Jindal: Anyone running for president in 2016 right now needs their head examined
“Anybody on the Republican side even thinking or talking about running for president in 2016, I’ve said, needs to get their head examined,” Jindal told “Fox and Friends.” “And the reason I say that is, we’ve lost two presidential elections in a row, we need to be winning the debate of ideas, then we’ll win elections.”
Jindal, considered an early front-runner for the Republican nomination, said that the party’s struggles despite polling showing a desire for smaller government was evidence that a reboot was necessary.
“We’re not winning the conversation, we’re not presenting our ideas, we’re not in that debate as well as we should be,” Jindal said…
“The country doesn’t need four years of non-stop presidential — we just inaugurated a new term of this president’s second term,” Jindal said.
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“Shut yer pie hole! MMmm….pie.”
-Spoon Buddy Christie
Bishop on February 4, 2013 at 2:43 PM
There’s a Hillary joke in there, but for Jindal restricting his comment to Repubs.
Christien on February 4, 2013 at 2:44 PM
Karl Rove told me that the fix is already in.
Geraldo/Blind Sheikh 2016 FTW.
CorporatePiggy on February 4, 2013 at 2:48 PM
So Jindal’s telling us he needs psych help correct?
Illinidiva on February 4, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Rubiobamachristie / Christierubiobama 2016!
Pork-Chop on February 4, 2013 at 2:49 PM
You don’t have to be crazy to govern here, but it helps.
apostic on February 4, 2013 at 2:53 PM
He’s right, but it’s the media driving the speculation and it was Obama who introduced the perpetual campaign, so it’s no surprise ’16 rumors are flying about.
changer1701 on February 4, 2013 at 2:56 PM
Your cat scan is ready, Governor Jindal.
portlandon on February 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM
He has a cat running for POTUS in 2016? That’s awesome.
Fluffy 2016!
Christien on February 4, 2013 at 3:03 PM
Yeah, yeah….whatever Dude..
BTW, nice Power outage last evening in your State….
Only during the biggest fu*cking sporting event of the year.
Oh and yet another day goes by that the
FAT PHUCK from Jersey lets Menendez skate….
TELL YA WHAT BOYS…maybe you ARE better off in
full time campaign mode…you pretty much suck at
everything else….
ToddPA on February 4, 2013 at 3:05 PM
One of the biggest reasons Romney lost in ’12 was because 0bama has had at least six years to perfect his anti-Romney campaign. The 2016 Democrat does not ned this advantage over the 2016 Republican.
Sekhmet on February 4, 2013 at 3:06 PM
Jindal’s responsible for a power outage? Really?
changer1701 on February 4, 2013 at 3:17 PM
This guy isn’t just running three years too early, he’s already losing three years too early.
Mr. Arkadin on February 4, 2013 at 3:18 PM
Ten bucks and a Slurpee this one goes Crist.
Count on it.
For now, pi$$ off.
RovesChins on February 4, 2013 at 3:25 PM
Jindal – filling the slot TPaw filled in the 2012 race – a boring also-ran “front runner” who will drop out early.
DRayRaven on February 4, 2013 at 3:25 PM
ToddPA on February 4, 2013 at 3:05 PM
ABSOLUTELY. My point is I’m pretty damn tired of these
people scolding us about everything….everybody
on the R side wants to lecture the Party about HOW to go
about things. I’m merely pointing out events that occur
that EVERY DEMOCRAT will use against them.
ToddPA on February 4, 2013 at 3:27 PM
That’s funny. It wasn’t so long ago that this guy was humiliating himself in a “response” to Obama’s first SotU address. Gee, I wonder if he was pondering a presidential run in 2012 at that time (2009, for those keeping track)?
Armin Tamzarian on February 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM
Jindal is absolutely right about this.
GOPRanknFile on February 4, 2013 at 3:31 PM
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
sauldalinsky on February 4, 2013 at 3:39 PM
In other words, “math is hard”…
Gohawgs on February 4, 2013 at 3:51 PM
Jindal is too whiny. I don’t think he has the charisma for a national campaign.
The GOP should run a fresh candidate, not the usual wannabes and losers. There is plenty of time to look for a charismatic conservative leader.
celticdefender on February 4, 2013 at 3:52 PM
Did he mention this thought to his wife (who has an engineering degree)?
Illinidiva on February 4, 2013 at 4:00 PM
Jindal was basically the 2016 frontrunner and the “hottest” thing in Republican politics in 2008/ 2009. However, he screwed it up with the awful SOTU response and other people (cough.. Ryan..cough) took full advantage of this to raise their own profiles. Not to mention that Marco Rubio came out of nowhere. Alot of his whining about numbers and math lately seems to me to be bitterness that Ryan has taken over the dorky 40-something policy wonk position that Jindal used to hold. I’m actually surprised that there wasn’t a veiled shot in there about Rubio.
Illinidiva on February 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM