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    Just In ... What My Life-long Conservative Friend Thinks of Jindal


    Yowzer . . .


    I received the following email missive from a life long family friend (40 years) who has been a conservative his entire life. It was in answer to my question to him about Gov. Jindal:

    Gov. Bobby Jindal? I don't give a hoot about his background or lineage. I don't give a damn about his style. But the substance of his presentation was sorely lacking. I do not know where Gov. Jindal was educated or what he has done besides run for public office and collect a paycheck from the bureaucracy of the government institutions that he complains about. So, that pretty much tells you all that you need to know about how I viewed him.

    Now, instead of focusing on why I don't see why he wants to destabilize the already volatile social fabric that he purportedly aims to save, I would like to point out that his method (or school, or ideology -- it is hard to know exactly what to call that bullshit) goes by the name of "Ding-bat-ism". It is a politically ignorant and avowedly outdated philosophy that aims to create catchy terms for boring, old stupid washed up issues and ideas.

    Naturally, there are few certainties in life. Here's the primary three: death, taxes, and some johnnie-come-lately conservative ding-a-ling sticking their face in front of a camera and babbling out some presumptuous political sales pitch every few days. Jindal is only the latest. My position, be it as you that I have been a conservative since junior high gets a little complicated here. I'm suggesting that Jindal's declamations reek of skepticism. I use the word reek because his backers in the current RNC believe that their Praetorian Guard is looking out for our best interests. Although it is perhaps impossible to change the perspective of those who have such beliefs, I wish nevertheless to increase awareness and understanding of our similarities and differences. My intention here is not just to show you, as dispassionately as possible, what kind of back-ass-ward thoughts Jindal is spouting for the good ol' boy network these days but also to begin a course of careful, planned, and coordinated action to slowly get rid of this type of cancer.

    If you take five seconds and read between the lines of Jindal's slop, you'll undoubtedly find that if we are to straighten out Jindal's thinking, and thereby the thinking of the lemmings that lap this slop up, then we must be guided by a healthy and forwarded thinking ideology, not by the purblind and combative ideologies that Jindal promotes and that the so-called leadership of the current party spews. Am I being too idealistic when I suggest that all we need to do is treat the disease, not the symptoms? I don't think so. Now, careful examination of Gov. Jindal's stunted propositions have left me to conclude that I myself must try to avoid blanket statements and broad generalizations when I propose that Jindal's side of the the crowd should commit to a process that respects civil liberties, civil rights, and civil discourse, even though Jindal was boasting about his own generous contributions to best of all humanity. As far as I can tell, however, Jindal's claimed magnanimousness is absolutely found to be wanting. Which reminds me of what  I overheard one of the current conservative spin doctors say, "The country's salvation comes from whims, irrationality, and delusions of grandeur." Try and guess who that spin doctor was.  That quotation demonstrates the power of language as it epitomizes the <i>us versus them</i> dichotomy within hegemonic discourse. As for me, I prefer to use language to tell everyone who'll listen here on the right things that Gov. Jindal doesn't want you to know. His conduct can be described as less than forthright. Now, I could go on and on and on, on that point alone, but maybe he'll matures emotionally and will eventually grow out of his present way of thinking and come to realize that he conducts himself in a superciliously stunted-Republican lap-dog manner. So, if folks wish to call me anti-party, thanks! They've got that right! I only attempt to speak the language as Jindal and his the rest of the current leaders of the party would never be able to understand in a thousand years.

    (name deleted due to his position of 30 years at the State Department)

    ~OGD~

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