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Tag: 62% failure on Election Day

Michigan Republicans did not lose 62% of Partisan Races

By Conservative First, Section News
Posted on Wed Mar 13, 2013 at 11:20:17 PM EST
Tags: 62% failure on Election Day (all tags)

Promoted for discussion ~

The claim that Michigan Republicans lost 62% of all partisan races appeared here and
here on RightMichigan.

As Todd Courser has pointed out, in spite of having a candidate in every single partisan race on the November ballot, at every level (federal, state, county, and local) -- something that the MDP was unable to accomplish -- in spite of that, and the oodles of money spent, the MIGOP still lost 62% of all partisan races in the November 2012 election.

This didn't sound right to me, so I started adding up the numbers.

Office: R/D
Statewide: 0/10
Congress: 9/5
State House: 59/51
Countywide offices: 342/145/1 (70% Republicans)
County Commissioners: 379/201/4 (65% Republicans)

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It Was About Sending A Message

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Wed Feb 27, 2013 at 10:16:18 AM EST
Tags: Michigan Republican Party 2013 State Convention, blueblood elites, liberty movement coalition, backroom shenanigans, serving notice, sending a message, unity based on a principled platform, Schostak Must Go, Donation-Gate, Dele-Gate, Mortgage-Gate, Convention-Gate, 62% failure on Election Day, inattention to results, disingenuous hypocrisy, memory holes, Courser 4 Chair, causa provocare, praesto explicare, empowered grassroots operation, State Convention Rule 20, acta non verba, shenanigans and skullduggery, YAFWYALF (all tags)

"It's not about money ... it's about sending a message."

That quote is from "The Dark Knight," specifically, the Joker (played with disturbing perfection by Heath Ledger). Without going into a level of detail that will break the analogy, the point behind that line is that there are some people whose principles are not for sale, regardless of whether for good or ill. Those who subscribe to the all-too-common philosophy that everyone can be bought, the only question being one of price, don't have the clue before the first clue how to deal with people of principle.

That philosophical disconnect was on full and open display this past weekend at the Michigan Republican State Convention, and the elites in the establishment plainly didn't know what to do about it.