Michigan: Levin Announces He Will Retire in ’14

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[SMGFan]

Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin announced Thursday he will retire at the end of 2014.

The chairman of the Armed Services Committee, first elected in 1978, is the longest-serving senator in Michigan history and will turn 80 before Election Day next year.

In a statement, Levin said the decision not to seek another term was “extremely difficult.”

[AuH2ORepublican]

He forgot to add “Also, I’m a tool of liberal Democrats, who will use my “NAY” vote to claim that “even conservative [sic] Republicans [sic] such as Justin Amash opposed this gross violation of a woman’s right to choose.”

Justin Amash has never held a real job in his life. He went fron law school pretty much straight to the state house, and after a measly two years he conned Michigan conservatives into voting for him for Congress, where he’s been the Louis Farrakhan of the Republican caucus. And apparently he’s still conning people with his Ron Paul-style explanations for why he votes with John Conyers half the time.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

If you're ever elected to the Senate, you are supposed to die in the Senate.

Let's hope he leaves early then...

[AuH2ORepublican]

“Unlike many in Congress, I don’t attack my colleagues personally.”

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Right, Paultard Amash never attacks his colleagues; unless, of course, a Republican member of Congress makes a joke about Ahmadinejad being as dumb as a monkey, in which case Amash will go ballistic and use the tried-and-true liberal tactic of calling the Republican a racist.

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You point to his youth I see that as a positive, John McCain is old and wise and he sucks on most issues. So you think the people who voted for him in his district are stupid, that is very telling of you. Then the name calling, Please Louis Farrakhan? Why not point to specific examples of votes; He has explained the reasons for his votes when he didn’t support leadership which is only 5% of the time. Your way of thinking is why we have have loser RINOS in the party and why people can’t tell us from the opposition.

Speaking of being used you may want to look in the mirror.

[AuH2ORepublican]

If he was young and smart, or young and conservative, I wouldn’t mind so much. But he is 30 years old and already has turned into a career politician—it took Ron Paul much longer to turn into such a hypocrite.

And all of a sudden you want to look at his votes instead of his words? I thought it was his prolix explanations of his votes that we were supposed to concentrate on, not his anti-American votes themselves?

Amash is an anti-Semitic Paulistinian. (He’s also of Palestinian descent, but I have no problem with that; the problem is that he speaks and votes like one of those Arab members of the Knesset, except with less respect and admiration for U.S. military personnel.) Other than maybe Joe Schwarz, I can’t think of a worse U.S. Senate candidate for the GOP than Amashdinejad.

[ScottinVA]

Why do I get this dreaded feeling the reprehensible Jennifer Granholm will run for this seat?

[ScottinVA]

I’m curious about something though...

Are those reading glasses welded to Levin’s nose? I’ve NEVER seen a pic of him without them.

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You wrote:Amash is an anti-Semitic Paulistinian. (He’s also of Palestinian descent, but I have no problem with that; the problem is that he speaks and votes like one of those Arab members of the Knesset, except with less respect and admiration for U.S. military personnel.)

This is typical Alinsky tactic. He is an Arab which is OK but he is an Arab and hates Jews. He is a devote Christian.

Wow I never thought good people who happen to differ 5% of the time with this bone headed leadership would cause people to stoop to such tactics. Lets keep doing the same like Hoekstra. He was a great supportor of the Repubs. How did that turn out?

[Darren McCarty]

I agree with the recruiting part, but Akin was establishment. So was Hoekstra who ran a non-campaign against Stabenow and got the expected results.

A good conservative can win here.

[tomkat]

Avoid the rush !

Do it today, douche !

[Darren McCarty]

Other than maybe Joe Schwarz,

I don't ever want to see that name again. That or Marky Mark Schauer.

[Netz]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a Michigander all I can say is:

Holy Carl Levins, this man WAS effective 40 years ago, since then it's all been about “Entrenchment” and Pensions.
I am so happy this deadbeat is FINALLY leaving! It is because of politicians like him that there MUST be a n age limit for our politicians.

[Maryhere]

Best news I have heard today. These people who think elected positions in Congress are career positions make me sick. Our founding fathers never felt that way.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Either he hates Jews or he loves Muslim terrorists. Either way, he is anti-Semitic.

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Here is the best endorsement I can find for Justin:

McCain referred to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) as “wackos.”

“They were elected, nobody believes that there was a corrupt election, anything else,” McCain said. “But I also think that when, you know, it’s always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.”

Asked to clarify, McCain said he was referencing ”Rand Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever.”

[AuH2ORepublican]

“I’m curious about something though...

Are those reading glasses welded to Levin’s nose? I’ve NEVER seen a pic of him without them.”

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I think that Levin uses the same Superglue on his reading glasses that he uses on his combover.

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You said:Either he hates Jews or he loves Muslim terrorists. Either way, he is anti-Semitic

Please post the article that proves this hateful comment.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Well, you may never have to hear Scwarz’s name again, but the Schauer might be the RAT nominee if the RATs can’t convince Gretchen Whitmer to run (which they won’t). But my money is on Gary Peters running hard and getting the nomination—he used to represent a marginal district, is well known in the Detroit metro area, and knows that he may not survive the next primary against a black candidate in his new congressional district.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Here is Amash’s “Pro-Arab, Pro-Palestinian” voting record according to the anti-Semitic Arab-American Institute: http://www.ontheissues.org/MI/Justin_Amash_Foreign_Policy.htm

He was one of only 19 House members to vote against a bill that opposed the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state by Hamas and the PLO, and calling on the Obama Administration to prevent a terrorist-backed, anti-Semitic Palestinian state from achieving international recognition.

And here he is taking Ahmadinejad’s side, and calling John McCain a “racist,” when McCain tweeted a joke comparing Ahmadinejad to the monkey that Iran sent to space: http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room/other-news/280869-mccain-lighten-up-about-joke-comparing-ahmadinejad-to-monkey

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I see nothing in these that makes the congressman a “Jew Hater”

I do love that he got under the great and almighty RINO’s skin however. It doesn’t make him a hater.

If I was to use your logic your statements about Justin an “ARAB” would label you an Arab hater. I don’t think you are an Arab hater.