02-27-2009, 01:50 AM
Dakota wrote:
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To me the point was that Jindal is the "new" Republican, the guy with the new ideas, the future of the party, and then he got up and presented the same old song, and in a singsong voice to boot. Bad policy speech delivered badly.
Another "disappointed" voter who was sitting on the fence desperately wanting to be persuaded. It is always amusing to have to take advice from people who want nothing but your defeat. That sort of advice gave us McCain, and we know how that turned out. Next time we'll do it our way.
Please, gimme a break. McCain would've been okay if he'd only stuck to his principles, clearly the Republican primaries should've demonstrated this, as he won them overwhelmingly...showing that the vast majority of Republicans had enough of the 'neocon' agenda. Only when he adopted the mantle of 'hijacked Republicanism' (anti-abortion being one) did he no longer have a chance. In principle, some ways he's more like Clinton and Obama. Bottom line is this...the neocons and the extremely fundamentalist portion of christians no longer had a place in the Republican party if you were to believe the primaries.