McCain about to pick Jindal?

[spinning27]

WaPo reporting that McCain is heading down to Louisiana to meet with him on Wednesday.

Novak is reporting that McCain will make his VP choice known by the end of the week, perhaps to steal some of Obama's Euro trip thunder.

Please, please, please let it be true.

 

[zebracoy]

Probably a stupid question, but if chosen - and the ticket wins - who becomes the governor of Louisiana?

This has weighed on my mind for quite some time, not just about him.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

Spinning is the all-time leader of idiotic posting, but I'll say Louisiana needs Jindal more than McCain needs him.

 

[UPChip]

I believe that would be the lieutenant governor, who is Mitch Landrieu. Recognize the name? It's Sen. Mary's brother.

 

[Lamar Mundane]

READ: DESPERATION.

Say what you want about Cheney and I'll probably agree but he at least had a record.

Does anyone want a 37-year-old former state legislator one heartbeat away from the button?

I think it is admirable to choose an Indian-American but he is a evolution-hating, right-winger in the mold of W. So, good luck with all that.

 

[zagoshe]

READ: DESPERATION.

Say what you want about Cheney and I'll probably agree but he at least had a record.

Does anyone want a 37-year-old former state legislator one heartbeat away from the button?

I think it is admirable to choose an Indian-American but he is a evolution-hating, right-winger in the mold of W. So, good luck with all that.

In other words he is a younger version of the guy who just won two consecutive elections........

Yeah, I can see how terrible that would be....... :

And I hope the Republicans do pick this guy because it would be funny watching the same guys who have spent the last year telling us that experience is over rated, now try to make the case that the guy "one step from the button" on the other side of the aisle doesn't have enough experience......

 

[Beaker]

Might as well repost this here:

The real Bobby Jindal:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/fernandes

His health care follies:

Jindal also initiated cuts to the healthcare system that made it much harder for doctors to treat poor patients. From reducing Medicaid payments made to facilities that care for the mentally ill to laying off hundreds of mental health workers to denying certain prescription drugs to poor patients, Jindal's cuts were swift--and the results predictable. In 2000, shortly after Jindal's term ended, the Louisiana State Medical Society surveyed more than 600 doctors. Its report showed that 37 percent of the doctors said they were treating far fewer Medicaid patients than they were two years earlier. A further 37 percent said they had stopped accepting any new Medicaid patients.

His poor record concerning Louisiana's African-Americans:

While many have celebrated Jindal's election as a victory for people of color in the South, a closer look at his relationship with the black community reveals otherwise. Jindal has been accused of snubbing NAACP invitations and was given an F rating on issues of race for his policy choices and political stances.

His poor voting record:

Jindal's slim record as a Congressman from 2005 to 2008 is a window into this staunch conservatism. In that time he missed 427 of 2,398 votes (18 percent); GovTrack.us, the nonpartisan website that tracks elected officials' participation, gave Congressman Jindal a rating of "Exceedingly Poor relative to peers." Nevertheless, Jindal's religious bias and radical-right politics are evident in the votes he did cast. He voted no on a bill to amend the federal definition of a hate crime to include sexual orientation and gender identity. He also voted against reauthorizing and expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP). Not surprisingly, he voted against stem-cell research. He has been an advocate of teaching creationism over evolution and has passionately spoken up for this cause. Jindal has voted against a woman's right to an abortion every chance he has had, including a vote against allowing overseas military personnel the ability to use their own money to obtain abortion services in overseas military hospitals. He also voted for a bill that would require abortion providers to tell patients that an unborn fetus experiences pain during an abortion.

He's just as out there as the Huckster on some issues.

Not to mention, the guy has basically rejected his ethnic heritage by changing his name (to Bobby after the youngest kid on the Brady Bunch--makes you want to puke, doesn't it?) and calling himself an all-American kid.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

His resume is pretty comparable to Obama's, no?

 

[Dickens Cider]

His resume is pretty comparable to Obama's, no?

He has health-care follies and a poor record with the NAACP?

 

[Lamar Mundane]

Obama has passed significant legislation (ethics, nuclear security) and was against the invasion of Iraq.

Post Jindal's comparables.

thanks.

 

[crimsonace]

Obama has passed significant legislation (ethics, nuclear security) and was against the invasion of Iraq.

Post Jindal's comparables.

thanks.

All Obama had to do with that legislation was vote for it. He might have co-sponsored it, but Obama hasn't authored any bills of any significance.

