"Oh man, there's a teleprompter.....yea he's screwed."
My second: "Man, this is boring,"
"What were they thinking?" should have been my third but I'd already changed the channel.
OK listen, I get it. Throw Jindal out there, let'em give a speech, make it look Presidential and try to steal some of Obama's thunder. Give conservatives some hope!
But like so many Republican ideologies, tonight's tactic fell flat because it's outdated and ignores recent history. Remember Inauguration Day and what you were doing ten minutes after Obama's speech? Were you on the phone? Washing the dishes? Getting back to work? Writing a blog?
Who knows what you were doing? But I'll tell you what you were definitely not doing ..... watching the TV, marveling in the next speaker.
You know why? Because it wasn't gonna be Obama. And by some transitive property, that meant whoever was next was gonna suck (sorry poem lady). But honestly, it's the truth. And this isn't anything new.
It's why they put the crappy musicians in the opening set of a concert. Because there ain't no way in hell anyone's gonna sit around and watch if they come after the main event. They aren't as good and no one's pretending that they might be. It won't matter if they play the best concert of their life - compared to the popular and, well, better band, they suck. It seems like the GOP forgot to include this in their Jindal thinking.
But it gets worse....
To stick with the above example:
The Republican party basically slotted their relatively unknown artist in Jindal AFTER a multi-platinum selling, girls screaming in the aisles, Van Halen popular in the 1980's artist in Obama. AND, if that wasn't daunting enough, encouraged him to play the exact freakin' song that got him boo-ed off stage last week and dumped by his girlfriend after she realized he sucks as a musician and won't make it (read: the 2008 election).
I mean, how'd anyone think it was gonna work? What would be the best case scenario for Jindal? Assuming people were in the mood for another speech (which they knew wasn't gonna be as good) and assuming people forgot how empty and pathetic the Republican rhetoric has sounded in the past (which I'm not convinced they are) AND assuming that people would not heavily compare Obama's and Jindal's speech giving abilities and immediately become disinterested (come on, he was using a teleprompter!), wouldn't the best case scenario be something along the lines of: "Hmm, Jindal wasn't bad actually."
Is that the highest Republicans can shoot for these days?
well at least his name is Bobby!!!
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