Granted I'm more moderate and I think he has done an okay job over his career.

The problem in SW Michigan is that we just don't produce a good enough candidate to unseat him.

He has too much history and good will built up over his decades of serving his district. Hoogendyk is polarizing, even for Republicans in the district. They either love him or he rubs them the wrong way.

Hoogendyk has shown over his past few attempts at office that he is not a good fund raiser and it is going to take someone with a solid war chest to be able to combat Upton's media/ad blitz.

Hoogendyk can go around knocking on all the doors he wants, but it's just too high of a mountain to climb.