Michigan's favorite Democrat Bill Milliken makes his GOP "endorsement"
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T-Minus 1 day and counting. At this point just about every Republican in the State has made up his or her mind about who deserves that coveted vote at the ballot box tomorrow and the weekend was full of forecasts and predictions from the press, campaign stops and speeches about Michigan issues by Republicans and crickets chirping from the Democrats. And all of that will continue today.
Mitt Romney, John McCain and Mike Huckabee will be out and about asking for your vote again today and the MSM will keep calling you to ask who you've decided to vote for. Oh, right, and the Democrats will keep ignoring you, their own party members, undecided voters, young voters and struggling Michigan families because some fat-cat party bosses chomping on cigars in a cloak room on Capitol Hill told them to. Sorry, sometimes I forget about them.
Frankly, I'm starting to wonder if they really exist. I mean, Hillary Clinton, OK. I'll buy that. I remember her as the First Lady back in the 90s but this Barack Obama cat? I've been listening to the liberal media and as best as I can gather he's some sort of genetic experiment that came about when Al Gore invented a machine to mix the DNA of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Ghandi, FDR and the Hindu god Vishnu. Yes, he's THAT amazing.
Read on . . .
But I don't think he really exists. Hunger and the AIDS epidemic are still ravaging portions of the African continent and if there really was such a thing as a "Barack Obama" he'd have cleared those up by now.
Sorry. Bit of a tangent. Tuesday, tomorrow, election day in Michigan. There are a host of candidates who DO exist and they'll all be on the ballot. Now we know which way each candidate wants you to go. We know which way the nutjobs in the regressisphere claim they want you to go and now, thanks to the Detroit News we know which way the State's Democrat Party wants you to go.
Michigan's most famous Democrat governor, William Milliken, (I said what I meant and meant what I said) has made his endorsement in the Republican field and he hasn't been reading the kos-kiddies talking points.
"I was a great admirer of his father," Milliken said. "But Mitt Romney has been a disappointment to me because he has changed his socially responsible positions he took as governor of Massachusetts. I don't have the respect for him that I had for his father."
Milliken, who favors abortion rights, singled out Romney's conversion from pro-choice to pro-life.
Sen. McCain has demonstrated the quality of saying what he means and meaning what he says," said Milliken, 85, who also endorsed McCain in 2000 and dismayed GOP loyalists in 2004 by endorsing Democrat John Kerry over President Bush...
So he used to think it was ok to rip babies limb from limb but now he thinks that every life is worth protecting. Boy, Bill, I see what you mean. Romney's turned into a real Philistine.
For his part John McCain seems thrilled with the endorsement. Blech. But now what are Hillary Clinton's supporters going to do tomorrow? The extreme activist left is telling them that Hillary is safe and that they should go vote Romney because he's "beatable." Michigan's favorite Democrat and Patron Saint of Senility, Bill Milliken is now telling everyone to vote for John McCain! Maybe the Dems can have a conference call or something to get their story straight, settle on one piece of advice and then tell their members how exactly they want them to screw with the GOP primary.
Because I've gotta tell you, Mark Brewer, your team is sending mixed signals right now. Guess that's what happens when you've got too much time on your hands. But hey, maybe during the 2012 Dem Primary a few of your candidates will actually come to Michigan.
Funny, I thought it was McCain and Huckabee who had the habit of stabbing Republicans in the back.
McCain's list is long, starting with McCain-Feingold, on down to Shamensty.
Huckabee list is even longer, from pardons, tax hikes, from taking the furniture from the governor’s mansion.
A lot of people seem to dislike him because he seems phony, not because they expect him to follow through or not. Just the act of changing your position on a large list of issues is a turnoff for many people.
And I'm not sure I see hostility from the Left. They seem to want him to win the primary because they think they can beat him easily. Further, they seem to not respect him because they seem him as opportunistic. But I see a lot more hate for Rudy as the Authoritarian candidate and I expect there would be a lot of hate for Huck as the Religious Right candidate.
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Seems as though the Left wants a Romney win in Michigan so that way it would muddy the waters in the Republican race even more and require the candidates to spend more money going after each other, further draining their war chests.
"No matter how much lipstick you put on the taxation pig, it's still a pig... and it's currently snout-down in your wallet." - Michael Fisk
... that's as close to a party organ as it gets.
First it was Joe Lieberman who, love him as I do, voted against the ban on partial-birth abortion. Now it's a Democrat who doesn't like Mitt because he changed to pro-life? Yeah, looks like McCain will readily sell out to whatever pro-choice endorsement he can get in order to win Michigan.
As a pro-lifer, I just don't find that too appealing.
McCain is a bridge-burner for me. He makes me sick. He's definitely a candidate I'd only vote for in the general election, like a last ditch hope a la Bob Dole in 1996.
I've been perfectly content just lurking on this blog and others, but I felt compelled to register and comment when I saw this.
Bill Milliken is a good man and was a good Republican. Was he always right? Absolutely not. Do I agree with him on most things these days? No. But he's a good man that deserves the respect of everyone in Michigan, Republicans and Democrats alike.
Calling him a Democrat (he was elected governor three times as a Republican, remember), calling him senile, and putting him in the same boat as slime like Mark Brewer is just ridiculous.
How can you attack a man like Milliken? Was he a conservative in the mold of today's party? No. But for his time, he was a competent governor and was a devoted public servant.
It might be out of fashion these days, but I respect public service, especially service not blinded by ideology, on either side. Bill Milliken was a good Republican governor and is (and always was) a good man. I can't say it enough. You could learn a lot about service and patriotism from him.
... in his conversions and they - from the media to the grassroots - obviously hate him with the fire of a thousand suns. Their hostility doesn't make any sense unless they actually do believe he would stay faithful to his new positions on the Right once elected to office
A lot of conservatives, on the other hand, are convinced that he will get in and promptly stab them in the back.
Obviously, only one set of people can be right.