Former Rhodes Scholar and current Republican governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal has the credentials to emerge as a leader of a party ready to retreat from the dumbed down, science-debunking, and logic-defying extremists who took over the party -- and from the accommodationists, like Romney, who tried to ride their wave into the White House.
Speaking to Politico, Jindal said:
“It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments -- enough of that. . . . 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."Jeb Bush made a few mild comments along this line during the campaign, too.
But mostly the sane ones, who would have been more likely to defeat Obama (Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush, Bobby Jindal, Jon Huntsman) sat on the sidelines and watched as the idiots and clowns (Bachmann, Gingrich, Perry, Cain, Santorum, Trump) so tarnished the "brand" that only someone like Romney -- who would take any position, say anything necessary -- could win the nomination but lacked what it took to win the election.
Fortunately for the Democrats, Obama has four more years to put in place programs and policies that will be working by 2016 and hard to run against. But Republicans have the same four years to repair their brand, and they have some good people-in-hiding.
Ralph
PS: I also think the American voters will be a little less gullible next time. Realizing, just before it was too late, that they were about to give back the power of the presidency to the ones who were the primary causes of the problem to start with -- they may be more discerning next time.
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