Here is an excellent link to an interview with Bobby Jindal in Townhall Magazine in which he carefully describes the political cycle and how the GOP can recover.
"There are at least three lessons that immediately jump out at me. The first is that the party must consistently do what it says. You can't be the party of fiscal discipline and tolerate the kind of spending that our party has accepted in the last several years, especially in Washington. Our actions have to match our rhetoric. If the Democrats had proposed many of the spending initiatives and projects that Republicans ended up approving, we would have been the first to criticize them. It isn't just earmarks. Look at some of the discretionary spending increases in Washington. We can't be the party of fiscal discipline when we're tolerating and approving the kinds of spending we've seen at least the last eight years."
This guy is on the right page. He could be the savior the Republicans are seemingly so desperate for...
I will have to agree with this article. The GOP needs to do some heavy houscleaning in order to be able to turn things around in the next election. Some of this might seem obvious, but apparently is not so easy to accomplish.
ReplyDeleteJindal would give the GOP a new look, and his youthful enthusiasm would propel the GOP into being "hip" again, especially with younger voters.
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