I can't people here actually think this attack on Trump by Bobby Jindal is good. It is a pathetic joke with no substance whatsoever. Just because Trump is an outsider and just because he is filthy rich does not mean he knows nothing about issues, policy, and how to play politics. Actually Trump is a master at the political game, he makes the rest look like rank amateurs. On trade issues he has been consistent for many years, on illegal immigration he has also been consistent. Attacking Trump trying to make him out to be an idiot will only work in his favor, because Trump is way smarter than the rest of the candidates by far.
^This. Expect Jindal to drop to -1%. Forget positions, or whether Trump is the right messenger. Trump has been running a 100%
thematically correct campaign, based on
anti-establishment positioning, emphasizing cultural issues, or energizing plain talk over media enforced decorum, and for evidencing backbone under PC pressure. The other GOP candidates have been mentioning cultural right views, but come off as unable to challenge the PC framework the MSM surrounds every such issue with, and unable to shake the public's impression that the only REAL policy front they will ACT on is the foreign policy one. All else is sloganeering, wedge issue mongering and photo-ops.
Economic and social conservatives have seen the routine for decades, post Reagan--Republicans run for President on tax/fiscal restraint and family values, then once in the White House, subordinate everything to bombing Muslims and expanding the Empire. With the sole exception of gun control, at crunch time after crunch time, on every other front, from expanding the debt ceiling to Obamacare, to defunding Planned Parenthood, to the Confederate flag, etc the GOP buckles every time and surrenders to the statist-massaged "mainstream," or "practical" consensus. "They can't shut down the government over (pick issue), wouldn't be prudent..."
Trump holds out the possibility of something different, in at least a few non-foreign policy areas, whereas Jindal represents more of the same. Rand represents (on the merits) something different, but he has not led with
any of the themes that have won over people to Trump. Rand has the right substance, but image-wise has been presenting like the exact kind of
establishment-sounding, cultural-issue averse, focus group rehearsed, "mainstream" pistol-whipped candidate that the public appears to be specifically rejecting this election cycle.