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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The democratic party went to san francisco and turned left. They are a party that hates traditional American values, free enterprise, achievement, Godliness, or anything that smacks of morality. They were born of the communes from the 60’s and pot-smoking university professors. Decent democrats like Reagan, Kirkpatrick, Zell miller, and now Bayh have left the party in droves. Don’t make the mistake of thinking the milk toast GOP is the answer either. The best thing to come along in years in the Tea Party movement and participants like Palin, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, etc.
At this point “Progressive Liberal Socialist party” seems a much better fit. Especially with the departure of reasonable Democrats like Bayh.
I don’t think the unemployed will ever figure out what happened to them. They will blame “greedy” business and even GWB for leaving things “so bad”.
Is Bayh moderate? How many of Obamas goofiness did he vote for?
Would you agree that he may have been the best of the worst?
Bayh hasn’t left the Democratic Party. He said he will work hard to keep his seat Democrat in November. He voted for the Obama “health care bill.” He’s moderate only because IN people say he is moderate.
No, because he has more ability to fool the people than would a Barbara Mikulski, for instance, outside of MD.
It seems to me that Bayh was a man who talked moderate and then voted with the libs. He could campaign well by presenting himself as a moderate, but when the rubber met the road, when you scratched him, he was very left wing.
Yes, you’re right! I guess I got too excited about any weakening of the democratic party’s positiuon in November. Bayh is like Landrieu, Shuler, etc. They come across as moderates, but when the chips are down they vote with the marxist one.
The Pennsylvania papers made up a 'scandal' about Santorum 'not living in his district', because he spent time in D.C. They hammered on this non-issue so much I began to suspect that Santorum was squeaky clean and there was no other dirt the papers could dig up on him.
“Is Bayh moderate? “
Just saw on MSNBC’s ‘The Daily Rundown’ Anita Dunn being interviewed. She was identified as an aide to Bayh.
This is the same Anita Dunn that Glenn Beck exposed for having Mao as her mentor. The same Anita Dunn that Beck gave his famous White House RED phone to.
These people just crawl from one creephole to the next.
If that were the case, wouldn’t he have stuck with them? Why would he leave if he was in agreement? I’m just trying to make sense of all this.
bttt
No, its called rats being the first to leave a sinking ship...
LOL
“Compromise,” “working together” and “reaching across the aisle” to Moderates in office means:
Passing ACORN-style mortgage regulations by getting political support from banksters & corporate-welfare seekers by ensuring their private losses with taxpayer money.
Who needs THAT kind of “bipartisanship”?!
Screw that!!!
His dad was a similar kind of senator, and he was beaten by Dan Quayle in a year where liberals were being rejected. I think Bayh didn’t want to go in the way his dad did. It leaves some of his options open later rather than suffer a big defeat.
So he is just playing politics? Actually, that makes sense...If he has any shot at a political future, he really needed to distance himself (before the reconcilliation/healthcare stunt congress is planning).
Am I close?
We can only guess based on what we know abaout him, and what he says. It seems he is just making a political calculation to me.
“It’s way past time to draw the battle lines and fight the war.”
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I fully agree. We are starting to fight them now with the soap box and the ballot box. Let’s hope it stops at that.
If not, more and more are preparing to fight them with the ammo box. By the time it comes to that, battle lines will be so clearly drawn that even the military and LEOs, hopefully, may align against the Global Communists.
The final wake-up call, I predicct, will either be some manufactured or facilitated or exploited “crisis” used to invoke martial law and confiscate the nation’s guns. Either that or, if we take back the Congress, the Administration’s blatant or covert attempt at a coup via Executive Orders - already hinted at and underway.
Be prepared.
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