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Video: The obligatory “Palin rocks out to ‘Redneck Woman’” clip
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... for why the deck is stacked against her. It’s not mission impossible — her name recognition among Republicans will be unrivaled save for Huckabee — but I think Douthat’s onto something about conservatives eventually feeling Obama envy if The One wins and is popular in office, with Jindal the obvious beneficiary. And wouldn’t you know it, he’ll be ...

Jindal 2012?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Ross counters Chris Orr: I think the way the McCain campaign has finished up - and the way the media has covered it - works to Jindal's advantage in 2012: Conservatives are going to be extremely eager to prove that they only hate Obama because he's a radical, not because they're racist, and what better way to demonstrate that than to nominate a dark-skinned conservative with a funny-sounding name? Indeed, much of the current affection for Jindal among movement conservatives - and especially in talk-radio land - can be traced to precisely such a yearning for ...

Is Sarah Palin the Future of the GOP?
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... who can give a great speech, but the American public doesn’t view her much beyond that,” Mr. Dowd said. “She’s vastly unpopular among moderate and independent voters, and while she could be in a position to be popular among an increasingly smaller Republican Party, she’s got to figure out a way to extend that and figure out a way to strengthen her weaknesses.” Some pundits are not so optimistic on Sarah Palin’s great expectations. Others are higher on Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. But, for now the GOP is “The Sarah ...

10/29: Fighting To The Finish
Blogometer — ... but in your gut you simply don't 'know' him the way you know the other candidates. This is not, to put it mildly, a message likely to benefit Bobby Jindal. [...] Add to this the blunt fact that the GOP probably can't afford to lose racist white voters, especially in the South...and I think Jindal's chance of being the nominee in 2012 is, despite his obvious talents, pretty close to nil. The GOP isn't going to be looking for its own Obama; it's going to be looking for an anti-Obama." The Atlantic 's Ross Douthat disagrees: "I think this vastly, vastly overestimates the ...

The Murky Future
Matthew Yglesias — ... I think I I agree with Ross Douthat that whatever one makes of the occasionally ugly and xenophobic nature of attacks on Barack Obama, there’s no particular reason to believe that brown skin would prevent Bobby Jindal from securing the 2012 GOP nomination. ...