Jindal is not a moron. He just thinks he has to act like one. He is an Indian-American from a very elite family. He is exaagerating how folksy and AmURRican he is in order to be down with his party, which contains numbers of anti-brown, anti-education, ah, folks. While Palin is a genuine know-nothing, Bush could pull off the neat trick of coming from the top economic layer of society but sounding like a good ole boy who could dis those obnoxious smart, capable people. As we can see, this worked really well for a while.

Jindal, being second-generation immigrant, is just the tiniest bit tone-deaf. He is not quite deft enough to pull off Bush’s perfect balancing act of using and building up upper-class privilege while simultaneously stoking the class resentments of the have-nots against the haves. Actually, I would have to say that most tenth-generation Americans couldn’t pull THAT off either. You really need to be a world-class actor and hypocrite to do it.

Rachel’s comment that the three faces of the Republican party lack substance is on target. When I listened to Palin, Steele and now Jindal, I’m amazed that what they say is so out of touch and off base. And yet, there are people who concur with them. Ask Joe, the Plumber. He just said today that he would favor having Palin as a Presidential candidate in 2012. Gah!

Who gives a damn what Rachel Maddow and the rest of the punditry thinks?!  Americans do not need these jeerks to filter what’s being done to them.  Save some brain cells and turn off the TV, radio, etc.