No, No, NO!!! Evan Bayh For President? Senator May Be Eyeing White House Run

[joeybee12]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20100216/cm_huffpost/463202


When Bayh said, 'I'm an executive at heart,' might have been hinting at POTUS run in '16, not just an IN GOV bid in '12," tweeted University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, stirring the presidential rumor pot.

Let's stir it even harder. Could Bayh, who backed Hillary Clinton for president in 2008, jump into a primary against Obama in 2012 from a conservative direction? His resignation speech touched all the Clintonian bases, from welfare reform, to budget cutting to a strong national defense with a reference to 9/11 thrown in.

A primary would be the most difficult terrain for Bayh, who many in his own party consider barely a Democrat. The conventional wisdom would say no. Regardless of what chance he might have in a general election, the Democratic base sees Bayh as a symbol of what's wrong with the party in general: too cautious, too accommodationist, too friendly with K Street.

[NightWatcher]

1. who would be he base?

the dozens of people who like republicans who call themselves democrats?

[kentuck]

2. He won't get the left-wing bloggers votes...

He won't need them or so he thinks.

[joeybee12]

3. K Street!!!! n/t

[NightWatcher]

5. go for it, let them buy him a ton of commercials

do you know how many commercials for Bud Light (even funny ones) I have watched without even being tempted to buy that piss swill?

[old mark]

4. He does have a ton of money and probably has support of the

Democratic political machine in Indiana.

The people be damned, you know....politics.


mark

[Don Caballero]

6. He has no chance against our President in the primaries

President Obama has basically already won his second term. No one will vote for Bayh, he is part of the problem and will not bring change to Washington.

[AndyA]

8. I'm not so sure that Obama has a second term sealed up.

I don't think Buh-Bye stands a chance against Obama, though.

Obama needs to get some things done. Quickly. It will help the Dems later this year, and it will help his re-election in 2012. If Obama keeps allowing the minority party to control the message, he's in big trouble, though.

Obama needs to get it together. Seriously.

[kestrel91316]

7. He'll run as a Repuke, right? Because he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell

of getting the Democratic nomination.

[backscatter712]

9. Good luck with that...

He'd have to primary Obama, and even after the current fuckups, Obama would still have to be caught in bed with a dead girl or live boy in order to be vulnerable to a primary.

If he ran on the GOP ticket, the teabaggers wouldn't accept him.

He doesn't have a chance.

[Arugula Latte]

10. He'll get his bland, pasty ass kicked soundly!

If I may quote Skittles, yes indeed.

[Individualist]

11. Deservedly kicked soundly!

[rock]

12. Govenor Bayh?

That's my guess.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Yep.

He flat-out said he was not interested in running for President on "Morning Joke" this morning. Nobody asked him about running for governor, which surprised me. I guess it doesn't fit into their "Let's drag down Obama every way we can" approach to things.

[Chiyo-chichi]

20. Nope.

He's already served two terms as governor of Indiana. That's the limit.

[blm]

14. I think the center-right wing of the Dem party is making their move against the center-left WH

and they will have the media with them all the way. They are undermining Obama to weaken his presidency in order to hasten their opportunity to retake the party for 2012 or 2016.

And they want the Kennedy wing of the Democratic party blamed for the problems and gone for GOOD this time.

[Romulox]

15. Suddenly the strategy of actively atagonizing the left wing of the Party begins to look foolish

No doubt the President will castigate his "natural allies" for their tepid defense of him when this all goes down...

[blm]

16. I think he blew it when he made cabinet choices that heavily depended on Clintonites and their

so-called 'experience' running government. That initial bit of insecurity on Obama's part enabled the real corporatist wing to control too much of the direction, the message (and its lack of coordination), and the constant capitulation to the GOP and its policies - Clinton did it all the time even though he framed himself with the help of the media as the only Dem able to fight the GOP when in fact, it is his policy of capitulating to the GOP that has been woven into the fabric of our party and undermined our more honest lawmakers for two decades now.

The fascists and their media will be picking at Obama and every left lawmaker in the Dem party nonstop for the next year and using center-right asshats like Bayh as their mouthpieces.

[WI_DEM]

17. If he's retired as of next year who will even remember him in 2016?

[thereismore]

18. As what? Indiana for Bayh party? This is bullshit. nt

[leeroysphitz]

19. So quitting one elected office is now the official first step to running for president?

Whatever happened to exploratory committees?

[Chiyo-chichi]

21. He's not going to run for president.

He tested those waters already and drowned in the shallows.

[dionysus]

22. the most idiotic rumour i have ever seen.....

:rofl: