Someone I know mentioned if he quits he gets to keep his war chest which is said to be over 10 million. If you think you are going to lose, would a practical business decision be to quit and not spend all that money? I don't know how bad he's polling though, does not seem that bad for him yet but it could be and his insiders know it.
Now how do we get Richard Lugar to step down? He is almost as liberal as Bayh.
Yes, he has 13 million setting there. Wonder where he will apply it?
He can't keep it for personal use, campaign funds can only be used for campaigns, and cannot be added to personal wealth.... so, this kind of just solidifies that he's just biding his time for higher office later.
El Cazador,
You may very well be right.
But if you are, my minimal respect for him is even less, if that is the case.
If someone said, did, threatened or blackmailed a United States Senator into retirement, then he should have grown a spine, and ran to the nearest microphone and camera to tell the world what is going on in D.C..
So even if you are correct, he is a gutless coward for not standing up for his honor and his constituents.
I suspect there is much much more to this story and we will likely get chapter 2 sometime in the next year as we get closer to the 2012 campaigns.
El Cazador,
You may very well be right.
But if you are, my minimal respect for him is even less, if that is the case.
If someone said, did, threatened or blackmailed a United States Senator into retirement, then he should have grown a spine, and ran to the nearest microphone and camera to tell the world what is going on in D.C..
So even if you are correct, he is a gutless coward for not standing up for his honor and his constituents.
I suspect there is much much more to this story and we will likely get chapter 2 sometime in the next year as we get closer to the 2012 campaigns.
[FONT="]February 16, 2010[/FONT]
[FONT="]Evan Bayh Admits All-Consuming Farmville Addiction[/FONT]
[FONT="]Senator Enters Rehab[/FONT]
[FONT="]WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) -- Just hours after rocking the political world with his surprise retirement announcement, Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind) said that he would undergo treatment for an "all-consuming addiction" to the popular Facebook game Farmville.
"I realized that I had to make a choice between being a United States senator and tending my imaginary farm," a tearful Mr. Bayh told reporters. "I had to look at myself in the mirror and acknowledge that I had a problem."
Majority Leader Harry Reid said that he was shocked by Sen. Bayh's admission, adding, "This is all the more surprising because he hails from a farm state, where there are plenty of actual farms he could take care of."
In other news, an intelligence source downplayed the capture of the Taliban’s No 2, stating, “It sounds like a big deal until you remember that our No. 2 is Biden.”
Elsewhere, a [FONT="]New York Times[/FONT] reporter accused of plagiarism commented on the scandal, calling it "the best of times and the worst of times."
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I don't think it would take much imagination to think of any Congress Critter being "cajoled" by party leaders into voting one way or the other. The Dems in this Congress have all but admitted to doing so, and I have no doubt the Republicans have done so in the past. My possibly naive hope is that the Republicans are at least a bit less "rubber hose" about it. It does seem that the Democrats in this Congress aren't very concerned with hiding the "rubber hose" aspect of their "leadership" <that really ought to be in purple>.
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So....now the narrative moves to hint that Baron Hill and Bayh were colluding to make Hill the de facto D candidate for Bayh's seat. I think that's stretching, since the IN Dem Party sure sounded peeved with Bayh Monday AM when I heard the press release on the radio, and Bayh sure sounded honestly disgusted in his later in the day. Hill amy have quietly gathered enough signatures for inclusion in the D primary race, but don't I remember Hill requiring people to sign in to attend "his" town halls back in August? And I seem to remember people mentioning the sign in sheets wanted addresses as well as names. Now that bit of underhandedness (if true) sounds like the usual Baron Hill shenanigans we're all used to.
This is all too much fun to watch.
He is going to run for POTUS at some point. This state isnt any better off if the sack of dung coats wins either. Can someone talk Greg Garrison into running???