2012 Republican Nomination

[snoopy369]

Nah, I think Zombie Reagan is an acceptable Banana option.

[chequita guevara]

It is, but you have to think about it and connect the dots.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Jindal would wipe the floor with Palin and the Huck (though Huckabee is very jovial and friendly). He'd face off against Romney and don't discount Sanford.

[Impaler[WrG]]

A lot depends on how the economy is handled, ironically the better its handled the more of a wing-nut the republicans will chose as their base will be shrunken even further as people defect to the democrats. So some kind of hyper conservative Rich Santorum idiot could go down to flaming defeat in that scenario. If thats the case expect the Dems to be in control a generation which is why I'm hoping they manage things well. If the economy is mediocre but the "evil doers" are running a muck then good old general Betray-Us is a shoe-in for the nomination if he pursues it, and he is an obvious VP under any other scenario.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Jindal would wipe the floor with Palin and the Huck (though Huckabee is very jovial and friendly). He'd face off against Romney and don't discount Sanford.

Sorry, but Jindal as the national Republican choice??? I can't see it.

Palin would have to grow a lot as a leader in the next four years to even think of running for herself. I think HUckabee is the most likely choice, as he now has time to build up a base of donors and organize the christian right.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Why can't you see Jindal as the Republican choice? He's the darling of the right.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Doesn't the Aztec calendar run through the end of 2012? There's some confort to be gathered there.

(BTW: Arnold can't run. He wasn't born in America.)

I am so incredibly sick of various news stories and endless shows on the history and discovery channel about this. That is the end of a pre-set "era" in their calender. These eras last a long time. It is not the end of the world in their calendar. There is another era following that one and so on.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Jindal is like the Republican Obama, only with much more experience. Much smarter, too.

Now that I think about it, he's much more like Bill Clinton than like Obama.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Why can't you see Jindal as the Republican choice? He's the darling of the right.

He is Indian and a Catholic. Maybe the intellectuals in the right love him, but sorry, I can't really see the rank and file evangelicals accross the midwest, plains, or mountain states lining up behind him (for racial and secterian reasons).

[Ramo]

He's a fundie, so the Christian right can easily get behind him (like Brownback). The bigger issue is race. Dunno how that'll play out. I think Jindal might decide that waiting four years would increase his chances significantly (in both the primary and general).

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Ramo
He's a fundie, so the Christian right can easily get behind him (like Brownback). The bigger issue is race. Dunno how that'll play out. I think Jindal might decide that waiting four years would increase his chances significantly (in both the primary and general).

I agree. He's 37, so he would have no problem waiting until 2016. If Obama proves to be a popular president, I doubt he'll risk running and losing in 2012.

I think the GOP slate in 2012 will end up being fairly weak, like it was in 1996. Of course, it's hard to imagine it being weaker than it was this year.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think GePap completely underestimate the appeal Jindal has to the rank and file of the Republican Party. But yes, there is the chance he waits until 2016.

[Naked Gents Rut]

I'd wait for 2016 if I were Jindal. Give the people eight years to get really sick of the second New Deal before you run.

[snoopy369]

Running and losing in 2012 is not the end of the world, though, and it can be nice in that it gets your dirty laundry out four years early - people get bored by the same scandals, after all, and you have time to prepare to counter them four years later.

[GePap]

Well, it took Republicans 20 years to get back in the WH after the first New Deal started, and they have never actually undone most of it.