With the victory of Rick Snyder as the “Republican” candidate comes the disgusting situation of having the choice between the honest Liberal who admits he’s a Democrat (Bernero) and the Democrat who wears a Republican name tag (Snyder).
Are we just going to roll over and die or are we going to stand up and fight? Why let the Democrats get away with choosing OUR candidate?! They did it with McCain and now they’ve done it with Snyder. Why let them get away with it? Why not pick our own candidate?? Why leave the election to be between two Democrats? Why not throw a Conservative in the race? Is it too much to hope that we could have a true Conservative run as a third-party candidate and possibly steal the election?? I can’t stand the thought of letting Michigan shoot herself in the head! (Am I sounding desperate? I feel it..)
I CAN’T vote for either of those Democrats. And I just CAN’T leave Michigan to be devoured by those liberal wolves.
Am I being an unrealistic dreamer or could we actually, possibly, maybe, perhaps have a chance of saving our great state??
-Anna Lambert
I’m with you. I can’t do it again either. I’d rather not vote. I could have voted for any of the others come November, but not him. We need runoffs, or something. We are supposed to support him out of party loyalty in November after he publicly, actively, asked Democrats to vote for him in the primary. That road goes two ways. He asked for them, he can rely on them in Nov as far as I care.
I’m probably going to vote Libertarian. More later, but I’m just throwing that out as a teaser…
I don’t know…. Libertarians seem a bit.. nuts.
The aren’t against abortion, they ARE against the war in Iraq, they aren’t against homosexuality, and they aren’t for securer borders.
I couldn’t do that either.
Actually, the last I checked the national platform was to defend life. Pro-life.
They ARE for a more open immigration, but I think with the legal appropriateness.
Yes there are issues with the complete disengagement around the world strategy, but in the governors seat, who knows?
I get it! You’d rather have one of those two Democrats in office than vote Libertarian, because Libertarian only matches up with 80-90% of what you want, not 100%. And the Democrats are closer to what you want. Riiight.
WAKE UP! The Republican party has failed to deliver…again! Don’t waste your vote by NOT voting.
Don’t use the old-and-broken “Lesser of Two Evils” method to pick between the 2 Dems. The lesser of two evils is STILL evil. STOP SUPPORTING EVIL. That’s what got us where we are, with limited choices.
Support principles you believe in like limited government and personal responsibility be voting Libertarian.
You may not select the next governor, but with enough people following your lead, you may influence better choices at the next and other future elections!
Don’t waste your vote; Invest it by voting Libertarian whenever the 2 parties don’t give you a real choice!
Phillip.. just keep it dialed it down.. this may be the best chance Libertarians see in years.
I think I’ll vote for Bernero because if we’re going to have a Dem governor he might as well be called a Dem.
That way I won’t have to listen to “See, Republicans do it too,” from a bunch of mealy-mouthed Liberals for the next 4 years.
And what’s the difference, really? Bernero will give money to the unions directly, Snyder will use MEDC.
I couldn’t vote for Bernero, but also could not vote Snyder either…
And actually.. Your point is well made when you said:
“That way I won’t have to listen to “See, Republicans do it too,” from a bunch of mealy-mouthed Liberals for the next 4 years.”
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I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’ll give Rick Snyder a chance to earn my vote, but so far he sure hasn’t done it. The more I hear the less I like too.
I may be writing in myself.
I told my wife that I’d vote for Dillon over Snyder in a heartbeat if he won.
When Snyder won, I said “Who is this guy?” I was hoping and voted for Pete Hoekstra in the primary. I don’t think enough people get out there to vote in primaries! I am not hearing anything good about Snyder either. Yikes! I’m so disillusioned with Michigan voters.