The great conservative hope: "60 Minutes" profiles Jindal

Granted, he’s slightly less great now than he was last week at this time — “I’ve always been a policy guy, always will be a policy guy,” he said today in defense of his performance Tuesday night — but still comes off well here. If you don’t know much about him, this makes for a sterling intro. Take 12 minutes and meet a man who got accepted into Harvard Med and Yale Law, ran Louisiana’s health-care system when he was 24, and who, by the way, delivered one of his own children. My only knock on the piece is that it seems a bit too astounded at the thought of the deep south embracing a minority governor, although even that’s mitigated by the fact that this was, after all, the state that gave David Duke upwards of 40 percent of the vote not terribly long ago. Note to Michael Steele: The next time you’re on a show where the host compares the GOP’s demographics to Nazi Germany’s, feel free to bring up Jindal. Or to say anything at all.