There's much rejoicing on the Right today after Bobby Jindal's unsurprising win in yesterday's Louisiana open primary for Governor. I guess I don't blame them: Jindal's a welcome poster-boy for alleged GOP ethnic diversity, and his win provides a rare Republican success story on a bleak overall electoral landscape. The reality is that he won with relative ease due to the combo platter of the post-Katrina demographic change in Louisiana, and an opposition that was badly hurt by the late decisions of Kathleen Blanco, John Breaux and Mitch Landreiu to stay out of the race (Landreiu, BTW, won re-election as Lt. Governor by a larger margin than Jindal managed).

But some of the Republican reaction has been a little over-the-top. My favorite is this bit from prominent right-wing blogger Erick Erickson of RedState.org, a native Louisianan who now lives in Georgia:

I cannot really express what this means to me.

It's like how the exiled English felt when Mary I died and Elizabeth was crowned. It was safe to go home again.

Somehow I don't think more-Catholic-than-the-Pope Bobby Jindal would be too jazzed about this analogy.