Jindal on Romney 'gifts' comments: 'Absolutely wrong'

Republicans need to pay attention to this non-sense and speak out against badness.  Romney is a good duper, and those billionaire idiots fell for this logic..or perhaps laughed at him for his sour grapes. Instead of accepting the defeat gracefully, he finds something else to blame.

I thought Romney's character was better than this....to have stooped so low. Did he know that his private talk will be public? Does he still believe saying one thing in the public and other in the closed door meetings? There is a pattern out there, he did not share his tax returns, what else would he hide from us? 

Thank God I went with Obama, a genuine man. It is good to see Jindal speak up.  The Republicans in lime-light are chicken shit conformists or belligerent birthers. They won't speak up and let the party lose out more. Hell, I will do the speaking.

Mike Ghouse

 Jindal on Romney 'gifts' comments: 'Absolutely wrong'

Courtesy: Politico

By MAGGIE HABERMAN |

Incoming RGA head Gov. Bobby Jindal moved swiftly to cauterize the impact of Mitt Romney's comments to donors about all the "gifts" that were the reason President Obama was able to forge a coalition of younger, women, Hispanic and African-American voters on election day, via Jonathan Martin and James Hohmann:

“No, I think that’s absolutely wrong,” he said at a press conference that opened the RGA’s post-election meeting here. “Two points on that: One, we have got to stop dividing the American voters. We need to go after 100 percent of the votes, not 53 percent. We need to go after every single vote.

“And, secondly, we need to continue to show how our policies help every voter out there achieve the American Dream, which is to be in the middle class, which is to be able to give their children an opportunity to be able to get a great education. … So, I absolutely reject that notion, that description. I think that’s absolutely wrong.”

Jindal, who had been mentioned for months as a potential VP nominee before Paul Ryan was ultimately picked, is seen as one of his party's stars for 2016. He had been a surrogate for Romney, but has also made clear where he thinks the campaign failed in the last few days. Romney's remarks are also similar, if more pointed, than what various campaign aides have said since they lost the election - that it was the popularity of Obamacare, or that black turnout was inordinantly high, or that he was already so defined with Hispanics by Obama that it was hopeless.

However, Jindal's condemnation of the party nominee's remarks underscore the depth of the problem Republicans know they have after last week's trouncing in the presidential race, and in a slew of Senate contests.

GOP soul-searching, 2016 edition

This needs to be pursued aggressively, louder than a few loud mouths. Those few cannot see beyond their own feet, and we cannot sit and let them run over us. - Mike Ghouse

 

Courtesy - Politico

By MAGGIE HABERMAN |

11/13/12 2:14 PM EST

Jonathan Martin gets an exclusive with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, in which the incoming RGA head calls for a change in messaging and in candidate quality if Republicans are to make gains in the next four years:

“We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, big anything,” Jindal told POLITICO in a 45-minute telephone interview. “We cannot be, we must not be, the party that simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys.”...
...“It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments — enough of that,” Jindal said. “It’s not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can’t be tolerated within our party. We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters.”

Sen. Rand Paul, another 2016 prospect, takes a similar tack but with a different twist in an interview with Manu Raju:

In an interview with POLITICO, Paul said he’ll return to Congress this week pushing measures long avoided by his party. He wants to work with liberal Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy and Republicans to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for pot possession. He wants to carve a compromise immigration plan with an “eventual path” to citizenship for illegal immigrants, a proposal he believes could be palatable to conservatives. And he believes his ideas — along with pushing for less U.S. military intervention in conflicts overseas — could help the GOP broaden its tent and appeal to crucial voting blocs that handed Democrats big wins in the West Coast, the Northeast and along the Great Lakes.
“We have three big regions where we’re not competitive,” Paul said. “And we have to be competitive in those regions.”
Paul, 49, was elected on the tea party wave that fueled GOP landslide victories in 2010, often declaring on the campaign trail that he had a “message” from the tea party: “We have come to take our government back.”