Dummies like Akins, maybe who should keep their mouths shut.

"we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters.”

Seriously Governor?? Here is one for ya--No one is insulting the intelligence of the voters. We are just underestimating their stupidity.

Jindal. Have you ever heard of Joe ´bizarre comments´ Biden? He was just re-elected to office for another four (oh, the pain) years.

...and start talking now about how inflation helps banks and Wall Street at the expense of the middle class.

Et tu, Jindal?

Intelligence of the American people??? Bahahhaaa thanks Bobby I needed a laugh. We are witnessing the result of decades of govt education. People are now too stupid \ lazy to work and provide for themselves. They see the govt as the provider of their every need. They still blame Bush for the economy. THESE are your "intelligent Aerican voters".. you can have them.

Every election, there is a faction of the Republican Party that insists on dragging out the abortion issue. This election, that practice cost the GOP dearly.

It´s time the Republicans stopped raising abortion as an issue. It´s time to move on. Roe v. Wade will NEVER be overturned. Abortion will never again be illegal. So why keep dragging this dead corpse out every election cycle?

Time to move on and get that abortion ball-and-chain from around the ankle of the Republican Party. Abortion is a no-win issue.

Jindal is not a natural born citizen. He was born here of non citizen parents. He is of the anchor baby citizen status.
How about we take back the schools and stop dumbed down generations of future voters?

Re #8, it gets tricky, I think Jindal was born on US soil to parents who were "permanent legal" but not yet full US citizens. Marco Rubio is similar.

Jindal, Rand Paul, Rubio....this is what we have for conservatives? All willing to take advise from the dems. I am done with politics. Why bother.

There were candidates during the primary who presented ideas and articulated a positive conservative vision for the future. They consistently drew crowds and did well in early polling. So the message was there.

And then it was drowned out by negative presentations and a disingenuous but well funded campaign that did insult the intelligence of potential voters.

Jindal is right and understands where this movement must go next.

I do think a lot of Repubs talk down to voters. They also talk down to Repubs that don´t fit the "old-school" model.

We need to stop letting the north-east establishment, well-mannered types run the party.

It hasen´t been working for some time now.
Did it ever?

What is it about doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result?

Jindal should resist parroting liberal media chatter, and he should do some thinking of his own. It is clear that the presidency was claimed by more TAKERS than MAKERS, period.

Any GOP effort to sway TAKERS with handouts will disperse the base, and TAKERS will stay with demonRATS for more comprehensive handouts.

Bottom line. Romney would have won, if the 3,000,00 Republicans who didn´t vote would have pried their lazy asses off the couch.

It´s true.
#7, Catholics still voted overwhelmingly for Obama and Democrats, so if you can´t get Catholics on-board with the abortion issue then you might as well leave it alone which is what most Catholics actually do.

Need to frame all issues into economic issues.
We can support unions, but ask the unions where does the money come from to pay for the wages and benefits?

Ask those who would benefit from oil and natural gasoline development why they´re allowing the Democrats and EPA from preventing you from the tax revenues that would help pay for teachers, police and firefighters?

Stop with defending tax-cuts for the top 1-2% and give it to the Dems.

If it doesn´t produce the desired revenues, then we can attack their failed plan.

Dumbed-down liberal/leftism is working out just great, isn´t it? Republicans will never win by trying to out-pander Democrats. Entitlement junkies will always stick with the original, and the targets for the phony "reach out" programs are and always will be entitlement junkies when the chips are down.

The tax issues needs to be framed differently too. Calling for an income tax cut when barely half are paying anything did not resonate. Just simplifying the tax code may win-over more voters than anything else.

Jindal is plenty smart enough to be a good President, but he´s way too short to get elected.

So sad that the GOP now does not care what their candidate thinks of abortion, gay marriage etc. I am sticking with the "old school" thought process of morality, principles and the Bible. Win or lose, I keep my faith.

...It´s time the Republicans stopped raising slavery as an issue. It´s time to move on. Slavery will NEVER be overturned. Slavery will never be illegal. So why keep dragging this dead corpse out every election cycle?

Time to move on and get that Slavery ball-and-chain from around the ankle of the Republican Party. Slavery is a no-win issue.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life - unless your mother chooses otherwise, Liberty - unless someone else is offended by it and the pursuit of Happiness - as long as you aren´t any happier than anyone else.

Catholics voted 47% for O and 46% Romney.

Jindal´s exhortation is fine, if one assumes the way Republicans present themselves or pitch their message is the main problem. The way the enemedia distorts almost everything in favor of the Democrat side has a lot more to do with the general public´s perceptions.

(Even if Jindal were able to present himself as the most intelligent, articulate, competent, and trustworthy candidate, the MSM would still largely caricaturize him as a stupid, pro-rich, anti-woman, anti-poor, racist.)

Stupid is our party getting all twisted up in knots about 2016 NOW. Jindal was trying to get down to the basics and jerk some sense into this dilapidated, intellectually lazy Republican Party.

Oh sure let´s rip our own party and candidates some more and play nice to those across the aisle that pelt us with their total insanity each and every day. I think it is time for gloves to come off.

...and #14, I know several Catholic priests horribly depressed at how many Catholics STILL voted for Obama.

Well, the priests haven´t helped matters much over the years, #25. Too much light comedy and kumbaya, not enough emphasis on explaining and promulgating doctrine.

