Jindal-Palin, the Obama-Hillary of 2012?
Tonight’s spotlight on Bobby Jindal to rebut Obama’s speech to Congress shows Republican reverting to the finest traditions of show business, type casting, in the wake of last year’s election disaster.
Just as Marilyn Monroe begot Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren and one TV reality show spawned dozens more, the GOP now has an African-American chairman and is pushing forward Jindal and Sarah Palin to duke it out in the 2012 primaries–a plot twist with two demographically appealing young governors of different genders to repeat last year’s electoral success of the Democratic senators.
Like all type casting and knockoffs, the problem is a severe drop in quality of the product. Sarah Palin, it is amply clear, is no Hillary Clinton, and the Indian-American Louisiana governor is showing some of Barack Obama’s rhetorical style but little of the substance.
Nonetheless, GOP hopes are high.
11 Responses to “Jindal-Palin, the Obama-Hillary of 2012?”
The GOP doesn't know its own base if this is the case.
The majority of republicans are lower working class whites who would sooner put their steer in the Whitehouse than “a darkie” or “some skirt”…
On second thought…Palin/Jindal in 2012!!
Not an appeal to the base, they're already locked up. This is an attempt to reach out to all the n*gger loving homos out there – you know, democrats and independents.
Are these comments serious, or just bad snark?
Whoa.
Anyway, I just wanted to add that I disagree with Jindal a lot, but I think he actually does have quite a bit of substance to him. Some other blogger on this site was talking about Jindal the policy wonk just yesterday.
Is this post serious, or just bad snark?
Real classy, PWT.
I don't know much about Jindal so it's tough to comment, but Palin should be a non-starter. I'm essentially a moderate-right and it was obvious to me that her selection was a move of desperation and political calculation. She simply was not qualified to be VP. In a way it's too bad – if she had been given more time to develop politically she does have charisma.
The chance of anyone beating Obama in 2012 is zero. The media is in love with him and blacks in the media will function as mouth pieces for Obama for the next four years. Anyone who pays attention to the media should stop paying attention when someone like Gwen Ifill or Robin Givhan says something about Obama. They will go four years making excuses and being flakcs for the Obama Administration.
The incompetence of the Bush Administration gives Obama any excuse he needs for failures.
The real question is whether there will still be a Republican Party around in 2016 to have a primary season. My guess is that 2016, at least 20 states will no longer have functional Republican Party and if the same candidate wins the Democratic Iowa caucus and the Democratic New Hampshire primary, the presidential election will be over a year before the inauguration.
The only question for future presidential elections is whether Obama will hand pick his successor or whether the Democratic race will be competitive. Worrying about the Republican candidates in 2012 and 2016 is about as pointless as worrying about the Libertarian candidates.
Before another lefty blogger posts up another article respecting his/her disingenuous concern with the goings-on or outlook for the Republican Party………can someone tell me if they actually believe them?
Why waste bandwidth with opinions that are defacto irrelevant?
Even more importantly, don't you have something just slightly more important to focus your attention on?
These past couple of weeks of posts call to mind a scene in which the bridge crew of the Titanic, spotting the tip of the iceberg ahead, start discussing how they are going to spend their days once they get to New York.
I was thinking the same thing before I read your post. The GOP base would literally be going schizophrenic, freaking out about “the negro” (I know Jindal is not black, but they won't) trying to take away our women, and their love for Sarah Palin Ph.d. lol XD
I think it looks more like Palin/Jindal as well. Polls have shown that the GOP base simply does not care that the American center regards Palin as a joke.
Oh yeah, Palin's a real conservative, if by conservative you mean socialist. Palin runs a socialist government in Alaska, redistributing wealth from the oil companies to the citizens of Alaska. I agree with the policy, but I just thought I'd point out the hypocrisy there.
And I think I'll point out the idiocy of posting one comment where you point out that the American center regards Palin as a joke and following it immediately with a comment saying you agree with her policies, SmoothJazz.