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Why Bayh Is Quitting the Senate
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| 2-16-10
| John Fund
Posted on 02/16/2010 8:37:28 PM PST by chickadee
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"But governing as liberals meant Democrats undermined the trust voters placed in them. They also enacted policies that increased economic uncertainty and retarded job creation. "When liberalism fails, people notice. They may even protest," Reagan told his aides, pointing to California's nascent Proposition 13 tax revoltthe "Tea Party" of its day. "And it's then they'll listen to you again if you have a clear set of ideas based on sound principle."
Let us hope that history repeats itself.
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posted on
02/16/2010 8:37:28 PM PST
by
chickadee
To: chickadee
I think most of the analysis of this is giving Bayh a lot of credit for “knowing something” that hardly anyone else knows — and there is no evidence that he knows anything at all much less something no one else does. See what I’m sayin’?
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posted on
02/16/2010 8:40:42 PM PST
by
PaleoBob
To: chickadee
Besides the 13 million, and from some of his remarks, he wants to run for the big office. I also think he doesn’t want to be part of the losing team.
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posted on
02/16/2010 8:41:14 PM PST
by
ABQHispConservative
(A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
To: chickadee
They are running scared that is for sure!
To: ABQHispConservative
If he doesn’t want to be part of the losing team he could switch parties.
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posted on
02/16/2010 8:42:56 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: chickadee
To make a long story short, the socialists are sneaky, secret, lying cheats until they achieve Congress and President. Then their true colors are manifest for all to see.
They go down in flames and start to fake it all over again.
yitbos
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posted on
02/16/2010 8:43:36 PM PST
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds.")
To: Names Ash Housewares
john mellencamp is thinking of running in Bayh’s place
To: PaleoBob
The reason the leftists hated Quayle with such a purple passion was that he defeated Birch Bayh in 1980.
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posted on
02/16/2010 8:47:33 PM PST
by
Arthur McGowan
(In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I think Bayh is old school Democrat - you know, the Democrat of our parents/grandparents. Back then, Democrats stood for the working man, not for government unions, trial lawyers, grievance groups and truckloads of dead babies.
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posted on
02/16/2010 8:49:33 PM PST
by
chickadee
To: RummyChick
john mellencamp is thinking of running in Bayhs placeLOL! Mellonhead would be as big a joke as Franken.
Bayh, Bayh SCUMBAG!
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posted on
02/16/2010 8:51:07 PM PST
by
PGalt
To: chickadee
Bayh left angry - he announced his retirement without allowing his party to be able to have a viable primary contest for his replacement and didn’t warn any of the ‘rat leaders of his intentions - he was probably frustrated and resentful about some of the votes he’d been forced into making - such as for healthcare and the “stimulus” - in support of his party......
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To: HiTech RedNeck
One Specter was enough. We don’t need another. We have enough rinos as it is.
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posted on
02/16/2010 8:55:09 PM PST
by
ABQHispConservative
(A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
Comment #14 Removed by Moderator
To: chickadee
The biggest fallacy is that everyone labels Bayh a moderate. All you have to do is look up this stone cold liberals voting record.
To: chickadee
Kinda like running from Leatherface and his chainsaw. Wise move.
Others (like Boxer) will just stand there and get chopped up in November.
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posted on
02/16/2010 8:58:18 PM PST
by
TruthHound
("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: RummyChick
Smokestack Johnny is wheezing already!
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posted on
02/16/2010 9:00:28 PM PST
by
InvisibleChurch
(happily replying to threads without reading the articles since 2002)
To: chickadee
"Every 14 or 16 years we seem to have to relearn this lesson"... So, Bayh hadn't learned the lesson when he voted against Roberts and Alioto, and for Porkulus and Obamacare, but he just learned it now?
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posted on
02/16/2010 9:00:36 PM PST
by
Plutarch
To: RummyChick
John Lemon Melon Cougarcamp is too busy sucking on people’s chili dogs behind the Tastee Freeze to be running for US Senate.
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