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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 04:34 PM Jun 2013

Bobby Jindal Has Completely Lost Touch With Reality

http://www.businessinsider.com/bobby-jindal-has-lost-touch-with-reality-2013-6



Today, Jindal has a column — if you can call it that — in Politico, urging conservatives to reject calls for reform. He explains that if conservatives just stay where they are, voters will eventually come running back to them. Here's his reasoning:

At some point, the American public is going to revolt against the nanny state and the leftward march of this president. I don’t know when the tipping point will come, but I believe it will come soon.

Why?

Because the left wants: The government to explode; to pay everyone; to hire everyone; they believe that money grows on trees; the earth is flat; the industrial age, factory-style government is a cool new thing; debts don’t have to be repaid; people of faith are ignorant and uneducated; unborn babies don’t matter; pornography is fine; traditional marriage is discriminatory; 32 oz. sodas are evil; red meat should be rationed; rich people are evil unless they are from Hollywood or are liberal Democrats; the Israelis are unreasonable; trans-fat must be stopped; kids trapped in failing schools should be patient; wild weather is a new thing; moral standards are passé; government run health care is high quality; the IRS should violate our constitutional rights; reporters should be spied on; Benghazi was handled well; the Second Amendment is outdated; and the First one has some problems too.

I'll grant Jindal one thing: He certainly didn't ration the red meat in that paragraph.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bobby-jindal-has-lost-touch-with-reality-2013-6#ixzz2WbOFyGD1
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Bobby Jindal Has Completely Lost Touch With Reality (Original Post) xchrom Jun 2013 OP
You have to be in touch with it before you can lose touch. hobbit709 Jun 2013 #1
I love his plan! Just Saying Jun 2013 #2
Seriously, he doesn't look well - his face is so gaunt. closeupready Jun 2013 #3
As someone who lives in Louisana (New Orleans) the reason is simple for his gauntness. Katashi_itto Jun 2013 #4
He'll be able to hang upside down libodem Jun 2013 #6
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal. I met him once. I thought he was more plastic than Romney. Katashi_itto Jun 2013 #13
So true libodem Jun 2013 #15
I think Rubio has the edge over Jindal for the GOP nom. lpbk2713 Jun 2013 #12
Oh I agree. However Jindal is running around down here with the delusion that he's the Katashi_itto Jun 2013 #14
Understood. lpbk2713 Jun 2013 #16
BFEE? Katashi_itto Jun 2013 #17
Bush Family Evil Empire lpbk2713 Jun 2013 #19
Hehe Very cool, thanks Katashi_itto Jun 2013 #20
google it onethatcares Jun 2013 #28
He looks like a 1st stage zombie SummerSnow Jun 2013 #25
Stay the course, moran! Stay the course! muntrv Jun 2013 #5
Jeez Louise; That last paragraph! Populist_Prole Jun 2013 #7
I guess the plan of stop being the stupid party giftedgirl77 Jun 2013 #8
wow, that paragraph is actually Jindal's words Enrique Jun 2013 #9
And here is what I say to that paragraph of GARBAGE. Rex Jun 2013 #10
a psychiatric evaluation is in order quinnox Jun 2013 #11
Americans rejected GOP candidate Thurston Howell III Lugal Zaggesi Jun 2013 #18
Poor little Piyush.. He's like Issa during the recall fiasco SoCalDem Jun 2013 #21
"this president is marching leftward" is proof that Jindal is out of touch with reality nt msongs Jun 2013 #22
Right? xchrom Jun 2013 #23
That's "Booby" to you. KamaAina Jun 2013 #24
Bobby Brady Jindal was never in touch with reality nt One of the 99 Jun 2013 #26
That's true Lugal Zaggesi Jun 2013 #29
I thought you had to do that to join the Republican Party CanonRay Jun 2013 #27

Just Saying

(1,799 posts)
2. I love his plan!
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 04:38 PM
Jun 2013

Stick with it and we'll have Democratic majorities in Congress and Democrats in the White House for decades to come!

And let's be honest, most Republicans are touch and go with reality at best.

 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
4. As someone who lives in Louisana (New Orleans) the reason is simple for his gauntness.
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 04:45 PM
Jun 2013

Mr Jindal lives on blood.

