Governor Bobby Jindal's Style

From the August issue of Details, which is a magazine about men's style, comes an article on our governor.

The 37-year-old governor of Louisiana is out to reinvent the Republican Party in his own slick, telegenic image. And if that means purging the GOP of its Dubya-era demons, no matter—he likes a good exorcism, too.

The first thing you notice about Bobby Jindal—everyone says this—is how damn young he looks. Stick him next to John McCain, however, and his appearance skews toward the pubescent. It's a sun-blasted, sweat-stained late-April day in New Orleans, and Jindal—102 days into his term as the governor of Louisiana, and just 36 years into a life that's looking increasingly politically charmed—is walking beside McCain down Caffin Avenue in the city's blighted Lower Ninth Ward.

The neighborhood's few remaining residents—easily outnumbered by the hordes of National Guardsmen and political aides and the reporters sequestered in the flatbeds of two National Guard trucks—are out on their porches, with arms folded, observing this odd promenade. McCain's giant, gleaming bus ("the Straight," as his aides call it) looks like an alien spacecraft idling beside the scruffy Caffin Avenue median.

How 'bout that bus name, "the Straight"? Just so we all know, it's completely hetero? See. I made a poem.

What an anomaly he is for a Louisiana politician. He doesn't care much about food, he likes FM rock or whatever is playing, he doesn't drink alcohol. Why he doesn't even drink coffee! I ask you. Does he represent me? Whom does he represent? Perhaps a few of the straighter-laced folks from the Nawth - nawth Louisiana, that is.

Is his a "telegenic image"? I'll just say that I've seen better looking men, especially Indian men. Some of them are the-stuff-dreams-are-made-of handsome. Just sayin'.

The whole article is worth reading. Rush right out to your newsstand and buy a copy, or read it at the link.

Thanks to Jim at JindalWatch for the alert.