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Hollies - Bus Stop Not the original music video. It remains the best love song ever made. Labels: embedded media, music I found This Sucks This Sucks source Rob Richochet pointed it out to me for the sake of the Wonder Woman animated DVD. Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Barack Obama, merely a politican Part III This is a compilation of Senator Obama being late to hearings and meetings that he is obligated to attend. It is, more specifically, a compilation of apologies. I normally demand apologies, but it would be better if this young turk would generate nothing to apologize for; too late! But as it is the young man who spent more time running for himself than serving others in his role in his elected seat has often generated the hubris to do his own thing rather than the country's then show up and inconvenience people. Of course this is the tendency of the politician and no sort of person above that! Labels: Barack Obama, embedded media, politics wow... almost a perfect series of loses! I hate 2008 The following is removed from my sidebar/template. CampaignsOnly Rick Jones won and that's really just an expectation, like gravity. Sadly Tim Walberg lost. I never cared about Joe Knollenberg except for the practicality of the matter. John McCain, "Nobama" was merely some weak half-leftist not-quite-my-guy alternative to the liberal fascist and while "voting against" is certainly a choice, it's not a basis for electoral Get-Out-The-Vote efforts, unfortunately. Jack Hoogendyk was 5% short of my hopes but I knew he would not win. Detroit awarded the statewide elections to the Democrats usually. This year we even saw Eaton County going to Obama, I think. How horrible. Was this a repudiation of the increasingly leftist Republican Party? Or is it merely a bunch of unionists migrating? Both proposals passed, despite that Proposal 1 was poorly worded and Proposal 2 opens the door to government-funded junk science. Perhaps I should have linked to MiCAUSE but it is so obvious that those stupid links did nothing to create more than a single vote and probably not even that. I would have voted for Proposal 1 if not for that last paragraph. Rick Jones' victory proves that the defeat of so many State Representatives or candidates for MI State House is not just a natural result of the Obama Wave, the phenomena of straight-ticket Democrat voting inspired by Democrat Barack Obama, but is in fact their own respective responsibilities. If a Republican lost a race he should have won, he can blame himself and his campaign. John McCain may have sabotaged Michigan's GOTV efforts by pulling out, but it is up to a candidate to win his race where possible, and Rick Jones proved that victory is not an impossibility just because your ticket headliner has lesser popularity. If you cannot carry your district because you relied on John McCain you are poor and do not deserve your seat unfortunately. I do not apply that to Tim Walberg. Yet ultimately the people of the 7th District slipped up and voted for the Fake Moderate. In the end Mark Schauer really is just another Liberal Fascist. Now why did Rick Jones win when others had lost? Ask the others why they lost. Rick Jones won by working for his seat. Could Tim Walberg have done something different and put in more to get a different result? I do not know. I hope he runs in 2010. Labels: Barack Obama, John McCain, Mark Schauer, Michigan, Michigan 7th District, politics, Presidential race, Republicans, Tim Walberg a look at the John McCain Michigan organization, a snapshot of January 2008 This could be educational. John McCain-Organization, MichiganMost of these folk were along for the ride because there is a certain amount of betting as to who would be the party's ultimate nominee and part of it is just the result of political alliances, or even a simple choice based on preference. I cannot imagine there is something wrong with that. Many were doing it to get it done or to have a place in the world, so to speak. Others were there because of whose posterior they grasped onto and remained onto. Looking at each name individually could yield those sorts of truths. Some I know have moved on and some people are in similar relationships now that they were in when that list was created. I ripped the list from this URL: http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/mccain/mccainorgmi.html I think it is extraordinarily fair to emphasize that this organization failed to provide positive results, given its only mission in the final race. It is even more fair to suggest that we were all betrayed by the John McCain national campaign, and the state organization took the biggest hit because of the national beast's overly-public withdrawal. Would anyone debate the fact that in the late spring the Republican National Committee and the John McCain national campaign put their collective iron boot down in Michigan's organizational structure for the 2008 campaign cycle and deliberately (if possibly foolishly) diverted certain amounts of control and power from the state Republican Party (MRP) and placed the resources, money, hiring authority in the paws of the McCain Michigan organization. Essentially they were treated as separate organizations, determined by political alliances and allegiances. There is no surprise that in the broadest sense those alliances are still alive, that in the broadest sense the McCain organization still exists today in a form similar to this, with membership similar to this, although not wholly identical, regardless of the lack of a Presidential race. Very simply put the differing alliances that often fell to Romney versus McCain or John Engler versus Chuck Yob still exist. I always suggest at every opportunity that such divisiveness may be destructive. Labels: John McCain, Michigan, politics, Presidential race, Republicans Ronald Weiser's biography from the US Embassy could be useful Rumor has it that Ronald Weiser is running to be the Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party. If that is God's honest truth then Torion Bridges has endorsed him for the position. It is purportedly no coincidence that the name on the side of state Party headquarters is the Secchia-Weiser Michigan Republican Center. The following biographical information has been ripped wholesale from the official website of the US Embassy in Slovakia. The significance of it all remains to be seen but I have my suspicions. Labels: Michigan, politics, Republicans Star Trek (2009) second official trailer Honestly this trailer reminds me that I don't truly know what to make of this movie, what with its retroactive continuity and all that. But I know and I have always known that I cannot wait to see this and it looks awesome! I wonder if this trailer includes spoilers. If it is true to the characters, however, then there are no spoilers. Manoman I love Star Trek. The official location for the second trailer is here. The site for the official trailers for the eleventh Star Trek movie is here. I do not have Quicktime on this computer anymore. I do not have iTunes yet again. I wonder if I should install the current versions. While I appreciate the total access the plugin allows to a multitude of internet media, I also appreciate and do not enjoy the system resources the programs automatically consume and I truly despise how they infest my system and do whatever they were programmed to do regardless of how much I desire they do only what I tell it and nothing further. In too many ways is this software like my government, as its makers think and desire what is best for my system and not leave the decisions to me. When I was young and able to sort out where my files and applications went quite deliberately with Windows 98 I looked forward to a future where I would have such freedoms without Norton Uninstall. I love Norton Uninstall. Unfortunately in this future I have no such libertarian control of property. I have no freedom to alter my file locations thanks to the even stricter controls of the operating systems of the future. Such are the steps towards LCARS, I suspect. That said, I am so attracted to the bright and shininess that is new Star Trek. I merely hope that there is no dark cynicism of the future: that is not becoming to the Wagon Train to the Stars. But I love the inclusion of that automobile! Labels: embedded media, movies, science fiction, Star Trek Monday, November 17, 2008
Barack Obama, merely a politican Part II Posted by Harvardlawgrad, his description: Barack Obama by his own words was raised and then received religious instruction in a racist and Marxist environment. Remember Obama was attracted to and joined Trinity United Church of Christ after reading their church bulletin that said, "A Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness." He has been taught his whole life, especially the last 20 years that America is racist and needs to be fundamentally changed. That's why he wouldn't wear the U.S. flag pin on his chest, that's why he wouldn't put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem, and that's why on the campaign trail he talks about fundamental change in this country. He wants to change the U.S. and make it a country compatible to what he learned from Jeremiah Wright, who was taught by Dr. James Cone, most notably in his book "Black Theology & Black Power" which talks of their god as being for blacks and against the white enemy.This is part of who he is; there was hype that he was "post-racial" as a candidate, yet that is hype and as a human being, let alone a politician he was particularly racial. I'm not saying that he is simply a "racist" although he may be or may not be. But he is a politician. Labels: Barack Obama, embedded media, politics, Presidential race Michigan's role in the 2008 election I have this American Spectator blog post in my recent web history, pointing out our own state's