Do you still have ANY doubt as to how this Presidential race is going to end in a few weeks? I can point you to at least one person who is betting on an Obama victory [via Politico]:
The key word that should grab your attention in the flyer above is “Iowa,” the location of Jindal’s fundraiser. Piyush “Bobby” Jindal has just begun campaigning for the Republican nomination in 2012. The other thing to note are the endorsements in the bottom left. I had planned on writing this post all week (even before seeing this flyer) based on some circumstantial evidence I had turned up. This just ended any doubt.
Jindal will speak at the Iowa Family Policy Center’s “Celebrating the Family” banquet in suburban Des Moines on November 22nd, according to his spokeswoman, Melissa Sellers. While in the state, he also may to go to Cedar Rapids to see some of those areas impacted by the summer floods. Jindal, of course, has led his state’s recovery from Katrina since being elected in 2007.<
p>It will be Jindal’s first visit to Iowa, Sellers said. [Link]
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p>Earlier this week I took note of the fact that Jindal went near the Florida-LSU game in Florida. Not to the game mind you, just to a pre-game tailgate fundraiser (for his own future campaigns). He was also supposedly there to stump for McCain…if he had time. That’s right, the Governor of Louisiana was raising money in the battleground state of Florida (where he also got a chance to size up Charlie Crist, who will probably be one of his rivals in 2012).
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p>Next, this past Monday Jindal showed up right here in Houston:
Pete Olson has won the support of Louisiana’s governor in his bid to unseat Nick Lampson. Lampson is running for re-election in Texas’ 22nd Congressional district. Bobby Jindal met with Olson in Houston on Monday.“I know he’s going to be a great Congressman,” Jindal says. “I did serve in Congress and saw that Washington’s broken. Washington’s a city where folks wake up every day and think of themselves as democrats or republicans first. Pete isn’t like that. He was born to serve his country.” [Link]
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p>Stumping for down-ballot candidates is a great way to have future field lieutenants in place should they win.
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p>This brings up the increasingly real possibility that in 2012 the two nominees vying to be POTUS might be Barack Hussein Obama and Piyush Bobby Jindal. Two men of color with “funny names” born to immigrant fathers in a contest that would paint America as the greatest meritocracy in the world.
Oh, by the way, I already tried to buy it with no luck. www.bobbyjindal2012.com is taken.
Whatever happened to voting for the best candidate, irrespective of their color, heritage or looks. Jindal will never get my vote or donations.
Hope that happens, cos that will guarantee the the Obama presidency will last 8 years. But hes not starting that early in any case. It will take a while for him reach out to his base, exorcise his demons, etc.
I wonder if they will allow his parents at the event, or will they be home praying for an Obama win?
a conservative is a conservative is a conservative.
i have no interest in seeing someone with jindal’s ideology getting elected. right on, DesiInNJ.
god, i had jindal more than palin.
that would be like the apocalypse.
no bobby!
(hate)
It will be fun to watch him get the nomination and leave Obama in office, leaving everyone Desi quite happy.
Look forward to joining the opposition against this opportunistic bigot who places exorcism above evolution.
http://www.PalinJindal2012.com is probably available.
4 · hates jindal said
Heh, heh, heh…all time greatest freudian slip.
Jindal may run in 2012, but I don’t think he will, he will realize that the landscape in 2012 is one for a Obama landslide reelection.
For only $1,500, you can have your photo taken next to the future president! Act now, the price is only going to go up.
i was chatting with daycruz about this. he’s all excited about jindal in 2012, but i’m skeptical that he’ll be able to shed the fact that he’s had to pander to the state’s troglodyte social conservatism (landrieu, who is judged to be a too liberal senator for louisiana who is often in “trouble,” is actually in the same ideological range as northeastern republicans). OTOH, if like romney he starts repositioning after he isn’t up for re-election it might work. the guy is slick and likely competent. but a smart politician with a biology degree who panders to the bone-through-the-nose crowd is going to have to change some of these positions if he wants to market himself as a technocrat.
Just checked — both http://www.JindalPalin.com and http://www.PalinJindal.com (as well as .net and .org) are taken.
12 · razib said
my write in vote is going to be for darwin.
didnt hurt bush one bit. the real question is how obama is doing in 3 years. if jindal thinks there’s a good chance of him losing, given the high success rates of incumbents, he will not run until 2016. losing candidates have it much harder the second time around unless there is a real rationale as to why they can make a different case.
There is not a chance in hell that Palin and Jindal would ever be on the same ticket. No way. Jindal is a lot of things but he is no dummy. Palin would lose in a primary to any number of Republicans including Romney, Christ, and Jindal. People are WAY overestimating the relevance Palin will have past the first week of November.
