I hope that Obama picks him for his VP.

   that we DON'T NEED EXCITING this year. We've got that in our Presidential nominee. We DID NOT HAVE THAT in 2004 or 2000 with our Presidential nominees.

  I'm no Bayh fan, but those complaining that he's not exciting need to lighten up. Obama is exciting enough. Why should Bayh also be?

How do you justify Bayh's vote for the 2003 tax cut?

But what about change.  That is why BO cant pick HRC.  Because she and all her supporters are OLD.  And she is a washington insiders and BO has to pick someone who fits his theme of change.  But Bayh is Mr. Washington insider.  

I am just pointing out the hypocrisy that HRC supporter have to constantly hear.

Just one democrats opinion.

daivd

1. Builds bridge with the Clinton Camp.

2. Executive and Legislative Experience.

3. Puts Indiana in play.
 

in my opinion; what's wrong with them is the process, not the fact that pork is actually distributed.  I'm disappointed that Obama and HRC joined McCain and McCaskill in demagoguing of earmarks (I'm not a big fan of "good-government" candidates).

Has anyone ever seen a poll of Bayh's actual impact in Indiana?

I'm ashamed to say I didn't know too much about Bayh, thanks for the information and links.
Bottom line for me, I'm happy with whoever Obama picks, as long as we win.(Hillary would make my heart happy though)

It would be one thing if Bayh just voted for the Iraq War, but he was co-chairman of a pro-Iraq War propaganda group alongside John McCain and Joe Lieberman.  I'm all for opening up the Democratic Party to moderates and centrists but that's just a bridge too far in my view.

Sorry, but for this reason I hold Evan Bayh partly responsible for the deaths of all those good American soldiers who died in a foreign land thousands of miles away from their families.

We're talking about the #2 position in the entire Democratic Party here.  I don't think it's too much to ask that the VP is someone who actually put a little daylight between himself (or herself) and the Republican nominee for president on one of the most important issues of the day.  There's a de facto litmus test that the VP nominee must be pro-choice.  Everyone accepts this.  Why can't not voting for the Iraq War be a litmus test as well?  It doesn't have to be someone who voted against the war--though that would be nice--just not someone who voted for it.

Oh and Hillary supporters: Wouldn't you be pissed if Obama ended up going with a veep who voted for the war--after spending the past year excoriating Hillary for the same vote?  I think that would be a pretty legitimate grievance.  

He helps in Indiana and in Ohio. He is the consummate midwesterner.

But Joe Biden is a great pick Yeah, he's longwinded. But he's a great attack dog.

BTW, Bayh doesn't need to be exciting. We have enough at the top of the ticket. We need experience and gravitas. Bayh provides that.

We need someone willing to be very aggressive. Bayh doesn't fit the profile.

What are the rules in Indy.

Do they have to pick a member of the same party?

Well, congrats. I haven't heard anyone make a cogent argument for Bayh yet. Not sure if I "bayh" him still as the VP that best personifies the Obama message but nice work indeed.

If Obama picks Evan Bayh as his running-mate, does that mean that when it comes to foreign policy decisions:

1. It's important to be right on day one.

or

2. It's not that important to be right on day one.

And I look forward to the inevitable GOP chorus of "Senator Bayh, were you right then or are you right now?"  And don't forget about "Senator Bayh was for the Iraq War before he was against it."

Should be fun.  Hope Obama has a response ready for these predictable lines of attack.

I apologize for the snarkiness, but obviously I think going with Bayh would be a huge mistake.

Case against: Who ever is the VP nominee is the likely presidential nominee 2016.

Short term thinking is not your friend.

I'm going to have to guess the party has no one who earned a job on their own merits? They really have no choice but to puick some loser who wouldn't qualify as "Wal-Mart Greeter" if he didn't inherit his job from "Daddy"?

Let's hear it for the Party of the People (who are in the inheritor class).

but nothing in the linked article indicates Bayh "fought a massive crime and drug epidemic -- and won."

If I wanted to live in a Police State, I'd vote Republican.

up until this:

The reason you want Evan Bayh to be your and Barack Obama's Vice President is because he would be a good President.

And then shudders wracked my body and I felt this sudden urge to vomit, like during extreme air flight turbulence.  I think my hair turned grayer.

I'm perfectly fine with any candidate Obama chooses, just as long as he doesn't die and leave us with an asshole like Evan Bayh.  

So, please, don't frighten us that way.  If Obama needs Bayh for strategic reasons, I say, far out, dude, knock yourself out, I'm there for you.  But, please, don't die and make Evan Bayh president.  He's a first class shithead.  I can ignore that if you just promise you won't don't die.