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The New THOMA$ REPORT on Friday, June 06, 2008 8:31:49 AM
Rush
Limbaugh seems to think he'd be a good choice for McCain, to balance his
liberal tendencies and the "age problem." " One, he's a
"minority," which takes that off the table for the general election.
Two, he's young, which means if McCain dies, he'll be there to preserve
conservative principles. He's a
conservative in a place where conservatives don''t usually win. "Gov.
Jindal has done it partly by making clear he personally embraces social
conservative orthodoxies such as opposition to abortion and gay marriage--but
soft-pedaling them in public. While running for governor in 2007 (he narrowly
lost an earlier bid for the office in 2003), he rarely raised such hot-button
issues on the stump. Instead, he campaigned largely on free-market themes such
as cutting taxes to stimulate growth, and a populist pledge, honed from his
days as a state and federal technocrat, to solve problems. But that strategy
may be hard to pull off in the glare of a national candidacy when his views on
issues such as abortion and religion in schools would certainly be meticulously
examined. The Louisiana governor, who converted to Catholicism from Hinduism in
college, is against abortion in nearly all circumstances and supports teaching
"intelligent design" in public schools. As a congressman, he voted to
build a fence at the Mexico border." I remember a time when his
Catholicism would have caused problems, but after JFK, that's not a problem. If
he's a REAL conservative, I'd go along with him, too. (Wall Street Journal)