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  • Bobby Jindal Loses ‘Duck Dynasty’ Star’s Endorsement To Donald Trump? Governor Says No

    It looks like Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson has switched camps after he appeared at the Donald Trump rally over the weekend. However, Bobby Jindal and his team deny that Robertson has ditched them for The Donald.

    Robertson and his wife, who star in the Louisiana-based reality show about a family business that manufactures duck hunting goods, made an official announcement back in April that they are supporting their governor in the upcoming Presidential race. Jindal has also stated that he is a fan of the show.

    He even appeared on the popular reality show saying: “Duck Dynasty is one of my favorite shows. My kids wait anxiously for each new episode and watch DVR’d episodes over and over again.” “I was proud to be on the show and even more proud to call the Robertsons my friends,” he added. However, during a Trump rally, the reality TV star announced that he likes Trump now. “I do like me some Trump, I’ve gotta admit.” said Robertson at the Oklahoma State Fair.

    “Here’s the deal. We’re both successful businessmen. We both have pretty big shows on television. We both have wives that are 1,000 times better-looking than us so I like Trump,” admitted Robertson.

    The Louisiana Governor denied that Robertson had left them and claimed that the reality star is just being nice to the GOP front-runner.

    Jindal said Robertson may have said that he likes Trump but it did not mean that he was endorsing the Apprentice star for president.

    In an email written by Jindal’s campaign spokesman, Kyle Plotkin, he said that Jindal and Robertson had a chat over the weekend. He hinted that the reality star is still on their side although he admires Trump’s business expertise.

    Robertson has been a Jindal supporter since 2013 even before he expressed his desire to join the 2016 presidential race.

  • Meghan McCain Nails Donald Trump, Everyone Piles On

    Meghan McCain runs an interesting line. She is the daughter of Senator John McCain, and was long seen by some as a staunch conservative from the Palin camp. That is, until she denounced Palin. Then folks didn’t know what to make of Meghan McCain.

    Now it seems that people from both sides of the aisle are behind Meghan McCain, and she has none other than Donald Trump’s big mouth to thank for that.

    On Saturday at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Donald Trump said of John McCain:

    “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

    Trump was promptly booed. After he left the stage, he made a half-effort to walk back his remarks about McCain, without actually apologizing.

    “I’m with the veterans all the time,” he said. “I consider them heroes. If somebody’s a prisoner, I consider them a war hero.”

    But he couldn’t categorically apologize and be the man about it. He took the opportunity to swipe at John McCain yet again.

    “I think John McCain’s done very little for the veterans. I’m very disappointed in John McCain.”

    He then called McCain “yet another all talk, no action politician who spends too much time on television and not enough time doing his job.”

    Meghan McCain had heard enough. She posted to Twitter:

    “I have a brother that just returned from Afghanistan a month ago, glad he can come home to this being said about his father and his service.”

    One by one, and in quick succession, Trump’s “competition” in the GOP primary race denounced him.

    “Donald Trump owes every American veteran and in particular John McCain an apology,” said Rick Perry, right after Trump left the stage.

    “Here’s what I think they’re going to say: ‘Donald Trump, you’re fired,’” Senator Lindsey Graham said. Graham is good friends with Meghan McCain’s dad.

    “I unequivocally denounce him,” Scott Walker said of Trump.

    “Enough with the slanderous attacks,” Jeb Bush tweeted. “@SenJohnMcCain and all our veterans – particularly POWs have earned our respect and admiration.”

    Bobby Jindal tweeted: “John McCain is an American hero. I have nothing but respect for his service to our country. After Donald Trump spends six years in a POW camp, he can weigh in on John McCain’s service.”

    Ted Cruz was not as clear, seeming to have a hard time positioning himself. He called McCain “an American hero,” but would not “say something bad about Donald Trump.”

    Meghan McCain got loads of support for her statement about Trump.

  • Bobby Jindal Becomes 13th Republican To Enter Presidential Race

    Bobby Jindal announced on Wednesday that he is, indeed, running for president.

    With Bobby Jindal in the race, that makes 13 candidates that Republicans have to choose from.

    Bobby Jindal is the youngest candidate and the only Indian-American to ever run in a major party, but is not polling well at all. In fact, he is wavering around last place out of the 13 and he needs to be in the top ten to even be allowed to debate.

    Bobby Jindal made the announcement via social media.

    In his announcement, Bobby Jindal simply states, “My name is Bobby Jindal, I am the Governor of the great state of Louisiana, and I am running for President of the United States.”

    According to ABC news, Bobby Jindal’s staff outlined his platform issues.

    The Governor is in the house.

    A photo posted by Bobby Jindal (@bobbyjindal) on

    The site reads, “Jindal’s campaign message, according to aides, will be that Jindal is the youngest candidate with the longest resume. He will argue that Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is trying to divide America by ethnicity, gender, and economic status and that Clinton and Obama are leading America to socialism.”

