Posted on 12/15/2006 6:33:11 PM PST by melt
CBS) There has been intense speculation among Democrats Friday night that Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek his party's nomination for president in 2008, CBS News has learned. Bayh’s office has not yet responded to requests for comment.
The speculation comes less than two weeks after Bayh hired campaign staff and announced plans to form a fundraising committee for a potential presidential bid.
"He has this very serious team ... some very high-powered help," Mark Blumenthal — aka Mysterypollster, editor of pollster.com — said at the time. Blumenthal noted that he's worked in the past with some of Bayh’s new staff.
Bayh might have been a strong Democratic contender in a presidential race. A two-term governor before being sent to Washington, Bayh would have come to the contest with the advantage of having both Capitol Hill and gubernatorial experience.
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I guess he's being politely asked to "obayh" the wishes of the next Clinton Administration...
In a nutshell, he has cooperated with conservatives on 15% or so of his votes. That makes him too far right to compete for the moonbat base.
On June 19, 1964, Bayh, his wife, Senator Ted Kennedy and legislative aide Edward Moss were on board a small plane that crashed in heavy fog near Springfield, Massachusetts. Senator Bayh pulled a badly injured Senator Kennedy from the wreckage. Senator and Mrs. Bayh were relatively unhurt, while the pilot and Moss were both killed in the crash.
Yes, as I have been saying for years. The path is being cleared for her. She will get the nomination very early, hardly have to spend any money, and will have minimal sound bites against her by Dems.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Being confirmed by FOX.
The witch even ignored her young daughter as she was sworn in as president twofer.
Comments?
That photo made me forget to say......FBI Files in her brief case
This is good news. Bayh is about the only Democrat that Republicans could even remotely feel comfortable with. With him out, the Dems are left with only their extremist leftists. They won't get any cross over voters at that rate.
he's still popular there.
No he isn't. I live in Indiana and he is NOT popular.
I am shocked by this news.
"Goodbayh, Evan... nice knowin' you."
Yes, very good news. : )
Who's next?
Baye very well could be the VP.....dems need one state, Ohio, and Baye, not Obama holds a better fitting key.
Obama is out there to take heat off Hillary and energize the base.
He gets re-elected with nearly 65% of the vote, each time out.
I Ttink he's still popular here....
It makes no sense to me either but this state would go to the dems if bayh was on the ticket.
Must be something in the water.
From Fox news web site:
Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh Decides Not to Seek Democratic Nomination for President
Friday, December 15, 2006
By Carl Cameron
WASHINGTON — Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, FOX News has learned.
Bayh made the decision depsite having made several visits to test states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and raising millions of dollars toward a possible White House run.
Bayh is in the middle of his second term in the Senate, and serves on five committees: Banking Housing and Urban Affairs, on which he is the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance; Armed Services; the Select Committee on Intelligence; the Special Committee on Aging; and, the Small Business Committee.
Before his election to the Senate, Bayh served two terms as governor of Indiana.
Yep, that was my first thought when I heard he dropped out....Whats in the Beast's FBI files about him.
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