Co-Founder of RedState.com Votes Bobby Jindal for President

Josh Trevino, the co-founder of RedState.com (who has since moved onto bigger and better things), writes on his blog that he couldn’t bring himself to vote for John McCain, and instead, penciled in Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal as his choice:

In the end, I couldn’t do it. My California ballot arrived in the mail today, and I opened it fully intending to vote for John McCain. I filled out the state propositions first — yes on 8, no on everything proposing a new bond or new spending — then the local offices, straight Republican excepting Kevin Johnson for (nonpartisan) Sacramento mayor. Finally, the vote for President of the United States: an academic exercise in California, where Barack Obama will surely win by a crushing margin. But good citizenship demands voting as if it matters. Do I believe in John McCain? Not as much as I used to. Do I believe in Sarah Palin? Despite my early enthusiasm for her, now not at all. Do I believe in the national Republican Party? Not in the slightest — even though I see no meaningful alternative to it. So, my choice for President in 2008, scrawled in my ballot as an act of futile protest, is Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. If nothing else, I am confident this is the first of several votes I will cast for him in years to come.

So Governor Jindal, despite not being on the ticket, received at least one vote from a staunch conservative who couldn’t bring himself to casting a vote for Senator McCain.