place in the national scene; the promise was that "Michigan will play a large role". The analysis was from back in January and I hope I can say honestly now, without a bit of hubris or prideful self-accreditation, let alone historical revisionism, that I saw it coming. "It" being that the notion that Michigan was vastly important is fodder. The reasons I was eventually right were different than I suspected they would. All along one must keep in mind preparation of the general election. Barack Obama had taken Michigan in vain in the Primary yet as predicted the greater populations in massive urban counties, as well as unionist and university-populated communities, swarmed to vote Democrat, as is the tradition in this state, rendering any idea that the Primary actions would inspire General reactions meaningless. Barack Obama would call all Michigan Democrats "Dog rapists" in January and the results would have been the same. I am not saying that people are "stupid" or "sheep". Barack Obama merely exists in November as the only viable choice to make a definitive statement against the Republican morass of the past eight years. That is to say when the Democrats will vote for their guy out of allegiance and the Moderates refuse to support even a Moderate Republican out of rebellion against the Republicans, it is unreasonable to assume that who the Democrat is even matters. When the Democrat in question has a historical skin color that compounds the problem. Anyone who predicted that Barack Obama's skin color would lead to America voting him down, even as an option, is a cynic who should be flogged then exiled, and I extend that prescription to those old farts sitting around Barnes & Noble. I am going to condemn Michigan Republican organizational problems on a different time, particularly as I learn about them, as doing so benefits me, and more relevantly, how a weekly column here on RightMichigan fits with that theme. How can we claim that what we do in January contributes to the Presidential election when the victor of the Michigan Presidential Primary ended up not being the Republican nominee; that Republican nominee counted not his time and experience in Michigan as any that developed his image or perception or persona in any amount that contributed to the Presidential race against the Democrat. Casting delegates to a candidate means something when somehow he racks up enough wins, states, that he becomes a nominee. Being a delegates then means something specific only when the Primaries were competitive enough to bring more than one potential candidate to Convention, but I am likely wrong on the point of being a delegate. It looks like fun after all, and that means something too. Fun is so rare in politics. Yet for all the years that John McCain invested in infrastructure and political alliances in Michigan, none of that stopped John McCain from withdrawing from Michigan in October, removing needed money, nor did that silence the public withdrawal announcements, which crippled our Get Out The Vote efforts, which could only contribute to the defeats of Congressmen Tim Walberg and Joe Knollenberg, as well as lowered the percentages of Jack Hoogendyk in his US Senate race against the Gargoyle Perched Atop the Cathedral of Bureaucracy. Moving the Primary forward to compete with Iowa and New Hampshire highlighted the point that it is stupid that those two states are always first in the Presidential Primary yet all this was an attempt to compete for attention with two older brothers that never lose. The Michigan Republicans lost delegates (I am sure they were restored, not that it was worth anything) and those who wished to ignore Michigan did ignore Michigan. The truth of the matter is that Michigan granted Mitt Romney his needed Primary First Win. New Hampshire gave it to John McCain and Iowa landed in the lap of Mike Huckabee. We could ask the question that if Mitt Romney was the Presidential nominee, or the Vice-Presidential nominee, would Michigan vote Republican on Election Day? If Mitt Romney was the Vice Presidential candidate would Michigan have been abandoned to unionists and Sleeping Judge advertisements? We really will never know. Part of the problem is that no matter how much of a son of George Romney the Massachusetts Governor was, so was Scott Romney and that did not help him with his smaller statewide race (if you cannot remember what is was or bother to look it up, I won't bother to share). All the energy of a Romney in Michigan did not matter for Huckabee and Fred Thompson in other states; John McCain eventually wore the Mormon down, caught up, took him out. The standard story is that Mitt Romney's religion was used as a weapon against him, the unpopularity compared to Mike Huckabee's pastoral status, and between Mike Huckabee's religious attacks and John McCain's status as elder statesman... I have spoken to a lot of people assume willful collusion between John McCain and Mike Huckabee against Mitt Romney. I wonder if Senator Sam Brownback's early attacks on Mitt Romney's views on abortion had any negative impact. I doubt anyone will ever know. I hate state Primaries like that because it seems like a domino effect of neglect and absence. Fred Thompson, for instance, picked to fight in Iowa and South Carolina. That was poor. If Fred Thompson might have made a better candidate for the actual post-Convention race, we will never know because he never tried to make the case with all gusto. Michigan did not contribute to that. A state does not make a difference in the term of all candidates if not all candidates choose to make a case there. That often leads to a bunch of disappointed supporters. Fred Thompson will survive that. Mike Huckabee campaigned here. He benefits too. Going back to the American Spectator view on our 2008 chances. It was just a January 5th view on a January Primary, but it was so far off it is ridiculous. John McCain won New Hampshire and Mitt Romney carried Michigan. Mitt Romney's name was alive for many weeks, yet he lost after a competitive Primary race. John McCain's name never really became the great champion among the Republican organizations in this state, I reckon, and his institutional supporters did not have enough clout in the national McCain campaign to prevent the organization's cutting and running, and "redeployment" of campaign employees to other states. It is probably just a crackpot conspiracy theory that Mitt Romney's victory in the Michigan Presidential Primary is a root cause of John McCain's withdrawal and eventual defeat for Michigan's Electoral Votes, but that theory is mine nonetheless. Cross-posted at RightMichigan.com Labels: John McCain, Michigan, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, politics, Presidential race, Republicans Barack Obama committed election fraud? If he did, he did it without suffering consequences. The frightening thing is that as President-elect there can be no justice either way. Calling him to take responsibility for all of this may damage the country yet letting it be establishes bad precedent. Labels: Barack Obama, Democrats, link dump, politics, Presidential race Thursday, November 13, 2008
the Doster GOTV e-mail Isn't this something for the history books? I found this to be particularly sad. 
Paid for by Eric Doster for Court of Appeals | P.O. Box 22037 | Lansing, MI 48909-2037 Labels: Michigan, politics, reprints, Republicans ACORN and Voter Fraud fun thanks to Michigan's AG I get these in an e-mail account I shouldn't. I delete them. I never read them. I need to unsubscribe. Funny thing - this is the first one I opened and looked at to my memory. God willed I looked at it. So I did. It is relevant to a point of study I'm involved in. So there: reprinted. Hopefully it will not happen again, but no promises.  Wednesday, November 12, 2008  WelcomeWelcome to the latest edition of my newsletter, the Mike Cox Report. Attorney General Mike Cox brought charges against an ACORN worker and two others for voter registration fraud, including the registration of a dead man. Following is a sampling of those stories, beginning with General Cox's interview with CNN's Lou Dobbs Lou Dobbs CNN interview on Voter Fraud and ACORN Attorney General Mike Cox took action against an ACORN worker and two others for voter registration fraud, including the registration of a dead man. Following is a sampling of those stories, beginning with General Cox's interview with CNN's Lou Dobbs. - Lou Dobbs Michigan Attorney General charges ACORN worker with forgeryTuesday, October 14, 2008 Michigan Atty. Gen. Mike Cox on Tuesday charged a former ACORN worker with forgery in connection with voter registration applications he submitted in the city of Jackson. Antonio Johnson, 23, a convicted felon who is currently being held in Jackson County on a parole violation, is charged with six counts of forging a public document and faces up to 14 years on each count, Cox said in a news release. Voter drive workers charged with using phony namesWednesday, October 29, 2008 GRAND RAPIDS -- A Grand Rapids man helping to register minority voters allegedly signed up his dead brother to try to meet a quota mandated by a Massachusetts-based community organizing group, authorities said. "This kind of criminal activity strikes at the heart of our electoral system," Cox said. "We are acting quickly to assure Michigan voters that they can trust in the integrity of the electoral process when they vote on election day." Cox said both suspects admitted their fraud to Grand Rapids police investigators. Each said the quotas drove their deceit, he said. Battling voter fraud protects democracyFrank Beckmann Battling voter fraud protects democracy Every voter in Michigan should be applauding the efforts of state officials to combat the apparent efforts to disenfranchise them in the Nov. 4 elections. Attorney General Mike Cox this week charged one man with six counts of forgery of a public