Unfortunately he's managed to drain us in Lousiana just about dry.

So he's really not getting alot of norishment here.

He has his eye set on the presidency though, so who knows...

libodem

(19,288 posts)
6. He'll be able to hang upside down
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 04:56 PM
Jun 2013

In Cheney's old closet. He looks like a psychic vampire. Blood sucking deviant. A bushel of garlic and giant crucifix are in order here.

 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
13. Piyush "Bobby" Jindal. I met him once. I thought he was more plastic than Romney.
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 05:04 PM
Jun 2013

Which is saying alot.

Took the name "Bobby" from the Brady Bunch.

He'd make a great vampire, or maybe Thuggee high priest.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
12. I think Rubio has the edge over Jindal for the GOP nom.
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 05:03 PM
Jun 2013



... and Rubio is a long way from getting a lock on the nom IMO.


 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
14. Oh I agree. However Jindal is running around down here with the delusion that he's the
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 05:06 PM
Jun 2013

anointed one.

Not a firm grip on reality.

Running around destroying everything he touches. We had an awesome college system before he showed up. Not to mention, medical programs for the poor, you know stuff.

Unfortunately New Orleans, votes democrat, whereas the rest of the state...

Which truly sucks. If New Orleans could leave Lousiana and become a district like D.C. Lousiana would go bankrupt in a month.

They pillage our wealth and channel it to their good old boys network.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
7. Jeez Louise; That last paragraph!
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 04:56 PM
Jun 2013

I don't I've ever seen such a condensed rant larded with so much bumper sticker / barstool ranting of neocon nutjob talking points.

As you said, he certainly didn't ration any red meat in that passage.

 

giftedgirl77

(4,713 posts)
8. I guess the plan of stop being the stupid party
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 04:56 PM
Jun 2013

went out the window & he has decided to go double or nothing? It should tell them something if my 15 year listens to their platform & calls them a bunch of morons.

All I can tell them is keep screaming your beliefs to everyone that will listen so we can watch you go down in flames.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
10. And here is what I say to that paragraph of GARBAGE.
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 05:01 PM
Jun 2013

Government to explode = see Tea Party.
pay everyone/hire everyone = well someone has to be the job 'creators' we don't see private industry doing it.
money grows on trees = see pork barrel spending 101.
earth is flat = unintended irony.
industrial age = whereas Repukes want to bring back the Stone Age
factory-style government = see TARP laws and Irony 101.
debt don't have to be repaid = just ask Congress
people of faith are ignorant and uneducated = nice blanket statement but false
unborn babies don't matter = see irony 101 and babies just born don't matter
pornography is fine = only when it is on republican computers
traditional marriage is discriminatory = marriage is discriminatory = that makes no sense.
32 oz of soda is evil = see Bloomberg is a REPUBLICAN
red meat should be rationed = unless you are a 1% percent-er
I could go on...

 

Lugal Zaggesi

(366 posts)
18. Americans rejected GOP candidate Thurston Howell III
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 05:18 PM
Jun 2013

in 2012:


The GOP learned their lesson about nominating an annoying, out of touch "rich guy" cartoon character,
so they were seriously considering going with Gilligan for 2016:



Now Gilligan is becoming unhinged.
Who's their fall-back choice - the Skipper ? Lovey ? Mary Ann ?

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
21. Poor little Piyush.. He's like Issa during the recall fiasco
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 05:25 PM
Jun 2013

He really really really really thinks his "turn" is coming up.. Republicans will let him be governor of a small petroleum-soaked, hurricane-magnet, but that's as far as it goes, no matter how firmly affixed his lips are to the asses of the GOP powers-that-be.

He can grovel & shape-shift all he wants to, but he's just a prop to the GOP..just one of the few brown faces in the crowd.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
24. That's "Booby" to you.
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 06:10 PM
Jun 2013

The earth is flat? He's the damn creationist.

32-oz. sodas? Since when is Bloomberg "the left"?

And what in the everloving hell is "factory-style government"?

 

Lugal Zaggesi

(366 posts)
29. That's true
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 11:51 PM
Jun 2013

he picked "Bobby" because he liked Bobby Brady on "The Brady Bunch".
Piyush was not a popular name in Louisiana in the 70's.

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