Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 09/12/2014 5:52:07 AM PDT by cotton1706
LANSING, Michigan — Republican ex-Gov. William Milliken is backing Democrat Gary Peters for U.S. Senate, saying the congressman has been a moderate and an independent voice in the Michigan Legislature and U.S. House.
Milliken says he plans to issue an endorsement statement Friday morning. Peters is running against Republican Terri Lynn Land, a former Michigan secretary of state.
Democratic U.S. Sen Carl Levin is retiring after 36 years.
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As has been demonstrated countless times, to a moderate republican, a democrat is preferable to a conservative. To them, a democrat is "the lesser of two evils."
Moderate Democrats are like moderate Muslims.
Milliken was the head of the Michigan delegation to the Republican convention for George Bush in 1980; he dismissed the Reagan supporters as including people “like truck drivers”, as though unlike his highness and the other Bush backers, they had no right to political opinions. Milliken, John Warner, Lugar and the others have no loyalty whatsoever; I was pleased to not vote for John Warner after he stabbed Ollie North in the back the previous election cycle and he came within a hair breadth of losing due to people like us.
Now a vote for TLL is a vote against McConnell et. al.
This senile old fool has been doing this for the past ten years. He is about as Moderate as Bernie Sanders.
The moderate Republicans support the Democrat candidates because the Tea Party candidates are too extreme and might alienate the voters, which would cause the voters to vote for Democrat candidates and jeopardize the Republican Party's chance to win the Senate?
HOKAY . . . .
I have a better idea:
No more voting for RINOs ever, under any circumstances. Period.
In the past I voted for McCain, and Romney nationally, and for Scott Brown in Massachusetts. But never again.
Personally, I now believe that the only way to save this nation at this point (assuming such a thing is still possible) is to put conservatives in political offices and enact an agenda based on free markets, limited government and the rule of law. As long as we have a Republican party that actively opposes those ends (and we do, obviously), then I believe our only (slim) hope is drastic action.
As long as the Republican Party establishment believes that it can continue to survive by being Democrat-lite, and that it can continue to maintain power while actively fighting against the core principles of liberty, free markets and Constitutional law, it will never make the necessary change of direction.
Only when the Republican party understands that it must change or die can we hope to turn this country around. Our too-long-serving entrenched establishment politicians can still enjoy their comfy lifestyles, their wealth, power and prestige as members of a minority party. So why should they bother to change direction?
Surely a John Boehner (or an Eric Cantor -- had he not been defeated -- or a Mitch McConnell) would be just as happy to be minority leaders if the election cycle didn't go their way. Yes, they would prefer to be majority leaders, but what good would it be to them if a conservative Republican Party won the majority and then threw them out of their cushy positions and all those perks, replacing them with real conservatives?
Ask yourself -- which do you think Mitch McConnell would prefer -- a majority Republican party in which he was stripped of his position by a conservative majority, or a minority Republican party in which he could remain Senate minority leader because the majority of Republican senators were RINOs?
You may argue that we have no time to wait for the Republicans to realize that their only choice is to change or die as a viable party. But if we don't have time for that, then what makes you think we have time to wait for the RINOs and the GOP-e to pursue a "moderately marginal" course of action designed only to maintain their personal fiefdoms at the expense of a free America operating under the rule of Constitutional law?
The GOP had majority power in the House and Senate, and occupied the White House, 10 years ago. What did all that power do to move the agenda of liberty forward? Answer: nothing.
A GOP that cannot even sell liberty, limited governments and free markets to the American people is worse than useless. It is a party of tyranny enablers, and I will have none of it.
Unbelievably, today we are facing once again the stark choice between liberty and death.
Once again, these are the times that try men's souls. Conservatives need to be waging aggressive war against the totalitarian leftist tyrants on all fronts -- in the branches of government at the federal and state level, in academia, in the media, through public demonstrations, and in the voting booth.
Many argue that we must continued to vote for "the most electable conservative," which means "vote for the RINO if no conservative is running." But I respectfully disagree with that choice. I am done enabling.
If we really are to lose the greatest country in the history of the world, then let's at least be fighting for it when it goes down.
And who knows, maybe -- just maybe, if we show sufficient resolve and conviction -- divine Providence will once again provide the support that gave our founders their unlikely victory in 1776, and grant us once again the "new birth of freedom" that Lincoln called for a century later.
If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. The RINOs have managed to own the Republican party because they know that conservatives have nowhere else to go.
Voting for RINOs plays right into that strategy. The RINOs have become so certain of your vote that they actually believe they can continue to stay in power by declaring outright war on the conservative base.
And when they do that, they are actually declaring war on core American principles -- war on liberty, war on free market economics, and even war on the Constitution.
The RINO Republicans cannot even make an appeal to the traditional American love of those principles, because they have lost the credibility and historical awareness to articulate them, let alone promote them.
Yes, having Harry Reid continue as speaker is a horrific scenario. But having RINO Republicans win that office is only a marginally better short-term outcome.
And in some ways it is even worse, because as the RINOs “reach across the aisle" to promote marginally modified Democrat policies, they give the Democrats cover from the well-deserved blame that they have unleashed on our country for the last five years.
America is out of time now. We cannot continue on the current path. And as things continue to deteriorate, who do you think the voters will blame if the Republicans are in power when the 2016 elections come around?
You think Mitch McConnell's senate will repeal Obamacare? You think it will take the right position on immigration?
America needs clear, passionate and articulate voices to advocate and defend our founding principles, to secure our borders, to preserve our nation, and to take legislative and administrative steps to turn this country around, assuming it still can be turned around.
Majority leader Mitch McConnell will NEVER provide that voice or leadership. He is not the guy to turn things around for our formerly blessed nation.
But in 2016 a newly terrified Republican will be forced to court instead of alienate the conservative base, and come 2017 will be in a position to put the party and our nation on the proper path. Such a duly chastised party has a real chance of nominating a Ted Cruz, instead of a Mitt Romney who, according to last night's panel on Fox News, is at this point the likely Republican presidential nominee.
So in November, I urge those who vote in Kentucky to stay home on election day, or vote libertarian -- anything to prove the RINOs wrong in thinking that they can stay in power by literally declaring war on conservatism.
Think about it.
/johnny
Senility is a terrible thing.
Same difference.
I agree completely. And I’m also in MA. I voted for Brown in 2010 but blanked my ballot in 2012. I can’t vote for these types anymore. I’m not voting for Baker either. Totally worthless liberal republican.
It's important to call things by their proper name, so the denial game can't happen.
RINOs sounds like 'imperfect' republicans, when what they really are is liberal republicans that stand 100% against conservative values.
/johnny
Several say this goofball is “senile”...no, he is just a typical RINO. Never...never...never vote for a RINO (even for dog-catcher).
Congressman Gary Peters has voted with the Democrat Party 87% on 766 votes in the 113th Congress. He voted with his party 90% of the time in the 112th Congress (1606 votes).
This is a moderate?
The GOPe will do all it can to help conservative candidates lose in November
And Peters will dutifully vote 95% with Obama and Hillary Clinton, as do all the democrat “independent voices.”
Bill Milliken, still Coleman Young’s RINO meatpuppet, takes a dump. Film at 11.
I thought that has-been had already passed. Pity.
Yeah same here.
Peters is a typical democrat. Opposes energy production (While being heavily invested in Canadian oil sands) Supports and voted for Obamacare (while being invested in insurance companies and medical equipment and supplies) Supports a woman’s “right to choose”..................
His endorsement is about as relevant to the Republican party as that tanned homo down in Florida.
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