Posted on 07/11/2016 7:48:24 AM PDT by rdl6989
'Preciate it! This one, too; nicer version, same pic.
They may yet get to those. It’s only July you know.
And a drug problem since 1989 as well.
They may well have held back knowing the Hill pullout was coming, and wanting some heavier punch for later followon work But if the RGA does not take the lead, others will.
They turned against Quayle and sent a Democrat to succeed him in the House and then brought out the second Bayh a few years later. He became such a laughingstock that he left Hossier land for hot pastures in the Southwest. I had forgotten Dan beat the first Birch though.
No matter how many liberal measures Bayh backed, Hoosiers are convinced he is conservative. It was the same with Quayle’s VP rival, “Lord” Bentsen of TX, whom ever Texan “thought” was a right winger.
Quayle, a capable and decent fellow, allowed the MSM to perfect the ridicule attack to destroy Republicans. Palin’s experience was similar.
I believe that’s why so many of us like Trump despite his many flaws. He’s the Phalanx CIWS of politics when the MSM is around.
You’re misremembering. Quayle was succeeded in both his House and Senate seat by Dan Coats. When Coats resigned his House seat in 1989, Democrat Jill Long won the special (this was at a time when the IN delegation was ludicrously overrepresented with Dems, 7 to 3, with just Republicans Dan Burton, John Myers and J.P. Hiler, and Hiler went down to Tim Roemer in 1990, making it 8D-2R. It took until 1994 to regain 4 seats, a 6-4 majority for the GOP again).
Quayle was never a “laughingstock” in Indiana. What he did was follow advice given to him by President Nixon that simply did not apply to him. Nixon told him to forgo running for statewide office again and urged him to move to Arizona and begin to build a secondary base of support there in order to run for President in either 1996 or 2000. His biggest mistake was not running for the open Governorship in 1996, which he would’ve won handily (as it was, Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith got dragged down in the final weeks over some parochial issue related to the police in the city, IIRC). At the same time, Marilyn Quayle, an intelligent Conservative in her own right, should’ve been the 1998 U.S. Senate nominee when Coats turned tail and run rather than face ex-Gov. Bayh, leaving a weak liberal RINO Fort Wayne Mayor, Paul Helmke, as the nominee.
Allowing Dan Quayle to show his stuff as a Chief Executive would’ve gone a long way into proving he was not the media-created dunce and would’ve given a far greater chance at running for President in 2000.
Bayh has a better chance of winning, it’s as simple as that. They wanted this to happen and I guess they finally convinced him, days before the deadline. Hill was always on board with stepping aside.
Ungood news.
Come on Indiana, smackdown this POS.
Sen. Birch Bayh was ok. Evan Bayn was a total lightweight.
Today we need Senators with balls and grit, not pansies and trannies.
Evan Bayh is yesterday’s news, but that huge campaign treasury will buy him a lot of credibility. He was a very popular governor.
I await polls, but think that Todd Young is the slight favorite.
“Evan Bayh is a lobbyist who backed the Obama agenda 96 percent of the time as he left the Senate in 2010...”
Don Coats ....says “Bayh wants to continue the failed Obama-Clinton policies of the past eight years.”
and...Coats also said that “...the one thing Democrats don’t realize and haven’t thought about is how many young people have never cast a ballot with Evan Bayh on it,”
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I fr mailed my above to a freeper here who resides in Indiana and asked (yesterday) who she thinks will win; Young or Bayh
The reply came back: Young.
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Since the primary was in May, who chooses now: the Democrat state committee? Bayh will probably be the only candidate and a huge boost to Mrs. Bill. IN could be competitive in many races this fall. Hoosier like the attention.
I guess Hoosier politics is a lot more complicated than I remembered. I do recall Jill Long’s election but had forgotten it was to succeed Rep. Coats. Thanks, dj!
I doubt it. Bayh exited the Senate in 2010 at a time he’d have been held to account for his radical leftist voting record in support of Zero. Young will have a field day exploiting that fact with Bayh trying to sneak back in. Hillary has no chance of winning the state, and her husband was handily rejected there twice in 1992 and 1996. Zero only narrowly won it in 2008 because of Bob Barr taking a key % from McQueeg. That mistake wasn’t repeated in 2012.
On the 26th, Indiana's Republican Party will pick their new choice for governor. Lt. Gov Eric Holcomb announced his candidacy about four hours before I posted this.
Websearch *Bayh* and *Pixie* and see what you come up with. Besides the original 1998 WND article that took Evan off the ticket during Al Gore's presidential run, to be replaced with Joe *Who?* Lieberman...and which resulted in the resignation of Gore's Chief of Staff from his campaign organization for overlooking Bayh's *little problem.* Funny. He had been Janet Reno's Chief of Straff too. You would have thought he would have known....
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