No one is going to be fooled by this guy.

Let's just take a look at some of the fun stuff about Bobby Jindal that was unearthed this cycle and tell me if these posts from the Blend files reflect change or more of the same...

* McCain VP short-lister Bobby Jindal's exorcist work.

in an essay Jindal wrote in 1994 for the New Oxford Review, a serious right-wing Catholic journal, Jindal narrated a bizarre story of a personal encounter with a demon, in which he participated in an exorcism with a group of college friends. And not only did they cast out the supernatural spirit that had possessed his friend, Jindal wrote that he believes that their ritual may well have cured her cancer.
And more...

* Bobby 'The Exorcist' Jindal to let anti-discrimination law expire


* Jindal draws a blank when asked about McCain's 'big ideas'

* Bobby 'Exorcist' Jindal ready to sign off on stealth creationism bill
* Jindal: intelligent design is legitimate science

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so, instead of Chuck Norris
we'll have Mel Gibson campaigning for him.  Either way, he still smacks of someone aching for secular law to match his bible

DREAM TICKET!!!
Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease.....

[ Parent ]
Been there ...
In 2000, I hoped that Bush would defeat McCain in the Republican primary, because surely no one would vote for that petulant, idiotic cowboy.  I no longer wish for the most ridiculous nominee from the other side.  Because sometimes, children, nightmares do come true.

"There are two kinds of people in this world -- the kind who separate the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."  -- Gloria Steinem

[ Parent ]
mmmmmm now I'm just craving an almond joy


[ Parent ]
I doubt Palin
will play second fiddle to anyone like Jindal now that the lower forty-eight know who she is.

Fetch my pearls, I need to clutch them!

[ Parent ]
The good news about Jindal...
is that he won't be popping up out of thin air just a couple of months before the 2012 elections the way Palin did.  We have 3+ years to be sick of him before the real games begin.

And honestly, I've been tired of hearing all about Jindal for a couple of years now.

When are the Republicans going to realize that elephant ain't goin' nowhere until they move off that pathetic base of theirs?


I wouldn't laugh off Jindal
Louisiana was so screwed up (kinda like post Bush presidency)so that just being adequate seems a pleasant relief. Jindal was praised so far down here as getting rid of some of the old boys PERKS. I wasn't particularly impressed with his hurricane relief after Gustav. I would fear Pawleny more than Jindal, Pawlenty seems to have better political skills.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


My guess is we haven't seen the end of Huckabigot neither


What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


My guess is we haven't seen the end of Huckabigot neither


What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


Um...
But what about their base, who just couldn't bring themselves to vote for Obama for SOME reason or other?

Are these people really ready to vote for - ahem - a brown person as President?  Let alone someone who actually was born non-Christian, the way they accuse Obama of being.

Something tells me Jindal is going to be a harder sell to the Republican base than they think.


No worries
Hardcore old racists/bigots/sexists (like my dad) will NEVER vote for anyone other than "white man in a suit" for POTUS. Jindal doesn't have a chance.

NEVER. EVER. NO WAY IN FUCKING HELL. They will abstain from voting instead.


being bobby
The fundies still think of Catholicism, like Mormonism, as a blasphemous religion (only to be partnered with to ensure biblical law is codified in civil law) so, in their minds, Jindal just traded one polytheistic religion for another.  It's going to be rough being Bobby Jindal if he tries to run for POTUS in 2012.

[ Parent ]
They may vote for him anyway,
in the same way that a lot of, er, Reagan Democrats (to use a polite term) held their noses and voted for Obama.

But the prospect of Obama running for reelection against Jindal warms the cocktails of my heart, as Jimmy Durante used to say.  A presidential election with TWO candidates who aren't white?!  That's why I think that, for all the buzz about him, the GOP will never nominate Jindal.  Too many of their base voters would simply stay home--or have nervous breakdowns.  The Republicans are the party of white, reactionary America.  If Jindal wasn't (like Icky Ricky Santorum) so heavily into popery , which dulls the mind and short-circuits the ability to reason, he'd have figured that out by now.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu


[ Parent ]
"...cocktails of my heart..."
Heh!  :)

That is a good one!


[ Parent ]
I am boycotting Presidential politics for at least 2 1/2 years. So there.
Silly me.  I am actually going to put 2012 out of my mind - as should we all for at least the next couple of years.

President Elect Obama has called upon ALL American's to get involved and work together for the future of our country.

If we focus on improving our country - one household, one neighborhood, one community at a time - 2012 will be moot.

Obama will win re-election.

And 2016 is soon enough to worry.

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.


Amen, Snooky!
No Presidential politics allowed for at least 2 1/2 years here either.  Let's focus on getting the one we wanted to do what we want!

[ Parent ]
I am with you on the Presidential Election 2012,
  Obama isn't even in the White House yet, and the looney toons of the right are already calling for his impeachment.  Something along the lines of a preemptive impeachment to prevent Obama from doing damage to this country.  Can anyone say the Bush Doctrine?

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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It depends on just how crazy folks get
Hopefully not very.

Of course, mass "religious insanity" is reigning from West Virginia to Oklahoma, but that's not enough for an electoral college victory.

Soul Force ought to schedule their next Equality Ride only in 2008 Red States.  


speaking of religious insanity
did you see the bumper stickers at cafe press?



[ Parent ]
Iran - My Thoughts Exactly
One Country on Earth where Religion is above all.

[ Parent ]
Republican Insanity
Reagan: "Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she...Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around".  Does Reagan really believe that his dad was as stupid as Palin?  Geez, I was not fond of the guy at all, but that is rather insulting to his Dads memory for sure.

Yes, I am certain that the Repubs will nominate a 'good christianist' like Jindal in 2012.  They mostly blame the McCain campaign implosian because McCain was never really 'one of them good christians'.

Jindal has all the correcct Repub talking points such as creationism, no stem cell research, etc.  

vanhattan


Yes, Reagan was that stupid
It's been fairly well documented that he used to recount the  plots of old movies (A Wing and a Prayer was one of his favorites) to illustrate and justify why his policies were good, without ever mentioning that they were movie plots, not history--assuming he even knew the difference.  He believed, or at least expected is audience to believe, that they were true, that what he was recounting was verifiable history.  

If basing our national policy on the Warner Bros. film vault isn't stupid, what is?

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu


[ Parent ]
They're still stuck on pining away to resurrect Reagan?
GOOD!  

As long as they do that they will only fail as they deserve to!  NOTHING more exposes how little future they have than does their endless, pathetic, pining for 1980!


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