I guess I'm not the only one who thought Louisiana Governor Jindal turned in a poor performance as a GOP's designated respondee to the President's speech to congress the other night.
Hell it got so bad, Rush Limbaugh had to all but suspend the first amendment rights of his audience with this howler:
"We cannot shun politicians who speak for our beliefs just because we don't like the way he says it."
What the GOP has decayed to such a level that they no longer dare demand energy and passion in their speakers?
THAT is their policy to enable torpor and amateurism?
Yipes.
You have to admit though, Piyush was up against a very determined and eloquent politician...blathering on about tax cuts and big gummint just won't cut it no more.
That and the fact that Jindal has a hangdog look vaguely suggestive of Bob Denver during his Gilligan's Island period.
Moreover and this is the crux of the political problem with the GOP, what the hell could he have said that would have made a diff?
Low taxes and no regulation and a boundless Randian utopianism has brought the country to the edge of disaster in the absence of new ideas on the conservative side, Jindal was doomed before he started wandering thru his speech.
"The NEXT TIME we try it it's BOUND to work!" was all he had to work with, and so thus the GOP circles the drain without idea or even a nice hackneyed cliche' to cling to.
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