The Lonely Goatherd Blog And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats - Matthew 25:32
Up to the minute notes on the current state of free thinking and free living: Kentucky moonshine - original analysis and reporting from MoreThings, and all round pop culture museum of sight and sound - photo galleries, mp3 and video downloads.
Al Barger and MoreThings - getting people's goats since 1998.
Live free or die!
----
I wouldn't want to ask people to just give me money cause they like my website, but do please take a quick look at Barger's Boutique. You might find yourself a little something-something for 2 or 3 bucks that you just can't resist! Any of the round images you find around MoreThings will get you to an Amazon page to buy my stuff and help ol' Al keep the lights on.
Links
To explicitly state the obvious, these external links go to interesting and provocative websites, but they speak for themselves. I don't necessarily agree with anything they say - especially that no-goodnik Richard Marcus.
*************
All original content on MoreThings.com copyright 2008 Albert Barger or the respective authors
August 02, 2005
Evan Bayh gearing up for 2008 PAC reports are out now, and show Senator Evan Bayh right at the top of the money raising list for his upcoming presidential bid, raising $1.17 million in the first half of this year. The only Republican ahead of him seems to be Bill Frist, at $1.9 million. Bayh's well ahead of John Kerry or John Edwards, among others.
Evan's big competition, of course, is Hillary. She's raised some $10 million this year for her senate re-election campaign, but then she's going to need that.
Meanwhile, Bayh's still got $6.6 million leftover from his re-election campaign last year. It's not like he needed much big bucks to beat me or the hateful and hapless Republican like we were ugly red headed step children. Plus, this year he's raised some $725,004 for his next re-election campaign in 2010.
In Bayh's favor, note that his biggest chunk of reported contributions to his PAC, over $288,000, comes from our home state of Indiana. A couple of names jump out of this list. One is Herb Simon, a developer who seems to own about half of Indianapolis. His family appears to have coughed up some $15,000 during the first half of this year.
More interesting, Jeff Smulyan, the chairman of Emmis Corp has donated money and even use of a plane coming back from a fundraiser. Emmis owns, among other things, WIBC. This is the main big right wing talk radio station in Indianapolis, the principle Hoosier home for Rush Limbaugh. Then again, notice that Emmis is the publisher for Evan's book.
Bayh has spent some 11 grand this year on, as Drudge cheeses it up in his headline, a "Beverly Hills Speech Consultant." That's smart, cause speechifying is his weak suit. He's pretty good on, say, a Sunday talk show discussing foreign policy. He's intelligent, good looking, knows a lot of stuff, and keeps his emotions in check. He'll never, ever have a Howard Dean scream moment. He looks like at least some reasonable facsimile of a statesman.
He definitely has basic speaking talents to develop, but he's never really had to use them in Indiana. Calm, moderate types like Bayh don't tend to give the best rabble rousing stump speeches to start with. Plus, he's never had a real campaign where he's had to fend off a serious challenger. He barely showed up last year, and got away clean without any form of a debate. He's given a few basic speeches on the rubber chicken circuit, but his mettle as a campaigner hasn't yet been seriously tested. It will be.
