Josh Marshall, TPM: "what most Democrats would like from Evan Bayh right now is for him to shut up"

[highplainsdem]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/11/buh-bye_1.php

Buh-Bye
Josh Marshall | November 3, 2010, 4:04AM

Whatever the merits of Evan Bayh's arguments (in an oped in Wednesday's Times), given that he walked away from a winnable Senate seat and held on to a $10 million war chest that other Dems could have put to good use, I think what most Democrats would like from Evan Bayh right now is for him to shut up.

It's really not about his analysis. He just walked off the field in the middle of the game. Who can respect that? He just has no standing to talk.

[Teaser]

1. I love how Bayh had this Op-Ed ready to go

what a prick.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Bayh is a self-serving asshole. He could be a repuke with those personality asseets!!!

[MBS]

3. his oped was despicable

and Teaser's observation that he had to have written it before the election made me hate the oped, and him, even more.
And, yeah, Josh is right: the fact that he held on to $10 million (for WHAT, I wonder. . ), rather than use it to help fellow Dems, tells me everything I need to know about the vileness of his character. He's the lowest of the low.

Oh, and his analysis was way off the mark, too.

Yes, shut up and go away. (But what worries me: what IS he going to do with that $10 million??????)

[RandySF]

4. Oh, Bayh

The guy to walked away from the Senate with $10 million in campaign/PAC that he did almost nothing with? He is persona-non-grata in my eyes.