Monday, February 15, 2010
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 11:02 AM
Whatever the reason(s) for which he is choosing not to run for re-election,
Evan Bayh's retirement instantly puts him in a position to challenge President Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2012 if the president continues his hard-left lurch by pushing Obamacare, cap-and-tax, and the makeover of the entire U.S. economy in the European mold. If Bayh uses his last year in office to stand for traditional Democratic policies, he becomes not only a prime contender to take on the president in the 2012 primaries, but, if he chooses not to run, an attractive replacement for Slow Joe Biden as a genuine "moderate" Democrat with distance from the fiascos of the first two years of the Obama Administration.
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