Evan Bayh is no stealth Republican

[Divine Discontent]

this certainly changed my opinion of him. Facts are a great thing. He's still not anywhere near my fave, but I won't be upset at all, now, if he's chosen.

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/05/evan-bayh-is-not-a-stealth-conservative.aspx

The powers that be seem to have decreed this Evan Bayh Week on the veep speculation front, and Nate Silver has a nice post (from which the above chart is drawn) questioning the conventional wisdom that Bayh is a Republican in a Democrat's clothing. As he puts it, "there is no senator more liberal than Bayh in any state more conservative than Indiana." This is somebody from a deep red state who has voted against extending the Bush tax cuts; against confirming John Bolton, John Roberts, and Sam Alito; against the gay marriage amendment; against cloture on cutting the estate tax; in favor of comprehensive immigration reform; in favor of S-CHIP expansion; in favor of stem-cell research; in favor of restrictions on detainee treatment; and in favor of the Iraq troop-withdrawal funding bill. He even opposed CAFTA. It's true that he sided with Republicans on tort reform, partial-birth abortion, and a flag-burning amendment, but do Democrats really want to be the kind of party that makes litmus tests out of those issues?



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[European Socialist]

1. He didn't think Bush's illegal domestic spying was a big deal...

That says it all for me. He's a poster boy for Repuke Lite.