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Governor Bobby Jindal Will Be At The RedState Gathering. Will You?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 11th, 2012 at 04:46 AM  | 

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That’s right, one of the most effective surrogates on the campaign trail in the primary for Rick Perry and now in the general for Mitt Romney, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will be at the RedState Gathering.

Governor Jindal is in the news these days for opting not to expand Louisiana’s medicaid program for Obamacare. He’s also in the news as speculation grows over who Mitt Romney will pick for a running mate.

Time is running out to register for the RedState Gathering. More so, there is only about a week left to get a discount on the hotel rooms.

The RedState Gathering will be in Jacksonville, FL from August 2nd to August 5th. Go to www.redstategathering.com for more information and to register.

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  • http://teapartisan.wordpress.com Loren Heal

    By all accounts it looks like everybody who’s anybody will be there.

  • ihateliberals

    I wish there were some way to attend virtually. I would love to here the speakers and participate as much as possible from afar. The only speakere I have a real problem with is Reince Priebus. I have lost all faith in the RNC and as long as the Party rails against the Tea Party I wil not give them money. as a matter of fact I learned my lesson while Michael Steele was the chairman that I should be supporting conservative candidate of my choice not giving money to an organization that supports candidates like John McCain, John Boehner etc. I know that Reince has supported the Tea Party but the GOP elite still despises them except at election time. If not for the Tea Party there would have been no stopping Obama and the Democratically controlled congress. Obamacare would have only been the beginning of the mayhem they could have inflicted upon us. I have supported RedState as much as i can on my SS income since that is all i have left due to the situation Obama has caused with my investments.

  • sulmak

    Maybe Redstate had its own(it would only make sense), but I know Larry O’Connor hosted a stream for Breitbart with interviews of attendees and at least some speeches because I watched it.

  • celador2

    Reince Priebus helped very much hold back the Recall Walker effort in Wisconsin that ended in a Walker Win in June 5th. Also saved were Rebecca Kleefisch and five senators. The victory centers set up by RNC chair made it possible to win with such a huge spread of about seven pts. These centers remain for use by the party’s presidential nominee. Romney, picked by delegates not Reince.
    .
    But beofre he was chair RNC he was Wisconsin state chair. In that capacity his efforts in the state got him a nomination to replace Michael Steele and retire debt Jan 2011. He has cut the debt.

    As state party chair he helped Ron Johnson take down Sen Russ Feingold and he helped the state pick up the Assemby, Senate, US House seats as well as Governor and Lt Governor. These victories won him a nomination for RNC chair 2011.

    Reince has said on Greta OTR the 2010 primary between Scott Walker and Mark Neumann was good for the party meaning he defends Mark Neumann without taking sides. Scott Walker and Neumann have made peace too according to a Walker interview at CSM breakfast.

    By my calculations this guy Reince Priebus, RNC chair and a beloved figure to many has done as much as anybody standing up for the tea party! Please look at his attributes and applaud them. They are many.

  • celador2

    A VP nomination is an honor but it removes a valuable official from the front lines. Some officials are more vital than others to the movement for reform since their reforms lead by example.

    Gv Jindal is transforming the state of Louisana,. growing the party brand along his lines. School choice expansion is the area that interests me much in Lousiana.

    A RSG panel might be in order by states or guests that are doing vouchers. Gv Jindal will allow massive funds transfers to private schools in his voucher plans to help children in poor schools who can not learn in the public schools. Freedom of choice to learn is open to more students in Jindal’s state.

    I do not want this effort to stop by moving Jindal to VP.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    Has done something very remarkable. Not only has he launched the first full scale statewide choice program (I don’t know of any others of this scale).

    But he did it in a state which was just a few years ago a hostile backwater of yellow dog democrats and Huey Long populists.

  • earlgrey

    Hence he will not get picked :( .

  • ffc99

    under Mitch Daniels enacted a voucher program in 2011 that will be available to all state residents by 2014.

  • acat

    Daniels did not push as hard as he maybe could have against public-sector unions .. contrast with Scott Walker .. and also set afire many bridges with his “truce” statements.

    Jindal turned the Katrina disaster into a huge education turn-around in New Orleans, and has done so without stumbling on other issues the way Daniels has….

    Mew

  • ffc99

    on his first day in office Mitch ended collective bargaining for public sector unions.

  • ffc99

    And I have no idea what the truce comment has to do with a discussion of education reform (though I bet had Mitch run, it would have worked out as a pretty shrewd political move).

  • aesthete

    “Daniels did not push as hard as he maybe could have against public-sector unions .. contrast with Scott Walker ..”

    The pub-sec unions aren’t as strong in IN as they are in WI (though they’re still plenty strong) and the Iraq war was the cause du jour among liberals at the start of Daniels’ term — thus, less resistance when Daniels passed even more sweeping legislation which put even more restrictions on pub-sec unions than did Walker’s bill.

    FWIW, Walker and several other governors who took on unions in ’08 and ’10 cited Daniels as a direct inspiration.

    I would say that the “truce” statement was a minor liability when it came to a Presidential run, but not one that impaired his performance as Governor. At any rate, the “truce” statement is far less of a gaffe than the ones made by any of our Presidential contenders (or even Jindal’s sub-par response to B Obama’s SOTU speech, which was received poorly).

