Update: Here’s a nice story of Bobby Jindal beating down commies with his logic. From the story:

Off the top of his head, Jindal started going down the list. He snapped Gerard’s smaller concerns like dry twigs, citing statistics and anecdotes as if they were memorized specifically for this moment. The larger socialist arguments he hacked into little bits—this won’t work, here’s why it won’t work, and here’s three places where they tried it and it didn’t. He was polite, he was intelligent, and he was passionate. He was ruthless.

Gerard sat, silent and sullen. He tried to respond at one point, but got tied up in knots. He shuffled his papers. He took a sip of water. And he was quiet. Everyone was.

In five minutes, Bobby Jindal made the case for free market solutions, for individual liberty, and for health care that caters to what people need, not what unions want.

Props.

Update 2: I no longer think this is a good idea. Jindal should probably headline his own ticket in ‘12 or ‘16.

Back to the original post:

Piyush “Bobby” Jindal is the recently-elected Republican Governor of Louisiana and the son of Indian immigrants, frequently called the “rising star” of the GOP. Rush Limbaugh called him the “next Ronald Reagan.”

How fast is his star rising? James Lucier says Jindal for VP - this year:

That’s why McCain’s choice of vice presidential running mate can make or break his candidacy. The party’s professional trunk-waving pachyderms and the beltway bozos who think that pragmatism will win the new day are already offering up a list of business-as-usual candidates. But pragmatism is not practical in the long run. There’s Governor Whatshisname from one of those Ice Belt states that always seem to be ready to fall over the border into Canada. Then there’s that other governor in Florida who, seizing the opportunity, endorsed McCain four days before the primary. Some are getting excited about Condoleezza Rice, who puts forward a pretty face even as she has done nothing but act as a front for the Foreign Service Corps establishment ever since she got the job.

No, this is the time for change, real change. This is a time for someone whom everybody knows to be the rising star of the GOP, the new governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal.

The problem is that Jindal just got elected governor of Lousiana and seems prime for a Presidential run in ‘12 or ‘16 rather than ‘08.

And what a governor! Sworn as Governor in January, after winning 54 percent of the vote in the open-field primary, Jindal immediately called a special session of the legislature and persuaded them to pass his 64-point agenda for ethics reform. They said ethics reform couldn’t be done in Louisiana — a state whose reputation as a cesspool is legendary — but he did it in a two-week session. Now he’s calling a second special session to pass the tax cuts necessary to jump-start the post-Katrina economy in his state.

Lowering taxes? Music to my ears.

What’s that, you say? Jindal, at 36, is inexperienced?

At 36, he has the accomplishments you would expect at 47. Obama, at 47, has the accomplishments you would expect at 36.

How’s he on health care?

He took hold of the state’s Medicare program, which was running at a loss of $400 million, and in three years produced a surplus of $200 million.

How would he be with moral conservatives?

Born a Hindu, Jindal converted to Roman Catholicism in high school and has remained a devoted practitioner of his faith. He campaigns four-square in favor of the human rights of unborn children. He is opposed to embryonic stem-cell research, and same-sex marriage. In the gubernatorial election, he visited scores of pentecostal and evangelical churches and won them over with his testimony.

The only chink in Jindal’s pro-life armor is that he is in favor of allowing “emergency contraception” - there seems to be a debate about whether or not this is equivalent to abortion.

What does Jindal think about being the VP?

When asked if he would accept the offer if John McCain would nominate him for Vice President, Jindal stated “He’s not going to ask me.”

Maybe not. And it may be too soon. But given the amount of non-conservatives in this year’s primaries, this is cool to think about.

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