document after the individual allegedly signed a half-dozen different voter registration forms. Don't let Blues sneak a bad deal past lawmakersThe election campaigns are almost over. You may be tempted to rejoice and start focusing on the holidays. But this year, what happens after the election in Lansing may be just as important. The Michigan Legislature is likely to return for a lame duck session, during which deals often are made with the hope that you are too busy to pay attention. This year, Blue Cross Blue Shield's controversial legislative proposal is on the agenda. The Blues plan will cause dramatic cost increases for health insurance and will end the oversight that helps protect your ability to afford health care. No wonder they're waiting until after the election. Taxpayers have extended special privileges to Blue Cross for years. Because of its mission as the "insurer of last resort," Blue Cross is exempt from paying state taxes -- saving the insurer at least $75 million each year. That money, which we could use for schools or road repair, has instead helped Blue Cross increase its surplus to an eye-popping $2.4 billion. Did your rates go down as a result of this surplus? No, but salaries of top insurance executives at Blue Cross did go up -- an astounding 42% between 2004-06. Guess who is not doing as well as those executives? You. A.G. to help pay for special prosecutorsOctober 17, 2008 12:26 pm TRAVERSE CITY -- Special state prosecutors will continue to handle local domestic violence cases for at least another year. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said his office will help pay for three special assistant attorney generals who handle nearly all domestic violence cases in nine northern Michigan counties. "We have a lot of faith in county prosecutor's offices, but anything we can do above and beyond we want to keep going," Cox spokesman John Selleck said. "This was a very important one." ClosingI hope you enjoyed this edition of the Mike Cox Report. Please feel free to distribute this to your friends and colleagues. Thank you Labels: Michigan, politics, reprints, Voter Fraud Squad Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Above all, Obama's a pol This opinion article by Michael Graham is presented as Part I of Barack Obama, Merely a Politician, a series meant to portray reality as contrary to the general assumptions of various citizens. The following is from the Boston Herald and is owned by Herald Media and is reprinted without written permission. Above all, Obama’s a pol  Photo by Tara Carvalho (file) Goodbye, Inauguration Day. Hello, Obama Day! That’s the hope of some Obama supporters in Kansas who are organizing “Yes We Can” rallies to “secure a national holiday in Obama’s honor,” according to the Topeka Capitol-Journal. They also plan to serve “Obama cake” at the local McDonald’s during the swearing-in. “Obama cake.” Goes great with Kool-Aid. Barack Obama may be the King of Cool, but his followers are afflicted with brain fever. Fans faint at his campaign events. Harvard academics want George Bush and Dick Cheney to resign immediately. His transition team co-chair told Tom Brokaw she wants President-elect Obama ready “to take power and begin to rule day one” (emphasis added). Folks, calm down. It’s a presidential election, not a regime change. Viewed as part of the American story of race relations, I agree that this year’s election is a moment of great history. But as an election, it was, well, just an election. Around 130 million voters turned out, or 61.2 percent of registered voters - 1 percent higher than 2004, but lower than in ’64 or ’68. The Republicans lost and the Democrats won. Unusual, yes. But given the terrible economy and an incumbent Republican with poll numbers slightly above Julio Lugo [stats]’s batting average, is anyone surprised? Meanwhile, Obama could only muster 52.6 percent of the vote, even after the Wall Street meltdown and outspending John McCain by $100 million in the last weeks of the campaign. A solid win, but hardly historic. We’ve managed to pick 42 presidents before (43 if you count Grover Cleveland twice) without declaring any holidays before they even took office. Let’s calm down. My mother-in-law, smitten with Obama fever, will have none of it. “This was more than an election,” she told me last weekend. “Obama’s going to change things. Really change things.” She could be right. Obama could be a transformational figure, a transcendent being, perhaps even (as his most fervent followers believe) a “light-bringer” who will change the entire world. I don’t know. What I do know is that Obama is a politician. He’s been one since at least 1996, when he knocked his own mentor off the ballot and took her state Senate seat. He’s a politician who voted “present” 130 times rather than vote “yes” or “no” on tough issues. He’s a politician who made Siamese twins of Bush and McCain, two pols at odds for eight years. And you know what President-elect