Donald Trump Receives Endorsement From Former Opponent
Former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal loves his country. He does not feel the same way toward Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. However, in an election where he — as with all Americans — must choose, he has done so, writing his endorsement for Trump in a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined, “I’m voting for Trump, warts and all.”
“I think electing Donald Trump would be the second-worst thing we could do this November, better only than electing Hillary Clinton to serve as the third term for the Obama administration’s radical policies,” Jindal wrote. “I am not pretending that Mr. Trump has suddenly become a conservative champion or even a reliable Republican: He is completely unpredictable. The problem is that Hillary is predictably liberal.”
Clinton looms large in Jindal’s column.
“I have no idea what Mr. Trump might do,” Jindal wrote, “while Mrs. Clinton is predictable. Both are scary, the former less so.”
Jindal argued that an election is a choice.
“I do not pretend Donald Trump is the Reaganesque leader we so desperately need, but he is certainly the better of two bad choices,” he continued. “Hardly an inspiring slogan, I know. It would be better to vote for a candidate rather than simply against one.”
Last week, as Indiana voters were going to the polls to give Trump the victory that unraveled his opposition, Jindal indicated he could support Trump against Clinton and noted a Trump victory would require soul-searching on the part of conservatives.
“We conservatives have to go back and do a better job of explaining our beliefs and principles to the voters,” Jindal told Politico. “I think Donald Trump is tapped into the middle class anxieties when conservatives say they’re for limited government, entitlement reform, free trade.
“Donald Trump is not for those things and doing well in part because voters are responding to what he’s saying. He’s saying, look he’ll fight for them,” he said.
Jindal has said Trump is not a genuine conservative — that is, against big government.
“I don’t think he’s opposed to big government; I just think he wants to be the one running big government. I do think he’ll be better than Hillary Clinton,” he said.
Jindal characterized Trump in harsher terms in a piece written for CNN last fall.
“Donald Trump is a shallow, unserious, substance-free, narcissistic egomaniac,” he wrote then.
“Like all narcissists, Trump is insecure, weak and afraid of being exposed,” Jindal added.
“We face a choice,” he continued. “We can decide to win, or we can be the biggest fools in history and put our faith not in our principles, but in an egomaniac who has no principles.” (For more from the author of “Donald Trump Receives Endorsement From Former Opponent” please click HERE)
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