Whom do you think should be the primary challenger to Governor Snyder?

The trolls from those "other" sites can speculate to their hearts content until the fall.

In a way, it's kind of sad that it has come down to this.

It's sad that a person who prides himself of being data-driven, flat-out ignores the data right in front of his face about the economic viability of the program that he vigorously promotes as being some kind of benefit to Michigan.

That isn't an indication of someone who looks at facts. That is an indication of someone who leads by emotion.

As I've mentioned before, I've got front-row seats for what happens when you let feel-good emotions override common sense decision making.

It isn't going to be pretty when the end-result of that leadership style that finally happens.

I really hate to use that term too.  However, when Snyder refers to all those poor people sitting in the emergency rooms as being "working adults", it is as if to score the sympathies, and then permission to steal from others to provide their health care.  

The so-called 'progressives' use that emotional crap to forward THEIR agenda.  Its called socialism, and is theft.  

Any health professionals who sign on to those arguments need to ask why they bothered to get into the field in the first place.  If they feel it is the responsibility for society to take care of those who are the working poor, then they can observe their own social construct by providing all of that care for free.  They do not need anyone else, nor a hand in my pocket to help them do that.

And in regards to Snyder, I successfully engaged one of his insiders last week so that I could confirm my suspicions- or reorganize them.

Unfortunately, IMO, Nerdly will continue his course of death and destruction through the party-  not caring for a minute about the ramifications and/or damage done to the party that he had little use for prior to throwing his hat in the ring originally.

Snyder's office on Monday announced "A Conversation With the Governor," a series of informal discussions with various audiences across the state. The first-term Republican is expected to begin the series Tuesday in Grand Rapids, where he will discuss the "Healthy Michigan" initiative with Spectrum Health System employees and other stakeholders.

"The Healthy Michigan plan is vital to the health of our families and the economic success of our state. Unfortunately, Michigan now faces a sense of urgency to approve the plan in the light of the Senate's failure to vote before taking a summer vacation," Snyder said in a release announcing the talks.

But Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville declined to call an up-or-down vote in that chamber before lawmakers left town for summer break on Thursday, casting serious doubts about the fate of the expansion proposal. Richardville said caucus members need more time to consider the plan, noting that a House committee debated it for several weeks. He does not expect to convene another formal Senate session until late August.

Snyder, in an uncharacteristically charged Thursday afternoon press conference, called on Senate Republicans to "take a vote, not a vacation" and urged residents to "bug the living daylights" out of them. Waiting until the fall to consider the Medicaid expansion proposal would be unacceptable, he said, because of federal timelines for rollout.

This smacks of his campaign bus tour from last fall, which was for the specific purpose of defeating Proposals 12-5 and 12-6, though he was billing it as "one is yes, no on the rest" and couldn't even get 12-1 passed when the official canvass was done.

I don't think there's enough Syrup of Ipecac in this state to neutralize the poison that the Nerd King has introduced into the party brand.

• (46 ÷ 124 ≈ 37.10%) - Dave Agema
  
• (1 ÷ 124 ≈ 0.81%) - Saul Anuzis
  
• (16 ÷ 124 ≈ 12.90%) - Mike Bishop
  
• (6 ÷ 124 ≈ 4.84%) - Todd Courser
  
• (3 ÷ 124 ≈ 2.42%) - Mike Cox
  
• (9 ÷ 124 ≈ 7.26%) - Clark Durant
  
• (3 ÷ 124 ≈ 2.42%) - Jason Gillman
  
• (26 ÷ 124 ≈ 20.97%) - Gary Glenn
  
• (4 ÷ 124 ≈ 3.23%) - Pete Hoekstra
  
• (10 ÷ 124 ≈ 8.06%) - Bill Schuette

• the "inappropriate" line, though the largest plurality, was still a minority opinion (39% as of just before I'd called it a night)

• an overwhelming majority (58% as of just before I'd called it a night) wanted a primary challenge, but there was nothing even remotely resembling consensus as to whom that challenger ought to be