Will Jindal endorse Vitter? Who cares?
by James Gill - Times-Picayune (excerpt)

He's a cagey one, that Gov. Bobby Jindal. Will he endorse U.S. Sen. David Vitter for re-election or not? First he said he absolutely wouldn't, and then his flack suggested he might later. Isn't the suspense just killing you? No, me neither. And probably not Vitter. Jindal's agonizing won't make any difference to the GOP or Louisiana either. But that, of course, is not the object. Uppermost in Jindal's thoughts is the future of Jindal. If he does finally come out for Vitter, the effect will be nil. Even a wholehearted and early endorsement would probably have been irrelevant; if the polls are to be believed, the election is more or less a foregone conclusion. He says he wants nothing more than to run for re-election, but that is hard to believe. The governor's job in Louisiana is about to become much less attractive, since it involves wrestling with a deficit estimated at $2 billion and cutting department budgets by as much as 35 percent. Surely Jindal will see the vice presidency or a cabinet post not only as an escape route from a mess he has helped to create but as a step on the way to the top prize. If he were sure Vitter could help, he would have endorsed him by now.

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