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Tag: republican senate nominee

Why Is Stabenow The Worst Senator? Let's Count The Ways

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Tue Sep 18, 2012 at 07:21:37 AM EST
Tags: Pete Hoekstra, republican senate nominee, Debbie Stabenow, democrat senate incumbent, dangerously incompetent, meat puppet, do nothing, party-union line . . . every time, career politician, no budget Debbie, favors human sacrifice, amnesty for illegal immigrants, fairness doctrine, treats constituents like subjects, opposes affordable energy, UN Agenda 21, gun grabber, union shill, ObamaCare, anti-American socialist, thought police (all tags)

A website was recently launched, asking the question, "Why is Debbie Stabenow the Worst Senator?" Plenty of response to this, so I'm told, and many people voicing their opinion as to why, according to them, Debbie The Dangerously Incompetent needs to go (upward of 13,000 replies to date, if I'm informed correctly). Though I don't have that list handy, I did converse with a few Michigan tea partiers and review the responses on Pete Hoekstra's campaign FaceBook page. The distilled feedback that I have follows the break.

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Enough With The Circular Firing Squad Already!

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Fri Aug 17, 2012 at 02:39:33 PM EST
Tags: Pete Hoekstra, republican senate nominee, Paul Ryan, republican presumptive vice-presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, republican presumptive presidential nominee, disagree and commit (all tags)

It's been said often enough, and I believe it to be true, that in any given partisan election campaign, the real choice is frequently in the primaries. Once the general campaign is joined, we're stuck with whoever survives the primary campaign, like that or not. After the primary election results are certified to be so, our job at that point is to rally behind the nominee and do what we can to get them across the finish line in November; or, if our consciences cannot support that, then to at least do no harm. (Yes, there are exceptions, such as Roy Schmidt) but this is the general rule.

In Michigan's case, we have a Junior Senator who needs to be unseated, and we are one of the eleven "battleground" states in the contest to unseat the President (the others being: CO, FL, IA, NC, NH, NV, OH, PA, VA, & WI). Yet, judging by some of the posts and comments on this site and elsewhere in the week since the August primary, we seem to be more interested in undermining our own nominees than we do in taking down the incumbents. That's gotta stop.

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