Obama is going to do? Act like a politician, of course. And his supporters will be heartbroken. The “Obama Day” neophytes remind me of the naive dog lovers who voted to shut down greyhound racing here in Massachusetts. Now they’re stunned that the owners are just going to let the dogs race elsewhere. What did you expect? That the morning after Question 3 passed, dog lovers would descend on Wonderland, fling open the cages and cry “Be free!” as the dogs spent their remaining days frolicking on Revere Beach? These are elections. They don’t repeal the laws of supply and demand, or change the market values of our homes or - despite what our future first lady might say - heal our souls. Just ask the voters of Massachusetts who heard Deval Patrick say “Magic can happen here,” and elected him our governor. It’s been two years, and we’re still waiting for that “magic.” What we got instead was 2,000 new government employees, a $500 million tax hike and a busted budget. Our plans for “Deval Day” are temporarily on hold. Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1131476Bush Obama talks hit on auto industry aid, free trade /business/general/view.bg?articleid=1131647 Obama marks Veterans Day with wreath-laying Analysis: In the end, Bush the statesman emerges
Labels: Barack Obama, politics, reprints Barack Obama, merely a politican Part I One of the things I emphasize when describing Barack Obama to other people is not that his first political ally is an unrepentant former terrorist, or that he has made a routine about lying about past and present associations to maintain a particular image, or his history of infanticidal policy positions in his state legislative career, but that he is a politician. The real truth is that while people may seem him as this great figure or individual who is a post-political elected official, he is a human being much like any other man, and while among American Presidents are found great men, with human foibles and positive revolutionary activities both, no man is great with merely two or three years of US Senate history, with unremarkable legislative action. Barack Obama may become a great President, or he may fail to live up to the hype, but I promise you that he is just a politician now, and anyone who voted for him thinking they were voting for someone who is not a politician, are the people who disappoint me the most of all Americans. Naturally this is merely the introdution to my reprinting of this article here: Above all, Obama’s a pol By Michael Graham | Tuesday, November 11, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Op-Ed This will not occur in any chronological order as to events or even chronological order for articles published. We hope I maintain the discipline to continue this series on at least a bi-weekly basis. Labels: Barack Obama, politics some of these Canadians do not deserve the protection of the Veterans!!!!!! Mark Steyn writes about a ghastly horrible woman who uses the ceremony honoring the loss and sacrifice of heroes to put up her own tribute to so-called self-entitled (non-genuine) "Human Rights" neglecting to even mention for a microsecond, for a single phrase or sentence, these wonderful men and women who sacrificed themselves (in this case for Queen and Country)! Makes one hope that Jennifer Lynch finds herself on the wrong side of enemy lines at some point in her life. This is one of the signature techniques of the left: The co-option of historical memory. You still have the same outward dress - the cenotaph, the dignitaries, the poppies, the old stooped veterans - but the meaning of the event is hijacked and inverted. The contamination of Remembrance Day by this ghastly woman is disgusting even by her standards.She does not even get her own 'human rights' right. Labels: Canada, holidays, politics Veterans Day This year I will keep it short despite that the people this holiday commemorates deserves much more than I could muster to give. They deserve more time and energy than I could possibly muster. These warriors and others are such that sacrifice, one way or the other, to maintain and ensure our continued liberty in this country. Certainly those trained warriors who act not as warriors, are certainly necessary to this same effort. They are not to be taken for granted. When one is taking time away from the life one may have planned, one's home and/or one's family, or just inched themselves closer to death, floating or sitting closer to the enemy than the comfort and security of home. Of course due to the diligence of some of our armed forces it is not false to say that some of these far-off warlands are likely safer than Washington,DC or Detroit, MI. I blame the gun-control laws. In those places it is sanctioned to be prepared to fight back against savages and sinners. What is relevant now is that they work and fight to keep us safe, ready, and they are the enablers for what we enjoy now, whether it be decadent or just. Labels: holidays Thursday, November 06, 2008
