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It wasn't a political story so much as The Adoration of the Bayh Child with the three Magi all wrapped into one Politico national political correspondent by the name of Adam Wren, who's based in Indiana. His article on Friday was "Can a Democratic Dynasty Survive in This Red State?"The subtitle even casts young Bayh in the role of potential political savior for the Democrats: "A race for statewide office in Indiana could chart the way forward for national Democrats."This is a beatification of Bayh, a big bowl of fluff. It starts with a jog: "How else would a chiseled, 6’3 ex-Marine and ambitious Hoosier political scion celebrate but with some PT in the deep woods of southern Indiana?" And then we're told "as Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear — a fellow red-state Democrat with a family history in politics — recently said on his podcast, he cuts a figure like Captain America.”The fluff could be tolerable if there were some political substance to the coverage of Beau Bayh, grandson of Senator Birch Bayh and son of another senator from Indiana, Evan Bayh. Instead what is recorded from him is pretty much the empty platitudes you would expect from someone running for high school student body president.The reader is so besieged by hype-meister fluffery that it is hard to keep from bursting out laughing:
