The Awful Disclosures of Bobby Jindal
By In light of the news that Bobby Jindal would bring demon-banishing skills to the McCain ticket, we should offer retroactive props to Loomis, who offered this prescient observation a few weeks back:
…I really hope McCain goes with Jindal or Romney. Mittens is a ridiculous choice in itself. I can’t help but thinking of the McCain campaign as Dole ’96 redux. And Mittens would be a perfect Jack Kemp. Totally worthless uninspiring candidate who will bring no one to the ticket but will satisfy the loco wing of the party.
Jindal is even better. They want Jindal because he’s not white. And he’s really their only choice who is not white. On the other hand, he’s totally insane. I really want a VP candidate who runs on creationism, anti-abortion extremism, and other loco positions. A message to the Republicans: just because a candidate is appealing to Louisiana Republicans does not mean he is appealing to the rest of the nation.
But then I hope McCain doesn’t listen to me at all. McCain-Jindal ’08!
Like a lot of Eric’s posts, this one has been cracking me up for weeks now. Part of this, I’m sure, is because I have a former student — a rabid, pro-Bush dead-ender — who has been sending me glowing accounts of Jindal for about the past year. If McCain had been considering Jindal in any serious way, I suppose this ought to pretty well end it. All things considered, evangelical Christians remain skeptical toward Catholicism, and the Harry Potter wing of the evangelical movement is not likely to be impressed when news of his freelance exorcism makes its way outside of Louisiana, where the story played a minor role in the gubernatorial race last year. Of course, the fact that he’s a genuine religious bigot won’t help, either. I doubt any of this will result in a massive resurgence of anti-Catholic know-nothingism, but this is going to be a pretty fucked up campaign season anyway, so I suppose anything is possible.