re: #245 Lidane

THIS.

Jindal is just as blind and stupid as the rest of the GOP. The problem isn’t in the messaging. It’s the message itself.

You can’t go around calling voting by black people potential fraud, or sneering about how you lost the election because the POTUS supposedly gave gifts and bribes to the lazy and shiftless (read: the non-white) parts of the country and expect to win those voters back just by re-framing your message.

At the rate they’re going, the GOP is in very real danger of becoming a marginal party for disgruntled white guys. They either need to face reality or face irrelevance and nothing Jindal says here does a damn thing about addressing their problems.

The problem is that no matter how bad the Republicans get, there a floor below which they cannot possibly fall (perhaps 45% or so of the electorate nation wide). Thus, they could make no policy changes at all and still have dangerously good chances of the presidency and/or congressional control.

All it would take is a mis-step by the Democrats and reduced self-inflicted wounds by the Republicans. If I were a nutball Republican, that would look like good odds to me.