From a Washington Times editorial is a description of how Bobby Jindal won the governorship of Louisiana without a runoff:

Mr. Jindal ran pledging to reform a corrupt government establishment that includes outgoing Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a Democrat who stumbled over herself prior to and during the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Oxford-educated and elected to the House in 2004, Mr. Jindal stepped up where Blanco fell short. He was able to govern in a way consistent with traditional values and fundamental Republican principles. He earned a 96 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, strong support from the National Rifle Association and a 0 percent rating from the NARAL Pro-Choice abortion-rights group. He ran for Congress as a conservative, he legislated as a conservative and as a conservative he trounced his gubernatorial competition.

OK, so you think we don’t have a presidential candidate conservative enough for you. The only one I can find is Mike Huckabee, and he really has no chance at the nomination and would be eaten alive in the general election.

Thompson, so far, has been a disappointment. Maybe we had built him up too high in our minds and his style doesn’t match what we had in mind.

That leaves us with liberal or soft conservatives for the top of the ticket, but that’s not all bad.

We, as a party, must choose people with conservative values for the down ballot positions because eventually they will rise to the top.

That’s how we’ll win and that’s what Bobby Jindal did. He never abandoned his principles for office. Other candidates should take a lesson from it.