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Posted at 8:23am on Jun. 2, 2008 Michigan only gets 50% of a vote but we may still get 100% of the shaft!

By RightMichigan.com

Big weekend in Michigan Presidential politics followed by a big week in Michigan politics period.  Of course the story on everyone's mind Saturday and Sunday was the DNC's decision to seat Michigan's convention delegates after stripping them of half their voting power.  It was a move that had Obama's folks pleased as punch and Hillary Clinton's supporters seeing red.  Seriously.  Talk about being treated like second class citizens.  

Although hey, on the bright side, at least there's only one of us named Kwame Kilpatrick because the motor city's mayor, a super delegate and Barack supporter is still being completely ignored by the Obama camp, a decision becoming more and more obvious with every visit the candidate makes to Michigan.  Which is two, by the way.  Two visits in the last year if you count the Oakland County stop he's got planned this week.  Two.  But I digress.  The Lansing State Journal reports:


Obama could use the mayor's enthusiastic support in Detroit, a city of 900,000 where blacks make up more than 80 percent of the city's residents and nearly always vote Democratic.

Kilpatrick's get-out-the-vote operation in Detroit could be key in a hotly competitive state that doesn't know Obama that well, thanks to an agreement by the Democratic candidates not to campaign for the primary.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 8:21am on May 22, 2008 MORE Dem in-fighting? It's a beautiful sight... except for that whole disenfranchisement thing

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

We're all involved in politics because we care.  We care about issues, we care about debates... we care about people.  And most readers of this particular site are involved because that love for people leads them to a certain philosophy that's almost universally at odds with the personalities and philosophy of the American left.  So we jump into the fight.  We argue, we debate and we wage a war of ideas to try to hold that liberal philosophy at bay.

That can be a tough job here in Michigan.  We're a state that's grown bluer and bluer in recent years.  And lets be honest... historically the Democrats have been better organized than we are in Michigan.  They've got the unions and enough xenophobia, scare tactics and class, race and gender warfare cards up their sleeves to keep certain voting blocks firmly in their camp.  So it's always nice when we get a little bit of help battling the left.  Especially when that help comes from... the left?

Something must be in the non-diverted water these days because Michigan Democrats are at each other's throats this week.  Yesterday we heard the first shot fired when 7th Congressional District Dem candidate Sharon Renier officially challenged a few hundred of Dem front-runner Mark Schauer's petition signatures.  Not enough to get him kicked off the ballot but enough to send a signal.  She's in this race, she doesn't like the glass ceiling the 7th District Dems built into the race to keep women down and she's going to fight tooth and nail to smash it.

And this morning the good news just keeps coming.  The Associated Press reports that the 13th Congressional District Democrat primary might just see a seated incumbent Congresswoman bumped out of Washington DC because she screwed up her petitions.


Former state Rep. Mary Waters has challenged the petition signatures collected by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, who is seeking re-election in the 13th Congressional District.

Waters filed the formal challenge Tuesday with the Wayne County Clerk's office. She also is contesting the signatures of state Sen. Martha Scott, another congressional candidate in the August primary.

State law requires 1,000 valid signatures to place a candidate's name on the ballot.

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Posted at 8:17am on Apr. 10, 2008 Losing credibility much?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

The MSM has just discovered what we've known for months now here in the real world.  The way the Democrats are behaving in Michigan lately is A) not so good and B) could cost them at the polls in November.  For Pete's sake, a recent Rasmussen poll put Republican John McCain ahead of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama here in the Wolverine State, a State that hasn't gone red since 1988.  That's 20 years.  That's longer than a good portion of Right Michigan readers have even been alive.  

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Posted at 8:29am on Apr. 4, 2008 Welcome to the Michigan Democrat Party-- Please leave your principles at the door

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton gave up on Michigan about three-hundred days ago.  The Michigan House Democrats gave up on Michigan when they went on a two-week Easter vacation back on March 20th, walking off the job with only a few calendar days left to get something done to avoid the disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of Michigan voters.

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Posted at 9:46am on Apr. 3, 2008 And they wonder why their numbers are slipping in Michigan?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

What's a brother got to do to get a little love around here?  And no, that's not a Tom Athans joke.  I'm talking about Michigan, the Democrat National Committee, the two kids they have pulling hair and name calling in their primary contests and their chairman, Howard Dean.  

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Posted at 9:36am on Feb. 14, 2008 It's Valentine's Day and love is in the air... well, something is anyways

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Today's Valentine's Day.  It's a day for candy hearts and chocolates and elementary school parties and notes passed between kids and cupid and arrows and romance and all that stuff.  And yeah, it's about commercialization and greeting cards and a cheapening of high concepts but only if you're predisposed to hate holidays, are chronically and painfully single or just plain ornery.

