Word: bayh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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N.C.P.A.C. was responsible for a most ambitious crusade: it drew up a "hit list" of key Democratic liberal Senators, including Idaho's Frank Church, South Dakota's George McGovern, Indiana's Birch Bayh, Iowa's John Culver, California's Alan Cranston and Missouri's Thomas Eagleton. In the end, only Cranston and Eagleton managed to win. The New Right claims it helped defeat the other four, but the evidence is inconclusive...
...campaign wore on, most of the Republican candidates prudently distanced themselves from the New Right groups and some publicly denounced them. Says G.O.P. Congressman Dan Quayle, who defeated Birch Bayh in the Indiana race: "We did not want their help...
...successors are floating around Washington as thick and fast as the résumés of out-of-work Democrats. Supporters of Edward Kennedy and Walter Mondale, now the two most obvious contenders for the presidency in 1984, are eager to gain control of the D.N.C. Senator Birch Bayh and House Majority Whip John Brademas, both from Indiana and both defeated two weeks ago, are mentioned as Kennedy's favorites. Mondale is said to prefer Charles T. Manatt, head of the D.N.C. finance committee for the past two years. Robert Strauss, Carter's campaign chief...
...announcer tells the viewer that our weakened military is a direct manifestation of the votes cast by Frank Church in the Senate. Indiana commercials, later called "baloney ads," picture slices of baloney with multimillion dollar price tags on them, equalling the dollar count on deficit spending approved by Birch Bayh. The narrator says, "One very big slice of baloney is Birch Bayh telling us he's fighting inflation...
...post-election symposium held by ABC brought together three of the targeted senators, Bayh, Church and McGovern, with two of the most powerful rightist leaders in the country, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and Falwell, president of the Moral Majority. Bayh took the opportunity to charge the Moral Majority with publishing propaganda stating that Bayh endorsed homosexuality and medical experimentation on aborted fetuses. Falwell denied the accusation...