When are we going to start talking about the dumbed-down, slavish Dems? The ones with their hands out, wanting to take from others; the people whom the Dem/Lefty leadership knows they can manipulate and cajole and rile with a few scary words like "work" and "pay your own way" and "there are not guarantees in life" and "buy your own dam* phone"?

We do have a problem with Repubs (or maybe indies who tend toward Repub) who can not be stirred from their cozy nests, the ones who say "it doesn´t matter."

For too long our side has allowed the "third-partiers" and "libertarians" to sacrifice the good on the altar of the UNATTAINABLE perfect. Perhaps we are far too tolerant.

Thank you, Governor!

I can´t help but notice, the last two election cycles we all dreaded who the nominee was going to be, called him a RINO or non-conservative, and guess what - he lost. To a raging liberal "of color" with the middle name of Hussein!

I also don´t think it is a coincidence that the last time we nominated someone with bona fide conservative views and track record, someone who usually made it very plain what he stands for and what he doesn´t - guess what. We won, twice in a row. I know GWB was not conservative enough for some on here, and his economic team could have done more to prevent or lessen the start of the economic collapse of 2008-2009. But I think history is judging him too harshly now and the bottom line is, the presidency is all or nothing, you either win the election or you lose. Our track record has been better when we put forth a nominee who is plain-spoken and solid about conservative values. It is very possible to state "I am pro life" without flinching, AND just leaving it that far. Not going too far and barking about rape and incest. Frankly I miss Bush-Cheney every damn day, compared to what we have now.

Jindal is one of those anti America Rhodes Scholars.Everyone told me I was wrong but here he is along with his fellow scholars,SUSAN RICE,BILL CLINTON,ROBERT REICH,RACHEL MADOW,CORY BOOKER,GEORGE STEPANOPOLIS,FRANKLIN RAINES,MICHEL KINSLEY and many more.Get the picture?

Actually, #7, Romney did not campaign on abortion. He was all about the economy.

He lost.

Thank you 19

Everyone who believes in Conservative principles also believes that after the re-election of anti-capitalist, socialized-medicine-loving, taxing-and-spending Barack Obama and the Democratic Senate, the economy will collapse.

Just as everyone who believes in the principle of gravity also believes that if someone jumps out of a plane without a parachute, he will crash into earth.

There´s nothing Republicans can do now but wait until things get so bad that even the stupidest voters will be willing to walk through broken glass to return them to office so they can clean up Obama´s multi-term reign of incompetence.

In the meantime, we can continue to watch the inevitable decline and fall of the MSM, already being speeded up post-election, evidenced by the firing of many news employees in anticipation of the burdens of four more years of failed Obamanomics.

He’s right. We shoot ourselves in the foot every year. We don´t do anything to change public perception of who we are. BTW, the party was NOT charted to be a bible-thumping religious group. Yes, I understand the need for morality and decency and we should never give that up. But the party takes it too far. And making the entire party platform based on one or two issues, in the narrowest of definitions and where people don’t agree (especially considering scientific evidence), is just insane and stupid. Data proves that MOST instances of conception don’t make it all the way to term. In fact, even 30% of implanted eggs miscarry. And be honest, there is no sentience within dividing zygotes. So, why is it so imperative that we must lose ALL our power and our entire country just because some people insist that conception is the same as a complete, whole life (although evidence shows differently)? Is it more important to "be right" and lose all power, influence and ability to make things right? Or isn´t it better to make a small partial concession on something that you just might not be absolutely certain of and still have political viability to regain power and influence which you can use to improve and restore our once great country??? That is NOT the same as "going along and getting along" with Democrats--it is called being RATIONAL. Allow only early term, first trimester procedures, then use that political leverage to regain power and find ways to educate people so we can cut the total number of abortions to a fraction of what they are today. "All or nothing" will only get us NOTHING. Most is better.

Right Jindal. Play your politics

Right after katrina, jindal was one of the first to jump on the bash Bush bandwagon and keep at it loooong after he should have known better. You could not tell the difference between him and the activist dems who blamed everything on Bush. I would not trust him after that.

#34, see #31.

In addition to abortion, Romney also did not campaign on Bible thumping . . .

or morality . . .

or religion.

He still lost.

Thanks Jindal, Jeb, Huckabee etc I will changing to independent along with 1000000000 others. Repubs are caving to the dems, so I´m out.

Akin did make a really dumb comment. Mourdock, too, but not as dumb as Akin. Did the Republicans really tolerate Akin? Didn´t they cut off his funding?

I´ve got news for Jindal. Obama beat something with nothing. Also, if Jindal thinks he can escape any criticism because he is a minority and "smart," he´s sadly mistaken. The other side will smear him just like they do every Republican. If that doesn´t work, they´ll steal the election like they did this one.

After the Democrats lost twice to Bush, they decided to move to the center and stop calling for taxes on the rich, abortion rights and gays in the military. Oh wait,they didn´t. In fact, they won with the most liberal candidate ever to win the office of President. The Republicans need to run a candidate with likeability and an uplifting message. Too bad they let the Sarah Palin brand be so damaged. Maybe Jindal can do it. Or maybe Rubio. Or maybe someone we haven´t yet thought of.

Cross Jindal off the list. I heard he was OK, but now he opens his mouth and validates some the leftwing propaganda about "communicating inclusiveness". Get this, it´s about race and Free Stuff. I can´t do a reverse Michael Jackson, OK? I´m not getting a sex change operation, I´m not going to medical school to learn how to do abortions. Imitation Democrats will always lose to real Democrats.

Ah, the Harvaard Brahman has spoken. Ever heard this arrogant little puke try to give a speech?