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Veepstakes: The Case for Jindal
Whom should Romney pick to run with him? Rob Portman, Tim Pawlenty, Condi Rice, John Thune, Marco Rubio, Susana Martinez, and Kelly Ayotte are names that keep popping up. But the best choice might be Bobby Jindal, who is serving his second term as governor of Louisiana. Notably, Governor Jindal has been successful as a governor and as a political leader in Louisiana.
Jindal just turned forty-one, which would make him one of the youngest people ever to run for vice president. His youth also means that if Romney wins and is re-elected, in 2020, Vice President Jindal would be a boyish 49-year-old who could win the nomination without much party division. At the same time, though, despite his youth, Jindal has a résumé of breathtaking brilliance. In fact, if put on the ticket, Bobby Jindal might be the most intellectually gifted person ever nominated to national office. He had offers to work in the private sector and doubtless become very rich, but he chose public service instead.
Critically, Jindal’s particular area of expertise is medicine and public health. He has served in the latter sector with distinction. In 1996, then-24-year-old Jindal was named secretary of health and hospitals for the State of Louisiana. Three years later, the 27-year-old Jindal was made executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. In 2001, Jindal, then thirty years old, was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate as assistant secretary of health and human services for planning and evaluation. No politician in America has a stronger background from which to attack ObamaCare than Jindal has.
Aside from experience as an analyst and administrator of public health systems, Jindal also has served two terms in Congress and is in his second term as governor of Louisiana. Louisiana has had the most corrupt government in America, but the Jindal administration has been remarkably clean. His executive brilliance as governor stands in stark contrast to our hapless president. The bond rating for Louisiana state bonds has risen under his leadership — an accomplishment even the Democrat media in the state acknowledged, in stark contrast to what has happened to other states’ bond ratings or our federal bond rating.
Maudie N Mandeville
August 5th, 2012
No. All you have to do is replay his SOTU response from ’09. No, no and double no.
Katechon
August 5th, 2012
Possible but quite unlikely at this point.
He’s the only guy I have money riding on though : 10:1 odds seem about right.
Moe Tom
August 5th, 2012
Bobby’s complexion is getting darked by the day. The first VPOTUS of color?
He far outshines Biden and Gore. Sharp dude. I’d have no objection.
Wraith
August 5th, 2012
Look, I dig Jindal–but he’s NOT NATURAL BORN. Therefore, he’s as ineligible as the current PretenderOTUS.
The law is the law. Unless you’re natural born, you cannot be POTUS or VPOTUS. It’s that simple.
Libra
August 5th, 2012
Make no mistake about it–Jindal is an extremely intelligent man and spiffy clean to boot.
Zonga
August 5th, 2012
He could serve well as Sec of DHHS.
super toe
August 5th, 2012
No.
General Ripper
August 5th, 2012
That’s my Guv!
Among many things I like about Gov Jindal is that he got tired of the federal gummint’s Natl Marine Fisheries Service making incredibly bad decisions that over-regulate and over-restrict fishing in the Gulf Of Mexico. So he dusted off an old law and told the Feds he was extending Louisiana’s state territorial waters out from 3 nautical miles to 10.375 nautical miles, essentialy saying to Obama a huge FUCK YOU.
new orleans girl
August 5th, 2012
Bobby Jindal – ; born in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, La., June 10, 1971; graduated from Baton Rouge High School, Baton Rouge, La., 1988; B.S., Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1991; M.Litt., Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1994; secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals 1996-1998; appointed executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, 1998; president, University of Louisiana system, 1999; appointed Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services by President George W. Bush on March 7, 2001; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Ninth Congress and to the succeeding Congress, until his resignation January 14, 2008, (January 3, 2005-January 14, 2008); Governor of Louisiana, 2008-present
HE WOULD BE REALLY GOOD VP – so much better than Condi
Lisl
August 5th, 2012
Jindal was born in BR, LA. His *parents* are Punjabi born.
new orleans girl
August 5th, 2012
His parents became citizens, which i believe makes him qualified. Obummers father was never a US citizen.
Wraith
August 5th, 2012
@ nog: No. They became citizens AFTER his birth. To be “Natural Born,” you must be born on American soil to two American Citizen (at the time) parents. Mr. Jindal was not, nor was I. I love the guy, but he can’t be our legal VPOTUS.
On the plus side, the current Pretender isn’t legal, either. Which means I don’t have to pay any attention to anything he’s passed.
You don’t, either. Just sayin’.
Isobel Ingoldesthorpe
August 5th, 2012
Since when does “natural born” require the person’s parents to have been citizens?
Czar of Defenestration
August 5th, 2012
Love him, but WHAT Wraith said: neither Jindal nor Rubio. Parents were legal aliens.
I’d love West, but there hasn’t been any hint he’s in consideration…a GOOD sign?!
SCREW Pawlenty, Portman, among sadly too many others
Alpha Maser
August 5th, 2012
Ah hell no! I can hear the liberal comedians now making jokes about 711 and Drunken Donuts. For such “tolerant” people, the libtards are incredibly cruel people. Fuck Obama and every Anti-American Marxist shit-bag that votes for him.
The Saw
August 5th, 2012
Out of the list offered I would definitely prefer Jindal. I like the way he held his own against Obama during the oil spill. And he seems like an all round good guy and very intelligent. I don’t know anything about the birth qualifications. I do know Obama isn’t who he says he is.
