Jindal's response

Reading Bobby Jindal's response to Obama's tuesday speech showed that it was everything the Republicans needed it to be, it attacked spending and it attacked more taxes and it displayed the story of a new and upcoming star within the GOP with a familiar and stunning backstory of his own.
Watching it, however, was something completely different.
Anyone who has to go after The President is already at a disadvantage, there's no applause, no regal surroundings, no dignified sea of the entire American body politic, just that person, a backdrop, and a camera. Gov. Jindal, who was by and large introducing himself to the American public, had big shoes to fill. Unfortuntely, his delivery was off kilter and he seemed stilted and passionless and anyone revved up from the President's speech may have just simply turned off their TV when the governor took the stage.
Republicans were really hoping for (not to mention needed) a barnburner here, being picked for the rebuttal to any State Of The Union is a high honor for any member of the opposition party, and the Democrats for the past few years have had the luxury of delivering their response to a largely unpopular president and to an American public that was hungry for a dissenting opinion. Luckily for Jindal, who's Presidential amitions are well known, he has many years ahead of him to bide his time.