“No.”
Good enough for me. I believe as you appear to that we can have GOP elected in the north and west without those candidates having to be a slightly less commie version of the Democrats.
What happened to Walberg is a great example of what is wrong with the GOP. He defeated a RINO to get the seat. Then when the next election rolled around the NRCC declared him a lost cause and stripped him of money. He lost by a whopping 2% (some lost cause huh?)
In any case he’s announced that he’ll run again in Michigan’s 7th district and if the GOP has a single working brain cell they’ll give him their full support.
Walberg was a vocal no vote on TARP. He spent last summer in a darkened house of representatives demanding that the democrats return to deal with gas prices. He’s pro life, pro drilling, pro 2nd amendment, for lower taxes and just about every other conservative stance you can think of. In 17 years as a state legislator he never once voted to raise taxes and was a proud founding member of our “No caucus”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Walberg
http://www.walbergforcongress.com/Home.aspx
Our new congressman, socialist democrat Mark Shauer’s first act as congressman was to pay the largest fine for campaign finance violations ever paid in the state of Michigan.
Incidentally, the RINO walberg defeated to gain the seat (Joe Schwarz) endorsed the democrat against Walberg in the last election.