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    Tag: Mitt Romney (page 2)

    Feet Meet Fire


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Thu Sep 27, 2012 at 09:28:08 AM EST
    Tags: Michigan, One-Term-Nerd, Rick Snyder, Republicans, Rinos, Mitt Romney, Obama, Hugo Chavez (all tags)

    One of the most disturbing things I have ever had to do in my life is pull the lever for Rick Snyder.

    Yeah, I know.  The bootlickers in Lansing are saying that "Gillman has turned RightMichigan.com into a hate Republican site, and right now we need all the help we can get! What is the matter with those guys, going on like that in the middle of the most important election of our time?!"

    Ok.

    I would agree that this is indeed the most election of our time.  Of our lives even, and quite possibly the most defining point we have had in the last century. This is ACTUALLY a LOVE the Republicans site. But its a little more like 'hard love', in the hope that the right decisions are made by those political adolescents that currently are in power .

    Anyhow, Rick Snyder is not running for anything right now.

    Yet he still needs to be held accountable for his actions. And even inaction. Given that Michigan started out the process of this election cycle as a slightly leaning Democrat (Obama) state, and now is considered (once again) a lost cause by the ongoing Republican presidential campaign, we should be a little concerned for the down tickets.  THIS will not help:

    "For the first time, the Governor, on the record, has confirmed he will not call out the president by name.

    MIRS asked, "You will say nothing negative about Barack Obama?"

    "No. I don't say negative things about people whenever I can help it," Snyder said.

    Excuse me, say what?

    Hedging bets? Trying to get him to capitulate on the bridge-trade pact? Is there a new Ardesta sales agreement with the feds for embryo oil?  Whats going on?

    Snyder, and those who support him are a disgrace to the Michigan Republican party.

    More below

    (2 comments, 639 words in story) Full Story

    Forgetting The Message


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Sun Sep 23, 2012 at 12:06:18 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Elections, Republicans, Pete Hoekstra, Mitt Romney, Stephen Markman, Colleen O'Brien, Democrats, Failure, Obama, Stabenow, Bridget McCormack, Celebrity Race, Michigan Supreme Court, Rule-Of-Law, Messaging, Black & White (all tags)

    Folks concerned about the sniping from within the Republican camp need to look at their candidates a little more closely from now on.

    First off, any conservative who thinks that we should do anything else but vote for Pete Hoekstra, and Mitt Romney is off their nut.  There are absolutely differences between those two and their opponents.  The damage brought about by twelve years of Debbie Stabenow type thinking in the US Senate, and a mere three and a half years of Barack Obama as commander in chief is Awesome. And not in a good way. Their mindset and ideals are incompatible with a Republican form of government guaranteed by Article 4, Section 4 of our constitution.

    Incompatible with a country ruled by law, not men.

    Today's paper highlighted however, the unfortunate condition of our candidates vying for those positions of such importance; President, US Senator, and Michigan Supreme Court.

    With the carefully placed articles in the local papers, we have a problem. Articles about how Romney is failing to Obama in 'key' states, and George Weeks inflating Pete Hoekstra's record so he could pop it like a balloon, to a Lessenberry column 'introducing' Bridget Mary McCormack's message to a state that doesn't know who she is:

    "Nor is she a traditional candidate. Most Supreme Court nominees have been former senators, governors, or appellate and circuit court judges. McCormack is a popular law professor at the University of Michigan and director of the school's legal clinics.

    "I have always been concerned with the legal profession's impact on real people," said McCormack, a young-looking 46-year-old who her law school dean described as having, besides an infectious grin, "an infectious commitment to her craft, a subtle, powerful mind (and), an astonishing work ethic." Not to mention, time management skills; she and her husband, White House senior counsel Steven Croley, have a commuter marriage and a "blended family" of four teenagers."

    Excuse me while I take over the cat's duties of leaving partially digested food on the floor for a moment.

    Not much of a soft sell eh?

    Never mind the fact that the left is would up like a nine day clock in support of her candidacy. she is ALL Hollywood folks. In fact they have already put out a viral video where the former cast of an NBC show (West Wing) is actually referring to McCormack as "Hot". By golly! If that is the best qualification for the Michigan Supreme Court? Then rule-of-law be damned.  Stake out the local "Toddlers & Tiaras" competitions for the next generations of our top legal referees!

    Continued below the fold

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    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    Is Mitt Romney Repeating Dick DeVos' Mistakes?


    By Conservative First, Section News
    Posted on Mon Sep 10, 2012 at 02:23:42 AM EST
    Tags: Mitt Romney, Jennifer Granholm, Barack Obama, Dick DeVos (all tags)

    This column by Nolan Finley of the Detroit News draws some uncomfortable parallels between the current presidential race and Michigan's 2006 gubernatorial race between Jennifer Granholm and Dick DeVos.