It is my birthday; I am 27 years old Surprisingly I feel good. Physically I am healthier than I have been in a long while. I'm still smarter than I was a year ago. All benefits and virtues. (I wish I knew more people I could trust). Oh well. This song will serve as my Birthday anthem. Forget "Happy Birthday" as a song! Let's go with this! Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Voter Fraud in Pontiac, voter intimidatin in Philapelphia Leftists volunteer to intimidate voters.... in this case Black Panthers http://tinyurl.com/6qsfh7 or commit voter fraud http://tinyurl.com/5bryd8 with Bad voter applications in Pontiac. The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN's Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.Imagine that. Labels: politics, Voter Fraud Squad the simple Jack Hoogendyk endorsement I believe in Jack Hoogendyk. He is the only candidate I have ever contributed money to. It is not unfair to say that I have vested interest in his continued success. When there was a need for signatures to get State Representative Hoogendyk on the statewide ballot for US Senate I had to do that work. Representative Hoogendyk is the leader of the Center-Right Coalition in this state. His legislative work revolves and relies on a set of Core Principles, first principles that have been around before our conception of this state. Mr. Hoogendyk as a legislator has stood for and stood by various principles and policy ideas in a time when Democrats and leftists have the ruling vote in the Legislature and the Last Word in Government. He is a champion of home schools, and education in general and his son is being home-schooled. Jack Hoogendyk puts his money where his mouth is. The campaign finance laws that the Republican Presidential candidate has put forth in the past has in many ways crippled his quest for the Presidency, but more importantly crippled the campaign of Jack Hoogendyk. So the State Party cannot fight effectively for a Statewide Senate race in the same way it does for local races or a national race. I do not quite understand it myself. What I do understand is that Carl Levin is a Gargoyle on the Cathedral of Bureacracy and should be removed. He has been the US Senator for this state since before I was born, before almost any college student was born, and while he purportedly represents the state he has not had a home in this state for over a decade. In order to see his constituents he literally visits Michigan. Jack Hoogendyk makes his home in Kalamazoo. He travels to Lansing to do his work and then returns. It is a simple concept but I believe living up to it makes him a man better suited to represent us. Not to mention that for the past eight years we have seen... big government Republicans helping big government Democrats. In this climate we have two Big Government Spend-o-crats as our Senators. Should not one of them be one of half the political sorts in the country? Jack Hoogendyk is a daring character, willing to stand up to giants that people see as unbeatable. He would serve as a fine living counterpoint challenging Harry Reid on the Senate floor. The biggest reason any Republican or Conservative should have to support Jack Hoogendyk is that the State Party has no real faith in any man challenging Carl Levin. They have given up the ghost, surrendered the race. We need to bely the concerns of mere Party loyalties and Party lines and support a man who would run what is called an impossible race because he has the character to attempt to win, and the drive to come this close. He will bely their expectations so I think we, as voters, need to justify it. That may not sound like a logical, rational answer, but it works on a simple, single level: Jack Hoogendyk has character and the higher the vote count, the more likely this man will stay visible in Michigan Republican politics. If the man loses to the unstoppable juggernaut he needs a great showing, because we need him to be a great leader in the times to come! Labels: Jack Hoogendyk, Michigan, politics, Republicans Sunday, November 02, 2008
one thing the Republican voter has to compensate I received the following e-mail from McCain campaign team the other day: Dear Chris,My polling place is not in Potterville. They got it wrong by a great distance. I got a message from another that McCain team told him was his polling place was his old polling place. These sort of Get Out The Vote efforts/operations are a shambles. So here's what we do. Do your own homework. Leave early to vote, show up early, double check that you are at the right place and leave plenty of time to compensate. If you intend to vote for John McCain (or whomever, really), rely upon yourself and your own will. This is up to you more than any campaign. So vote. Don't rely on a campaign to give you your information. But vote. Labels: John McCain, politics, Presidential race, Republicans |
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