{"id":3824,"date":"2008-12-17T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T13:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2008-12-17T08:05:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T13:05:18","slug":"premature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3824","title":{"rendered":"Premature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Smith at Politico says Jindal is talking about sitting out 2012<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Jindal said he’s planning to run for reelection [as Louisiana governor] in 2011, something that would make pivoting to a national campaign logistically and politically tricky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He might <\/em>figure 2016 is a better bet. He might have a point.<\/p>\n

Jindal’s absence – 47 months in advance – is already making lefties turn backflips<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But wait!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: A later version of the AP story quotes Jindal trying to tack back to his previous position, which had seemed to leave the door open.<\/p>\n

“I think anybody who is even thinking of running would be well served to roll up their sleeves and support our new president,” Jindal said. “I told our people, ‘It doesn’t matter whether you’re Republican, Democrat or independent, it doesn’t matter whether you voted for him or not, President-elect Barack Obama is our president.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As much as we joke about the next biennial campaign beginning at 6AM the morning after the election, it’s really too early to even speculate about the next presidential race.\u00a0 Although it certainly does help paid propaganda organs like the Minnesoros “Independent” <\/em>bide their time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Smith at Politico says Jindal is talking about sitting out 2012: Jindal said he’s planning to run for reelection [as Louisiana governor] in 2011, something that would make pivoting to a national campaign logistically and politically tricky. He might figure 2016 is a better bet. He might have a point. Jindal’s absence – 47 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}