Who is this Republican named Christ that you speak of?
Abhi, I agree. Whatever initial excitement Palin brought to this ticket is gone now. People – even partisan Repub friends of mine are scratching their heads wondering why they used to be excited. I think Palin will struggle to get another term in Alaska.
16 · pingpong said
Christ is a slim, tan republican who has taken a vow of chastity.
I advocate that all Desi-Americans take advantage of Jindal by accepting the national spotlight his rise in prominence will put on the rest of us, when it comes. Bobby Jindal is not to us what Barack Obama is to African-Americans. The rest of the American people will want to know why not.
Once Obama is elected, I will only be satisfied if a black, female, lesbian (who is married, oc) with two adopted children becomes President. Once that happens…my work here will be DONE.
Anyone who quotes Rush Limbaugh as a compliment, needs to have their head checked. I CANNOT stand Bobby Jindal.
sorry to ruin this hater party… but you all can stick your Jindal hatin up your, you know what.
thank you pround brown conservative
22 · love said
i think that says it all…
22 · love said
I think what you’re suggesting might be illegal in some states, but you’re doing a heck of a job nonetheless, Brownie. Well played. 😉
Bobby’s going to spend the next 4 years distancing himself from his scandal-plagued family. I can see the quote now, “President Obama has spent $100 million running from his record and talking about a show I watched when I was eight years old.”
More importantly, is indiansagainstbobbyjindal.com taken?
didnt hurt bush one bit
bush was actually more moderate than jindal socially. texas is very conservative, but it ain’t louisiana (louisiana doesn’t have an austin).
to clarify, bush positioned himself as a moderate conservative republican in ’99 trying to pick up the pieces of the repub brand after hte ’98 election fiasco and gringerich’s ouster. things look different now, but back then he was a rather vanilla conservative. from what i recall his position on abortion is a bit less extreme than bobby’s (exceptions for race and incest), and, though probably personally something of a creationist he never had to “prove” his conservative bonafides by sticking up for intelligent design. as a brown dude aiming for the less racially tolerant segment of louisiana’s electorate jindal had to position himself as more-troglyditic-than-thou. george w. bush never had to do that because he could lean on the family name. even if substantively bush and jindal are equally conservative, they marketed themselves really differently to get to a governorship.
in any dude hasn’t even been office for very long. so this is all too quick. but if jindal runs, it will be 24-7 haterade from the elites because unlike george w. bush he was an academic standout, his support for bone-through-the-nose positions will be held against him to far greater extent.
Yeah, because the existence of such a site can only help Jindal– using the enemy of my enemy logic.
We should all vote for Bobby because he is one of us. Self hate is never a good thing.
Prafool Uncle, Hate is too strong a word. I doubt if many of the Indians “hate” Jindal. I actually like him. You can agree or disagree with his policies. But we all have to agree that he is extremely successful at what he has set out to accomplish!
30 · Prafool Uncle said
Shouldn’t lack of self hate only mean that I should vote purely for myself? I mean, I’ve always worked under the belief that self-love didn’t mean circle jerks…
A lot of trash-talking going on here. A lot of people who are dead-sure of what’s going to happen. So I’m sure you guys have put money on intrade on the outcome.
If so, I’m sure you’d like to take my money, too.
Anybody know the easiest way to deposit funds, there. It rejected my credit card. Do the netspend All Access prepaid cards still work or is it best to wire funds there?
Is our boy still coming to GLOBECOM 2008, or is that something that gets cut with the new ambitions?
33 · bleh said
Just send them to me. I will take care of it.
1, DesiInNJ:
9 out of 10 blacks are voting for Obama because of his race (similar story in the primary against Hillary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyvqhdllXgU
Bush never really beleived the crazy stuff. He was just what he seemed — an aging frat-boy.
I think Jindal actually believes in exorcism. In Presidential races, we’ve had non-elite Protestants that are crazy (Robertson, Gary Bauer, Huckabee) and elite Protestants that aren’t crazy, but pander (Reagan, Bush I and II, Forbes).
We’ve never had elite Catholic who is crazy — basically a guy like Scalia running for President.
I do hope Jindal runs. Like when Mormon Mitt Romney ran, and Americans discovered the depths of America’s Mormon hatred, Jindal’s run will show us all how educated, observant, crazy, Catholics are really not Presidential material to many red-state and blue-state Americans.
Palin would lose in a primary to any number of Republicans including Romney, Christ, and Jindal.
