Not my time governor bobby jindal drops out of 2016 presidential race

This time around, Bobby Jindal’s campaign was never able to rise up in the polls, relegating him to the undercard debates and keeping him well out of public view. Supriya Jindal is the youngest governor’s wife in the country and the only one that holds a degree in engineering, according to the website for the Louisiana governor’s office. But, at least he could have run a race that had the potential to break through, which was never a real possibility after he chose to become the I-will-say-anything candidate.

Numerous pundits questioned why Jindal was running for president.

“We spent a lot of time developing detailed policy papers, and given this insane, unpredictable election season, clearly there just wasn’t a lot of interest”, Jindal said on Fox News after announcing his exit from the race.

“I think the way we govern matters”, Jindal said to Christie, highlighting increases in New Jersey state spending and the nine credit downgrades under the governor’s watch. He also offered his take on where the GOP should go from here.

Jindal was once seen as a rising star in the Republican Party and a strong contender for the White House.

The past presaged his more recent struggles.

Jindal has rebounded strongly from what was widely considered an unimpressive – and possibly embarrassing – selection to give the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s address to Congress in 2009. But his performance was widely-panned. It yielded unflattering comparisons between Jindal and the decidedly credulous character of Kenneth on 30 Rock.

Jindal has always pegged himself as a rebellious outsider, insisting that America needed to pick a president who was not cloistered inside the Washington power bubble. “He just wasn’t the backslapping, glad-handing type”. Never polling above one percent throughout the GOP primary, Jindal has closed up shop after feeling the squeeze on campaign fundraising.

“Governor Jindal is a true conservative and a principled leader, whose story epitomizes the American Dream”.

In June, Louisiana’s largest daily newspaper published a letter from a Baton Rouge resident that accused Jindal of being mercurial: “Can you trust someone who is so changeable?”

“Jindal began his political career in health care, serving as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals in 1996”.