The Michigan GOP may finally have hit bottom last week. It wasn’t one last act of outrageousness, but a move of a different sort: Terri Lynn Land dropped out of the Governor race, and endorsed Mike Bouchard.
The move certainly shocked some observers throughout the State, but to those who have been following her press trail [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Republican Party’
Game Changer
Posted in Elections, Politics, tagged Hoekstra, Mike Bouchard, Mike Cox, Republican Party, Terri Land on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The way things were
Posted in Communty, Republican Folly, tagged common good, culture war, Hoekstra, Republican Party on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Brooks’ essay this morning at The New York Times brings to mind a lost world of a generation ago. For him the Republican party has lost its way, has failed to learn the right lessons from the Western movie myth: it wasn’t the lone ranger that saves the day, but the community. Here is [...]
Why the silence?
Posted in Communty, Economy, tagged Brandon Dillon, Dave Hildenbrand, David La Grand, Hoekstra, Justin Amash, Kevin Green, Mike Cox, Republican Party, Terri Land, Tom Pearce on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Looking at the gathering Monday at the Wealthy Street Theatre, you couldn’t really blame Republicans for staying away. It was a meeting on foreclosure dominated by area activists, minorities and Democrats — not exactly the kind of crowd that even City GOP members hang with. Still ceding the issue, letting The Press editorialize [...]
Looking Ahead to the 86th
Posted in Elections, Politics, Republican Folly, tagged Jordan Bush, Justin Amash, MI-86, Republican Party on February 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dave Hildebrandt (MI-86) may still have a term left (and some mighty big decisions ahead of him), but that hasn’t stopped the speculation and positioning. Peter Bratt calls attention to one early entry: Jordan Bush, a lawyer and supporter of Rep. Justin Amash (MI-72). The Amash support clearly suggests that Bush will be running from [...]
Still Bill
Posted in Communty, tagged Bill Hardiman, David La Grand, Huckabee, race, Republican Party, Saul Anuzis, Vern Ehlers on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Better late to the party than never.
While the storm over Barack the Magic Negro has raged for over a week, our own state senator stayed quiet until the last day of the year. So there is a sort of gratitude that Sen. Bill Hardiman and the local GOP finally spoke out. Indeed they had to, [...]
What Has He Done?
Posted in Elections, Michigan, tagged Hoogendyk, Republican Party on October 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
That was the petulant cry of Jack Hoogendyk the other night in his debate with Sen. Carl Levin. And it didn’t get any better at the Detroit Economic Club. As the release of the Levin ad today demonstrates, Levin has done plenty.
But that’s not the point.
Hoogendyk represents the low [...]
Counting the Cost
Posted in Elections, Michigan, tagged Bruce Hawley, Dan Tietema, Hoogendyk, Republican Party, SH 75, SH-73 on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If the pictures over at Michigan Messenger are to be believed, it’s over. But what does this mean for local contests?
Well for one, there’s a fair amount of grief, even denial. Like Saul Anuzis said,
“This move leaves a tremendous hole in our ground campaign that we must now fill…I won’t sugar coat it; the [...]
True Religion
Posted in Economy, Michigan, tagged Birgit Klohs, Globalization, Herman Miller, Republican Party, Right Place, Right to work, West Michigan Regional Policy Conference on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mackinac on the Grand (our West Michigan Regional Policy Conference) opened with the official sermon from one Dr. Robert Genetski. As reported in The Press, he presented the old time religion: the problem Michigan is facing is due to no other reason than economic perfidy of Lansing, a failure to follow through on conservative [...]
Civil Rights of the 21st Century
Posted in Education, tagged Charter Schools, McCain, Republican Party on September 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In one of the clearer aspects of Senator McCain’s vague acceptance speech tonight, was the call for education as “the civil rights issue of this century.” And at the heart lay some important nostrums dear to conservative hearts. As he expressed it
When a public school fails to meet its obligations to students, parents [...]