    Finley: Obama using Granholm's playbook

    In both races, there was a charismatic but incompetent democrat incumbent running against a Republican rich businessman challenger.  In both cases, the democrats blamed the preceding Republican for the poor state of the economy and claimed that it would otherwise be worse.  They attacked the Republican challengers for being rich and falsely claimed they outsourced jobs.

    Of course, there are some differences as well.  Romney has actually won an election before, and he has a much broader fundraising base.  2006 was an anti-republican wave, which 2012 shows no signs of being.

    The strategy of letting a bad economy sink an incumbent certainly can work.  But it can also fail if the incumbent is clever enough about blaming others for the economic problems and insisting that "it would have been worse otherwise" (which cannot be conclusively disproven, after all).

    (2 comments, 663 words in story) Full Story

    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.


    (11 comments, 1629 words in story) Full Story

    How To Replace Party Leadership


    By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
    Posted on Wed Jun 27, 2012 at 12:52:34 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan Banana Republican Party, Michigan "Dele-Gate" Fiasco, MIGOP Credentials Committee, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, MIGOP May 2012 State Convention, Anuzis Amendment to MIGOP Convention Rule # 9, Saul Anuzis, Dave Agema, Michigan's 11th Congressional District, Kerry Bentivolio, Nancy Cassis, write-in campaign, Michigan Tea Party Patriot Network, integrity argument, patronage system, equality of merit, cleaning out closets (all tags)

    I have more than once on this site cited a paraphrase of John F. Kennedy's warning:  Those who insist on making a peaceful takeover impossible will ultimately make a takeover by revolt inevitable, and perhaps even necessary.  Since we cannot seem to trust the blueblood elites in the establishment to get the message, let's go below the fold and discuss an idea to "grease the skids" for their removal from power.


    (3 comments, 383 words in story) Full Story

    CATO: Missed It By .. That .. Much


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Mon Jun 18, 2012 at 04:25:44 PM EST
    Tags: Rick Snyder, Obamacare Health Exchange, Anti-Right To Work, Will VETO R-T-W, DRIC-NITC, Public-Private Partnerships, Light Rail boondoggles, Central Planning, NAFTA Bridge, ChiComs, Massive Federal debt is not a factor, Foreign National Job Preference, H-1B Visas, EB-5 Citizenship, Tax Hiker, Wholesale Gas Tax, Registration Fees, Stem Cell Research, Government Funding, Green Subsidies, Cowardly with Detroits Financial Disaster, Progressives, Mitt Romney, Been there done that with Granholm, Transparency, Michigan Banana Republican Party, Health Care Compact, Joke is on The Taxpayer, TEA movement, I marked my 2010 ballot and all I got was Bigger Government and No R-T-W (all tags)

    Pay close attention, easily duped Governerd fanbots.

    Unfortunately, CATO pulled its punches on ObamneyCare much like have the goofy edge-nibbling Health Care Compact proponents.  The right way of addressing Federally administered RomneyCare for all?

    (272 words in story) Full Story

    Still hot on the Wayne County Jizya Trail


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Tue May 22, 2012 at 11:24:23 AM EST
    Tags: Turkia Awada Mullin, Patrick Mullin, Andrea Awada, Azzam Elder, Judge Charlene Elder, ACCESS, Muhammadanism, Litigation Jihad, Sharia Finance, Cultural Marxism, Jumana Judeh, Robert Ficano, Miriam Awada, Marianne Talon, Tim Taylor, The Ed McNamara Machine, Jeffery Collins, Jennifer Granholm, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle, Wayne County Business Development Corporation, John Rakolta Jr, AG Bill Shuette, Mitt Romney, SIOA, What's Woronchak protecting? (all tags)

    My hat is off to WXYZ and Heather Catallo.  Stay on 'em.

    (2 comments) Comments >>

    Michigan Republican Party Call To Convention


    By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
    Posted on Mon May 14, 2012 at 07:55:24 AM EST
    Tags: Michigan Republican State Convention, Presidential Primary, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Michigan's Republican National Committeeman, Saul Anuzis, Dave Agema, G. J. LaRouche, Michigan's Republican National Committeewoman, Holly Hughes, Terri Lynn Land, Michigan Banana Republican Party (all tags)

    Due to the short amount of time between the county and state conventions, information packets will NOT be mailed to state convention delegates.  PLEASE DISTRIBUTE all necessary information (forms provided) to convention delegates at your County Convention.  We will email convention information following the county conventions.

    Thus says the cover memo of the May 2012 Convention Packet e-mailed out from the Michigan Republican Party, back in March, to the County Chairs & Secretaries.  Of particular interest should be Enclosures 14, 15, and 16:

    • Call to the 2012 Congressional District Caucuses
    • Call to the 2012 Spring State Convention
    • Tentative State Convention Agenda

    Each is copied below.


    (6 comments, 1242 words in story) Full Story

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