Bobby Jindal asks Republicans to get heads examined

Washington, DC: Louisiana’s Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal has brushed off speculation about the 2016 presidential race, saying any Republican already considering a bid needs to get his or her "head examined."

 

"Anybody on the Republican side even thinking or talking about running for president in 2016, I’ve said, needs to get their head examined," Jindal said on Fox News’s "Fox & Friends."

 

"And the reason I say that is, we’ve lost two presidential elections in a row, we need to be winning the debate of ideas-then we’ll win elections," he said cautioning against "nonstop" presidential campaigning.

 

"The country doesn’t need four years of non-stop presidential-we just inaugurated a new term of this president’s second term," said Jindal, often mentioned as a 2016 presidential contender.

 

Instead, the new head of the Republican Governors Association suggested the party should focus on examining where the party went wrong during the 2012 cycle.

 

"We as Republicans need to reject identity politics, reject this divisiveness, and instead appeal to what really unites us as Americans," Jindal said.

 

Jindal, who has emerged as a vocal critic of his own party since the November election, told the Republican National Committee’s meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month that it needed to "stop being the stupid party."