    What do you think about Bobby Jindal’s entry into the already crowded Republican pool?

  • ‘Duck Dynasty’ Headed to Congress?

    ‘Duck Dynasty’ Headed to Congress?

    The Ducky Dynasty gang won’t be taking up congressional seats in their camouflage attire, long beards, and bandannas. However a member of their family is hoping to do just that–sans the attire. Zach Dasher, who is in fact a member of the Duck Dynasty family, has thrown his hat into the congressional ring. He is running for Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District.

    Dasher is the nephew of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson.

    “[The Robertsons] have maxed out in contributions, and they’ll be on the campaign trail as well. They’re going to be involved as much as they possibly can,” Dasher said in a recent interview.

    “I’m going to bring in Si my chief strategy consultant, and Phil will obviously be my PR consultant since he’s so good with the press,” he added.

    Zach Dasher was, of course, joking–at least about the Uncle Si part.

    Dasher doesn’t want his uncle’s Duck Dynasty fame to be his platform on which he runs for Congress. He says instead he’s set on returning Christian values to Washington, D.C., and stopping the intrusion of the government on people’s lives.

    “I believe we are in some dark days here in America, but I do believe we can turn the ship around. I’m running because I believe we can change things,” Dasher said. “We have to encourage economic growth. Poverty is a result of people not having jobs, right? We have the lowest labor participation in my lifetime, so I would assume what we need to do is promote job creation policies.”

    A rumor has circulated that the Duck Dynasty nephew may have been hand-picked by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.

    “I have not met the governor yet. It’s kind of hard to be his candidate when we haven’t met,” Zach Dasher said.

    How would you feel if a member of the Duck Dynasty family was running for Congress in your district? Would Zach Dasher get your vote?

    Do you think it’s possible for him to separate himself from the entire Duck Commander crew?

  • Bobby Jindal for President 2016?

    Bobby Jindal for President 2016?

    Republican Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal threw down the gauntlet this week when he announced that he has switched positions on his opinion on Common Core standards for education. For those of you who don’t have kids, Common Core is basically a Federal standard for what school kids should know at the end of each grade level. This, theoretically, would institute a level educational playing field from one state to the next.

    Jindal supported the Common Core standards initially, but is now backing a more conservative approach, saying that the federal government is too involved in the process, and that such matters should be left up to the states.

    “[T]he Common Core standards did originally grow from states wanting to increase standards so our students can better compete with the rest of the world,” Jindal said in an opinion piece for USA Today. “But a few things have happened along the way. First, the federal government became increasingly involved. Unless you are fighting a war, the kind that requires tanks, submarines and jets, you really don’t want the federal government involved.”

    Jindal’s shift was widely seen as a political move to position himself as a potential 2016 presidential candidate.

    Could Jindal be a contender in the 2016 GOP primary?

    The Nation notes that Jindal is serious about running. He has positioned himself to take advantage of the huge vacuum left by Chris Christie falling from favor. He speaks out against President Obama any chance he gets — which any serious GOP candidate would have to do — and he hits all the right talking points: slashing entitlements, income tax reform, privatizing Medicare.

    Jindal jumped into the public eye in 2009 when he was chosen to give the official Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address that year. Those responses seldom have the production values of the SOTU itself. But Jindal caught all manner of flack for his goofy entrance to the podium and over-eager delivery. He was also derided for the resemblance between his demeanor and that of “Kenneth the Page” on the television show 30 Rock.

    Thanks to these 2 fluff points, the content of Jindal’s remarks went relatively unnoticed. Jindal has largely gone unnoticed outside of Louisiana, but is now assembling the machinery necessary to launch a primary campaign.

    Not everyone is happy about that.

    Image via YouTube

  • Vance McAllister Urged To Resign Over ‘Smoochgate’ Scandal

    Louisiana Rep. Vance McAllister promised to stay in office even after calls for his resignation were made over a leaked video of him kissing the wife of a friend.

    Gov. Bobby Jindal, the state’s Republican governor, urged McAllister to resign, after the representative said he wanted to work things out with his family in private. Jindal further said McAllister’s actions are an embarrassment.

    Roger Villere, state GOP chairman, also called for his resignation and said that McAllister’s hypocrisy can only be solved by an immediate resignation. However, the congressman still refuses to budge from his seat.

    Jennifer Dunagin, spokeswoman for McAllister said that there are no plans to resign yet.

    A few are less aggressive towards the congressman. House speaker John Boehner admitted to speaking with McAllister and said that the congressman has decisions to make. According to him, all members must uphold the highest ethical standards, and that McAllister is no different.

    Friends and backers have said that they expect him to fight for his job and his family.

    A weekly newspaper released the video of him kissing Melissa Peacock, a member of the congressional payroll. She submitted her resignation on Monday.

