Evan Bayh Gets Grilled On 'The View,' Is Told He 'Sounds Like Sarah Palin'

[democracy1st]

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Senator Evan Bayh talks about why he is not seeking a third term.


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Evan Bayh Gets Rough Treatment on 'The View'


Politicians frequently appear on national talk shows when they're running for office, but Sen. Evan Bayh, the retiring Democratic senator from Indiana, appeared on "The View" Monday to explain why he's not running for office later this year.

"I reached the conclusion that I could get more done for my country and for my state in the private sector," he told Barbara Walters. "Congress is so gridlocked these days. It's regrettable that with brain-dead ideology and strident partisanship, months go by and we don't get anything done."

If Bayh expected a softball interview after that, he was in for a shock.

"I hate to say it, but you sound like Sarah Palin right now," Joy Behar said, accusing the senator of quitting his job before his work was done.

"Do you want to look at my hand?" he joked, referring to the talking points Palin wrote on the palm of her hand when she appeared before the National Tea Party Convention earlier this month.

Elizabeth Hasselbeck, the conservative in the group, pounced on Bayh's remark about Palin. "You sit here and say, 'I'm sick of the partisanship,' yet you throw a cheap Sarah Palin joke in, so I don't really understand or believe you," Hasselbeck said. "I just think if you're going to participate in that, you can't be saying the other things. So I want to hold you accountable."

Bayh went on to explain that he is tired not only of the partisanship in Washington, but also of the spiraling federal deficits that Congress is running up.

"Why not quit during the Bush administration when the deficits went up?" Behar said. "Why quit now when we need you?"

After Bayh said that he was equally frustrated with the Bush administration's spending record, Whoopi Goldberg jumped in. "But you didn't leave. I think the leaving is the part that we're really having a hard time with," she said. "Sometimes when you're fighting the good fight, you're out there and you're going to get hit with the stuff. Why are you splitting?"

Bayh finally appealed to Goldberg, "You're going to get me in trouble with my wife if you're mad at me."


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[LiberalFighter]

1. How does Hasselbeck expect to hold Bayh accountable when he won't be an office holder?

[Divine Discontent]

22. better yet, how does Bye expect us to take him seriously when he says he can do more for his state

in the private sector - meaning corporate lobbyist securing millions - than he can in the senate? He said that with a straight face which shows he is AWESOME as a politician!

[Cha]

2. "Cheap palin joke"?..

How is stating a fact..a cheap joke? Is the mere mention of palin cheap bc there's nothing to her?

[hmorehead]

15. Absolutely: is there any kind of discripter more apt for any reference to Palin than "cheap"?

[mod mom]

3. he plans to continue fighting for the things he believes in-great, the corporations.

[DeSwiss]

4. What a POS....

...good riddance.

- K&R

[ChicagoSuz219]

5. Not a fan, but...

...I do think there's a difference between quitting & choosing not to run again. He, unlike Sarah, will finish out his term.

[HelenWheels]

9. But he quit at the last minute

and didn't leave enough time for another Dem to gather signatures to go after the office.

[hisownpetard]

6. Did she bowwow that necklace from Nancy Gwace?

[bc3000]

7. Wow! Hasselbeck made a great point!!!

I didn't see that coming.

[mfcorey1]

8. No she sounded like a fool

The person who made the Palin statement was Joy and Hasslebeck got it wrong like she always does. She was just trying to defend her mentor, Palin.

[HelenWheels]

10. What point was that?

Behar and Whoopi made good points, but Hasselbeck, I don't think so.

[Mithreal]

13. Thought so too, if you mean on the hypocrisy.

Whine about the partisanship and make jokes about Palin.

Bayh is an opportunist and this is his moment.

Palin was a Republican VP candidate who some think will run in 2012. How some DU'ers can think making fun of Palin is not partisan is particularly amusing. That The View folks also defended Bayh is pretty funny too.

[dbmk]

17. Only if bipartisanship means respecting morons. n/t

[emsimon33]

18. No she did not--she's an airhead *ss

[Mithreal]

11. Title deserves a K&R

:puke:

Quitter. Easy to see why Obama liked him so much. Unprincipled in happy face.

[hmorehead]

12. Do be fair, he DOES sound like a Palin who's been in the Senate forever.

[Mithreal]

14. He sounded fake.

[hmorehead]

16. He sounded like a future lobbiest. Maybe he's going to play the DA on a crime show.

[Crowman1979]

You know TV network journalism is an EPIC FAIL, when "The View" gives tougher questions...

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...than "Meet the Press", "Face the Nation", and "This Week".

[tomm2thumbs]

19. Bayh is one of the good ones

bwahahahahaha - okay, I couldn't even keep a straight face typing that.

[me b zola]

20. Yeah, good for nothing

...or good for the corporate world, for human beings, not so much.

[rpannier]

21. You mean they didn't fawn over Mr Moderate Bi-partisan

I thought that was the meme:
Evan Bayh, Lord of Bi Partisanship and Moderation, was tired of everyone being so mean and awful that he is not seeking another term.
That he is going out on his own and lead the country toward being more Bi-partisan and Moderate through his Moderate-Bipartisan work in the private sector

[dmr]

23. He sounded just as phony as he did during his announcement last week

He must have a list of points in his head that he feels he must say to sound credible, clever, endearing and smart. he just can't pull it off.

Yet, when he says them he sounds as phony as your two cents a dozen Republican feigning faux outrage on the Congressional floors.

Bad actor.

[greiner3]

24. palin and bayh in 2012?

He's nuts enough to say yes and power hungry enough to do it. The palin backers would see this as a way to win independents away from Obama. Plus, they would say there are now 2 'rouges' on the ticket.

[olegramps]

25. He is going to do wonders in the private sector.

Translation, "Man I can't pass up the offers that I have been made. I am going to be rich, rich, rich."

[spiritual_gunfighter]

26. Hasselbeck is so politically idiotic and uninformed

if she did any research on Bayh she would know that he has a lot in common with her.