Because mostly what Valentine's Day is about is love.  Awwwww.  So in that spirit today there are a few news stories worth noting and I want to approach them from a different angle.  No anger, no conflict, no gasps or sighs and absolutely no sarcasm or cynicism.  (Right.)  Instead, lets talk about love.  

The way I love, for instance, the coverage of Barack Hussein Obama's latest campaign stop in the Detroit News.  Were one to read only the article's header and opening line one might conclude that the man has decided Michigan votes are worth chasing after all and that he'd finally violated his own insipid pledge never to step foot here... "Obama woos autoworkers" proclaims the headline in big bold print.  "Sen. Barack Obama took a significant step Wednesday to reassure manufacturing-minded Michigan Democrats, choosing General Motors Corp.'s oldest production plant to outline an economic agenda that includes aid to the auto industry."

Well finally.  That's awesome!  Except, wait.  GM's oldest production plant apparently isn't in Michigan.  The story's byline tells us that Janesville, WI is where this all went down.  I love bylines.  But they just sort of blend in, you know?  Most folks, if I had to guess, read them and they don't even register.  Readers are anxious to get to the story to find out what's happening.  Not to see if the reporter bothered to note his geographic location after his name.  It isn't until the end of the fourth graph that we realize Obama's wonderful pro-Michigan conversion was nothing but a mirage.  He was in the home of cheese.  Not Wolverines.  If only the guy loved Michigan as much as the rest of us. Or even pretended.

But no, Obama is consistent when it comes to his disdain for Michigan and her voters.  Just a shame the man that sends a warm shiver up the inside of Chris Matthew's legs (dare I say it? Could it be... true love?) isn't consistent with his tone and policy positions.  For a guy the MSM is hailing as the savior of modern politics and a candidate above the typical political fray Obama's flip flopping position on the domestic auto industry smacks, sadly, of the same old politics.  


Flanked by examples of the same kinds of low-mileage SUVs that he's criticized in the past, Obama vowed to help the domestic auto industry to a more fuel-efficient future...

Obama's words were significantly different than those of nine months ago. In a speech to the Detroit Economic Club, the Illinois senator aimed at the Big Three in a way that many state Democrats considered unfair and damaging.

"The auto industry is on a path that is unacceptable and unsustainable," Obama said in May. "For too long, we've been either too afraid to ask our automakers to meet higher fuel standards or unwilling to help them do it."

The words stung, and Obama has repeated them often in his drive for the Democratic presidential nomination. In television ads, debates and at campaign rallies, the speech has become a centerpiece of Obama's political identity: that of a new kind of politician, willing to tell uncomfortable truths to unfriendly audiences.

Emphasis mine.

I love it when candidates tell the truth to unfriendly audiences.  I also love it when the light bulb goes off in peoples' heads and they realize they're being sold a bill of goods.  Obama was anxious and eager to talk tough about Michigan's biggest industry, pushing for fuel economy standards that some analysts believe could permanently cripple or kill any or all of the Big 3.  No talk of help then.  Suddenly he's chasing Hillary Clinton's blue-collar voters and he's singing a different tune.

After all the hype he's willing to pander just like every other candidate?  I'm shocked.  Seriously taken aback.  And candidates don't shock me often.  But when they do I love it.  

Almost as much as I love the fact that the ACLU is suing the State of Michigan to do what the Democrats in the legislature are attempting to prevent... the legal granting of drivers licenses to legal immigrants.  And, you guessed it.  I love legal immigration.  The Associated Press reports:


Legal immigrants who are not permanent residents have not been able to get driver's licenses since late last month, what many consider an unintended consequence of a similar crackdown on illegal immigrants. The state Legislature has begun passing bills to clarify state law so that legal immigrants can get driver's licenses, but the House and Senate haven't yet agreed on final legislation.

Businesses and universities are urging quick action, adding that Michigan's reputation is suffering because of the policy. State officials say there are nearly 400,000 foreign businesspeople, students and their families in Michigan on visas.

Some of them already have been turned down in their quest to get Michigan driver's licenses.

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Posted at 8:32am on Jan. 15, 2008 Could Clinton win 80% of the vote without locking in a single delegate? YES!

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Today is the day... did you vote yet?  Then what are you sitting around reading a blog for?  Go.  Vote.  Forthwith.  Then come back.  I'll wait...

~twiddling thumbs~

~whistling~

~pacing room~

~looking at wrist pretending there's a watch there~

Back?  Awesome.  You may have been one of the first to vote today but you certainly won't be the last.  Early projections vary but all expect the primary election to draw around 1.5 million people.  That's about a 20% voter turnout when you do the math.  In 2000, the last time the State had a presidential primary we drew about 1.4 million so you can do the math on that one.  Of course back then there was only a GOP contest.  And as a group of lawmakers from metro-Detroit continue to point out in the press and via advertising and a grassroots ground game, there is very much a Democrat contest this year as well.

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