Big Picture's Analogies to Jindal's Speech

It's as if Mark Warner or some other conservative-looking governor in 2001 was like "Do you really trust the Republican Party to keep you safe with their agenda of taking the fight to the enemy? We know you rejected the Democratic Party because we strayed too far from our core principles as the party of peace and negotiation with our worst enemies."

Or Jerry Brown giving a response in '81 saying, "Do you really trust the Republican Party to manage the economy and keep you safe from our enemies? We know you rejected the Democratic Party because in recent years we were too thrifty with our spending, and too aggressive in confronting our enemies. We will return to the core principles of the Party of McGovern!"

Or McGovern in '69 responding to Nixon: "Do you really trust the Republican Party to maintain law and order and hold the country together? We know that you rejected the Democratic Party because we were too aggressive in squelching dissent and cutting off debate in Chicago last year. We will return to our core principles of putting the rights of protesters first!"