If I'm voting Democrat in 2008 then.. Evan Bayh

Fire away , but seems the most sensible, man for the job on the Democratic side.... considering I can't have Harrison Ford

http://bayh.senate.gov/index1.html

Stolen from his website...

Very simply Evan Bayh, a Democrat with a proud political heritage, wins statewide in traditionally Republican Indiana. He was elected Secratary of State in 1986 and served two terms as Governor of the state of Indiana. Given then Governor Bayh's outstanding service and management of of Indiana as it's chief executive where "he was re-elected governor in 1992 with the highest percentage of the vote in a statewide election in modern Indiana history. By the end of his second term Bayh had an approval rating of nearly 80 percent." Evan Bayh then successfully ran for United States Senator in 1998 and 2004. President Bill Clinton once said of the Senator that "I tell you that I hope and expect some day I'll be voting for Evan Bayh for President of the United States."
Senator Bayh currently serves on five Senate committees: Banking Housing and Urban Affairs, on which he is the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance; Armed Services; the Select Committee on Intelligence; the Special Committee on Aging; and the Small Business Committee. From the Senator's website it notes that "Bayh was born in Shirkieville, Indiana. He graduated with honors in business economics from Indiana University in 1978, and received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1981. After clerking for a federal court judge and entering private law practice in Indianapolis, he was elected Indiana¹s Secretary of State in 1986.
"Senator Bayh counts as his most important role and greatest responsibility a position he assumed in November 1995: proud father of twin sons Beau and Nicholas - a joy he shares daily with his wife, Susan."
Fatherhood is a very special issue to the Senator. He has said that "strong Hoosier families are one of Indiana's greatest assets. They play an integral role in continuing our tradition of shared values, raising children that will lead our state into future greatness. Yet in Indiana and across the nation, too many children are raised without fathers in their lives. This epidemic of fatherlessness threatens our children¹s futures and represents a decay in values that must be stopped by encouraging men to take responsibility for their children."

 

Saw him and heard him speak a couple of times on Fox. Seems like a conservative democrat. If he is that and more then half way clean, then I would give him my vote.

But Glaciermi, how is he going to get past Dean and the leftwing tilting primarys.

 

Don't think it's realistic to expect this guy to win the democratic nomination, he's too far right of the current base.

Is it just my imagination, or does it seem that the base of the democratic part is further left of center than the republican part is right of it? Seems to have moved that way in the past few years.

My ultimate nightm are is for the 2008 race to be Hillary Clinton vs. John Mc Cain. I think I'd have to vote Libertarian if that happened... heck I'd rahter vote Communist that vote for either of those two... I'd hate to live in a country run by either one of them, lol... maybe I'd just move to Canada until 2012.

 

I would vote for a democrat IF they can demonstrate they are fiscally conservative and strong on defense. Also, I would vote for a democrat if they supported legal reform (trail lawyers and lottery settlements) and put the interest of the United States FIRST ahead of the U.N. Last but not least, a strong commitment to border control is a MUST.

Notice I didn't bring up abortion? That is because it only effects a tiny percentage of the population and the only people that want this are ugly women that can't get dates anyway. So I look at that as a personal decision and that person has to live with it...as sad as it may be.

Unfortunately, the days of Truman and JFK are LONG GONE as this party dramatically shifted to the left after the 1968 democratic convention in Chicago. Unfortunately, they have been stuck on stupid ever since.

That's right...those same hippies that were getting the heads beat in by Chicago's finest eventually shaved their beards, took a bath, and made major in roads into college campuses and the mass media. This party has never looked back.

So there is still hope, but the far left and people like Dean and Polosi have no intention of remembering why this party was once great. I believe it will eventually come collasping down since today's democratic party are trying to silence decent democrats like Liberman, Evan Bayh, and Zell Miller.

 

Howard Dean is a leftwing nazi.
If I was his wife, I wouldn't go near the oven when he is in the kitchen.

 

Come on the Nazi Hitler comparisons have lost any and all power they once had. Strictly cliche (you can do better than that Andy).

 

Have heard it said that you can tell when rational debate has been concluded as soon as comparsions to Nazis and/or Hitler have been made, lol.

Besides I don't think it's a fair comparison. For all his faults Hitler managed of take a country mired in a severe financial depression, rebuilt the infrastructure, restored pride in the country, and made it a major financial and military power. As any historian will tell you, if Hitler died in 1936 he's be remembered as one of the greatest world leaders. It's only after he started eliminated Jews in specific and devastating Europe in general that his name became synonymous with evil.

I don't think you can say the same for Howard Dean, who can't even raise half the funds that the Republicans are, constantly says things on a near daily basis that would be blasted on the front page if a republican said the same thing, and has basically turned an already losing party into a complete joke. Maybe after the deomcrats lose a few more elections they'll realise they have to quit allowing Howard Dean and people like him to represent the image of the party.

Myabe in another 60 years, the name Howard Dean will be as synonymous with incompetence as Adolf Hitler is with evil.

Howard Dean is the democrats' Nixon... what the democrats need now is their version of Reagan. I think that's a fairer comparison than to Hitler.