That originated in a Doonesbury strip.

Nixon and the tanned, rested and ready and its use as a joke and reference to Nixon.


http://the1968exhibit.org/covering-1968/2011-05/nixon-1968-yearbook

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/11/us/after-nixon-and-reagan-young-republicans-face-88-with-uncertainty.html

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/100-years-nixon-tan-rested-and-ready

Oman! I spewed coffee everywhere. I really did.

Jindal promised his children a dog if elected. Which is why I laughed so hard.


http://www.bobbyjindal.com/announcement/

Smart, they are.

I WANT THAT T-SHIRT!!!!!!!!!

If only we could steal a couple. But that would be wrong, because we are NOT crooks.

I won't deny that I checked Ebay to see if any were for sale. They weren't.

Yeah, I think that was a Hunter S. Thompson bit.

Cartoonists on the other hand are cackling like fiends.

I think this cartoon is appropriate to the occasion.

Jindal was born in 1971, thus was just a kid during the Nixon years. Probably his staff and advisors were just kids also, or not even born at the time. Most people do not know much about the world before their birth.

Jindal is not very bright, and is quite conservative, so probably he is not a curious person and knows little about his Republican forebears. I am sure if he and his staff knew that "tanned, rested, ready" is a put-down they wouldn't have allowed Jindal to be associated with it.

I can't believe he'd do it on purpose.

The people who bought the painting should be more offended it makes him look like Alfred E. Neuman.

To be fair, Alfred was the brighter one. LOL.

He may be "ready" but from all indications there won't be many takers.