Comments on Advance Indiana™: Dan Coats For U.S. Senate?

We need someone new in this and someone who is in ...

2010-02-05T09:51:51.230-05:00

We need someone new in this and someone who is in touch with Indiana. We need bold contrast between Evan Bayh and the GOP candidate.

Coats will not do the job because he and Bayh will be too busy debating who is less awful. Hoosiers need someone who is not blemished by DC and who can debate the issues. I believe Marlin Stutzman is that man.

Please check out http://goMarlin.com

Mike Kole, Don't you just love that? Here'...

2010-02-05T09:29:55.438-05:00

Mike Kole,

Don't you just love that? Here's my response to folks who take that approach:

Less awful is even worse. You vote for someone whom you place your trust in, and they go and crap all over everything they promised - and they continue doing everything that justified eliminating the last guy. In my lifetime, the Democrat/Republican Party (singular is intentional) has expanded the size and scope of the federal government by about 1000%, and spending has surpassed the expansion, even when you factor in inflation.

My conclusion is that if anyone wants smaller, limited, Constitutional government, you must commit yourselves to stop feeding the beast. Repeating the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result is insanity.

If you honestly want change, stop listening and responding. Instead, you must think and act. The difference between those two approaches is immeasurable.

My guy's less awful! My guy's less awful!

2010-02-05T08:49:26.171-05:00

My guy's less awful! My guy's less awful!

Tell me the last time Coats lived in Hoosierland.....

2010-02-04T13:51:35.932-05:00

Tell me the last time Coats lived in Hoosierland.....

Michael, Coats has spent the last decade working ...

2010-02-04T08:19:34.808-05:00

Michael,

Coats has spent the last decade working for big finance. He's now running for high office and is on the "A List" of the GOP insiders who participated in the Bush Administration travesty.

Those facts are undisputed. Yet you label it a "canard" that some of us are concerned that Coats will be representing special interests rather than the people of Indiana? Are you intentionally ignoring the facts? Maybe you just born with an inability to draw rational logic connections?

Shorebreak... do you believe that the Freemasons ...

2010-02-03T20:28:25.032-05:00

Shorebreak...

do you believe that the Freemasons run the world, too?

This whole canard about corporations run the world is really tiresome.

The choice is very simple re Coats vs Bayh.

One wants the govt to take over health care, the other doesnt.

One wants to raise taxes on average Americans, the other wants to cut them.

One wants to spend America into oblivion, the other doesnt.

One wants the government to take an active role in every sector of the economy, and the other wants less government.

There is no purity here. We have a choice between one or the other. That is all we have always had. And when America has chosen the latter, it and its people have done pretty well. When it has chosen the former... well... not so much.

I swear. Some of the postings on this site... from left to right... is downright goofy.

Conspirators behind every tree it seems. Who knew?

Thanks so much to AI for the information, and for ...

2010-02-03T19:25:53.702-05:00

Thanks so much to AI for the information, and for allowing all these insightful, caring comments. I so hope that TPTB will allow any third power candidates who qualify for the ballot, to be in the debates so that some of the truths expressed here, will be discussed before a large viewing audience.

Michael: Don't be so disingenuous. Reading yo...

2010-02-03T17:25:10.451-05:00

Michael:

Don't be so disingenuous. Reading your post one might get the impression that you believe if Bayh is a corporatist finance sellout, Coats cannot be.

Both are members of the globalist redemopublicratican elitists who have usurped our nation in order to serve the interests of global finance.

These folks and their associates have pulled the wool over American eyes for long enough. Send them both to Guantanamo with the rest of their kind and give me someone who places the United States, the Constitution, and the citizens in first place on every issue, every time, and in every place.

They are complaining about Coats being a lobbyist....

2010-02-03T15:54:49.500-05:00

They are complaining about Coats being a lobbyist. That is rich. Where do they think Bayh's warche$t came from ????

I'm thinking we have a real hit here. A "...

2010-02-03T14:54:29.511-05:00

I'm thinking we have a real hit here. A "made" guy. An insider's insider. Someone who worked in Europe to roll out Bush's exciting and successful policies - such as harmonizing US economic policy with the EU maybe? And someone who has big finance's ear - yes, the same big finance who has profitted to the tune of trillions from their good buddy Obama.

Overall, Coats seems like an excellent choice for Indiana. I'm certain that he'll enable our global businesses to increase their bottom lines, despite the continued decrease in jobs and currency valuation.

Yes, the growing pains of an increasingly globalized economy will be felt in our homes and in our communities, but with folks like Dan Coats at the helm, we can be certain that the bottom line for those who are "too big to fail" will be preserved in the months and years ahead.

"Dan Coats is a Washington lobbyist for the b...

2010-02-03T14:20:00.079-05:00

"Dan Coats is a Washington lobbyist for the banking industry, who lives inside the beltway, and is registered to vote on the east coast. Sounds like a great candidate for the heartland. Was Jack Abramoff not available?"

This will be a very competitive race. Neither can...

2010-02-03T14:11:15.957-05:00

This will be a very competitive race. Neither candidate will inspire much passion. Bayh's ties to Big Healthcare are going to hurt him. Coats will have to convince Hoosiers why we should rehire him after a decade as a lobbyist for Big Corporate.

What the hell is an Indianan? The Democratic Sena...

2010-02-03T13:43:23.830-05:00

What the hell is an Indianan? The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sure knows a thing or two about this state!

And the bank bailouts that the DSCC complains abou...

2010-02-03T11:42:58.062-05:00

And the bank bailouts that the DSCC complains about?...

BAYH VOTED FOR THEM!!!!

lol

Game over. Evan is toast. "If I had been in...

2010-02-03T11:28:19.856-05:00

Game over. Evan is toast.

"If I had been in the Senate, I would not have voted 3 times in one month for Harry Reid Care, like Evan Bayh did.

I would not have voted 2 times for raising the debt ceiling by 2 trillion dollars, like Evan Bayh did.

I would not have voted to waste 1 trillion dollars in useless stimulus spending like Evan Bayh did.

I would not have approved 9000 earmarks like Evan Bayh did.

I would not have voted to cut Medicare by 500 billion dollars like Evan Bayh did.

I would not have voted to increase health insurance premiums like Evan Bayh did.

I would not have voted to increase taxes on the middle class like Evan Bayh did."

etc etc etc

If "DC lobbyist" is all they have on Coats, they know that they are in trouble. Coats has much more gravitas and stature than Evan has. He will match him dollar for dollar and then some.

When a two term incumbent is polling 45%, he is dead man walking. He wont get many more votes than that.

Recruiting Coats is huge. Sen Cornyn is nails. Look for Thompson to challenge Feingold, and maybe Rossi to take on Murray. Dont count out a couple big names in NY and Vermont. Even Schumer's JA is under 50%.

Dems may only win 4 Senate races on November 2. LOL

At lest with Coats, we would have a senator who a...

2010-02-03T10:26:55.624-05:00

At lest with Coats, we would have a senator who admitted to being a Republican. Evan Bayh is a conservative republican but pretends to be a Democrat.....Let's just leave the seat empty and save the money.

Dan Coats? Trying to re-enter Indiana politics? Y...

2010-02-03T09:42:18.622-05:00

Dan Coats? Trying to re-enter Indiana politics?

You've got to be kidding!

Who remembers a single thing he did as senator (or as ambassador to Germany, for that matter!).

What a crisis of imagination among Republicans. No credible candidate for Brizzi's job, no credible candidate for Buyer's job, no credible candidate for Indy mayor....