While Attorney General Jeff Landry has been gearing up to oppose Gov. John Bel Edwards in the 2019 elections, there is another potential candidate who is making noise like a potential candidate and if he does run, it can only spell bad news for Landry.
You may remember his name.
Piyush, aka Bobby Jindal.
Before you laugh at the prospect of one with an approval rating hovering around 30 percent when he left office just over a year ago, remember that he is delusional even to the point of believing he was first, a viable candidate for President and later as Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education.
With Timmy Teepell whispering in his ear (for the big bucks he gets at Jindal’s alter-ego), it’s plausible that he actually believes he can waltz back into the governor’s mansion. And I, for one, am not about to discount his chances after my prediction the day Trump announced for president that he would “crash and burn in six weeks.”
For openers, it’s important to note that Jindal never disbanded his AMERICA NEXT 501(c)(4) conservative think tank formed in 2013 to boost his comical attempt to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from a host of presidential wannabes.
Though he has made no formal—or informal, for that matter—announcement that he has his eye on “the only job he ever wanted,” he is making what some observers might see as an attempt to put himself in Trump’s good graces.
Using America Next as his forum, Jindal on Friday launched an attack on critics of Betsy DeVos, Trump’s choice for Secretary of Education. And he got Politico’s help in spreading the word.
Jindal wrote the piece as if (a) he can ride the coattails of Trump (who may not even know who he is) in 2019 or as though (b) anyone cares. This is, after all, the same Jindal who never rose above 1 percent in Iowa, where his presidential campaign started—and died an anonymous death. He is the would-be Boy Blunder to Donald Trump’s Batty Man.
Jindal has never passed up an opportunity for shameless self-promotion, even when ostensibly supporting someone else. And, of course, he didn’t let us down this time when he wrote, “America Next is overseen by former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has also advocated for education reform. Before DeVos was picked for the post, Jindal had been mentioned as a possible contender.”
It’s highly likely that the only one to mention him as a “possible contender” was Jindal himself. It’s reminiscent of a man with whom I once worked who was constantly applying for jobs for which he held no qualifications. Invariably, he would announce to us at break that he was a lock for the job because “They accepted my application.”
Jindal somehow managed to get Politico, an Internet political news service, to post a story about a pro-DeVos ad campaign being launched by America Next.
In its story, Politico quoted America Next: “With education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos facing a rocky path to confirmation, a conservative group is launching a pair of scorched-earth TV ads defending her – and accusing her Democratic opponents of being ‘full of rage and hate.’”
Politico further quotes from America Next: “Why is the radical left so full of rage and hate? They still can’t accept that Trump won and they lost,” it says. “Now extreme liberals like Elizabeth Warren are trying to stop Betsy DeVos from becoming secretary of education.
“Why? DeVos angers the extreme left because she exposes their hypocrisy. DeVos wants low-income kids to have the same choices that liberal elitists have for their families. DeVos wants equal opportunity for all kids. That makes angry liberals even angrier.”
A second commercial accuses “Washington liberals” of opposing “giving low-income families the same education choices as everyone,” Politico wrote.
The group is spending more than $500,000 to air the commercials, which will begin running Friday morning on multiple networks nationwide.
The ads were created by Curt Anderson, a veteran strategist who has worked for Jindal and a number of prominent Republican politicians.
“Betsy has been very polite and deferential to these Democrat senators,” Jindal wrote in an email. “But we don’t have to.”
Tough talk from a guy who left office with such a dismal approval rating. But hey, he’s a tough guy. After all, eschewing rubber boots, he chose to wear his Hopalong Cassidy cowboy boots at the opening of the Foster Farms chicken processing plant in Farmerville while he was governor.
Oh, and at the end of the piece, there was the obligatory “Click Here to Donate” button. Preachers and politicians just can’t seem to get a message across without asking for money.
Joking aside, Jindal has the kind of ego that keeps him in a constant state of denial about his lack of achievements and low approval ratings—and the youth and kind of misplaced self-worth that would drive him to try to match Edwin Edwards at the state’s only four-time governor.
Now if he can just get Trump’s endorsement…
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What can I say…we got Trump? The only thing that surprises me is how Republicans continue to vote for these incompetent candidates without any regard for how they are being adversely affected. For them to sacrifice their moral, religious tenets to vote for Trump completely destroyed any hope of them ever being able to look at corruption and toxic policies for Louisiana and vote for the right candidates that might would actually try to make things better. This is very depressing – but, I refuse to stop resisting this downward spiral into the foggy bottom of corrupt and destructing national and state politics.
