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Purveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 12:47 PM
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Bayh Says New Sen. Brown May Be Part Of 'Cure'
(02-22) 09:35 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Retiring Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana says new GOP Sen. Scott Brown may be part of the "ultimate cure" for partisan gridlock in Washington.

Bayh said in an interview on "The View" on Monday that Brown's election from Massachusetts was the result of independents and moderates rising up and "saying they had enough."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/22/national/w093505S27.DTL
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 12:48 PM
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1. Oh yeah? Well, he's the disease.
:puke:
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 12:50 PM
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+ One hundred, million, trillion billion!!!
Bayh is an idiot.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 12:50 PM
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3. + One hundred, million, trillion billion!!!
Bayh is an idiot.
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Schema Thing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 12:48 PM
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2. Funny old cure for gridlock, if you ask me;

electing a Republican. Aren't they famous for being the party of "NO", or did I just imagine that?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 12:56 PM
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4. the "cure" may be worse than the disease ...
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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 12:58 PM
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5. Bayh's going away is part of the cure.
But please, STFU as well.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 01:06 PM
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6. +1 Yeah, going out the door showing he's
as clueless as ever.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 01:31 PM
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7. Right, Evan, and I might be part of the British royal family.
(Now accepting fine works of art, sterling tea services and the Queen's used diamond brooches.)
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 01:41 PM
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8. Bayh really is positioning himself to run for President some day.
If Bayh believes Scott Brown is the cure for which ills are country then I might as well jump off the bridge now. Mr. #41 is going to do nothing but contribute stupid comments ("I sympathize with the guy who crashed into the IRS building"), offer nude centerfolds, and basically follow the same obstructionist Rethug crap that the party has been spewing out over the past year.
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harkadog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:03 PM
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10. I don't think it is going to be someday, it is going to be 2012
By 2016 people will have forgotten about him. I think he makes his move now.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:17 PM
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11. To the right of Obama. To weaken the Dem party. Is Bayh really a Republican?
I could make the case that he is.
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harkadog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:25 PM
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14. I don't think he wil run against Obama in the primaries.
It is next to impossible to deny an incumbent President his party's nomination. I think he will run as an independent with a VP who is very rich and can fund much of the campaign. Under our campaign finance laws the president and VP on a ticket can contribute unlimited personal funds on their campaign and are not affected by the individual limits. Who he will hurt most will probably depend on who the Rs nominate.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:30 PM
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18. He won't win as an independent either. But his goal may be to just weaken
the Dems. What other goal would he have?
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harkadog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:48 PM
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20. I don't automatically dismiss independent runs
They have not been successful on the national level in the past but more and more people are registering as independents and are angry at both parties. Perot was leading in the polls in '92 before he got wacky and dropped out and then jumped back in. In the area I live party registration used to be Dems first, Rep second and Indies third. It is now Indies first, Dems second and Rep third.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:22 PM
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13. If he does he'll have to run as a Republican
because he won't win a single primary as a Democrat.
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harkadog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:26 PM
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15. Run as a third party independent.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:29 PM
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16. ...where he will get absolutely no backing whatsoever.
I think Bayh wants to be President but I don't think he has the stones or the ability to mount any kind of successful independent bid.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 01:44 PM
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9. WELL!!! you know why
he got a look at the nudeo picture with out the pillow. tsk tsk tsk.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:21 PM
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12. Fuck off, Evan.
I can't say that enough.

FUCK. OFF.
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:30 PM
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17. Dear Evan,
You suck.

Sincerely,
Julie Nelson--who thankfully was never a constituent of yours
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 02:43 PM
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19. Hasn't this right wing slacker left town yet?
Edited on Mon Feb-22-10 02:46 PM by Ganja Ninja
All of a sudden he's Joe Lieberman. It's no wonder the Democratic Party is so fucked up.

Actually the cure to gridlock is to stop electing faux liberals like Evan Bayh and clean up the Democratic Party.
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