Bye, Bayh: Was it something I said?
In an item here a week ago offering a sports guy's thoughts on the presidential "electability" talk, I said this about one of the early Democratic hopefuls: "On C-SPAN, I was watching Evan Bayh deliver a speech in Concord, N.H., in such a monotonous sing-song that I instantly decided the Indiana senator will be the first 2008 candidate to drop out."
Since the point of my item was that everybody who's thinking of running in 2008 should go ahead and run, I'm really sorry to be proven right about Bayh quite so soon.
This just in from the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana announced on Saturday he will not seek the presidency in 2008, saying he believes the odds of a successful run were too great to overcome."At the end of the day, I concluded that due to circumstances beyond our control the odds were longer than I felt I could responsibly pursue," Bayh said in a statement. "This path -- and these long odds -- would have required me to be essentially absent from the Senate for the next year instead of working to help the people of my state and the nation."
Zzzzzz.
I mean, Oh, that's a shame, he'd have been great.