Jindal Drops out of GOP primary

[candycorn]

Jindal is better qualified than Trump or Carson.

True that.

 

[candycorn]

I wonder where his 0% support will go to?

So much for the "deep bench".

 

[Dr.Traveler]

Jindal should have run in 2012. There's no other way around it. He'd have at least been shortlisted for the running mate spot and would have solidified a mechanism and base for a 2016 run. He didn't run in 2012 because he was fresh off his re-election in 2011 and a potential 2012 run had been a pretty sore spot in the campaign among voters who were worried he'd run, win, and leave.

Instead he waited, and like Sam Brownback over in Kansas gave his policies time to come home to roost. He managed to run a resource rich, tourist destination state with little to no spend out on entitlements into the ground. He's been faced with massive end of fiscal year and mid year budget deficits every single year since. Multiple reports and investigations have pretty conclusively established that the budget in Louisiana cratered not because of falling oil prices, but because he blew a huge hole in the tax revenue by supporting the repeal of the Stelly Plan and then failed to actually cut expenditures to balance that out. He has decimated the state infrastructure, state police, higher education, hospital systems, and suffered pretty painful political losses over his plan to abolish the state income tax, privatize the hospitals, and bust up the K12 system in favor of charter schools. That last one was particularly painful to watch as his teacher tenure reforms were tossed on a very easily avoided technicality and his voucher system nearly ended up funding a madrasa in New Orleans. Instead, it ended up funding a sham of a school in Ruston that was another painful public embarrassment.

He's losing in a hypothetical head to head with Hillary in his own state and Vitter has undermined and destroyed Jindal's political base in a petty revenge campaign. Back in Louisiana he's pretty much friendless and powerless.

Jindal is young though and the upside is that exiting at 2% means he was never very well scrutinized. He can rebuild and run for a vacant House or Senate seat in a state with lenient residency laws or barter his meager support for a cabinet position assuming the GOP take the White House. I imagine we will see him again.

 

[oreo]

Bobby Jindal Drops Out of 2016 Republican Presidential Race

Jindal has "suspended" his campaign (ie ended it...).

So 1 down, only 13 to go!

GOOD!

Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum are just knuckle dragging neanderthals that couldn't win the White House anyway. Women wouldn't vote for them. And if you can win women, you won't win the White House. They're all DOA in a National election.

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