Was I hallucinating? I just heard Sen. Evan Bayh refer to himself as a PROGRESSIVE

[bertman]

on the Ed Schultz show.

Did the Senator from Indiana have an overnight conversion??

[billybob537]

1. I think he meant REGRESIVE

He's one of the Dems that needs to be challenged in the primaries.

[Turbineguy]

2. It's all relative

Rush probably thinks of himself as a reasonable conservative.

[YOY]

3. Hey...he tried the PAC Man and now knows that only SOME video games are the end of civilization.

n.t.

[ShortnFiery]

4. OMG! He's a Blue Dog a.k.a. what we used to call "Moderate Republican" in the 1970s

:eyes:

[Occam Bandage]

5. Why not? It's a meaningless term, defined purely relatively.

Relative to Dick Lugar, he's a progressive. Relative to Dennis Kucinich, he isn't. Many people here seem to like to use the term however they see fit, so why shouldn't Bayh?

[AllentownJake]

6. Its a shame Bayh didn't turn out like his father

Sometimes apples fall off a tree and roll down a hill.

[Kalyke]

7. He is progressive...

for rural Indiana.

;)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Kinda like a Chihuahua calling itself a Rottweiler.

[bertman]

9. That's perfect, Tierra_y_Libertad.

[Individualist]

10. It's a DLC meme

They think if they try to pass themselves off as progressives, people are actually stupid enough to believe them.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

11. You probably did.

Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Insitute is a RW hack who is trying to rebrand what a "progressive" is to mean old school GOPer.

Bayh fits in puuuuurfectly with ol' Will's idea of a "progressive".

[anonymous171]

12. We need to define Progressive. Otherwise the DLC and blue dogs will ruin it,

just like they ruined the term "liberal."

[BuyingThyme]

13. He might be lobbying for Progressive Insurance.