| May 5th, 2008 |
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The boomlet for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal for Vice President obviously got a big boost from his National Press Club appearance last week, where he came off as serious (though not without wit), thoughtful and fully in command of his subject matter, and evinced a maturity way beyond his 36 years. Roughly half the age of McCain, he would provide the GOP presidential candidate with not only youth, but a thoroughly acceptable conservative for his running mate.
But much as I would like to see such talent rewarded and placed on the fast track for greatness, I am opposed.
Look, in general we don't do too badly electing conservatives, at least for most of the last forty years. It's getting them to GOVERN as conservatives that is the problem. We have conservative think tanks, conservative scholars, conservative columnists and talk show hosts espousing conservative positions and conservative ideology, and yet finding actual conservative policies implemented without having been compromised beyond all recognition is rare indeed.
Bobby Jindal has been handed the most exciting laboratory for conservative governance that we are likely to see in our lifetimes. The opportunity to rebuild a state, and particularly the city of New Orleans, will give him a chance to do everything right with essentially a clean slate and a political mandate that will help handcuff many of the special interests. The people are demanding action, and he has the strength, the wisdom, the brains, the character and the philosophy to make it happen.
Give that man eight years and I predict that he will go all the way, the first transforming politician of this century.
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With the completion of the railroad and the death of the Western movie genre, unemployed cowboys desperate for work turn to Professional Synchronized Swimming.
Inspiration courtesy of Fra. Alessandro
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