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diminished from there.
So the man who would rebrand
his party has abruptly decided to
rebrand himself. With that comes
a new plan for the GOP, which he
helpfully laid out in Politico:
At some point, the American
public is going to revolt against
... the leftward march of this
president. I don’t know when
the tipping point will come, but
I believe it will come soon ...
the left wants: The government
to explode; to pay everyone; to
hire everyone; they believe that
money grows on trees; the earth
is flat; the industrial age, factory-style government is a cool
new thing; debts don’t have to
be repaid; people of faith are ignorant and uneducated; unborn
babies don’t matter; pornography is fine; traditional marriage
is discriminatory; 32 oz. sodas
are evil; red meat should be rationed; rich people are evil unless
they are from Hollywood or are
liberal Democrats; the Israelis
are unreasonable; trans-fat must
be stopped; kids trapped in failing schools should be patient;
wild weather is a new thing;
moral standards are passé; government run health care is high
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quality; the IRS should violate
our constitutional rights; reporters should be spied on; Benghazi
was handled well; the Second
Amendment is outdated; and the
First one has some problems too.
“Eventually,” Jindal says, “Americans will rise up against this new
era of big government and this new
reign of politically correct terror.”
What to do until then?
A funny thing happened
while Jindal was staking out
turf as his party’s most serious
critic — his popularity and
clout diminished.”
“Put on your big boy pants,” says
Jindal, helpfully and substantively.
The short version of Jindal’s
new plan for GOP renewal, then,
is basically 1) attack a bunch of
straw men; 2) sit back and chill
and enjoy a well-fitting pair of
trousers; and 3) profit.
This is a far cry from the Bobby
Jindal who suggested “we might
need to change just about everything else we do,” but I guess Bobby Jindal has had enough
of that guy.