I am not so sure. The ability of Palin to rile up the base with folksy talk should not be underestimated. Palin is Huckabee plus sex appeal. Bush defeated McCain, Forbes and Orin Hatch though Dubya had the full might of the Bush machine behind him. If the right movers and shakers in the GOP get behind Palin, she might actually pull it off. It will of course help if in 2018 there is no major crisis and the economic/foreign policy climate is similar to 2000.
30 · Prafool Uncle said
Don’t care much for his politics and would never vote for him, but I do admire a fellow desi who is bright, very articulate, and apparently quite sincere!
I so agree. Palin is formidable. As an Alaskan I can vouch for that. She has national exposure and being governor of a remote, small state, will bore her to tears. Though we are looking forward to her coming back on Nov. 5–for good, we know she won’t be as effective as governor anymore here, she will be distracted and pining for the adulation of crowds that were sometime bigger than all of Wasilla. The conservative talk show hosts love her, you could almost see Rush Limbaugh swooning as he interviewed her earlier this week.
My prediction: After her term as governor is over in 2010, she’ll start her campaign for president in earnest, if not earlier. Or she may become the next female Rush Limbaugh.
40 · nazra said
Sarah Palin is a very dangerous twit, and her supporters either incredibly stupid or very insidious! Another gem from Palin from today’s Washington Post: “Palin also made a point of mentioning that she loved to visit the “pro-America” areas of the country, of which North Carolina is one. No word on which states she views as unpatriotic.†Now she is dividing the country into pro-America and anti-America. wtf!!! And she says she ready to become the President right now!
Nazra, if you from Alaska, please lasso her back there and save us in the lower 48 from more of her “folksy talkâ€! 🙂
Well Faiqa… this is your older weird brother who lives in the attic with a beard to his bellybutton who likes keeping ot himself and nobody likes to admit knowing. i got news for you your work is done at least in the frozen tundra – [breaks icicles off his mootch] – our conservative party is the equivalent of your ‘gay nader fans for peace’, and our liberal party is the same, but en francais. So there.
41 · Kev said
Gawd, what a hypocrite. When will the mainstream media stop giving her a pass to attack Obama’s affiliations and shed light on Palin’s ties to people who consider the federal government the enemy and bury machine guns in their front yards?
Jindal will have serious competition from so many – Christ is finally getting married and that will silence the gay rumors, Gingrich is working hard behind the scenes like on the bailout plan, if the economy is not much better Romney may jump in, Huckabee may be a highly visible if he has a hit Fox show. It will be interesting to see what happens to the GOP ticket. Perhaps Jindal will get lucky like McCAin did, all the goras will fight it out and the last one standing will be a desi.
44 · Malibu STacy said
Whoa! Dan Brown was more right than he ever knew…
41 · Kev said
Kev:
I have lived here so long that I qualify as a “sourdough,” in local parlance.
I’d rather Sarah disapppeared, but am willing to have her back because I feel scared when I think of her in the White House if she get elected and McCain kicks the bucket in a year or so. She has no worldview, but her hubris won’t let her see her shortcomings. We have known up here for at least a year that Sarah’s was able to push her agenda because she happened to be in charge when our state was flush with oil money, but now with our oil production and the price it fetches trending down I’m not sure she’ll be able to get her way anymore.
I think the chances of her being elected are sliding as precipitiously as are oil prices. I’m certain she’ll back, but I also know she’ll rise again. Unlike Icarus, who fell to earth never to rise, Sarah is more like a phoenix and will rise from dust again. To torture all of us with her faux folksiness.
I misspelled the Florida governor’s name up above also so I shouldn’t say anything, but damn this line is funny.
3 · campmuir said
For some reason Jindal reminds me of David Duke. Articulate, focused, smart yet basically a nut-job. The need to show his absolute commitment to his idealogy will force him to take extreme positions, just a matter of time.
Well, I said this about the Iraq war and about Sarah Palin, so I’m prone to mistakes about complete insanity, but why are we taking this seriously? It’s one thing to put a token person of color on the Republican ticket as a vice presidential nomineee but it’s another to have them running on the top of the ticket. I suppose you can make the argument that the financial elites will support him for the economic politics and the social conservatives will support him for the fundamentalist politics, but there is nothing about him that screams out populist the way that Palin does and the way that she riles up the Republican base. The guy went to Brown for Christ’s sake – he’s like a desi version of Bush. Unless he can mobilize Christian fundamentalists and near fundamentalists in the same way that Obama can mobilize Black people – i.e. en masse – where exactly is the primary support going to come from for him rather than, say, Huckabee?
Of course, like I said, I don’t pretend to understand this stuff very well because I’m basically just concern trolling for him here. He can go to hell for all I care, and take book-banning Palin with him.
20 · Faiqa said
What have you got against male lesbians? You sexist homophobe, you…