Adding to Stranahan’s post from yesterday, the notion that Jindal is the ‘Republican Obama’ amplifies how truly ridiculous and desperate the Republicans are.
They’re making a huge mistake in assuming that just because Jindal is young and of unusual ethnic origins that he’s the equivalent of Barack Obama — in the same way they mistakenly calculated that Sarah Palin would attract female voters just because she’s a woman, even though she possessed none of the positive qualities of Senator Clinton.
It’s totally shallow — and vaguely racist in a way. In other words, a party which has so often dealt in identity politics and racial divisiveness to suddenly go, “Hey look over here! We have an ethnic, too!” seems weird and awful to me.
