Posted on 02/16/2010 8:37:28 PM PST by chickadee
"Mr. Bayh knows something about high-water political floods. As a 24-year-old law student he helped run his father's 1980 Senate re-election and saw him go down to defeat under the Reagan landslide. In 1994, Mr. Bayh was governor of Indiana and thankful he wasn't before the voters when they revolted against Bill Clinton. "Every 14 or 16 years we seem to have to relearn this lesson," Mr. Bayh said. "I do have a sense of deja vu, and the movie doesn't have a happy ending."
He isn't the first observer to note the misfortune that befalls modern Democrats when they gain control of the presidency and both houses of Congress. After Jimmy Carter won the White House, Ronald Reagan assembled a group of his former aides in Los Angeles in early 1977 for a pep talk about how the GOP loss would only be temporary if they learned from the party's mistakes and returned to first principles. He quoted from a John Dryden ballad memorized as a youth: "I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain. I will lay me down for to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again."
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Let us hope that history repeats itself.
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’?
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.
They are running scared that is for sure!
If he doesn’t want to be part of the losing team he could switch parties.
They go down in flames and start to fake it all over again.
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john mellencamp is thinking of running in Bayh’s place
The reason the leftists hated Quayle with such a purple passion was that he defeated Birch Bayh in 1980.
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.
LOL! Mellonhead would be as big a joke as Franken.
Bayh, Bayh SCUMBAG!
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......
One Specter was enough. We don’t need another. We have enough rinos as it is.
Kinda like running from Leatherface and his chainsaw. Wise move.
Others (like Boxer) will just stand there and get chopped up in November.
Smokestack Johnny is wheezing already!
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?
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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