Posted on 02/16/2010 6:10:49 AM PST by Salena Zito
"This is a warning sign on so many levels, when people like Evan Bayh walk way rather than serve their country," said Steve McMahon, a former Senate staffer for the late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. "The moderate Democrat is a vanishing breed," said McMahon, a Democratic strategist on Capitol Hill. "It is the moderates that make the difference between being in the majority and being in the minority, a problem for the Democrats."
Former Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum said Bayh did what he himself should have done when faced with a similar situation in the 2006 mid-term election. Santorum lost by 18 points to Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in an election year that cost Republicans the majority in the House and Senate.
Santorum commended Bayh for having a clearer head than he did: "He looked at the conditions practically and knew that running would prove to be toxic."
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Hind skin is better than foreskin.
I mentioned this in another post. I had the same thing happen to me in the Episcopal Church. All going fine, then one day looked up from the prayerbook to discover I didn't know the people sitting in the pew with me ... and they weren't even "believing" what I believed ... so I left. I think this is where Bayh is right now. He doesn't recognize anyone "sitting in the pew" with him. Do you think Harry Reid reflects Bayh's political feelings? Or even more frightening, Obama? If I were Bayh, I'd get up and leave too. Associating with such people means you are one of them. He has a fine "Democrat" legacy, honorable, in fact. Why should he allow that to be trashed by these people. I think we will see more of this ... as it grows, it will look like the Democrats are trying to start a Tea Party Movement of their own. I believe this is Bayh's motive.
This is what we also saw in Massachusetts. The "real" Democrats don't want to be associated with the 1960's Radical bunch any more ... hence, New Jersey, Virginia and Scott Brown.
We will not be safe until the White House is back in American hands again. We can survive a few dozen Communists in the Congress but one in the White House is a tough one.
90 percent of these people probably voted for Democrats and Obama. They have had a year to read and educate themselves as to what is going on. Thats bad news for Democrats. Thats millions and millions of pissed off people that realize they have been duped by a Kenyan-communist thug that heads the Democrat party.
Actually Steve is a good guy and from the wing of the Democratic Party from the mold of JFK.
I’m in a border state with Indiana (KY). Indiana only trended Democrat in the last presidential election. The GOP could count on them for Bush twice. You could actually say that Indiana represents a perfect microcosm of the voting population right now. They were tricked into supporting Zero, and are wising up to what he represents. Bayh is actually a victim of Obama’s. So is the rest of this country, for that matter.
Consider these two basic attributes of the American voting population, as we regularly see in poles:
Philosophical: 42% Conservative, 37% Moderate, 21% Liberal
Political: 34% Democrat, 31% Republican, 35% Independent
Folks - the biggest group on either attribute is “conservatives”. There are more conservatives than Republicans.
There just aren’t that many liberal votes out there. This Administration decided there was a sea-change when there wasn’t, and they are getting smoked for going hard left.
Did you see that picture of a Pit Bull that went after the Porcupine and got 1300 quills stuck in it’s face? That was Rahm Emanual’s failed attack on the American voter.
I don't see evidence of that (moderate Republicans becoming a vanishing breed). They might lose their hold over the Republican Party but I don't think they are going to go away. In fact, if many of the remaining moderates in the Democrat Party switches over to Republican their ranks could actually grow. The conservative/moderate struggle for control of the Republican Party has been going on now for over 100 years. It's not going to go away...
One sure way for the moderates to control the Party is for conservatives to leave and become Independents or reregister with a third party. We should not allow ourselves to be chased from the Republican Party.
Something really stinks about this story.
Here’s my theory... When the poll numbers reveal that Obama doesn’t have a prayer of being re-elected he’ll announce that he won’t run leaving the Democrat nomination wide open for Hillary.
Of course, Hillary will need a handsome youngish looking guy to run for the veep spot...
Someone who can help her in the midwest...
Hello Evan Bayh.
The moderate Democrat died over 25 years ago with the passing of ‘Scoop’ Jackson.
| "He bemoaned the fact that there was no place for pragmatic moderates to go," Ceisler said. "In the end, he got fed up with it all."
These so-alled "moderates" are always compromising so as to pass "solutions to the nation's problems," all of which somehow involve enlarging government and raising taxes. We really can't afford any more government solutions to our problems. It's not like government is the only source of "solutions." Not by a long shot. It's time to let innovation and adaptive change fashion solutions, which are the only kind that ever work anyway. The government-run "solutions" always fritter away the money and make things worse. Screw the "moderates," their compromises, and their "pragmatic solutions." They are the reason that government has gotten as big as it is. We need no more of them. |
I might have been willing to believe that if it wasn’t for the fact that he voted for that abortion of a “healthcare” bill.
I’m in Ohio, we are in the same boat. Obama was supported in our state too, but Republicans are ahead in all the polls right now. Ohioans are feeling Bam-boozled as well. I personally did not vote for him, but I have many friends who did (they ALL regret it now). I hope that the administration does not try to villify Bayh. He seems like a decent person (one of the few dems that I had respect for). What is the general feeling in Kentucky?
You are right, and the American people in their zest for “moderation” are wrong.
What big government programs over the years did Bahy oppose? I don’t know of a single one, but maybe there are some. I think he just kept saying he is a “moderate” for so long than uninformed IN people believe him, and in other states too.
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It is good news that there is no place for the 'pragmatic moderates' to go. We are better off with a highly polarized Congress that is paralyzed by gridlock, unable to pass anything serious, than we would be with a Congress full of "moderates" who are slowly legislating the road to Socialism. Which is what we had before.