Bayh kicks off Senate re-election campaign with statewide tour

[Freddie Stubbs]

By TOM COYNE
Associated Press Writer

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh kicked off his re-election campaign Thursday, promising to work to help create good-paying jobs and protect existing ones.

"If you'll hire me again to go represent us in the United States Senate, I pledge that I will work for us every day and every night to protect jobs like this," the Democrat told about 150 supporters and workers at an AM General plant in Mishawaka where Humvees and Hummers are built.

Bayh touted himself as a fiscal conservative and as a senator who can work with both Democrats and Republicans.

"I've tried to be a voice of common sense and reason, working across the aisle to get things done on behalf of the people of our state," he said.

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[hippiechick]

1. um ...

... Sorry but Evan reminds me too much of Quayle - a pretty rich boy in a puffed up shirt and tie, livin' off the family name ...

:hippie:

[emcglynn]

2. Establisment DLC'er

Responsible imperialist seeks status quo.

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. And for some reason the voters seem to like the DLCers

Over 70% of the delegates that have been decided so far are for candidate who are associated with the DLC.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/primaries/pages/scorecard/index.html

[emcglynn]

5. Then we Democrats will get what we deserve.

A Party afraid of itself will not a majority make.

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. The party seems to be comfortable with its centrist majority

[emcglynn]

11. Complacent seems more like it.

Don't get me wrong, I hope the fight for the middle strategy works and the Evan Bayh's win. But I wonder if the Democratic Party had acted as the party of opposition and condemned the march towards an ill advised war. Would more lives have been saved that way? Instead a policy of acquiesence has left me to question the wisdom, aye the intelligence, of the Democratic leadership. Would the broadening of the base of the party done more to elect DU candidates? What would Karl Rove have done?

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. The voters of Indiana must have liked the job he did as Governor

or they would not have sent him to the Senate.

[emcglynn]

6. As a national spokesperson for the DLC

I saw him do a hatchet job while appearing on FoxNews condemning the progressive wing of his own party. I am not sure his father would have been proud.

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[liberalnurse]

9. Tell me why Ted Kennedy come into this thread?

If you want an ax to grind....start your own thread.

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[emcglynn]

12. I'll take a wild guess

I didn't see the comment LN but if Bayh supporters claim Teddy to be their very own remember Senator Kennedy was an outspoken critic of the Iraq War before it started as opposed to the junior Senator from Massachusetts and others. Where are all the Bayh folks? I've got the Milan vs. Muncie Central 1954 on tape. Memories anyone?