Gingrich Backs Jindal for VP
June 16th, 2008 at 04:56am Mark Noonan
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Sunday that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal “would be far and away the best candidate” to appear on the Republican presidential ticket with Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).
Gingrich, who appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” heaped praise upon the former congressman, saying that he is a “spectacular” governor and predicted that Jindal would be a presidential candidate in the future.
However, Jindal, who also was a guest on the show, said that he already holds the job he wants.
“I’m certainly supporting Sen. McCain, will do whatever I can to help him get elected, but I’m focused on being governor of Louisiana,” Jindal stated.
Asked whether it could be a problem that the governor, who is 37, might be perceived as not ready to lead the country in case he would have to replace McCain, Gingrich said the case can be made that Jindal’s “experience in the executive branch and in the legislative branch is greater than” that of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).
“It strikes me that it’s going to be very hard for Obama’s campaign to explain that Jindal, as a governor, who has served as an assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, has served as a congressional staffer, has served as a congressman, is not qualified but Sen. Obama is qualified,” Gingrich said.
Aside from being a brilliant man, an excellent legislator, a superb governor and an all around good egg, Jindal as VP would entirely show up the lack of depth in Obama - the complete phoniness of his quest for the Presidency, and the arrogant presumption that he, Obama, is better fitting than McCain to hold the most powerful office in the world. Gingrich went on to note that running merely against Obama’s inexperience won’t work (though I’m not 100% sold that it won’t), but the fact does remain that Obama’s lack of experience coupled with his wrongheaded and destructive policy proposals can be the right mix to beat him in November - and in this the rather wonkish Jindal would also be a great asset to the more rough-and-ready McCain. Jindal can clearly lay out precisely why Obama’s policy proposals are not just mistaken, but already known to all well informed people to be massive failures-in-waiting.
McCain/Jindal ‘08 - that is my preferred ticket.
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23 Comments
1. Nietzsche-Is-Pietzsche | June 16th, 2008 at 6:20 am
To all Republicans,
Please Oh PAH-LEEEEEEZE put that guy on your ticket.
Watching him trying to defend “Intelligent Design” as a credible science will be quite a laugh. How’s the saying go? When you’re already in a hole, stop digging. Well republicans , you should stop digging. LMAO!!!!
2. Darius Rex | June 16th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Deleted - off topic.
3. robert w. blunt | June 16th, 2008 at 7:28 am
If Jindal becomes VP, he’d be the first with personal experience participating in an exorcism.
McCain could put him in charge of Dark Spirits.
4. Jo | June 16th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Th Gov of LA needs to stay where he is to clean up the mess the liberals made of that State. We complain that Obamessiah is an empty suit with no background in government, and then this? Please … give him a couple terms as Gov then run him for POTUS.
5. Pain | June 16th, 2008 at 7:41 am
We beg you please do this so that Obama can pick from the number of rational liberals in the House or Senate that could throttle this man to within an inch of his political life. They can ask him how those dinosaur rides went 6000 years ago!
Can you se this man debating Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
6. Tom Thumb | June 16th, 2008 at 7:43 am
I found a great clip of McCain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwTKM_u-7j4&feature=related
7. Cavalor Epthith, Esquire, D.S.V.J. | June 16th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Mark Noonan
” . . . and in this the rather wonkish Jindal would also be a great asset to the more rough-and-ready McCain. Jindal can clearly lay out precisely why Obama’s policy proposals are not just mistaken, but already known to all well informed people to be massive failures-in-waiting.
McCain/Jindal ‘08 - that is my preferred ticket.
Let us have a bit of fun this morning translating this into English from NewSpeak.
And this is why religious nut Jindal who actually does understand how economies and governments work could cover up the glaring faults for angry and bitter John Mccain who actually understands neither. Jindal can distract the religious base with parlor tricks while Mccain promises to bomb the Hell out of anyone who is not “for America” or “with us.” Everyone who has consumed the Kool Aid and believes that the world we live on was made in six days and rejects science as a “Librul lie” who gets their news only from religion based news sources like EWTN or fact based ones like WorldNet Daily knows the only choices are the two the GOP might make me gag on in November. Close your eyes and hold your nose and vote against Obama and you better interests or you will all burn in the eternal pit of fire forever! Aieeeeeeeee!!!!!!
