Reading this AP article on Evan Bayh's announcement that he won't seek the Dem presidential nomination because he's concluded the odds are too long, I kept searching for the predictable labeling reference. And sure enough it came:
"Bayh has charted a centrist's course throughout his political career."
That sent me scurrying to a favorite source, Project Vote Smart, to check Bayh's ratings from various interest groups. Yes, he's probably less liberal than, say, Barbara Boxer. But check out some of his ratings:
- NARAL, 2005 - 100%
- National Right-to-Life Committee, 2001-02 - 0%
- National Taxpayers Union, 2005 - 12%
- Americans for Tax Reform, 2006 - 10%
- NAACP, 2005 - 100%
- Concerned Women for America, 2005-06, 11%
- Children's Defense Fund, 2005 - 100%
- Family Research Council 2004 - 0%
- NOW, 2005 - 100%
- Gun Owners of America, 2005 - 0%
- NRA, lifetime rating - D-
- Association of American Immigration Lawyers, 2006 - 88%
- Federation for Immigration Reform, 2005 - 0%
- AFL-CIO, 2001 - 100%
- Americans for Democratic Action, 2005 - 95%
Now try to imagine a Republican with mirror-image ratings. Odds the Associated Press would call label such a person "centrist"? 0%.
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A.P. is a bogus out-fit....wh
December 16, 2006 - 14:22 ET by bigtimerA.P. is a bogus out-fit....who really listens anymore that has a computer, only those that want to believe their lying tripe with an agenda...and the leftist msm with the same agenda...lol! Anyone that is really interested just has to look up his record, or watch the Senate and their votes if able to.
Can't change it for now, so we must fight it!
Btw...Bayh must be setting himself up for VP choice with money and the southern votes. He will be running for Prez in '12, unless Shrillary has something on him....hehehee...
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Just like I posted last nig
December 16, 2006 - 15:15 ET by John in CAJust like I posted last night in the Open Thread - One less phony centrist. How far left would a candidate have to be for the driveby media to put a liberal label on someone? If they can't label John F'ing Kerry a liberal, with his lifetime ACU of <10 a liberal, they can't label anyone a liberal. And they won't if they can get by with it.
Give a Democrat Party free America a chance!
Phony Centrist
December 16, 2006 - 15:36 ET by BlondeJohn,
If I may amend your basic premise - One less phony centrist.
Bayh is now one less phony minor centrist, who was knocked out of the running by the rock star phony centrist Obama. Two big name phony centrists - Her Royal Clinton and B. Hussein Obama, is just too much competition for the phony centrist position.
It's like a popularity contest amongst a bunch of teenaged girls....they all aspire to be something they're not, to gain the attention of the rest of the kids.
Really sad....because when their true colors shine through....it's usually gets really ugly, which this democrat race surely will.
Blonde, concur. Give a Dem
December 16, 2006 - 15:41 ET by John in CABlonde, concur.
Give a Democrat Party free America a chance!
Right, Blonde--(Go gators! by
December 17, 2006 - 07:25 ET by Andrew H.Right, Blonde--(Go gators! by the way)--and when their records are put out, we'll be accused of attack ads--while their minions will look for anything sex related regarding the GOP candidates...
Liberalism is a convenient lie.
A centrist in the eyes of t
December 16, 2006 - 15:48 ET by tnculpA centrist in the eyes of the MSM is a politician who goes about their life in virtual obscurity, or one that is not a Conservative.
And now the news that John
December 16, 2006 - 15:51 ET by John in CAAnd now the news that John Breck Boy Edwards is running in '08. Another phony centrist.
As my Uncle Bud would say, "Oh, good. He's a known loser."
Give a Democrat Party free America a chance!
Another Phony Centrist
December 16, 2006 - 16:00 ET by BlondeJohn,
As we agreed, the "centrist" position is becoming rather crowded.
Since we have the Saving Private Ryan thread going....who's gonna go left, who's gonna go left? (Captain Miller to his men as they prepare to storm the machine gun nest).
One of these dems will try the leftist road....a la Howard Dean the last time around, but who is it going to be? Mister Internet Global Warmer, the Frenchman, or the Plaigerist?
Oh, no. Mr. Plagiarist, Slo
December 16, 2006 - 16:11 ET by John in CAOh, no. Mr. Plagiarist, Slow Joe Biden is another phony centrist. Hell, they'll probably even try to sell him as a moderate conservative. But above all, he's a foreign policy guru. At least in his own addled mind he is...
Give a Democrat Party free America a chance!
Kudos, John.And thanks. I k
December 16, 2006 - 16:20 ET by BlondeKudos, John.
And thanks. I knew I had that misspelled, but it's Saturday, and I'm in lazy mode.
Biden as a moderate conservative? Moderate idiot, maybe.
That center is surely becoming crowded.
Slow Joe Biden's ACU ratin
December 16, 2006 - 16:16 ET by John in CASlow Joe Biden's ACU ratings - 2005: 8; Lifetime: 14
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In the MSM playbook all Dem
December 16, 2006 - 19:12 ET by zhombreIn the MSM playbook all Democrats are centrist except possibly the garden gnome Kucinich, and all Republicans are far right except for the few brave independent ones who oppose Bush and hence are centrists.
zhombre, you nailed that on
December 16, 2006 - 20:01 ET by John in CAzhombre, you nailed that one.
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I'm from Indiana
December 16, 2006 - 22:00 ET by guefyBayh's out of the race now. Maybe now he can go back to the center now that he's not trying to kiss up to CA and NY. BTW, thanks Evan for wasting our big surplus while you were Gov.
Bayh--you won't win the democ
December 17, 2006 - 08:00 ET by Andrew H.Bayh--you wouldn't have won the democrat nod--and if by some kind of weird science you did, you'll lose the general election.
Liberalism is a convenient lie.
A.P.
December 17, 2006 - 10:42 ET by iveseenitallThe A.P. is just another propaganda outlet for the left. According to them, Hillary, Edwards, Biden, Obama,and Kerry are all "centrists". And why do they keep running the ad for that bridge in Brooklyn? No one's biting.
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