This Republican presidential candidate's feel-good campaign hashtag blew up in his face
On Tuesday, presidential candidate Bobby Jindal will participate in a town hall event in Iowa hosted by Believe Again, a super PAC that supports the Republican candidate.
In anticipation of the event, Believe Again encouraged the Twitter users to contribute questions for him to answer, tagging their tweets with the hashtag #AskBobby.
Have questions for Bobby Jindal? Tweet us with #AskBobby and he might answer it at our town hall event tonight.
— Believe Again (@BelieveAgainGOP) June 30, 2015
Twitter users were quick to respond, but not in the way that Jindal's operatives were probably hoping.
Wait Bobby Jindal is doing #AskBobby oh lawd happy day
— Sula (@lovelike94) June 30, 2015
Twitter users flooded the hashtag with disparaging comments about Jindal's religious platform and his unpopularity as the governor of Lousiana.
Some of the tweets were racist. Others focused on policy and religion. Nearly all of them were negative.
.@BobbyJindal I found a fossil in my backyard. Why is God trying to confuse me? #AskBobby
— Zack Kopplin (@ZackKopplin) June 30, 2015
Which would you chose as a running mate: a life-size cardboard cutout of Reagan or a dinosaur from Noah's ark? #AskBobby
— Wisco (@Wisco) June 30, 2015
In his six years spent in the Lousiana Governor's Mansion, Jindal has drawn intense criticism from the scientific community for allowing public schools to teach creationism.
Although Jindal majored in biology at Brown University, he apparently holds some anti-science views. He signed the Louisiana Science Education Act into law, allowing creationism to be taught in Louisiana's science classrooms, according to Slate.
.@BobbyJindal if I sail too far will I fall off the edge of the Earth? #AskBobby
— Zack Kopplin (@ZackKopplin) June 30, 2015
In May, Jindal's job performance rating in Lousiana hit an "all time low," according to a poll conducted by the Baton Rouge-based Southern Media and Opinion research..
@BelieveAgainGOP How is it that you're polling lower than Ebola in Louisiana? #AskBobby
— John F Dillon (@JFD8) June 30, 2015
Jindal is a staunch opponent of abortion, and for the past five years his state has been named the most pro-life state in the nation by America's United for Life group, according to LifeNews, a website that focuses on pro-life advocacy.
In your opinion, who is less deserving of basic rights and freedoms: women, people of color, or all non born again evangelicals? #AskBobby
— Hobgoblin (@whiskeyandbacon) June 30, 2015
In a statement released on Friday following the Supreme Court's decision to nationally legalize gay marriage, Jindal said, "If we want to save some money, let's just get ride of the court," The Hill reports.
@BobbyJindal #AskBobby what kind of severance packages will you be giving SCOTUS or will you be burning them at the stake?
— Melissa (@melishill) June 30, 2015
If there's one thing that these Twitter users and the Believe Again PAC can probably agree on, it's that the #AskBobby hashtag was a bad idea.
Are you going to fire your social media intern who thought this was a good idea? #AskBobby
— bryana. (@BreeDevil14) June 30, 2015
It's unclear what questions Jindal will answer at tonight's event, but this Twitter user summed up the whole experience pretty succinctly.
And we now go live to the #AskBobby Twitter feed...http://t.co/vbBFQtqRHV pic.twitter.com/xkHU0J2G6j
— BryanDRoth (@BryanDRoth) June 30, 2015
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