Well, we know what they say, “You can’t keep a good man down.” Apparently, there is a much broader application of this adage.
Frankly, I hope he runs. It’s the only way Louisiana voters get to send a resounding message of rejection to him.
The Edwards camp is no doubt praying that either Jindal or Angelle (but NOT both) enter the race. Managing to get in a runoff with either of them is BY FAR the best shot Edwards has at re-election.
Let’s say Edwards stays Democrat (interesting the timing of Nevers’ “retirement” right on the heels of Tom’s “speculative” article and him being replaced with an early Jindal cabinet member), Jindal or Angelle enter (but not both), and Fleming (a MUCH more serious threat to Landry than Jindal or Angelle could ever hope to be) and Landry are all in. Here’s my own speculation on how the vote turns out (IF Edwards is lucky enough not to have Democratic opposition, which I DO NOT think is going to be the case):
Primary:
Edwards 34
Landry 29
Fleming 21
Jindal/Angelle 16
Runoff:
Landry 59
Edwards 41
Can you imagine a former two-term governor running at the bottom of the heap of major candidates?
Go for it, Bobby!!!!!
Robert, I’m with you. I hope Jindal runs.
I would be shocked (well, maybe nothing is actually shocking anymore) if Jindal would even consider running for governor again. For one thing, his yuuge ego would see this as a step backward. Since he considers himself Trump’s equal at the very least, I even find it hard to imagine he (or his ego) would accept a position in the Trump administration,particularly since he has been shunned, at best, so far. No, I think he will now attempt to use his secular version of the 700 Club, America Next, to become a national conservative leader preaching the plain truth about the world today and the prophecies of the world tomorrow (Garner Ted Armstrong, a guy only us oldsters will remember). He’s actively seeking donations as we speak with the goal of “…winning the war of ideas, that is what AMERICA NEXT intends to do, and that is what America needs.” [from the website]. I think my brain needs washing, don’t you?
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, Robert! I think that Governor Edwards at this time should easily be seen as the favorite for 2019. He is no Mary Landrieu, no Hillary Clinton! He is positioned well to get most of the votes he got against David Vitter, and will augment that being the incumbent Governor without blemish. He proved that he can raise the funding necessary and he will have the horrible buyer’s remorse from Trump’s first years in office to push him along.the victory trail. As for the carnage from a Fleming, Landry, Jindal, field of opposition, I wonder if they will be able to unite any better for the runoff than Vitter’s supposed allies did? Landry is not long enough in the fray to have Gubenatorial aspirations. Ask John Kennedy.how long it takes for an undefeated low echelon statewide office holder to gain political traction for one of the top statewide offices! And by the way, Landry is no John Kennedy!
Without blemish???
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Nobody touched Edwards during the primary in 2015. That won’t be the case AT ALL in 2019 when he’ll have a clear record of massive tax increases, loading his Cabinet down with bloated salaries, fighting hard by EO for folks biologically born as men to utilize ladies’ restrooms, etc. His fundraising will be drarfed by oil and gas Super PAC money backing Landry. Then there’s the scenario of a Kip Holden or Mitch Landrieu, or Carolyn Fayard (his endorsement of Campbell won’t help there), or all of them for that matter entering the race who will syphon off enough votes to keep him out of even making the runoff, which is what I predict.
The stars all lined up for him in 2015 (including folk being fed up with Jindal). All the stars are lining up against him for 2019, and that’s why you’re seeing the desperation move (lest his funding commitments fall off a cliff) to pursue switching to Republican.
Edwards’ ONLY hope is a runoff with either Jindal or Angelle, a scenario under which even I, frustrated as I may be, would vote for him.
you should encourage him to run. you can write another book
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Trump used “American first” rather than America next.Teepell and Jindal and the Family Research council are so close to Trump, David Duke and Steve Bannon, that they drool at the chaos in the name of God. love always ron thompson
Please prove any of this ridiculous assertion. Any of it. You should be ashamed of such foolishness. No one likes David Duke. There is zero proof he has anything to do with Bannon, Trump, or Tony Perkins.