Republican Greatest Hope

Republicans = Nerd Cult.

He has a nice family.

Do you think she is from Bollywood?

someone said it was slumdog barney fife lol

Jindal's wife played the girl in this video.

Where are all the Republicons?

Who are the Republicans gonna nominate? Sarah Palin or Jindal

It was one the most phony, pandering speeches I have ever seen.

that guy looks like a mental case

the sad part is they are just feeding the extremists and that is not most of the country.

I think it depends on how things are going in 3 years. If Obama is doing well and the stimulus plan works and things are looking good, it won't matter who they nominate. They will likely lose more seats in the house and senate and they will probably run out some second tier candidate who will get crushed by Obama. It is very difficult to beat an incumbent president. If that president is popular and doing well, it is nearly impossible.

If things aren't going well and the stimulus plan doesn't seem to be working then they might break out the top candidates and make a run at him. Palin? I think she sealed her fate with her VP run. She gets the conservative base fired up, but she scares a lot of the independents and she already is painted as an idiot. It is very difficult to overcome that. Jindal? I don't know much about him other than they say he is a rising star in the party. If he is going to make a run he will have to do a whole hell of a lot better than he did last night because last night he came off kind of like that half baked guy who works at the local dime store, not as someone you want running the country.

The republican party is divided right now and their basic strategy seems to be "wait for Obama to fail". If he does fail they can swoop in and take advantage of that. If he doesn't fail it will make them look terrible and their party will collapse even further. The republicans right now are kind of like the democrats were in the mid 90's. They don't have a lot of direction, there is infighting and power struggles in the party and they don't seem to have much of a plan. Add in the new census and the redistricting to follow that will be overseen by the democrats and it might be a very long time before the republicans get back into power.

I voted for this guy for governor. He used to a be common sense type of fellow....but ever since the national spotlight started shining and people started talking about him being the "future of the party" he's been nothing but a fucking parrot for the right-wingers.

A governor who cleans up the political cesspool that is Louisiana could write his own ticket after two terms....but only if he's his own man with his own ideas, not another conservative lemming following Boehner and McConnel off of a cliff.

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

bump for the night crew.

http://www.alternet.org/story/128913...itical_career/

You would be guessing correctly

Jindal's follow-up speech last night was horrible.

Since when do we need an opposition party follow up when the president speaks?

Did the dem's do that every time Bush gave a speech? I wasn't big on watching bush speeches, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Jindal is a good man, after all, he is a Brown University man.

;)

The Republicans are all over the place. I was listen to right wing radio and they were even having a hard time propping him up.

The best hope for the Republican party is getting the laws changed so that the Governator Arnold can become president.

Standard practice for major addresses.

It's usually a non-news item (the rebuttal), but for some reason the networks are desperate to give attention to the republican minority.

When the stimulus was being debated, republican "guests" on cable news shows outnumbered democrats 2-1.