Cute. The likes of me. I’m included among those on this site who don’t think Biden was right. I wish Sarah Palin knew at the time enough about our involvement in the Middle East to refute some of Biden’s nonsense about places other than Iraq of Afghanistan.

That Bobby Jindal has not received the press bashing that Sarah Palin did. But – YOU CAN COUNT ON THE FACT that he’ll receive that bashing just as soon as the liberals perceive him to be a threat. They are still bashing Palin – because they feel she isn’t dead yet.

Now I just wonder how all you CONSERVATIVES will behave once Jindal gets his from the MSM? I’m betting that many of you will run from him the way you ran from Palin – because face it – though most of you complain about the MSM – you still allow them to tar and feather your candidates and once they’ve destroyed him or her – you cry over the body and look for someone. Mission accomplished MSM.

Gonna keep happening until you attack the media vociferously.

Sarah Palin got a week of bashing and pelting and lies from the Media before she even gave that speech at the RNC. When she went out on that stage – she was unfazed – she KILLED. I have experience making speeches – I would NOT have been able to walk out on that stage and deliver the speech she did. She has it – but we let the MSM take it.

I won’t abandon her – the freakin’ MSM doesn’t tell me who to vote for. Palin or Jindal – either one will have to EARN the nomination in ’12. I’ll support either one – will YOU? After the MSM sodomizes them?

So questions raised by LGF shouldn’t be ignored

When they lose their rabid fanaticism there, then they can talk.

There are a dozen solid reasons to oppose Obama but find one reason not to support Jindal and he’s toast.

Basilsbest on February 24, 2009 at 8:22 AM

Ask him the H1-B/L1 abuse issue.

I wasn’t aware of the exorcism, but he lost me over intelligent design.

backwoods conservative on February 24, 2009 at 7:26 AM

It will be all you hear about, if he runs. They made up tons of lies about Palin for lack of better material: Trigg stuff, book banning, Troopergate, Turkeygate, wolf hunting, and so on.

Didn’t Palin just whiff big time in trying to prove that?

Bradky on February 24, 2009 at 5:39 AM

Palin was not the top of the ticket, McCain was. She was used to make McCain look weak, since going after him was too risky for a Democrat given his war record. However, the public was hugely responsive to Palin in an overall positive way, and she has some time to strengthen her credentials and prepare for her own run, if she chooses.

Hint: Skip to the foreign policy segment.

thecountofincognito on February 24, 2009 at 2:21 AM

I watched it live and read the transcripts, so I don’t need any refresher from the likes of you. You will find few people on this site who think Biden was right on the surge, on the Afghanistan counterinsurgency, on a three-state solution, on dealing with Pakistan or several of the points Sarah Palin spanked him on during that debate. The reviews from the major networks and blogs all credit her with a good showing.

Why should there be a split between those who like Palin and those who like Jindal? We do need all the conservatives with executive experience we can get.

Ditto.

I’m very pro-Palin, and think those that underestimate her do so at their own peril (and I bet Frank Murkowski and the Alaska GOP would agree with me, albeit very grudgingly). Nevertheless, based on what I see now, I like Jindal quite a bit as well, and think he could be a very strong voice and candidate for us as well.

If the 2012 primary comes down to a 3-way race between Palin, Jindal, and Sanford, I’ll be happier than a fat man in a buffet line, because it means we will end up with a nominee who can unite the disparate parts of the base. Competitive and heated as such a primary season may become, it will be much more satisfying that what we had in 2008, where every candidate had major warts and we ended up with a grumpy old man who inspired nobody.

The late Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005 ~~~

This is an example of what Jindal would face from the MSM in 2012, only 100x worse. (Since this article was written by a columnist from the Christian Broadcasting Network).

First Jindal and Palin do quite well on interviews… it is the people behind the scenes cutting and pasting the film that make people wonder about credibility.

Second, being that anyone can be found out on their voting by going to an elections office… that sentence you stated doesn’t mean crap and obviously you haven’t gone to an election office to ask.

Third, I doubt you have ever seen a Mama Grizzly … just because you have in a zoo and not in the wilderness, doesn’t make up the difference. Trust me on that one!

upinak on February 24, 2009 at 2:07 PM

I think it’s appropriate to be concerned about the poise, charisma, and accumulated baggage of *any* candidate, particularly in this next election, but I haven’t seen anything to suggest we should “forget” about Palin or Jindal. What they do next will matter much more than anything they have done in the past. It could be that Palin’s savage treatment at the media’s hands in 2008 will inoculate her from some of the same criticisms in 2012, if she presents herself carefully. The credibility of the media took a pretty big hit in 2008, and you can tell they know it, and some of them feel a little embarrassed about it. The full extent of that damage is yet to be seen.

It seems obvious to suggest the media will try very, very hard to get Obama re-elected – the media Left will have deep personal and practical reasons for sparing no effort to ensure the First Black President is not seen as a dismal one-term failure. Anyone the Republicans run – Jindal, Romney, Batman – is going to get the same treatment Palin got in 2008, and then some. It seems wise to take a serious look at the person who went through that chamber of horrors once already. And if things go *really* badly with Obama, the media might be eager to dissociate themselves from him, treating him the way they treat Carter these days: airbrushed out of the historical record. (Judging from media stories, the only thing of note that occurred between 1976 and 1979 was the release of “Star Wars.”) This could make them less than eager to revisit any aspect of Campaign 2008.

I think it’s a great asset for both Palin and Jindal that they are youthful. Palin might be uniquely positioned to drive home the point that Obamanomics means debt slavery for our children – it’s the kind of message a female candidate can deliver with particular resonance for an emotion-driven electorate.

At the National Governor’s Association the economy and Porkulus has been at the forefront.  The Washington Post reports on a rift that is happening among GOP ranks (between the true fiscal conservatives and RINOs).
Some prominent Republican …

Please people, let’s forget Sarah Palin. She was obviously was unprepared for the national scence and she is still unprepared. Going on Greta is not enough! She needs to do interviews with serious political journalists. She needs to talk in details about the issues of the day. Here mama grizzly routine is wearing thin.

Chekote on February 24, 2009 at 12:09 AM

Your post made me laugh.

First Jindal and Palin do quite well on interviews… it is the people behind the scenes cutting and pasting the film that make people wonder about credibility.

Second, being that anyone can be found out on their voting by going to an elections office… that sentence you stated doesn’t mean crap and obviously you haven’t gone to an election office to ask.

Third, I doubt you have ever seen a Mama Grizzly … just because you have in a zoo and not in the wilderness, doesn’t make up the difference. Trust me on that one!

Doctor Zero on February 24, 2009 at 11:51 AM

I completely agree that the electorate will be just as polarized as it has in the past three elections. I do believe it could be a deal-breaker though. When someone runs for office they pull up everything that they have done since wiping their backside for the first time when they were two. The press will find everything that he has voted on and which way it went. They will omit the decisions he made which could refute their claim and then slant the story to make him look like an ideologue. When it comes to character assassination the press knows no bounds.

SKYFOX on February 24, 2009 at 11:39 AM

I see your point in how you should try even in the face of despair, but you are misunderstanding my point. I am not saying we shouldn’t try, I am saying we (conservatives) need to choose our candidates much more carefully. Is Jindal a good guy? By all accounts he is, and his views will give him plenty of votes in the Bible vote, but not the rest of the country.