Ack! Evan Bayh says Nukular too!

[leftchick]

wtf is wrong with him? I am watching this jackass on wolf's show with Sen. Hagel. Bayh sounds more repuke than Hagel does and he says NukUlar just like the chimp! :argh:

[spanone]

1. I get NOTHING from this guy. He's republican-lite at best.

He's so middle-of-the-road he's non-existant.

[leftchick]

2. he is DLC

that explains a lot. He sounded right of Hagel! God, I am so sick of these so called Democrats.

[im10ashus]

5. He is thoroughly DLC now.

It is such a disappointment. Having grown up in Indiana, I had great hopes for him, but he has let me down. I met his father, Birch Bayh, when he was alive. A wonderful man. He even helped save Ted Kennedy by dragging Ted from a plane wreck. I cried when Quayle won the election for the Senate seat against Birch Bayh. Long may he rest.

[salin]

9. I don't think that Birch Bayh has died.

We lost a number of former democratic leaders from Indiana, including former senator Vance Hartke, in recent years, but I do not recall Birch Bayh being one of them.

[im10ashus]

10. You are right.

His first wife died. For some reason I was thinking it was he. Why do we never hear from him? He is only 78.

[salin]

11. to be sure I just did a news.google for him

and here is the first thing that came up: http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/news/article/0,1626,ECP_734_4520301,00.html

In March was trying to rally support in the senate for a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college.

I have always had much more support for Birch, than I have had for his son. The son is too formulaic (as in following some sort of "safe" formula on issues rather than being serious about understanding the ins and outs or positives vs negatives of various policies.)

[im10ashus]

14. Good for him.

He doesn't like the limelight but still is active. I admire that. He came to our neighborhood center when I was a teen and where my mother was the president of the board. He helped with a fundraiser to rebuild the center that burned to the ground. Evan could learn a thing or 20 from him.

[DefenseLawyer]

13. Birch Bayh is not dead

As far as I know, he's not even sick. Generalísimo Francisco Franco, on the other hand, is still dead.

[Warpy]

4. He's Repug

in Dem drag, one of the Eisenhower Repug types who left the party when they were disgusted by the Goldwater campaign and then by Nixon.

He talks like a conservative because he is a conservative.

[mandomom]

3. He does it purposely to connect with the Bush groupies.

Everything stupid is smart again.

[INdemo]

6. He is the Joe Lieberman of Indiana

[Obamanaut]

7. Many mainstream people use nukular, as well as joo-ler-ree

Some of the others that really bother me are ‘should of’ for ‘should have’, ‘ree-la-tor’ for ‘realtor’, ‘joo-ler-ree’ for ‘jewelry’. Prizes at Halloween for the ‘most original’ costume - doesn’t original imply the first of it’s kind, so how can one be more first of it’s kind than another first? I don’t think this battle will be won, even the battle for nuclear.


http://www.uwm.edu/~iverson/htmlfiles/nucprolif.htm

The New York Times, October 13, 2002
Confronting `NOO-kyuh-luhr' Proliferation
By JESSE SHEIDLOWER

<snip> Of the many language controversies that arouse passions, no other - not "hopefully," not the split infinitive, not "most unique" - seems to bother people as much as this. . . <more>

[flpoljunkie]

8. Evan Bayh, one of From's chosen DLC candidates* and honor co-chair of

the Committee to Liberate Iraq with Joe Lieberman.

*DLC's Al From listed "our candidates" for the 2008 nomination on a late October appearance on C-Span's Washington Journal. From's other chosen DLC candidates--Clinton, Vilsack, Warner and Bayh--in that order.

[nuxvomica]

12. Richard Clarke pronounces it that way, too

And it annoys the hell out of me when he does cuz he's a pretty smart guy. Everybody has a few failings but it's the totality of them that counts.