GOP Gov Jindal blasts Romney for blaming defeat on Barack Obama ‘gifts’

[BostonPirate]

http://www.boston.com/politicalintel...YqI/story.html

“I think that’s absolutely wrong,” Jindal said later Wednesday at a news conference in Las Vegas at a meeting of the Republican Governors Association. “We have got to stop dividing the American voters. We need to go after 100 percent of the votes, not 53 percent.“

Jindal’s reference to 53 percent was a criticism of Romney’s secretly recorded statement at a Florida fund-raiser in May that 47 percent of Americans are dependent on government assistance and do not take personal responsibility for their lives.

This is the guy that "accidentally" reffered to the ACA act as Obomney care in a press event for the Romney campaign.

He goes further.....

“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.”

He added, “I absolutely reject that notion, that description” of Obama’s winning strategy, which Romney made in a conference call that reporters heard. “I think that’s absolutely wrong.”

This of course is in response to Romney's comments on the gifts Obama gave as the reason he lost.

Now, It also has to be noted that today he was named as the head of the GOP governor's association, so he speaks with the backing of that org.

Will Jindal be able to take the progressive lead within the GOP? Has his record in the past ruined that possibility?

[rareboy]

Mitt is a fucking douche.

If anyone should be thanking the US taxpayers for gifts...it should be him and his cabal of vulture capitalistas.

Hey Mitt.

Fuck you.

[JayHawk]

I second that emotion.... Mittens Go Fuck yourself.... sincerely the 47%.... oh wait I am the .1% of America that serves.... cheers...

[maxpowr9]

If someone actually reads the notes from the GOP Governor's convention that took place in Las Vegas recently, it's fucking hilarious. They sadly believe the lies they spew. They blamed Obama for painting Romney as a corporate raider. Um...wrong! It was Gingrich who coined the term "vulture capitalist" to describe Romney in the primaries. If they can't recognize that, well, it doesn't bode well for them in 2014 and beyond.

[rareboy]

^^^ For which all of us...including us beaver loving, poutine eating, toque wearing eskimos up here on the ice floes are grateful.

[JayHawk]

Poutine looks absolutely wonderful..... OMG....

send the jet for me again RB.... please please....

a Quebec dish, made with french fries, topped with brown gravy and curd cheese. Sometimes additional ingredients are added.... such as beef, pulled pork, lamb, lobster meat, shrimp, rabbit confit,[5] caviar, and truffles.

Yes Pleaseeeeeeee....

[White Eagle]

Poutine looks absolutely wonderful..... OMG....

send the jet for me again RB.... please please....



Yes Pleaseeeeeeee....

I have never heard of it and it sounds wonderful! Except for the rabbit. I can't eat rabbit.
My brothers raised rabbits until they got to about 50, you know how rabbits fuck, so our Dad said get rid of them.
They took each one, laid on the ground with a 2x4 across their neck and, well you can guess. Then we had a big
rabbit barbecue. I threw up for days. Even weeks later. I don't want to even try to see if I still would.

[JayHawk]

Didja know that rabbit is one meat you cannot continually eat? it will kill you because it is so lean....

Rabbit starvation, also referred to as protein poisoning or mal de caribou, is a form of acute malnutrition caused by excess consumption of any lean meat (e.g., rabbit) coupled with a lack of other sources of nutrients usually in combination with other stressors, such as severe cold or dry environment. Symptoms include diarrhea, headache, fatigue, low blood pressure and heart rate, and a vague discomfort and hunger that can only be satisfied by consumption of fat or carbohydrates.

but a good rabbit is tasty.... http://www.wikihow.com/Eat-Wild-Rabbit

[Centexfarmer]

This is a really fucked up thread.

I'm still trying to get over Scrapple!



Does ^ that LOOK like SPAM to anyone?

[JayHawk]

Scrapple is satan spawn.... nasty stuff.

this is the new republican party song....



where as the Democratic party is going with ....

[Centexfarmer]

^ Urm...Stewardist....(Non Republican, 47% type, with a Vagina), I'll have what he's having.

And just Milli Vanilli, the Republicans are lipsynching this one.

[Ninja108]

Jindal believes a lot of the same things Romney does,the only difference being that unlike a lot of his fellow GOPer's,he's realizing that saying that outloud is NOT going to help the GOP down the road.

[maxpowr9]

^^^ For which all of us...including us beaver loving, poutine eating, toque wearing eskimos up here on the ice floes are grateful.

