God bless Evan Bayh. The man refused to eat the crap sandwich that is the Obama Agenda. Six more years of trying to defend the indefensible? Six years defending socialism that he doesn't agree with anyway? Forget it. He's gone. Another sensible Democrat run off by the Chicago Syndicate.
Bayh reminds me of a young Senator named Al Gore. Before Gore hooked up with the Clintons he was pro-life, pro-gun, pro-tobacco, and a defense hawk. Had he won the 1988 Democratic nomination I would have voted for him over George H.W. Bush.
I'm glad I didn't because his U-turn on so many core issues was frightening. Then he went on to lose the 2000 election, while trying to suppress the military vote, became completely unhinged and the rest is a tawdry tale of an enviro-evangelist...
Anyway, Congratulations Senator Bayh! You are still too liberal for me, but you're a principled man, and that is rare for a politician nowadays.
