Michigan Republicans seem to be bailing on the party.

[IdaBriggs]

Its not because they actually CARE about the soldiers in Iraq, or the treason in Plamegate, or the deaths in New Orleans, or the slow federal response to Katrina in Mississippi or Alabama, or the corruption in the higher levels of the party (vis a vis Delay, Frist and Abramoff), or ---

The list is getting too long, and is too depressing.

The real reason they are leaving (as per the last three I've talked with)?

Gas Prices.

Selfish, useless, disgusting, stupid....

:banghead:

[longship]

1. One of the first CC conquests.

The Christian Coalition targetted MI early in their war against democracy. It is fitting and proper that MI would be the first to fall out of favor with the lunatics in the Republican party. Interesting is the fact that Detroit is this nation's most liberal city. I don't think any other comes close. I'm proud of my home town and my home state.

[UrbScotty]

2. Maybe it's because their guv candidate invested in Communist China? (nt)

[Rosco T.]

3. Take what we can get... we can educate them later after...

.. they are out from under the spell.

[Bozita]

4. imho, Tony Trupiano has a good shot at unseating McCotter in Livonia

[Xipe Totec]

5. Joe Sixpack cares about two things:

The price of a gallon of gas, and the price of a six-pack of beer.

Mess with those two things and you'll have one pissed bubba breathing down your neck.

Why?

because if he can't buy beer, or he can't afford to drive to the store to buy beer, he'll sober up (finally) and realize just how screwed he is.

[Neocondriac]

6. And as soon as ....

Ted Nugent comes around we all breathe a sigh of relief.

[Marr]

7. Is there a link?

Why do you say Michigan Republicans in particular are bailing on the Republicans?

[IdaBriggs]

9. Three personal anecdotal stories within the last week.

My favorite: "I stopped being a Republican the day it cost me $50 to fill up my gas tank." (Just heard that one this weekend from a "lifelong" Republican.)

The 85 year old man who came to my door trying to sell me a new driveway who "had!" to vote Republican because of his 30 year position in the local party was also educational. The third guy was just saying he was "sorry" he had believed Bush; I told him I was, too.

[5thGenDemocrat]

8. Andy the Right Wing Republican is disgusted w/the state R party

He doesn't like Granholm, to put it mildly -- but what is worse to him is that the Repugs here intend to run Dick DeVos (he of Scamway fame) against her in the gubernatorial race.
He intends to sit the race out.
Another anecdote: Carl the Moderate Republican runs a swell drive-thru party store and I cash my monthly check (from two natural gas wells) there. As I was entering the store Oct. 1, I hear him say to a customer "BRING THE BOYS HOME, BOSS!! (Carl talks loud and calls everybody "Boss").
I couldn't believe it. I asked him if he had, indeed, said what I thought I'd just heard him say. He said it was time we "wrap up whatever it is we're doing over there and get 'em the hell out."
What does all this mean? I don't know -- but the unsolicited rumblings on the ground here in Saginaw sure are interesting.
John
Especially as we also have a few thousand folks working at Delphi -- but that's another story for another time.