McCain’s not going to choose Jindal, but it sure would be funny if he did.

Jindal’s about half as old as Johnny Mac, and since Mac would be the oldest president ever elected, voters might pay extra attention to his Veep choice.

The Dems would be stupid to attack Jindal’s inexperience if such a scenario occurred, because, by choosing Jindal, McCain effectively flips the tables on himself. Choosing Jindal would undercut his whole experience angle against Obama. How could Mac claim his advantage as an experienced commander in chief candidate if his handpicked “one heartbeat away” replacement is Jindal?

I hope Jindal is not even mentioned for VP for at least 8 years. We need his logic and “get it done” attitude here in Louisiana after years of nothing getting better. His goals of getting Louisiana out of the bottom of every ranking of states should be respected and supported. With him in the White House, Louisiana will remain where it is now - at the bottom of the barrel.

[…] presidential nominee, John McCain visited Louisiana for a fundraiser today and the Jindal VP rumors mysteriously reappeared in the beltway publication Congressional Quarterly. […]

Charlie Crist, another first term governor (Florida), seems much more likely than Governor Jindal.

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/03/06/flirting-with-a-vp-mccain-dodges-question-on-crist/

This story seems to have been invented by Rush Limbaugh and talk radio.

Put the CQ article into context:

“The punditocracy has lately christened Govs. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Haley Barbour of Mississippi as top tier candidates, along with Sen. Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, and former Ohio Rep. Rob Portman, who also served as director of the Office of Management and Budget and as U.S. trade representative. Vanquished foes Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are given the obligatory mentions. And the sole woman on the list who meets the traditional criteria is Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison . Of course, nobody in the press really knows what McCain is thinking at this point, but it’s easy to look at a map and speculate.

The two most attractive GOP possibilities for VP who are eliminated by the not-ready-for-prime-time standard are governors — Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Sarah Palin of Alaska. Either would add an obvious and unprecedented racial or gender balance to the GOP ticket. Jindal has been discounted because he served only two terms in the House and has been governor only since mid-January, Palin because she has served less than two years.”

[…] This despite that most commentators have premised their mention of Jindal by saying he was probably too inexperienced. Jindal himself tried to quell the rumors but that was three months ago before […]

[…] This despite that most commentators have premised their mention of Jindal by saying he was probably too inexperienced. Jindal himself tried to quell the rumors but that was three months ago before […]

I really don’t believe a man that doesn’t respect the LIBERTY of his states citizens should be McCains choice for V.P.
Please read the following;

FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.FluorideAlert.Org

FAN Bulletin 984: We Lose in Louisiana

July 8, 2008

Dear Stewart,

We lose in Louisiana.

Despite the hundreds of messages sent to Governor Jindal - both from inside Louisiana and from around the world - he has signed the bill (SB 312) which brings mandatory fluoridation to that state. I am afraid our arguments about how unfairly the bill was slipped through the legislature with hardly a citizen in the state knowing about it - and how unwise it is to subject a whole population, especially children, to a toxic substance on a daily basis at levels which are over 200 times the level in mothers’ milk, fell on deaf ears. If Jindal has any intentions of running for higher office he might live to regret his lack of leadership on this matter.

But our heartfelt thanks to all of you who tried - many times - to get this message through to the Governor.

The take-home lesson is that we must never let the pro-fluoridation lobbyists get so far again before we find out about it. We need a better early warning system and we need to put in place and expand the teams (networks) of people in each state which are ready to spring into action the moment the threat becomes apparent. If you want to be part of the network in your state please let us know. Please email me at paul@fluoridealert.org and Carol Kopf nyscof@aol.com, who has kindly agreed to help coordinate this network building in each state. Expanding and organizing these networks will be an important part of our strategizing at our third FAN conference in Toronto, August 10-11.

If we are successful then the promoters may well look back on Louisiana as a battle won, but a defeat in the overall battle for the decent opinion of humankind. After all what kind of public health policy has to be conducted by stealth, instead of open debate?

Thank you again to all those who tried to win this uphill battle and everything else you do to end this foolish practice.

Paul Connett

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