I'm afraid I don't know much about Bobby Jindal, the Republican who was recently elected as governor of Louisiana. But I'm learning, and everything I'm hearing sounds pretty good!
When you consider what a liberal welfare-cesspool Louisiana has been (remember the Katrina debacle where thousands of grown people waited helplessly like little birds with outstretched beaks for the Great and Beneficent Federal Government to meet their every need?), it's a wonder Jindal could run as a Republican, much less as a conservative, and have a hope of winning. Yet his win was huge!
Christopher Adamo at The Conservative Voice uses Jindal's winning strategy to point out the dead-end fallacy of a perverted "Big Tent" strategy.
Despite the fact that Jindal’s approach proved overwhelmingly effective, the party insiders refuse to be dissuaded from their unworkable “strategy,” which involves the perverted version of Reagan’s “Big Tent” that pretends to stand for everything, while hoping the base does not realize that it actually stands for nothing. And it promises to be every bit the guaranteed loser during this election cycle that it ever has been.
Consider Jindal’s position on the “controversial” issues of the day. He is as staunchly pro-life as he can possibly be, and is bold and unapologetic about it. On illegal immigration, he rejects any watered-down policy, aimed at finding “middle ground,” and steadfastly supports measures to restore the integrity and sovereignty of the United States and its borders.
Moreover, he ran on a platform that proactively confronted the corruption in Louisiana government, blaming it, and not President Bush and FEMA, for the unnecessary disasters, misery, and suffering related to Hurricane Katrina. Such a stance, if we are to believe the “conventional wisdom” of the day, should have been soundly rejected by the people of Louisiana who ought instead to be basking in their ill fortune and the flood of federal pork it has provided.
Adamo also examines the potential exodus of evangelicals for a third party option in light of the Jindal victory.
To begin with, Republicans need to ask themselves why they, and not the Democrats, should so stridently fear the emergence of a third party. In truth, the very nature of this concern is an indictment of their political posturing and flawed “strategizing” of recent years.
A believable and well-defined candidate will assemble a well-defined base. Whether the remaining voting populace is then divided among two remaining alternatives or eleven, such a candidate ought to retain the loyalties of that base. It is only when the “support” for a candidate is founded on the murky premise of ostensibly being the “lesser of two evils” that it can suddenly evaporate in the presence of any seemingly worthy alternative.
A liberal like Giuliani as the Republican's banner carrier is threatening to tear the party in two.
Yet read Adamo's piece to find out who he believes is best suited to repeat Jindal's stunning and overwhelming victory. Hint: it's the guy I like best, the one who isn't just saying conservative things, but has a consistently conservative record.
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