Bobby Jindal: Republicans Need to Move Even Further to the Right to Recapture the Center [View all]

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The Washington Monthly / By Ed Kilgore

Bobby Jindal: Republicans Need to Move Even Further to the Right to Recapture the Center
The Louisiana Governor is setting himself up as the absolutist right's rising star.

January 24, 2013 |


I will be watching for a transcript of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s speech to the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting in Charlotte tonight with considerable anticipation. It looks like he’s going to personally brand the tendency within the GOP to identify “party reform” with an even more ideologically savage brand of conservatism than the one they’ve already embraced.

In an account based on an advance copy of the speech, WaPo’s Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake (under the sycophantic headline, “Bobby Jindal Speaking Truth to GOP Power”—gag!) tell us this about Bobby’s Big Message:

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will deliver a forceful denunciation of his party’s Washington-centric focus in a speech to the Republican National Committee on Thursday evening, arguing that the GOP is fighting the wrong fight as it seeks to rebuild from losses at the ballot box last November.

“A debate about which party can better manage the federal government is a very small and short-sighted debate,” Jindal will tell the RNC members gathered in Charlotte, N.C. for the organization’s winter meeting, according to a copy of the speech provided to The Fix. “If our vision is not bigger than that, we do not deserve to win….” ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/bobby-jindal-republicans-need-move-even-further-right-recapture-center