Bob Schieffer had Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on CBS’s Face the Nation — and both indicated that the Republican party must change if it wants to rebound.
Jindal shows why he is a rising Republican star (excellent on television and issue-oriented) and stresses that the Republican party must be more than “the part of ‘no.'” Gingrich is ever the historian — blunt as always, putting the GOP’s losses in historical perspective..and he pointedly predicts that defeated Vice Presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin will not be the Republican party’s de facto leader. A solid segment (which Schieffer always produces):
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.