Its probably in Jindal's best interests, but Obama said something similar to Jindal and look where he is now.
Assuming Obama competently handles his time in office, he will be a juggernaut in four years. He's got charisma, which helps so much in terms of fundraising and in get-out-the-vote efforts.
McCain is a stand-up guy, but the rank and file Republican wasn't overly thrilled about him. I can't say the rank and file Republican would be too thrilled about Jindal either. They'd probably accuse him of being a terrorist based on what we saw in the last election.
Jindal is better off biding his time until 2016 unless Obama royally blows it. Palin at least has charisma, but she as of yet does not have national appeal. She is only really popular with the party base (who vote for Republicans anyways). You can't win an election if only every single member of your party votes for you. You have to win the independents too.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
