Jindal + Rebuttal Panned + Suck It!!!

Now, to Bobby Jindal's rebuttal (on behalf of the Republicans) to President Obama's address last night.

I struggled through. Oh, that sweet-as-honey-southern-boy-awww-shucks-shit is back again (Carter, W.). You know the public drinks that shit up. We Americans fucking love it. And coming from a Rhodes scholar (ahem, Clinton)? It is the political equivalent of KY... the new kind with warming sensations.

Ahh, but not so fast, this is only your first date with us!

This was no sweet-tea-on-your-front-porch-fanning-yourself-summer-evening-chat. What happened, in between the "Happy Mardi Gras" to the "God Bless America" was that Jindal's cadence and message came off more as an old man twanging away on an out-of-tune banjo. The drawling address was a rehash of the same worn-out platform proselytizing that we hear from the likes of Boehner, Cantor, Kyl and the lot... the same we have heard from W. and Turd Blossom. These ideas have decidedly not worked.

And at at times, it simply lacked coherence. If this was his coming-out party as the great hope for the Republicans in 2012, I can only sigh and hope that all these programs Obama is instituting start paying dividends.

But don't take it from me... I'm an east-coast-lefty-elitist-windbag. Take it from some of this country's foremost conservative windbags on Fox News:

BRIT HUME: "The speech read a lot better than it sounded. This was not Bobby Jindal's greatest oratorical moment."

NINA EASTON: "The delivery was not exactly terrific."

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: "Jindal didn't have a chance. He follows Obama, who in making speeches, is in a league of his own. He's in a Reagan-esque league. ... [Jindal] tried the best he could."

JUAN WILLIAMS: "It came off as amateurish, and even the tempo in which he spoke was sing-songy. He was telling stories that seemed very simplistic and almost childish.

Ahh. It's good! Too good, perhaps.

Why? Jindal is a Republican. With self-purported democratic "friends," including a rebel Sheriff — they were almost arrested together! And his biography, born to Indian-American immigrant parents, working his way up through school, and Congress. He was on the ground for the tragedy of Katrina, and in spite of all the anger at the administration, he was able to become the Republican Governor of Louisiana. He plays the core Republican message close to the vest. Turning down Recovery funding for Louisiana for welfare expansion ($100M out of $3.8–3.9B) to make a principled [read as: partisan] point. And don't forget he is a new face, a different face for the lilly white GOP.

Shoot! Doggone it! Simple math says you got the Republican answer to Barack Obama. Only more self-made, and more self-reliant. Republicans should be patting themselves on their backs.

Remember, this is just the first dipping of toes into the national political waters and really won't mean much in the long run to the GOP. Perhaps it shouldn't. I mean look at the line-up they're fielding these days. [Shudder!]

And just as a personal snarky side note: My biggest fear, as far as the media of politics goes, is having to listen to Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal actually speak for the duration of the 2012 cycle. I can just see it coming now. I may have to just kill myself, kill myself dead.