The New Face of the Republican Party?

Going before the nation, Governor Jindal seems not to understand how the media game is played. Touted as the “new” face of the Republican Party, Jindal may be getting public exposure to early in the game if he plans a run for President in 2012.
But notice how future Republican Presidential candidate Haley Barbour, the South’s Great White (political) Shark , and other Republican hopefuls sit quietly on the sidelines while this self-absorbed political novice tests the political waters possibly committing himself to death by a thousand cuts.
Is he the rabbit in the marathon run up to the next presidential elections?
His response to President Obama’s address to the nation was pitiful. Much of the content of his presentation parroted what was said by Mr. Obama or it was much of the same old “less government, low taxes rhetoric that was rejected by the electorate in the last presidential elections. Should this guy, as governor, not be engaged in trying to do what it takes to end the effects of this recession on the citizens of his state?
One might ask, “why Jindal?” Where is the 2007 anointed Republican star Sara ‘you betcha’ Palin. Is Jindal in over his head? Louisiana resident bigeasygeezy asserts that “BobbyJ [should] ask Sarah Palin what happens when you get out of you league….”
While loudly proclaiming that he will not accept the unemployment insurance portion of President Obama’s stimulus package, it is reported that Governor Jindal will be laying off some 100 state workers in June; an op-ed piece in the Times-Picayune notes that “Fear is running through state government and universities among employees who don't know if they will have jobs when projected budget cuts are made. Hospital administrators and college presidents have been directed to prepare worst- to best-case scenarios, though none of them are good.” This, of course, will add to Louisiana’s overburdened social services sector.
It is difficult to understand how one can be so far out of touch with reality as to be unable to imagine being out of a job, struggling to feed a family and keeping a roof over their heads.
With all that is going on with the economy, and if the Louisiana Governor represents the face of the Republican Party, Jindal’s ideological rhetoric reinforces the conclusion that the Republican Party is more interested in ideological warfare vis-a-vis addressing and resolving the problems facing this country.
Suffering with a case of severe public speaking ineptitude, how did this person become Louisiana’s governor?