I don't know how I missed that Bobby Jindal announced his run for the presidency yesterday. It could have been because the spy who was hiding in the tree while Jindal made the announcement to his family didn't overnight me the tapes. In any case, here it is:

I know what you're thinking. Who is this spy? Or is the question who are these spies? Could the escaped prisoners have made it that far south on foot already? Unlikely. Google maps says it would take 17 days and 13 hours to walk from Steuben County, where Dick Matt and Dave Sweat were last seen, to the governor's mansion in Baton Rouge. If they'd left when they were spotted six days ago, then they'd only be halfway there.

There's no way Jindal thought this was a good campaign move, right? No way he'd confuse the aesthetic of intimacy with the aesthetic of Paranormal Activity?

Lucky #13 also announced his run in a more formal way:

Jindal seems particularly obsessed with making sure that you know two things. 1) He's not going to let anybody silence him when he's trying to silence others. 2) You can be smart and conservative at the same time.

At least hypothetically.

He attempts to prove this second point and take a jab at Jeb! at the same time, but the intellectual maneuver appears to be more than the governor can handle. Later on in the announcement he says that Jeb! claims republicans need to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election. Jindal then grins and says, "We’re going to help him do that."

What a guy.