Obama should be prepping for Jindl in the GE not McCain.

[CK_John]

The GOP knows it will need a new player and knows how to micro target voting blocks.

How do think this would play out?

[virtualobserver]

1. he'll be 37 and has been Governor for a matter of months

I don't see it happening.

[CK_John]

7. Does he have an age problem vs the constitution? I thought it was 35. n/t

[virtualobserver]

12. No problems in terms of the Constitution, I just don't believe that the Republicans would....

go with someone with that small amount of experience and that degree of youth. The other big egos in the party couldn't live with it. I do agree though about the possibility of someone else getting the nomination. If McCain tanks before the R convention, it will be a free for all.

I do believe that Jindal is someone to watch for the future, maybe 2012,2016

[saltpoint]

2. I'm not seeing Jindal anywhere near the Republican ticket.

[Max_powers94]

5. yeah obama will moon walk into the whitehouse if he is on the ticket

[morningglory]

31. The Indian gentleman is too dark and foreign-sounding name for the

Republics. They will run in droves to Bob Barr. Hmmm, not too bad.

[woolldog]

3. I hope he does pick Jindal.

Please Please Please Please Please Please Please!!!!

[Johnny__Motown]

4. Unlikely... I am guessing Romney, to try and win Michigan as well as locking down western states

[rug]

6. It's Jindal and he'd be a plump target.

[WeDidIt]

8. Jindal is the 2012 or 2016 backup plan

No way do they trot him out for a race that he's not ready to run.

They're saving him. If the atmosphere is right, he runs in 2012. Otherwise, he's their choice in 2016.

[GoesTo11]

9. R's would have an average age of 54

It would get some press that he is young and energetic, and McCain is old and experienced. But logically, these don't average out. Instead, you have two people who shouldn't be president, for different reasons.

From what I have read, Jindal is a smooth operator. He does represent diversity of a sort in the Republican party. If the campaign is about identity politics rather than about the future of the country, he could confuse things a bit - youthful, ethnic. But like McCain, he is (probably just for show) either a kool-aid drinker or a kool-aid salesman. Pushes teaching of intelligent design. Free market for everything.

But I look forward to Obama running on the future of the country not on superficiality.

[saltpoint]

10. In a manner of speaking, Jindal washed to shore with Katrina.

When the Bush administration wasn't overtly neglecting U.S. citizens in need of support and rescue along the Gulf Coast, it was blaming Democrats as the exclusive source of the response delay.

Jindal is the political detritus left on the beach after the storm cleared.

[AllentownJake]

11. McCain is their sacrificial lamb

Most of the Rethugs can't stand him. They know once the democrats have a nominee they are toast.

[CK_John]

14. I think McCain has too serious health problems and will be replaced. n/t

[saltpoint]

15. I agree that he seems to have some health problems but do you

really think they're going to replace him with Bobby Jindal?

I'm not seein' it.

[CK_John]

17. I always though they would bring in a clean slate, ie J Roberts but Jindl

fits the profile and takes away the lilly white demension of the GOP.

[saltpoint]

19. I don't think Jindal is ready for prime time. I consider him detritus, a

wholly marginal accident of political misfortune.

How does Jindal rally the Puke base? Could he even carry Louisiana against Obama?

McCain is likely to hold on. Should his health take him off the campaign trail, they'd opt for surrogates if the condition was treatable and tentative, then he'd be back in the ballgame by autumn, even if they have to haul him onto the convention stage in Minneapolis in a gurney and a portable IV.

[grantcart]

13. Its not going to be Jindl simply for the fact that who ever the VP is

he is going to have to be able and raise money. McCain has proven a disaster in raising money and they know that without big bucks coming in they are going to look stupid not simply lose.

[HooptieWagon]

16. It won't be Jindal

McSame will pick someone with fundie cred, IMO, in order to shore up support. Obama would do well to select a VP with strong foreign policy/military cred - b/c that's where McSame is likely to attack him, other than the wedge issues.

[CK_John]

18. I'm thinking replacement not VP. n/t

[HooptieWagon]

29. Yes, GOP could be grooming him for '12 or '16. n/t

[cliffordu]

20. I don;t agree with Jindl but I agree that McCain is a place holder,

a tackling dummy, a practice candidate.

Why does the media keep referring to him as the presumptive nominee??

Because the repubs ain't had THEIR convention, either.

I wonder what happens if they get to their convention and Mc says "I'm sick, Can't do it...Choose someone else, someone the dems have no time to ramp up against.....

Call me paranoid, but these are the same jerks who stole one, if not TWO elections and smiled while doing it.

[CK_John]

21. I agree and hoping the candidates are preparing for a bait and switch. n/t

[cliffordu]

24. It's gotta be bait and switch. The party of Rove cannot be so stupid

to allow McCain to finish this election.

[saltpoint]

27. Well, that could be. They are likely more evil than they are stupid,

although judging from the last 8 years, it feels like a sick toss-up.

I guess it could happen. But I don't think it will be with Jindal if it does.

[AllentownJake]

22. If its the Bushies

That pick the replacement it would be Mittens. Boy would I love to have an election against Mittens.

[Heather MC]

23. Well I don't know about the flip flop voters but I don't think this will

sway blacks to the umm "darkside"
I also don't believe they will pick him for the spot.
He is young but he is too young, you can't attack Obama on experience, and then pick someone who is barely old enough to hold the office of POTUS.

Obama could counter his pick with Joe Biden, and completely cancel out Jindl.

Not to Give the GOP advice, but they should pick some that is similar to whomever Obama picks, then it keeps McSames weakness at the same, which is well below the bar of electability in my opinion!

[CK_John]

25. I'm thinking replacement of McCain not a VP slot. n/t

[Heather MC]

28. OIC, is he over 35?

[Colobo]

26. Jindal is weak.

[LTR]

30. Picking Jindal will totally screw the GOP this year

We all know that they will attack Obama on youth, experience and ethnic background. Making Jindal the running mate will throw all that out the window.

Romney adds nothing. He's an empty suit. I can't see him making that big a difference in Michigan, and most certainly not in Massachusetts. Fundies and hardcore wingnuts don't like him.

I'm guessing Tim Pawlenty, since they're so gung-ho about winning Minnesota (not sure he'd help, though as his record as governor has been mediocre - the I-35W bridge collapse is his Achilles heel). A dark horse would be a congressman such as Paul Ryan from Wisconsin. He's 38, is in his 5th term, and the hardcore fiscal conservatives love him, especially Novak. Has been in the news lately due in part to his economic policy "Road Map." And Wisconsin, though a hardcore Obama state, is a place they'd love to finally win.

[Sulawesi]

32. Picking Jidal emasculates his argument that Obama is inexperienced...won't happen.

[thewiseguy]

33. Jindal is 36 years old.