"Bobby" Jindal

[swampy]

lafinfil wrote:
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> Jindal had a bad night, so what?
>

Joaquin Phoenix had a bad night on Letterman the other night too.

: -)

Seriously - despite his performance there was no substance there. He took one for the team.

David Brooks on the message - not the messenger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27UIt0RuMw

Yep, he took one for the team. The Repubs are in such disarray thanks to the RINOs and the Evangelicals. There's nobody right now that could have done much better Tuesday night. The old guard moved too far to the Left (McCain) and they haven't developed a shining star to energize the base yet.

[mick e]

News Flash. The base is either dead or in a nursing home.

There ain't enough coke in the world to energize that.

[swampy]

What an asinine statement, mike e.

[mick e]

"Asinine" and "true" are not mutually exclusive.

[Black]

Jesus I would love to see a live debate between swampy and mike e.

[Black]

Rick-o wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
[quote=$tevie]
[quote=Dakota]
mick e writes awfully like bfd from DM.

Those are two of DM's most well known regulars from back in the day.
So?
So, once again Dakota is wrong.
Wrong about what? Dakota is absolutely right here, mick e's posts in this thread do resemble bfd's style, and $tevie's response had little relevance.

[Carnos Jax]

Dakota wrote:
[quote=Gutenberg]
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.

[Carnos Jax]

All this talk about people being like other people. Dakota and Black (Landlord), if you don't mind saying, what were your old nicks? I've always been Carnos Jax.

[Black]

Carnos Jax wrote:
All this talk about people being like other people. Dakota and Black (Landlord), if you don't mind saying, what were your old nicks? I've always been Carnos Jax.

Who cares? I've never been anonymous and never made an attempt to obscure my identity.
If Dakota is implying that either bfd or mick e is a sock puppet, I obviously don't agree with that, but I see nothing he's written that is clearly insinuating that bfd and mick e are the same person.

[Mac1337]

$tevie wrote:
We are not looking for a monolithic government, despite what you may believe and despite the fact that you probably would love a one-party system that was run by your party. A lot of us believe in the two-party system and would like to see the GOP put up a candidate for president that is intellectually superior to a Supermarionation puppet.

What are you saying? Are you sorry that Republicans lost? You want a Republican to be the next president?

You want Republicans to put up someone you like then turn around and vote against him. Sorry, we tried that. McCain couldn't challenge Obama on so many fronts because he was so much like him. Cap and trade, anwar, tax cuts etc. etc. He was far more comfortable attacking Republicans than Democrats. In fact, his claim to fame was that he went against his party. Matthews was slobbering all over him when he was the attack dog.

Then he was supposed to bring in all these new voters into the fold, like Hispanics. He alienated the entire party over illegal immigration then got his ass handed to him by the Hispanics. He was supposed to bring in all those moderate suburbanites. Another dud. Any more "moderation" and we might as well have had one candidate in the race.

Incidentally, have you noticed Democrats never need to moderate? They are by definition always the norm; the natural state of things.