Bobby jindal president ?????

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Originally Posted by MathGeek

So if he got the Republican nomination, you'd vote for Hillary?

Everyone but Jeb is something of a long shot to get the nomination, and I think it's premature to talk about "electability" until there is more of a campaign track record and a couple of debates.

If the primary were today, I'd likely vote for Perry or Walker over Jindal, but they (along with Carson and Huckabee) all have 5+ months to convince me.

Given my strong belief in the separation of powers and federalism, I don't take actions as a conservative governor as a strong indication of how one would govern as POTUS.

A good conservative president should have strong convictions about the different roles of state and federal government, so I would not look for conservative candidates to necessarily take the same approach to federal issues as POTUS as they took to state issues as governors.

No, I would not vote for Hillary either. I'd just vote for a third party guy, if there is one suitable. If it came down to Clinton and Jindal, with no other choice, then unfortunately, yes, I'd vote for Jindal.

But I hope he doesn't even make it that far. The guy raided every Dedicated Fund he could, and allowed the state budget to slip into this piss-poor state that it is now. Is he solely responsible? No. But he didn't do much to help it either.

And his bouncing around to other states instead of taking care of business here has won him no votes in Louisiana either. And honestly, I'm not quite sure how you can take anything else from what he's done. I have no idea how he would be as president, so I'm going to look at what he has done at Governor. He couldn't manage a state for 8 years, a state that, for the most part, supported him in his first term. How is he going to run a country that will be much more divided on what he does?

I look at the things he's done in the past several months, and see a man driven by public opinion. There may have been several people that turned on Common Core, but Jindal was a very vocal supporter of Common Core. Isn't his wife a teacher? Shouldn't he have known better? He went with what seemed like the majority from the start. Then more and more people turned on it, and he saw it as an opportunity to garner support by turning on it and fighting it. At that point he was screwed because BESE was not going to allow him to get rid of it.

Then the religious freedom issue. After everything that happened with that Bakery, he decides it would be a good move to try and pass a similar bill in Louisiana, and then when it doesn't, he uses his power to push it through (which he could not, according to the Louisiana Constitution).

All he is doing is bantering to people that will support those conservative moves. For what it's worth, I'm all for the abolishment of Common Core (because its a bad system) and the Freedom of a business owner to run his business as he sees fit. But Jindal didn't push for those things for those reasons. He pushed for them because he saw it as a way to gain favor with the voters.