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Originally Posted by kidcolin
yeah i hadn't been hearing much of jindal in the past 4 years after people were fapping over him.
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Originally Posted by Richard Tanner
Why's that (Serious question)?
The biggest thing here is his school voucher fiasco. He's come up with a plan to give out state education money in the form of vouchers to approved private schools, except that it turns out they either did no work vetting these schools or are purposely dumping money to religious organizations, as many of these schools are tiny religious schools that don't conform to a reality-based education. So you have situations like a school with a total student body of 54 getting 80 vouchers. Or a school being run by a guy who is a self-proclaimed prophet and has a bunch of other registered nonprofits in his name in bad standing in the state of Louisiana. Schools whose science curriculums supposed dragons were real and humans and dinosaurs lived together. Or whose social studies programs taught that the KKK was a force for social justice. Or that advanced math is a tool of the devil. etc. (If you're really curious, one of my best friends is, among other things, a blogger who did a ton of research exposing this stuff. Anyway, you can start
here).
There are other reasons I think he would not be a viable presidential candidate-- he's got enough Michele Bachmann in him that he would inevitably embarrass himself on the national stage, for starters-- but the voucher thing is the biggest one. He was supposed to be Romney's education surrogate, and yet his plan is a totally embarrassing ****up. Honestly, I think the reasons he'd fail as a presidential candidate are the same reasons he wasn't offered the VP slot.