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Someone posted on this board that they would vote for Evan Bayh for President should he run.
Evan Bayh was on Washington Journal on Tuesday, 11/13/2012 in a question and answer session that is 43 minutes long.
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Washington-Journal-for-Tuesday-November-13/10737435793/
I thought he was interesting and thought he might be a decent candidate for President in 2016 so did a bit of checking on him.
I found out he was totally for ObamaCare before he realized there was a 2.3% tax on medical device sales (comes because of not reading the HCA before voting?), so he wrote an article in the WSJ on it:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444620104578012281306687070.html
Another article states:
It seems that, since his departure from the public sector, Bayh has developed a powerful interest in a new public policy issue: the tax on medical devices in the Affordable Care Act. Did you know that this tax will harm medical innovation and push American jobs overseas, unless Congress acts to repeal it? Bayh finds all these arguments extremely compelling. (The Bloomberg View editorial page, which shares the same basic centrist orientation as Bayh did as a Senator, has pointed out before that none of these claims are remotely persuasive.)
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/evan-bayh-concerned-american-and-non-shill.html
He now works for the lobbying/law firm McGuire Woods, which has clients opposed to the tax. He’s being paid by both McGuire Woods and Apollo Global Management to act as a agent on their behalf.
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/01/mcguirewoods-adds-former-sen-evan-bayh.html
An article about Evan Bayh retiring from the Senate states:
Evan Bayh announced his retirement from the Senate two years ago, and sailed off into the sunset on a wave of paeans to his upstanding character and laments for his party. Bayh himself penned a lengthy, high-minded New York Times op-ed calling for all of us to come together for the national good. Truly, he was too good for politics. Then Bayh quietly slipped off to, as they say in Washington, “practice law.”
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So, what’s the difference between Evan Bayh and Mitt Romney? Nothing except one is a Democrat and the other a Republican. So I’ll just keep looking for a viable candidate for 2016. No time like the present to start looking.