Jindal does a few things for McCain ... it helps him shore up religious conservatives, who are a constituency McCain has never done well with (but must have). It adds a person of color to the GOP ticket for the first time in history (matching the Dems having a person of color on their ticket). The other thing it does is make Jindal a likely GOP star in the future, and the GOP has been in need of a new generation of strong young candidates that aren't statist nutcases like Mike Huckabee. He also provides some youthful exuberance to counteract McCain's age -- which won't look good against Obama head-to-head.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Obama has passed significant legislation (ethics, nuclear security) and was against the invasion of Iraq.

Post Jindal's comparables.

thanks.

All Obama had to do with that legislation was vote for it. He might have co-sponsored it, but Obama hasn't authored any bills of any significance.

Jindal does a few things for McCain ... it helps him shore up religious conservatives, who are a constituency McCain has never done well with (but must have). It adds a person of color to the GOP ticket for the first time in history (matching the Dems having a person of color on their ticket). The other thing it does is make Jindal a likely GOP star in the future, and the GOP has been in need of a new generation of strong young candidates that aren't statist nutcases like Mike Huckabee. He also provides some youthful exuberance to counteract McCain's age -- which won't look good against Obama head-to-head.

Jindal is a future star either way, though in this business you bever know.

 

[OTD]

Not to mention, the guy has basically rejected his ethnic heritage by changing his name (to Bobby after the youngest kid on the Brady Bunch--makes you want to puke, doesn't it?) and calling himself an all-American kid.

I think Jindal would make a hideous president, but I'm going to give him a pass on the name changing. If I were a kid growing up in Louisiana (or anywhere in this country, probably) with the name Piyush, I'd pick another name too.

 

[zagoshe]

Obama has passed significant legislation (ethics, nuclear security) and was against the invasion of Iraq.

Post Jindal's comparables.

thanks.

Oh I don't know, how about the fact that he is the executive in charge of running an entire state and is doing the closest job we have to that of running the country and that is something Obama has never had to do?

 

[Dickens Cider]

Obama has passed significant legislation (ethics, nuclear security) and was against the invasion of Iraq.

Post Jindal's comparables.

thanks.

All Obama had to do with that legislation was vote for it. He might have co-sponsored it, but Obama hasn't authored any bills of any significance.

Jindal does a few things for McCain ... it helps him shore up religious conservatives, who are a constituency McCain has never done well with (but must have). It adds a person of color to the GOP ticket for the first time in history (matching the Dems having a person of color on their ticket). The other thing it does is make Jindal a likely GOP star in the future, and the GOP has been in need of a new generation of strong young candidates that aren't statist nutcases like Mike Huckabee. He also provides some youthful exuberance to counteract McCain's age -- which won't look good against Obama head-to-head.

I hope McCain agrees with every word you just posted and picks him. I truly do.

 

[Lamar Mundane]

yeah, he's done a heck of a job running that state. When was the last time an executive from a southern state was elected President?

That's worked out well. Jindal is a future star but he has neither the charisma or the ideas Obama has.

Perhaps Jindal will learn how to be against tax cuts before you're for them, against off-shore drilling before you're for it, against Falwell before you're for him.

Obama has been a national figure for 4 years - like it or not, his speech at the 2004 Dem convention is the best since early Reagan.

Granted not worthy of being President but what is the alternative?

 

[zagoshe]

yeah, he's done a heck of a job running that state. When was the last time an executive from a southern state was elected President?

That's worked out well. Jindal is a future star but he has neither the charisma or the ideas Obama has.

Perhaps Jindal will learn how to be against tax cuts before you're for them, against off-shore drilling before you're for it, against Falwell before you're for him.

Obama has been a national figure for 4 years - like it or not, his speech at the 2004 Dem convention is the best since early Reagan.

Granted not worthy of being President but what is the alternative?

Um, the last governor or a southern state to get elected?

Bill Clinton?

Jimmy Carter?

Yeah, I can see your point.......

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Also at the Stadium Sunday with Rudy. I wouldn't read too much into it.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/20/mccain-from-double-a-to-yankee-stadium/

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Somebody who is younger than I am might be Vice President?
Yep, more evidence life has truly passed me by.

 

[Starman]

Somebody who is younger than I am might be Vice President?
Yep, more evidence life has truly passed me by.

Hell, someone younger than me might be President.

I think picking Jindal and then emphasizing his youth and energy will blow up on the Repubes big-time: it will only show, by contrast, how much youth and energy McCain does not have.

The only way that helps the GOP much is if the Dems take a grizzled-old D.C. vet (Gephardt??) as VP, which will emphasize Obama's lack of experience.

It can be a big mistake to select people for your ticket to offset your supposed "weaknesses," because by doing that, you implicitly acknowledge the "weaknesses" are valid.