but at some point, the Republican Party has got to learn about packaging and presentation.

This shouldn’t be rocket science. It doesn’t have to be extravagant or lavish, just professional.

Just next to impossible to have any sort of flow to the speech give he was basically talking into a camera with no one around. No applause lines, no response to an audience, just hard to pull off in a vacuum.

Jindal was horrible, and what’s worse: he was an affirmative action Republican. Instead of putting up the best guy for the job (Sanford immediately comes to mind) we put up a RINO who happens to be a minority. Bad choice, and we’re paying for it now as his speech is the laughing stock of the news.

Did you see how he destroyed Meredith Veiera? No need for handlers to prep him – he could wing it and kill any media person they put up against him. The guy knows so much and doesn’t get flustered and tells it like it is. Refreshing!

and for reminding all that we are supposed to be the party of ideas. I partucluarly like your last paragrah where you express your dissapointment in those so quickly willing to throw Jindal under the bus. I have been harping on the Jindal thing for days as it reminds me of the vilification of Palin and even going back to Fred Thompson. I expect every kind of dribble and slobber from the Liberals, but it is most disturbing when it comes out of so-called Republicans. From reading the comments above, I see where some put packaging and appearance above all else. So, someone can stand in front of an audience or camera and spout lies and falseties, as Obama does regularly, and that makes them a total package, and someone to be impressed with. That is why the Republican party will never have any chance of any gains, there simply aren’t any who meet the standards of their misconceived appearance perfections. It is the result of watching a little too much Britney Spears and American Idol. And, we say that the Obama supporters have been dumbed down!!!!!!

Jindal is talented and smart. If we get distracted by a setting for a speech he gave, we deserve another dose of John McCain.

Someday, the Stupid Party is going to have to wake up and appreciate our quality people or the Evil Party is going to destroy our nation.

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Jindal’s lackluster performance in the response yet great performance in interviews the next day led me to make a light observation on the topic in my diary:

http://www.redstate.com/tankertodd/2009/02/27/the-best-and-worst-republican-leader-a-little-humor/

Lets not lose sight of such a concept. It is ok to criticize. It helps even more to offer solutions. This is something the media never did with Bush – they only insulted and criticized. And with Obama, they don’t dare critique him, which means no solutions other than what he’s attempting to sell.
Which really baffles me, to a point. Love the guy all you want, but if you want him to succeed, offer some constructive criticisms that can make him a better president. Instead, they sweep everything under the rug, and the same tune gets played every day. Mind boggling.

he will hopefully have a team to criticize what may be perceived as “flat” speeches, and it will be done behind the scene, by professionals. For “we the people” to openly criticize him, as well as supposed Republican journalists and strategists, is just as good as feeding Jindal to the Liberal Sharks, and they would only be repeating what they heard many of us say. I don’t advocate saying, wow, he blew it out of the park, but, good God guys, lighten up and give him a chance. Do we forget the “bad” interview Palin had with Couric? We contributed to the negativity, and many Republicans even brushed her off as hopeless and dumb. Those same sentiments still hold with her today. Has she made some great and inspiring speeches since Couric? Did Fred Thompson get the same reputation after his first few speeches? Now, when FDT speaks, people listen. Too bad the Republicans didn’t learn then, and are willing to do the same all over again. Is that not how we got McCain? Now there is a speaker I could easily throw under the bus, and then back up over him again.

To bad the decision was made to not have Jindal behind a podium or sitting down at a table. That would have made all the difference. It is extremely difficult to stand still without a podium and give a speech if the format calls for you to only look straight ahead. The real fault of course lays with us, the listener, who needed a bit of a distraction (i.e., podium).

Jindal would have rocked the house if that hurricane didn’t come which necessitated him canceling his prime-time address at the Republican National Convention. He was where he was supposed to be, however. I look forward to seeing more of Bobby Jindal in the future. We need him.