AP reports for Hot Air that lefty political analyst John Heilemann believes so:

I was down in New Orleans, and I heard a great rumor that Bobby Jindal, who we were just talking about as a potential presidential candidate for the Republican party, is thinking about giving up the governorship and running for Senate against David Vitter, or for Vitter’s seat if Vitter doesn’t run. He’s got a terrible budget situation down there. He’s thrown himself into a Republican primary up in Baton Rouge that he’s going to apparently get creamed in. And I think what’s interesting is that that tells you that he’s got the message that 2012 isn’t his year.

AP reacts:

The idea, I guess, is that Vitter’s so tarnished by the prostitution scandal that he’s ripe for the picking by Democrats, in which case the GOP needs a white knight to ride into the primary and bump him off first. Minor problem with that theory: He’s not as vulnerable as you’d think.| MORE ›