Evan Bayh was a guest on Fox News Sunday this morning and did something really unusual for a Democrat.

He made sense.

When asked about the Cheney debacle, he simply acknowledged that the Vice President's office could have handled it better, but that Democrats lose credibility when they make a mountain out of a mole hill. There are plenty of substantive issues that could benefit from public discussion.

Bayh is preparing for a presidential campaign, having raised 10 million dollars so far and visited 22 states in the past 12 months. Yet while he is what the party needs, he is not what the party wants. The most recent polls have him down at 3% support. That could change, but it seems unlikely, which is too bad, because there are a lot of people who are nominally Republican who could vote for a guy like Bayh.