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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 11:10 PM
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58. maybe there would be a tiny chance of someone else doing it, but Bayh's charisma is in the negative
numbers.

And he has NOTHING to sell that Obama doesn't except maybe grovelling more deeply before our corporate masters without even the pretense of expecting reform.
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  -Is Bayh gonna run in the primary against the President? AngryAmish  Feb-15-10 10:39 AM   #0 
  - .  tridim   Feb-15-10 10:41 AM   #1 
  - First thing to come to my mind...  butterfly77   Feb-15-10 12:04 PM   #19 
  - He'll probably run against him in the General.  RUMMYisFROSTED   Feb-15-10 10:41 AM   #2 
  - well done  AngryAmish   Feb-15-10 10:42 AM   #3 
  - Or primary him and if he loses be Palin's VP.  JVS   Feb-15-10 12:04 PM   #20 
     - or LIEberman's VP  Joe Bacon   Feb-16-10 06:05 AM   #61 
  - would not surprise me if he has something like that in mind  nickinSTL   Feb-15-10 10:42 AM   #4 
  - No.  DefenseLawyer   Feb-15-10 10:43 AM   #5 
  - Bayh is not capable of putting together a plan.  LiberalFighter   Feb-15-10 02:30 PM   #42 
     - He's not the sharpest tool in the shed  DefenseLawyer   Feb-15-10 02:36 PM   #43 
        - He's had his dad's name, good looking wife at the time,  LiberalFighter   Feb-15-10 02:52 PM   #44 
  - Thinkin more along the lines of accepting a VERY lucrative job in 'private sector'  havocmom   Feb-15-10 10:43 AM   #6 
  - It is still a possibility that he knows the next few years are going to get  Vinnie From Indy   Feb-15-10 11:16 AM   #12 
     - LOL It seems likely MOST of the enablers of the shit storm know, and are bailing  havocmom   Feb-15-10 12:30 PM   #33 
  - You know what would suck more.  Ganja Ninja   Feb-15-10 10:45 AM   #7 
  - Might be a winning startegy in 2012 n/t  golfguru   Feb-15-10 11:09 AM   #11 
  - Depends on which party you want to win.  Ganja Ninja   Feb-15-10 11:32 AM   #14 
  - The motivation is to give Obama the best ticket which can win  golfguru   Feb-15-10 03:33 PM   #51 
     - Why not stay Senator then? Senators can and do run  karynnj   Feb-15-10 04:22 PM   #56 
     - No thanks. I prefer real liberals. n/t  Ganja Ninja   Feb-16-10 05:48 AM   #60 
  - For whom? The Rethugs? You never switch VPS.  Jennicut   Feb-15-10 12:18 PM   #28 
  - My guess is Biden will bow out after 2011...n/t  golfguru   Feb-15-10 03:32 PM   #50 
     - I don't think so, Cheney never left even though he was not going to run as President  Jennicut   Feb-15-10 04:17 PM   #54 
  - Like Hell it would  Sebastian Doyle   Feb-15-10 02:05 PM   #41 
     - Look at it this way...Obama will still be at the head of that ticket  golfguru   Feb-15-10 03:31 PM   #49 
        - If he put that piece of shit on the ticket, it would be a statement he was going more right wing  Sebastian Doyle   Feb-15-10 03:39 PM   #52 
  - That is highly unlikely  karynnj   Feb-15-10 04:20 PM   #55 
  - It would make the president look all the better. nt  Captain Hilts   Feb-15-10 10:46 AM   #8 
  - Probably.  timeforpeace   Feb-15-10 11:02 AM   #9 
  - Doubt it. No one is going to run against Obama  Thrill   Feb-15-10 11:03 AM   #10 
  - By the way things are going -- the people will probably do that.  brand404   Feb-15-10 12:09 PM   #23 
     - Oh, bullshit.  jefferson_dem   Feb-15-10 03:22 PM   #47 
  - No.  Arkana   Feb-15-10 11:29 AM   #13 
  - Unless, of course, you actually believe the president is a socialist. nt  RaleighNCDUer   Feb-15-10 11:50 AM   #16 
  - Obama challenged Clinton from the Left and then shattered his coalition by enacting DLC policy  JVS   Feb-15-10 12:03 PM   #18 
     - I meant challenging a sitting President for the nomination.  Arkana   Feb-15-10 12:18 PM   #27 
        - Oh really?  JVS   Feb-15-10 12:24 PM   #30 
           - This isn't 1964.  Arkana   Feb-15-10 12:29 PM   #31 
              - If Bayh sees a weakness, he can exploit it. The economy is shit and it doesn't show signs of...  JVS   Feb-15-10 12:34 PM   #35 
                 - If Bayh challenged a sitting President for the nomination and lost (which would most likely happen)  Arkana   Feb-16-10 01:52 AM   #59 
  - I've been predicting this  JVS   Feb-15-10 11:37 AM   #15 
  - Of course not...  Perky   Feb-15-10 11:52 AM   #17 
  - Where's the money in that?  JTFrog   Feb-15-10 12:07 PM   #21 
  - No. He is taking a job with lots of money.  Jennicut   Feb-15-10 12:08 PM   #22 
  - I bet he's readying the bed for pharma.  WritingIsMyReligion   Feb-15-10 12:10 PM   #24 
  - hmmm...whatever Obama's faults, Bayh is worse and BORING  yurbud   Feb-15-10 12:10 PM   #25 
  - Bayh sucks, but if he starts making a move for the presidency, Obama...  JVS   Feb-15-10 12:13 PM   #26 
     - I don't think Bayh would be stupid enough to run against him since Obama has filled his cabinet  yurbud   Feb-15-10 12:22 PM   #29 
        - You think they'll give a shit if Obama goes down?  JVS   Feb-15-10 12:29 PM   #32 
           - I don't even think he would put a dent in Obama. Bayh makes dishwater seem exciting by comparison  yurbud   Feb-15-10 12:32 PM   #34 
              - Boring is acceptable in a politician when you're pissed off about not having a job  JVS   Feb-15-10 12:37 PM   #36 
                 - replacing one DLCer with an even more corporate compliant one is not going to appeal to jobless  yurbud   Feb-15-10 04:01 PM   #53 
                    - I don't see "throw the bums out" specifying that.  JVS   Feb-15-10 06:06 PM   #57 
                       - maybe there would be a tiny chance of someone else doing it, but Bayh's charisma is in the negative  yurbud   Feb-15-10 11:10 PM   #58 
  - No. He wants to be governor again and will probably take a university post  quiller4   Feb-15-10 12:58 PM   #37 
  - I agree that he wants to run for Governor. I also think he sees a republican tsunami coming  theothersnippywshrub   Feb-15-10 01:46 PM   #40 
  - No. He's too much nothing. He's going for the bigger bucks. nt  old mark   Feb-15-10 01:11 PM   #38 
  - Well lets see he didn't run in 2008 because Senator Obama was too strong  Hippo_Tron   Feb-15-10 01:27 PM   #39 
  - No.  WI_DEM   Feb-15-10 03:10 PM   #45 
  - Too similar. We need a progressive primary challenger. nt  polichick   Feb-15-10 03:13 PM   #46 
  - Run Kooooooch Run!  jefferson_dem   Feb-16-10 06:05 AM   #62 
  - If anyone gets the Big Pharma job, it's Obama.  timeforpeace   Feb-15-10 03:25 PM   #48 
  - HELL NO!  ElsewheresDaughter   Feb-16-10 06:26 AM   #63 
  - He says no.  jefferson_dem   Feb-16-10 06:43 AM   #64 
  - Remember how much support he was able to get for the OPEN seat in 2008?  karynnj   Feb-16-10 07:37 AM   #65 
  - NO!!!!!  olegramps   Feb-16-10 08:43 AM   #66 
  - I doubt it because I don't think Obama will run for a second term. n/t  CK_John   Feb-16-10 09:12 AM   #67 
 

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