Evan Bayh Retires!

[Panama]

Whatever his temporary motive may be,
Thank you Jesus!

 

[Designer99]

This has truly made my day. Just heard on the radio that the dems. may not be able to run a candidate in the primaries. Deadline for filing is tomorrow. 1 down and 1 to go!
(No my key board is not broke, but thanks for asking.)

I highly doubt that. Politics is extremely calculated. Bayh's not going to bow out without another candidate waiting in the wings.

 

[Panama]

Just heard on the news a special election may have to be done?
Dems are going to presure.........Bart Peterson to run!
BahWAhahahahahahahahahah!

 

[LEaSH]

I highly doubt that. Politics is extremely calculated. Bayh's not going to bow out without another candidate waiting in the wings.

That's the norm. I'm not going to do my dance until something positive about the seat becomes factual.

 

[kwatters]

Hopefully he isn't interested in the Governor position.

 

[mrjarrell]

mrjarrell, well, I think you mean "it may not be so good for us, the voters"?

6 of 1. No matter which member of the Boot On Your Neck Party gets in we'll take in the neck.

 

[Zoub]

What is the basis of all of this recent "retirement" activity amongst the Democrats?

They know they will be getting their collective butts handed to them
and want to walk off into the sunset before they are thrown out.

Then when their replacement loses they can say....
"Well, it's not due to policy, just that my replacement did not have the backing that I did, etc."

That plus I am sure thay have noticed how well Palin is doing since she stepped away from Politics.

Bayh can redfine himself anyway he wants, havign never laost a race and distance himself from Obama without looking like a dissident to the Democrat party.

 

[mike8170]

Never thought that I would see the day that politicians are starting to run scared from their constituents! November is going to be a very interesting election cycle.

 

[antsi]

Mark my words:

"Andre Carson for Senate"

I smell 1988 all over again

"those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"

Carson would play well in Gary and some the scarier parts of Indianapolis, but I can't see the whole state voting for him. The greatest effect he might have would be to boost Republican voter turnout.

 

[CarmelHP]

Just heard on the news a special election may have to be done?
Dems are going to presure.........Bart Peterson to run!
BahWAhahahahahahahahahah!

If no one qualifies, a candidate is selected by party caucus.

IC 3-13-1-3
United States Senator or state office
Sec. 3. Except as provided in IC 3-10-8-7, a candidate vacancy for United States Senator or a state office shall be filled by the state committee of the political party.

 

[Ashkelon]

Greeting from the Party Caucus: "I want you to meet my friend Andre Carson" Ughhhhhhhhh!

 

[SemperFiUSMC]

Sweet!

Evan Bayh will not seek reelection | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star

 

[Mr. Habib]

This could be bad. Bayh was vulnerable in 2010 and the Dems knew it. Now they can run someone without all of the baggage that Bayh carried and who may be more difficult to defeat, but turn out to be worse than Bayh. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that he was ask / told not to run in return for some lucrative position with some PAC or lobbying organization. Watch and see who pays his bills after his term is over.

 

[CarmelHP]

Greeting from the Party Caucus: "I want you to meet my friend Andre Carson" Ughhhhhhhhh!

As I said, that's too good to hope that they select Andre the Muslim, friend of Farrakhan to be their nominee.

 

[evansvillethompsongunner]

This might not be a good thing.

Democrats could run a grinning dark horse and sweep in with someone even worse.

Republicans have yet to come up with a good replacement who can crush them. However, this will draw national focus to Indiana due to the necessity for a special election, as he's retiring two years early. I really would like to have been a fly on the wall when he called Harry Reid... this isn't as positive a thing as most of you are thinking. The man doesn't do a single thing without thinking of repercussions and how it will affect his future - he's calculating if nothing else, and this is enough of a surprise that I would almost-wager money that he's got something bigger in mind.

One of the VERY FEW reasons as to why he could be retiring: Not to be tarred as a divisive partisan, or as one of Obama's lackies. (He is, but he's not about to get tarred with that brush.) I'm betting his research team did some preliminary popularity polling, and he was surprised to find that people perceive him as part of the problem, and that worried him, because in politics, it's one thing to quit and join the fray later (a la Sarah Palin), it's another to be bested in an election. I'd still wager he's got his sights set on the White House, but not in this upcoming election, in which he'd have to go against Oblama and who knows what else - and he's not going to bother with a primary in which he's facing a SEA of candidates - he just doesn't have the name recognition outside of Indiana that he'd need to overcome getting drowned down, like Richardson or Huckabee did.

Failing that, he's done something behind-the-scenes that would incite national furor, so he's stepping ahead of the steaming pile of scandal by just bowing out before/unless it's made public.

So, you who would rejoice, make sure there's not a worse outcome waiting in the wings. (Pro-tip: there is.)

 

[CarmelHP]

Republicans have yet to come up with a good replacement who can crush them. However, this will draw national focus to Indiana due to the necessity for a special election, as he's retiring two years early.

The election is this year, he's serving out his term. It's not too years early. There is no special election.

 

[PatMcGroyne]

From another Indiana thread

Re: [Indy-Defenders-of-Liberty]
Your congressman's real home?

I would like to see a required
amendment passed stating that any
senator or representative
whose family does not reside in the
state which they are supposed to
represent for a minimum of 265 days
of the calendar year can no longer be
considered a legal citizen of that state
they are representing. A senator or
representative who has children under
the age of 18 must have that child enrolled
in a State University in the state they
represent, and minor children must
attend school in the state. If the
government wants to spend money on
something necessary,like congressional
housing, why not provide apartments in
buildings (ones all ready in existence
could be purchased) giving each senator
and representative a two to three bed
apartment to live in during the
period of time Congress is in
session and that is where they
are to live during that period of
time.

We put our military personnel in
similar "apartments" (barracks).
Do the same for these nice people
who are no better -- or probably
WORSE!! Quoted by Pat

 

[evansvillethompsongunner]

The election is this year, he's serving out his term. It's not too years early. There is no special election.

I stand corrected; thanks.
For some reason I was thinking 2012.
1998-2010 is twelve years, two terms of six.

Woops.

 

[PatMcGroyne]

I recommend.....

Pat Bauer !!! MMMWwahhhh haaa haaa haaa!! Pat. (An OTHER 'Pat'!)

 

[cosermann]

Guys like Bayh want to be president. This is the only way he can distance himself sufficiently from Obama (since he's already voted for virtually every plank of this rejected socialist agenda) to be viable as a presidential or VP candidate in 2012.