Bobby Jindal is our first repeat champion. Here's a long read on how JIndal screwed up Louisiana, albeit with a complicit GOP legislature.
Even conservatives with a last dreg of pragmatism are recognizing what a disaster he's been.
If Bobby Jindal’s presidential campaign goes anywhere, it will not be because of his record governing Louisiana, but in spite of it. He was first elected as a conservative, clean-government technocrat, and brought a lot of hope to many Louisianians. One of them wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed column about it right after Jindal’s win. Excerpt:
[T]his election makes me proud and hopeful… . Yes, I’m fully aware that Louisiana is bound to break your heart. … [But] I think [Jindal's] going to write the next great Louisiana story. Maybe just this once, it’s not going to be a farce.
That columnist was me, the fool.
Next up,
Scott Walker can't tell if President Obama is a Christian. He wants to blame the press, naturally, for asking gotcha questions. He wants to pretend he's not part of a party where questions like whether Obama is a Christian
or whether he loves America are serious topics. Instead, Walker chooses to dodge like a birther pretending he hasn't seen the birth certificate or like, well,
himself avoiding answering questions at a forum in London. I guess no one told him this isn't like dodging the state press when you're governor. If a presidential candidate keeps dodging questions, the dodging becomes a story.