Bobby Jindal Wants Duck Dynasty Star To Be His Vice President

Republican likely 2016 presidential candidate Bobby Jindal seems to have already has chosen his running mate: Jindal/Robertson 2016!

At a Good Friday prayer breakfast last week in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal didn’t officially announce his candidacy for the White House in 2016, but he pretty much announced his top choice for his running mate: reality TV star and son of the infamously anti-gay Duck Dynasty patriarch.

Yes, Bobby Jindal wants Willie Robertson (not Phil) to be on the GOP ticket with him in 2016.

Preaching that there is “an assault on religious liberty in America,” Jindal told the crowd that “Christians should not have to choose between operating their businesses and living according to our faith.”

No mention of how Muslims, people of other religious faiths, or people of no faith should operate their businesses.

“I don’t know about you, but sometimes it feels like evangelical Christians are the only group that it’s OK to discriminate against today in this society,” he added.

Jindal later “introduced the event’s keynote speaker, fellow Louisianan and ‘Duck Dynasty’ star Willie Robertson, whose name towered over Jindal’s on the event’s stage banner,” the Des Moines Register reported.

But it was what happened outside the breakfast afterwards that really raised eyebrows.

Jindal called Robertson “an icon, a cultural figure and a hero of many.”

So would Jindal consider Robertson as a running mate should he receive the GOP’s nomination?

Asked if he would be on the same ticket as Robertson, Jindal said yes.

“As a running mate? Sure, but as vice president — I assume that’s what you’re asking — not the other way around,” Jindal told reporters with a grin, later adding: “He’s a great guy, I think he’d be a great running mate. It’d be a huge pay cut for him, so I’m not sure he’d be willing to do it.”

Jindal, as the images above from his Instagram page show, has been cozying up to the Duck Dynasty star for years.

Sadly for Jindal, the fandom doesn’t seem to be mutual.

A walk through the Duck Dynasty and Willie Robertson Facebook pages reveal zero photos of Bobby Jindal.

 

Images via Instagram