Or, they can hand the keys over to Mark Schauer and pray that he doesn't have some scheme to tax the daylights out of all of their assets.

It literally is their money (and election) to lose.

We've already seen what "principled" republicans have done with the budget (state and federal), Obamacare (including the upcoming Michigan Senate approval), illegal aliens, and a whole list of other issues you would've never dreamed to see the day.