Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman addressed the Republican National Convention. Like Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's rebuttal to President Barack Obama's speech to the joint session of Congress, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman's moves at this past weekend's California Republican Party convention point up the crisis afflicting the Republican Party. Jindal, in a not quite deer-in-the-headlights debut on the national stage, stuck to the age-old conservative Republican script.