Posted on 02/18/2010 3:45:49 PM PST by Publius772000
While Rush Limbaugh and conservative prognosticators spend their time arguing the State media’s assertion that Bayh is a conservative Democrat, and many believe his early retirement as senator from Indiana is an indication that some are abandoning the liberal direction of the Party, I believe this could be a move made in view of the Big Picture.
Though I currently live in Georgia, the majority of my life was lived in Indiana, so I am familiar with Bayh’s career. As son of Birch Bayh, Evan had a meteoric rise through state politics. He became governor in 1989 and served for eight years in that capacity. Bayh’s tenure as governor was predominantly centrist, as he pushed for favorable tax laws–including Indiana’s largest ever tax cut–and managed a profitable Hoosier economy. His need to rule as a moderate Democrat came from the fact that he served a schizophrenic state: the northern portion, including South Bend and Gary, was urban, unionized, and heavily Democratic; the central and southern portions of the state were far more conservative and Republican.
He was elected to his father’s former U.S. Senate seat in 1998 with 64% of the vote and re-elected in 2004 with 62%. He has continually been discussed as presidential material with his Midwestern popularity, good looks, and excellent track record for electability. According to some polls, he was already leading his re-election bid by 20 points and had amassed $13 million for his war chest. In view of this, it’s understandable why many would question his departure.
To hear him explain it, Bayh left the Senate because he was tired of the gridlock–gridlock, of course, that his party and its overwhelming majority had caused with its unpopular policies...
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I don’t see the math in it.
Obama is the problem, not his doodles sidekick, slo Joe.
Obama/ANYTHING would lose in 2012.
No but Clinton/Bayh might.
One way or another Joe the Drunk will be history.
In a word, NO.
You could pair Obama with the most popular lib in the country, and the ticket would still lose in 2012.
52% of Americans have already expressed that they won't vote for Obama in 2012, and he's only been in office one year. His approval numbers are getting worse and worse all the time. It's not even certain at this point if he'll even survive to the finish line of his first term, at the rate he's sinking.
Let's also not forget that by the time of the 2012 primary, a lot of states are going to require that the parties show proof of their candidates' constitutional eligibility for the presidency.
Zero cannot survive such a challenge. For this, and many other reasons, he will not be re-elected.
Don’t get in that car with Biden , Bayh.!!
I don’t think they would have to tell Biden that he’s not the nominee, his wife would know, but if she didn’t tell him, I don’t think he would realize.
NO. because anything with the word “obama” in it is sure to be a disaster.
Satan-Bayh would be a better ticket than Obama-Bayh.
Although I'm not sure what type of experience three years on the city council fresh out of law school before being elected U.S. Senator of a pissant state and never being right on anything is suppose to add to ObaMao's empty resume.
America took a chance on the black guy with the muslim name.
obama blew it. He was every bit as radical and hateful as our collective sub-conscious fears thought he might be, (much to the surprise of those lofty moderates).
There won’t be another black President in our lifetime, tho’ there are many great black Americans who could lead this country back to its former glory.
NO!
I’ve been saying this since the first minute that he announced he was not running. It makes perfect sense. He talks the moderate and independents back into the ticket...then wins easily in 2016. But this also requires that Democratic losses in November are not tremendous.
A future joke: "What's the difference between Obama and Hugo Chavez? - Chavez got re-elected..."
NOPE!
Hugo only got elected once. After that it was all fraud.
Come on now..let’s not start touting this faux-Conservative, we have had to live through Bayh as Senator for at least 12 years, and he has hardly been a conservative, he’s a Harry Reid Dem, not a “moderate”!! I have had to live through him, and I AM SICK of the RIGHT bloggosphere toughting him as some kind of “moderate” conservative Democrat he on conservative during election time in Rhetoric only, but other than that LIBERAL!
a mccain/anybody ticket might.
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