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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

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    by Seth9 on Wed Sep 15, 2010 at 12:11:25 AM EST
    The stupidity of the open primary in Michigan has helped to give us to very unappealing candidates in the last two election cycles. First we got the "perfect" candidate in "moderate" John McCain. That worked out real well didn't it. Now the same stupid crap has given us another moderate that probably will get his lunch eaten. We need to stop worrying about attracting Independants and start worrying about getting Conservatives to the polls by stop letting the opposition make the determination of who we nominate for office. If you look at the every state that holds an open primary you will see that McCain won those states by Democrats crossing over and voting for the candidate that everyone with half a brain new would get his clock cleaned. And that was the Mr. Perfect John McAmnesty. The time is now to get rid of the current leadership in the State and National Republican parties or start a new Conservative party and let the "moderates" wither on the vine.

    1. The most moderate of the Republican candidates in the 2008 primary was Giuliani, not McCain. McCain also moved to the right during the campaign in order to secure the base of the party, which helped to turn Independents against him because the reasons Independents liked him in the first place was that he didn't pander to the base or the Republican establishment.

    2. McCain was old and running on political experience. So he chose Sarah Palin as a running mate. This made no sense, a common theme of what he did during his campaign.

    3. Obama energized the Democratic base in much the same way that Bush energized the Republican base. And 2008 was shaping to be a Democratic year anyway because the Republican party was at a low point in popularity at that point.

    4. Snyder is leading by 20 or so points in the polls. His candidacy is driven by moderates.

    I also dispute the fact that there is such a thing as an Independant. There are only those who take the easy route and don't have the guts to admit that they believe in one political philosophy or another.

    5. I am an Independent. I routinely disagree with the policy positions of both parties. For instance, my views on Obamacare are that it was a fiscally irresponsible, half-baked piece of legislation that makes insanely optimistic assumptions about the economy to make it seem fiscally acceptable. At the same time, if we weren't facing a huge fiscal mess of a deficit, then I wouldn't necessarily oppose a well-formed government-run health care option that competed with private health care providers because the health care industry is hopelessly corrupt. Another example would be that I oppose the Arizona immigration law, not because I don't think that we need to crack down on illegal immigration (we do), but because I am concerned with what will happen when we localize immigration issues. The Mexican border is highly unstable and thus demands a unified response from our government, and allowing each state to respond differently could have unforeseen effects. A more appropriate response would be to increase the number of federal immigration agents in the border region and begin to crack down on illegal immigration. And my views on abortion are lengthy, but generally annoy both parties.

    But then what the hell, they sold 53% of the public on the most radical, destructive and ill prepared individual to ever serve as POTUS.

    This is demagoguery. Obama is simply a mainstream Democrat taking office when we've either had a conservative president or Congress for all but two years since 1980. Also, your description sounds very much like Abraham Lincoln (2 years in Congress with a radical agenda who presided over a Civil War...just a thought).

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