The title of this post refers to a hilarious joke made by one of the miscreants I was watching Tuesday’s faux-State of the Union with. We were, like everyone else, discussing the fact the whole time, during the Republican response to Obama’s speech, Bobby Jindal sounded like he was hosting a children’s show. He wasn’t just talking silly, he was talking down to the American people.
My first reaction was, Oh, this is the GOP’s answer to Obama’s magnetism? A slow-talking hick who would be better selling blenders on TV at 4 am than explaining basic civics to me? But it occurred to me while watching, that for that wide swath of voting Americans who just got the internet last year — the demographic that goes to church regularly, memorizes football stats, and generally suffers the disdain of the East Coast liberal elite — Jindal’s speech probably WAS a brilliant piece of oratory.
He gave props to the “historic moment” of Obama’s presidency. He repeated the general conservative spending platform in really certain, easily understood terms. He appeared friendly at least, in the face of being incredibly patronizing. And because of this hunch of mine that Middle America conservatives secretly loved the Governor of Louisiana’s speech, I’m given hope that his party is still in shambles. I mean, if appointing Michael “Oreo” Steele as its head wasn’t hope enough.
- TF100D
I prefer rapscallion to miscreant.