Subject: Bobby Jindal

• GOP Governors To Get Their Nails Did

  November 10, 2008

• GOP Govs Stuck At a Fork in the Road

  Two main camps of thought are emerging at the Republican Governor's Conference as to what the Party's most pressing concern is. On one side you've got this "We've lost our way, and our credibility on fiscal conservative policy thanks to Bush and his $11.3 trillion dollars debt and his record $438 billion deficit." Then the other is "Well, we can't compete on the internet and we're loosing all the Hispanics and young people. We'll never be President of MySpace Latino!" Louisiana Governor Bobby

  November 13, 2008

• Charlie Crist Overshadowed

  Charlie Crist's orange-y skin tone proves he's not someone who's afraid of the bright lights, but he completely got overshadowed at the Republican Governor's Conference. A recent Ramussen poll, taken before the conference, showed Crist coming in dead last in a completely speculative competition for the 2012 nomination, with only 1% of Republicans favoring him over any of the other listed candidates, including fellow governors or former governors like Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney,

  November 14, 2008

• Charlie Crist Isn't Popular in the GOP 2012 Trailer Park

  Poor Charlie Crist. Sure, he went out of the way to let it be known he wouldn't mind being John McCain's personal vice president, but he hasn't done anything that indicates he really wants to stage his own presidential campaign in 2012. He must seem like a natural to the moderates in the party, though, as a popular governor of a crucial swing state. So his name is included on the early shortlists for whatever losing campaign the GOP mounts in 2012. Gallup polled all 32 registered Republicans

  November 21, 2008

• Crist's Admirable Stim Support Makes 2012 Prez Run Unlikely

  The economic stimulus is likely to be one of the defining actions of President Obama's first term. If it's perceived to be successful by November 2012, we're more than likely looking at four more years. But if, even as Obama himself admitted last week in Fort Myers, it's not, we might just have ourselves a new resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. So perhaps that's one of the reasons so many would-be 2012 Republican candidates are coming out hard against the stim. People such as Newt Gingrich and G

  February 19, 2009

• Every Wingnut Hates Crist

  Charlie Crist, our new official Republican Boyfriend, was on Meet The Press this weekend carrying on his love affair with the stimulus package. Meanwhile, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, also known as 1/3 of Ronald Reagan's soul-equivalent (Reagan, as most historians agrees, was indeed soulless) reincarnated in the body of a 12-year-old Indian-American boy, announced that he would not accept some of President Obama's dirty stimulus money. Now of course the Republican base (all 12 people) hate C

  February 23, 2009

• Obama Inspires; Bobby Jindal, the Anti-Crist, Offers Nothing

  It's been said so many times the economic problem is as much psychological as monetary that it must be true. Conveniently, we've just elected a president in part on the basis of how much he's inspired us and given us hope. Last night, in his biggest speech since the inauguration, President Obama sat Americans down and gave us a pep talk. And according to poll numbers, 92 percent of Americans reacted to it postively, with 68 percent reacting extremely positively. By all accounts, his unofficial S

  February 25, 2009

• Charlie Crist's Mug Suspiciously Missing On RGA's New Website

  Completely embarrassed by the state of the national party it seems that the Republican Governors Association are engineering a takeover of the Bland Ol' Party. They have a nice new website asking for your money called The GOP Comeback with lots of pretty glamour shots of your favorite Republican Guv All-Stars. There's Palin in all her glory, Haley Barbour and his wonderful eyebrows, and newly minted national folk hero Bobby Jindal.Wait. There seems to be one or two GOP guvs of some of the n

  February 25, 2009

• Bobby Jindal Ruined Rick Sanchez's Cardio Work Out

  via Chris CopinsRick Sanchez, who apprently did not get the memo from Babalu that all Miami-raised Cuban Americans should be blindly devoted to the Republican party, just wanted to have a nice workout on his treadmill last night and watch the Obama speech. But then this Bobby Jindal guy came on, and he got so angry he had no choice but to whipe the sweat from his hands and log onto his twitter, naturally.  Here are his tweets:"i don't know what to say after watching jindal? kind of stunned. did

  February 25, 2009

• News Roundup

  LocalGetting laid off individually is so trite. The new trend is to be part of a mass layoff. Unfortunately, all of your friends are doing it. [Herald]We're number one! This time in highest health-care costs in the nation. [Herald]Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff will bring up a resolution at today's council meeting that would prohibit the city from dealing with businesses that hire foreign workers with H2B visas. Gee, with thousands of people lining up for fire-rescue jobs, there seems to be eno

  February 26, 2009

• Manny Diaz is Deeply Disappointed by Bobby Jindal, Too

  via Urban BrownWould Chuck Strouse have better luck selling these in Miami parking lots? Poor Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal can not catch a break. Everyone from freebase-Twitter addict Rick Sanchez to semi-Conservative Columnist David Brooks is criticizing his speech on Tuesday night, in which he tried to channel Ronald Reagan, but ended up coming off more like Kenneth the Page. Now Miami Mayor Manny Diaz is joining in on the Jindal criticism extravaganza along with his US Conference of Mayors

  February 26, 2009

• Charlie Crist on CPAC's Straw Poll Ballot, Will Probably Lose Horribly

  via For Your PartyCrazy Straws, get it? The Conservative Political Action Conference is taking place in Washington, DC this week and has already been dubbed the "the comedy festival of the year!" Noted public intellectuals (and more than a few 2012 hopefuls) like Ron Paul, Michelle Bachman, Newt Gingrich, and the Anti-Crist himself, Bobby Jindal will or have addressed the conference, but the keynote speaker is sad radio clown Rush Limbaugh. Charlie Crist wisely decided to steer clear of the affa

  February 27, 2009

• As Predicted, Crist Loses CPAC Poll Horribly

  via sky820's flickrSomething that actually appeared at this Carnival, CPAC, last year. So maybe this took about as much insight as it would to predict that Rosie O'Donnell wouldn't win Ms. America, but it still feel good to be right. Friday we had this to say of Ol' Charles Crist's chances in the CPAC straw poll: "If Crist comes in anywhere else but near the bottom next to Giuliani and Pawlenty, we'll be surprised considering this is a red meat conservative crowd."And look who came in dead last:

  March 2, 2009

• Remember When GOP Governors Were the Future of Their Party?

  The atmosphere at the Intercontinental Hotel in Downtown Miami last November during the Republican Governor's Conference was hopeful. The GOP governors where the only national wing of the party to actually gain membership in the 2008 election, and the line was it was they who would bring their party back on track, emerge as the leadership that Republicans so badly needed, and it was quite possible that one of their members would challenge Barack Obama for the presid

  July 3, 2009

• Crist Denies Endorsing Stimulus Bill; Owns Up to Accepting Reality

  Capture of an anti-Crist ad paid for by the Club for Growth​Charlie Crist went on CNN yesterday and said that he didn't endorse the stimulus package. Huh? What? Riptide was there when he appeared with President Obama touting the stimulus in Ft. Myers. Even though the White House is claiming that he did in fact pretty much endorse the bill, Crist says he was just trying to make the best of a political reality. Here's what Crist said to the press today, via The Buzz: "The bill t

  November 5, 2009