The mainstream media and the democrats are having a field day with Dan Coats’ announcement he’s testing the waters for a run against Evan Bayh. The tea party types are pissed off and they’re expressing it. Conservative politicos are also angry, but afraid to say anything.

Mr. Coats has spent the last decade as a special interest lobbyist in Washington, D.C. He’s registered to vote there, not in Indiana. And now the RNC & NRSC are attempting to shove him down our throats. They’re even paying $2 a signature for petitioners to get Coats on ballot. I hope one of them come knocking on my door.

While Coats served us well during his time in the house, IMHO, he’s not the guy we need to take on Evan Bayh.

Scott Fluhr at Hoosier Pundit pretty well summed it up when it comes to the Tea Party sentiment:

I am not sure how somebody that is a lobbyist for a bank that got TARP money (that’s three strikes against in one in the eyes of the Tea Party folks) is going to “tap into the Tea Party energy and immediately draw close to Bayh.”

Coats may have some appeal to them that I haven’t seen yet; it’s still early.

Tea Parties are all about citizens taking back their government. How does Dan Coats fit into that framework?

And now we bring you, turd sandwich via South Park.

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