This time around it isn’t good to have woman on the ticket, and the rest are boring. At least Jindal has some life and spark about him. So what, he gave a crappie speech once. How many thousands of Obama’s have we had to suffer through?
West would be the best choice but it ain’t gonna happen. He terrifies both the RINO’s and the Left. Personally I think the VP choice is important. There are still too many sitting on the fence about Romney. Romney needs someone that can work a crowd, get people fired up. West could do that. And w/the times we live in it is important to find someone that can step in should the need arise.
Chuck U Farley
August 5th, 2012
Repeat after me…
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”
“Rubio, Ryan, Paul”….
…get it?
Katechon
August 5th, 2012
Won’t be any guy named Paul, that’s for sure.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 5th, 2012
The GOP needs to say, “We respect Governor Jindal and all that he has done for the State of Louisiana. However, Governor Jindal is not a natural born citizen. Though he was born in Baton Rouge, his parents became citizens after he was born. Which makes him a citizen, but not a natural born citizen. While this does not preclude him from holding a cabinet post, he cannot be either president or vice-president.”
They won’t because they don’t respect that constitutional requirement either.
MM
August 5th, 2012
After Ryan, Jindal would be my pick-the guy is an intellectual heavy weight with some coconuts.
Of course in my non reality world, Col West is king but that ain’t gonna happen.
Isobel Ingoldesthorpe
August 5th, 2012
Stranded, could you please show me where in the Constitution it says an American -born person’s parents must be citizens at the time of that person’s birth? Or where in the world you get the definition of “natural born” that includes that requirement.
If a contender wanted to claim NB status and was born abroad, THEN the parents would have to have been citizens, sure.
bitterclinger
August 5th, 2012
I’m betting on a little-known (male) R gov from one of the western states, and that’s all I’m sayin.’
Piker
August 6th, 2012
Isobel, the US constitution didn’t come with a glossary to define the meaning of words contained within. The framers used terms that were widely used and understood by them at the time. We know that there were at least two copies of Vattel’s “Law’s of Nations” present during the writing of the constitution, Ben Franklin and George Washington each had a copy in their possesion. From this book the definition of the phrase natural born citizen is found. It is also this book that the SCOTUS drew from when they laid out the the meaning of natural born citizen in MINOR V. HAPPERSETT which is the legally binding precedent that should be argued as the reason Obama and Jindal and Rubio are not natural born citizens.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 6th, 2012
@Isobel — See the Supreme Court decision MINOR v. HAPPERSETT, 88 U.S. 162
In it the court ruled that the definition of natural born citizen means a person born in this country of parents who are citizens at the time of the birth.
Besides, there are other instances of the term citizen in the Constitution.
So the framers believed there was a difference between a citizen and a natural born citizen. The only logical conclusion is that natural born citizen means something more than just citizen. Otherwise, why not just use the term citizen instead of natural born citizen? They are not the same.
For this reason, Governor Jindal is not constitutionally eligible to be either president or vice-president. Just like Obama.
Isobel Ingoldesthorpe
August 6th, 2012
Piker, that’s why I asked “what other source?”
Stranded, thanks for the explanation. I am aware of the difference between citizen (me, e.g) and natural born citizen (you, maybe). Still trying to absorb what you wrote re: the parent part of it, though.
In the meantime it leads me to a next question re: the whole Obama qualification topic. Even if there was no question he was born on Hawaii, there’s then according to your explanation the parental element. As far as I know Obama never claimed his father was a citizen (right?). So then even being born in the US doesn’t clear him so why then the big fuss about proving he is born in the USA? When it doesn’t matter even if he was because his father wasn’t a citizen. (Or was he?)
Stranded in Sonoma
August 6th, 2012
@Isobel — That’s a very good point. Unfortunately, the libtards and the RINOs don’t care about that clause in the constitution any more. They want anyone to be president; preferably a foreigner. And that’s what we have.
If you hear the correct argument from a conservative about Obama not being eligible because his daddy wasn’t a citizen, the libtards will rend their clothes and gnash their teeth and howl in pain about how that’s not what natural born citizen means. To the koolaidians, it just means “born here.”
If you show them Minor v. Happersett they’ll claim it has nothing to do with Obama because it was a case involving a woman wanting to vote and being denied. They don’t understand American Jurisprudence. Quotes are used from many different cases to bolster your argument in the form of a brief. In this case, the quote above proves that both parents must be citizens at the time of your birth for you to be a natural born citizen.
The great part about Obama’s “birth certificate” is that there are only two possibilities for it; either fake or accurate. If it is fake, then he’s not eligible because he still hasn’t proven his place of birth or parentage. Not to mention that he would be guilty of a felony under the laws of the State of Hawai’i — and therefore “eligible” for impeachment. (BWAHAhahahaha!) On the other hand, if it’s accurate, then he’s not eligible because his father wasn’t a citizen when he was born.
Either way, Obama is not eligible to be president. And isn’t it interesting that the libtards fight tooth and nail to keep an ineligible foreigner in the office of president in violation of the very document they claim “gives” them rights? (It doesn’t; it just protects rights they already have but they think gov’t bestows rights.) When it comes to the constitution it’s all or nothing — not the libtard of view of “just what we want and nothing more.”