I have a friend up in Yellowknife. I would be shocked if any yankee here could point that out on a map.

[Kulindahr]

I have a friend up in Yellowknife. I would be shocked if any yankee here could point that out on a map.

On Great Slave Lake, right?

Not that I could find that on a map, either....

[cityboy-stl]

Why can't republicans just admit that the public voted against them and their policies instead spewing these ridiculous excuses? More people voted for Democratic policies than Republican policies...period. But I guess reality and republican continue to be mutually exclusive.

[Sausy]

More power to Governor Jindal. Hopefully he has learned the lesson that caving in to the worst of the GOP today is not a strategy for long term relevance. There is no shame in the GOP being the more conservative, market and community oriented party. There is one in being in the thrall of anti intellectual populist religious right conservatives and corporatists waving the banner of the Koch Brothers and their Rovian ilk. Jindal stands in his speech strongly against both malignancies in today's GOP and I welcome him on that. We don't need a move to the progressive left in turning away from the hard right...just a balance back to the center that 40% of Americans occupy. We don't need social engineering right OR left in those who elect to serve us.

[TX-Beau]

HA, he's brown, he knows he has token or glass ceiling in his future, so doesn't have much to lose positioning himself as the outsider.

He IS the outsider, he and the other handful of brown pubs must be getting lonely.



Fools and Pubs invoke "left," (like they actually know shit about it) cause OF COURSE it hides under your bed GC waiting to jump out at you and go BOOOGA BOOGA!!!!

LOL

[JayHawk]

I suspect a healthy portion of the GOP will try to actually embrace the idea of getting govt out of your bedroom and out of your wallet. That would mean accepting gay marriage as reality and accepting that adult human beings are going to smoke pot so they can up revenue by licensing its sale instead of taxing you exorbitantly. If the GOP embraced those two ideas and then sought a rational solution to immigration then we would have two viable parties again....

[TX-Beau]

Fat Chance. I suspect some will try, but it will take yet another ass whippin' and probably another after that before the non fundie pubs get mad enough to grab some sac.

[Ninja108]

It will take another election for them to get the message. As for now,they think they lost because they didn't have someone conservative enough.

[BostonPirate]

The GOP Governors are all speaking up right now and bashing down the secessionist movement. For all their complaining about big government, they are now saying that they cannot do without it.

Funny how elections bring unexpected consequences.

The GOP is trying to retrain its electorate to tone itself down. That's one hell of a barrel of monkeys the idiots opened for themselves.

Interestingly... The Dem Govs are leaving it to the president to answer the petitions in their states.

[White Eagle]

He must be trying to make points for a nomination for Pres in 2016?

[bike10]

These voices should have been heard back in January 2012.

[Kulindahr]

I suspect a healthy portion of the GOP will try to actually embrace the idea of getting govt out of your bedroom and out of your wallet. That would mean accepting gay marriage as reality and accepting that adult human beings are going to smoke pot so they can up revenue by licensing its sale instead of taxing you exorbitantly. If the GOP embraced those two ideas and then sought a rational solution to immigration then we would have two viable parties again....

The ludicrous thing from some of our right-wingers here about immigration is the no-compromise stance that opposes even penalties in place. Sensible politicians should be able to compromise on a mix of penalties in place and increased enforcement of laws for any newcomers, including hammering Mexico for an agreement under which Mexican prison time can be a threat used against illegals -- being as their prisons are a lot more to fear. And I still think we should relocate some military bases right on the border.

Of course any of that will be "gifts" -- but it's as impossible tohave government without "gifts" as it is to have government without redistribution of income.

[Kulindahr]

It will take another election for them to get the message. As for now,they think they lost because they didn't have someone conservative enough.

They're like the science fiction races who build killer machines that slay anyone who isn't "pure" enough, only to find they've created a menace that judges no one to be pure.

[Ninja108]

IMO,many of them are pisted off not at what ROmney said,but the fact he highlighted the beliefs many in the GOP have. The same thing with Todd Akin. Many conservatives agree with him,they just didn't bring it out in public.

[Kulindahr]

IMO,many of them are pisted off not at what ROmney said,but the fact he highlighted the beliefs many in the GOP have. The same thing with Todd Akin. Many conservatives agree with him,they just didn't bring it out in public.

Ironically, the most recent time I heard any of that kind of talk from a non-politician was downtown --

from a guy in line at the Salvation Army food bank.