  • aesthete

    which guarantees he won’t be the pick :(

  • ffc99

    he prioritized school reform over right to work.

  • acat

    Other than that .. Daniels did end up choosing school vouchers over right-to-work … Erick wrote about it here.

    Mitch was very clearly looking at a White House run when he made the truce statement, prompting this reply from Bill S.…

    As the qualifications for veep are clearly being discussed, it appeared to me good to remember both the positives and negatives of Gov. Daniels.

    Mew

  • acat

    I misspoke, I meant right-to-work, not public-sector unions.

    Mitch is one of the good ones, but he doesn’t seem to be very good at walking and chewing bubble gum simultaneously .. and that concerns me.

    Mew

  • ffc99

    he’s probably accomplished more meaningful conservative reform than any current Republican governor and you accuse him of not being able to walk and chew at the same time. You have some pretty high standards.

  • acat

    I’d be very happy with a Jindal veep pick, he’s a true wunderkind.

    I like him, but I don’t see Romney picking a sitting Governor, so … awaiting disappointment.

    Mew

  • aesthete

    of Scott Walker… when Walker has not passed any variant of RTW. While in hindsight I would agree that Daniels was too timid about RTW’s political feasibility, he has supported RTW for years and signed it when it hit his desk. I can’t think of a single governor who has done more to improve the business friendliness of his state than Daniels, and the various Governors who took their inspiration from him (Luis Fortuno in PR, for example).

  • ffc99

    Mitch has made it clear with his recent employment decision that he has no interest in the veep job. He clearly falls in the category of politicians who view it as “not being worth a warm bucket of spit”.

  • acat

    Daniels did end up choosing school vouchers over right-to-work ? Erick wrote about it here.

    Mew

  • ffc99

    He got one in 2011 and the other in 2012.

  • http://www.unifiedpatriots.com/ pilgrim

    If you look at the recent trends by George W and Barack of selecting an old hand in Washington who is not from a battleground state, then an obvious pick for Mitt is South Dakota Sen. John Thune.

  • aesthete

    I would have made the same choice Daniels made. School choice is the long game: dismantling the propaganda centers laughingly called “public schools” is much more important for the future of our country than RTW, though both are great.

    Fortunately we didn’t have to choose.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    I was going to say Fortuno. Daniels while impressive was still in a light red state, what Fortuno did was raise the Titanic, repair her hull, drive the boat into a hurricane and come out on the other side with one of Carnival’s new multi-million dollar cruise ships. A more impressive governorship in my 43 years, I don’t recall off hand.

  • aesthete

    which has only recently started trending red.

    I would agree with you on Fortuno — did many of the same things as Daniel, but in a political environment that resembled Greece in terms of sovereign debt and public employment, and which had the corruption endemic to even the best of Latin American countries.

    Johnson is another Governor who gets high marks from me on that front (probably the only Governor in recent years I can think of who successfully, structurally reformed government in a blue or purple state and who hasn’t mentioned Daniels as an inspiration).

  • acat

    Thune’s claim to fame is the defeat of Daschle … the man doesn’t appear to be any more a conservative than George H. W. Bush was.

    That’s okay …. but it’s not what we need, especially if we’re looking at 2020 and 2024….

    Mew

  • http://www.unifiedpatriots.com/ pilgrim

    What I wrote is what Mitt will probably do, and not what I want Mitt to do. I would like for Mitt to pick a conservative Governor, but I am pessimistic.

  • acat

    .. but I don’t think Thune has the inside track.

    Romney wants this .. Thune doesn’t bring anything to the table.

    Still expecting a southeastern legislator with good pro-life cred.

    Mew

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    At least we can hope.

  • acat

    Very compelling, results-based story, and yes, he’s a natural born citizen. I don’t have a problem with Puerto Rico being the 51st State either, I think we’ve got too many territories (American Samoa, for example) that are, as Puerto Rico used to be, breeding grounds for corruption in part because they aren’t States.

    As for Johnson, he flushed most of the goodwill I had toward him by running Libertarian… we’ll have to see what he does after he loses. About the only thing that’d change my mind back toward him would be Romney picking him and running some kind of fusion ticket…. and a Fortuno pick is more likely than that!

    Yes, Indiana is a purple State .. and a rust belt State. They didn’t get the full union-hero-worship that afflicts Michigan and Wisconsin, nor did they get as bad a case of cronyism as Illinois .. but they have elements.

    Yes, Daniels did get Right To Work done, which is tremendous. I agree, given a choice between Right To Work and School Choice, the future is more important.

    I would have liked, however, for Daniels to have been more vocally supportive of Walker’s work de-fanging of public-sector unions, especially as Daniels led the way.

    Mew

  • buster93

    I like to listen to him on Meet The Press and all the TV shows. he knows his stats, numbers history. Brown grad , and a great family history and story. CONSERVATIVE . A great Governor of Louisiana
    and taking Education by storm. I thnk debates against Biden would quite interesting . Jindal also wrote a paper about Medicare in 2 weeks when he was 24? I was born in Michigan grew up in Louisiana and live in Texas. Romney, Jindal, Perry. JOB CREATORS!!!!!!
    ROMNEY/JINDAL2012

  • http://uslibertyjournal.blogspot.com/ Daezy

    Boy, do I wish I weren’t in California!