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“No fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal.”

Say, that wouldn’t be a trial balloon, would it?

No sooner does it get floated than stalwarts such as the Club for Growth start firing on it, noting several significant non-conservative votes and intimating that the Republican party is just a little too desperate for another Reagan–so much so that they’re willing to call anyone Reagan so long as the person isn’t actually spitting on conservative values.

And that’s the real problem. It is less that Jindal is unproven than it is that he’s virtually the only conservative of any national note in elective office. Did he vote for a minimum wage increase? What Republican hasn’t? What Republican is out there making the case that such policies achieve the opposite of what they are promoted as achieving?

Free market integrity among our political class is suffering a 14-year drought; it won’t do to blame the drought on the only guy out there sowing seeds — and I’m not talking the Bill Clinton/Marc Dann variety.

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