Now that seems to clear things up a bit.
8. keeferUK | June 16th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Can you se this man debating Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
Hell, Pain, a boulder could debate that cow. Send her over here; she can have a go at Stonehenge.
Speaking of Stonehenge, are you and your crew of little devils gonna make it for the summer solstice? I’ll probably make the trip down to Salisbury Plain myself; I love to observe kooks in action. I live way out in the country in North Yorkshire, where it’s virtually kook free. A little slice of Heaven. Sorry, didn’t mean to mention Heaven…
9. Greenskeeper | June 16th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I would love the pick. It would be interesting to find out what happened to Barney, Fred, Pebbles and Bam Bam. Did they really use a dinosaur as a steam shovel back in the day?
10. InDaVa | June 16th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Holy inexperienced Batman!
11. Chris | June 16th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
My first post “disappeared”! Well, I’ll repeat my question: why in the world would you advocate for VP a man with five MONTHS of executive government experience (to be second in line to a 72 year old cancer survivor) while, at the same time, stating that Obama’s inexperience could likely lose him the election?
12. Chris | June 16th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Really? No answer???
13. neocon | June 16th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
That’s a good question Chris. Which is why I do not want Jindal. I like his future prospects but he is woefully inexperienced at this point.
Which is the same with Obama. Woefully inexperienced and the POTUS is not an on-the-job training type of position.
14. FmrMarine | June 16th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
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(Ed. Note: Nauseating article deleted; we appreciate the sense in which it was posted, but; yuck!)
15. Mark Noonan | June 17th, 2008 at 1:19 am
NiP,
You do realise that Darrow pled guilty for Scopes before Darwinism could be cross examined, aren’t you?
Love to see a real debate between ideological Darwinism (as opposed to Darwin’s reasonable theory on the descent of species) and Intelligent Design…
16. Mark Noonan | June 17th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Its clear from the shrieks of hatred from the left on this thread that Jindal scares the bejabbers out of the left…
17. Nietzsche-Is-Pietzsche | June 17th, 2008 at 2:37 am
mark-
Missing the point again I see.
A question mark, how do you test, through science, the theory of ID?
Also, where are all of the peer reviewed papers that have been published in credible scientific journals on ID?
Two words on that…Can’t and None.
Plus if you like court decisions so much how about you look at the Dover decision. ID was blown apart there and that little theory on the “irreducible complexity ” of the bacterial flagellum was shown to be total bunk in the process.
18. Chris | June 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am
You can’t be serious! This is the SECOND time on this thread that you’ve deleted my post! It is a simple question, Mark! Why advocate for VP a man with 5 months of government executive experience while bemoaning the “inexperience” of Obama?
19. Eric T | June 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I really disagree-
Jindal has about as much experience as Obama, are the GOP’ers going to bash Obama’s inexperience and slim resume only to put up Jindal who is about the same.
If it is an attempt to seem diverse, and make it like a McDonald’s commerical, where you have one black, one white, one asian, one indian, one arab, one hispanic. If this is part of the reason, just for the sake of diversity, it will ruin McCain’s argument against Obama’s inexperience, McCain is old and very well may need a VP to step in if he has to go to a hospital ect….ect.. He needs someone who can run the country as a VP.
20. 1-1-8 | June 17th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
18. Chris | June 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Well that will get posted over at the Dis Brimstone as a sure sign of Right Wing censorship!
21. Chris | June 17th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
118,
I don’t care where it gets posted and I’m not calling it “right wing censorship” just a childish refusal to acknowledge a clear double standard (get ready for the examples from conservatives about liberal double standards as a means of deflecting the issue at hand). Notice Mark STILL hasn’t answered my very simple question.
22. Tractatus | June 18th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Its clear from the shrieks of hatred from the left on this thread that Jindal scares the bejabbers out of the left…
Replace “Jindal” with “Obama” and “left” with “right” and you have summed up the entire tenor of this site: A Republican site that barely ever talks about Republicans.
23. Mark Noonan | June 19th, 2008 at 12:34 am
NiP,
That was a worthless ruling by a judge - judges don’t decide science.
Chris,
If you read Jindal’s bio, you’ll see that he’s got far more experience than Obama, in all respects.