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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBobby Jindal: Republicans Need to Move Even Further to the Right to Recapture the Center
The Washington Monthly / By Ed Kilgore
Bobby Jindal: Republicans Need to Move Even Further to the Right to Recapture the Center
The Louisiana Governor is setting himself up as the absolutist right's rising star.
January 24, 2013 |
I will be watching for a transcript of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindals speech to the Republican National Committees winter meeting in Charlotte tonight with considerable anticipation. It looks like hes going to personally brand the tendency within the GOP to identify party reform with an even more ideologically savage brand of conservatism than the one theyve already embraced.
In an account based on an advance copy of the speech, WaPos Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake (under the sycophantic headline, Bobby Jindal Speaking Truth to GOP Powergag!) tell us this about Bobbys Big Message:
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will deliver a forceful denunciation of his partys Washington-centric focus in a speech to the Republican National Committee on Thursday evening, arguing that the GOP is fighting the wrong fight as it seeks to rebuild from losses at the ballot box last November.
A debate about which party can better manage the federal government is a very small and short-sighted debate, Jindal will tell the RNC members gathered in Charlotte, N.C. for the organizations winter meeting, according to a copy of the speech provided to The Fix. If our vision is not bigger than that, we do not deserve to win . ..............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/bobby-jindal-republicans-need-move-even-further-right-recapture-center
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Bobby Jindal: Republicans Need to Move Even Further to the Right to Recapture the Center (Original Post)
marmar
Jan 2013
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tblue
(16,350 posts)1. Double on down, Bobby.
I'm all for it.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)2. And THAT is pure "Bobby Brady" logic.
Jindal is a fucking tool. And of course, keep moving further right, repukes! You'll be relegated to the dustbin of history even quicker, which will make the whole world a better place.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)4. watch as Jindal adds tons of useless sand
in an effort to keep the toxic spill from the GOP drilling rigs from hitting his shores!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3. He's going to get twisted so tight he'll meet himself coming.
The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)5. Yes, Bobby
You're one hundred percent correct. Please go as far right as you possibly can.
stuntcat
(12,022 posts)6. I think so too!
Double down on the crazy y'all!!
tanyev
(42,552 posts)7. You tell 'em, Bobby!
Further right! Further right!
tavernier
(12,383 posts)8. Wow, Bobby!
And people say you are stupid...
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)9. That's his strategy?
Well, it's stupid.
Selatius
(20,441 posts)10. The problem with this strategy is that it will drive many Republicans into the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party is having enough of a struggle coming to a consensus with its current crop of right-wing members in the Senate and House caucuses without accommodating more orphaned Republicans.
Bake
(21,977 posts)11. Please proceed, Governor!
I love it when I get to use that line!!
Bake