    No one knows how the video made its way to the Ouachita Citizen, but McAllister’s office denied rumors that he will conduct an FBI investigation into finding out who leaked it. Instead, a statement from his office said that he is focused on regaining the trust he has lost.

    According to The Washington Post, odds say that the chances of him still being in office next year is not great. Based on an analysis of 38 scandals since 1974, only 39% of government officials embroiled in sex scandals were re-elected.

    Politically, McAllister was considered an unknown when he ran for office in 2013. Many believe that his strong showing in the race was due to the endorsement of Phil Robertson, who stars in the Duck Dynasty TV series.

    McAllister caught smooching another man’s wife

    Image via YouTube

  • Phil Robertson’s Suspension Criticized by Governors

    Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, 67, has really stirred up the swamp sand in the last 24 hours with his comments in a GQ magazine interview where he compared being gay to bestiality and terrorism.

    According to Business Insider, A&E quickly put Robertson on an “indefinite hiatus.”

    “We are extremely disappointed to have read Phil Robertson’s comments in GQ, which are based on his own personal beliefs and are not reflected in the series ‘Duck Dynasty,’” said a statement from A&E. “His personal views in no way reflect those of A&E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community. The network has placed Phil under hiatus from filming indefinitely.”

    But in a statement, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has jumped to Robertson’s defense like a frog to a log.

    “Phil Robertson and his family are great citizens of the State of Louisiana. The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with. I don’t agree with quite a bit of stuff I read in magazine interviews or see on TV. In fact, come to think of it, I find a good bit of it offensive. But I also acknowledge that this is a free country and everyone is entitled to express their views. In fact, I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.”

    However, A&E is a private company, not affiliated through the government, which does not make this a First Amendment issue.

    According to E Online, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin also put in her two cents on Facebook and Twitter.

    In the past, Palin has bonded with the Duck Dynasty cast at the National Rifle Association convention and her Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas book tour in Louisiana.

    “Phil Robertson offered some of their refreshing trademark plainspoken talk that so many crave from our leaders in Washington,” Palin wrote in a Facebook photo caption on Aug. 21. “Speaking on the issue of the sanctity of life, Phil reminds us that all life is God-given, no matter how small or how special.”

    As long as that life is not gay though, right Phil?

    Post by Sarah Palin.

    In the GQ interview, Robertson also commented on how “content” the black population were under Jim Crow.

    “I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field…. They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!… Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”

    However, the loss of the $200,000 per episode paycheck Robertson was getting might perhaps have him singing the blues really soon.

    Image via Facebook

  • Bobby Jindal, “We’re All Frustrated…”

    Bobby Jindal, “We’re All Frustrated…”

    Today, Louisiana governor and chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Bobby Jindal, expressed frustration with the government shutdown and the lack of leadership in Washington while speaking with ABC’s Chief White House Correspondent, Jonathan Karl, and ABC News Political Director, Rick Klein, on Politics Confidential.

    “Like every other American, we’re all frustrated with what’s going on in D.C.,” says the potential 2016 presidential contender. “You’ve got a House that’s only passed five appropriations bills, a Senate that hasn’t passed any. You’ve got a Senate that does one budget bill approximately every five years. That’s not leadership.”

    But Jindal is not stopping the buck at the Hill for absent leadership, “We don’t see leadership out of the White House. … He [Obama] has time to golf, he has time to negotiate with the Iranians, doesn’t have time to negotiate and talk to the Congressional leadership, doesn’t have time to find common ground. That’s what real leaders do.”

    When Karl directed a question about Republican Party stalling tactics to reopen the government, requiring changes to Obama’s health care law, Jindal responded, “I’m not interested in Republican fratricide… I’m not interested in getting into micromanaging their tactics.”

    Jindal chose rather to promote state vs. federal actions, saying that while Washington is about a lot of talk, “the real action is at the state level… in state capitals, we’re actually getting things done.”

    The RGA chose last Thursday to preview a major ad campaign promoting governors’ work in their home states. The campaign called American Comeback highlights interviews with Republican governors, especially those seeking reelection next year, and the theme of the early interviews seems to be consistently pointing a finger at Washington for preventing the states from making progress. The first round interviews include Jindal, John Kasich (Ohio), Susana Martinez (New Mexico), Nikki Haley (South Carolina) and Scott Walker (Wisconsin).

    With regards to a possible 2016 run, Jindal did promote the idea for the next Republican nominee to be a governor. “It’s too important of a job… I think chief executives make better presidents, and I think governors have been tested and proven,” Jindal said, referencing a criticism of the president, that he lacked the experience running a state, a company, etc. before his taking office.

    Jindal says he does not know about his own plans for an upcoming presidential bid. He passed off questions by saying it was too early and referencing other elections coming in the interim.

    [Image via Bobby Jindal official Twitter.]