In Michigan the GOP isn’t challenging a single democrat held seat but they are challenging tea party held seats.
There is a republican challenging for the Dingell seat but he’s doing it without even token GOP support.
I like Barone. Classy fella.
GOPe WANTS their second-tier power all to themselves.
They aren’t equipped to use principles, morals or conservatism to win anything but their own perverted little constituencies that seem content to be lied to twice a year about their representatives show votes and treachery.
They don’t want to be in charge; they don’t want to rock the boat and upset their comfy, dissembling, appeasing traitorous lives. They’ll fight tooth and nail for it, to the bitter end, but it won’t be against Democrats, it’s the conservatives (Tea Party, for want of a better name) who is their enemy.