"President" McCotter Blows It

[gnome]

Lowell, being a Republican is not an illness or a moral failing.

McCotter has consistently walked across the aisle and not just shook hands, but held hands, with his Democratic brethren.

In an age when the divide between parties and ideologies is increasingly rancorous I would think you would champion any politician who actively got along with the other team.

But no. That is not what you have here. You have defaulted to a tired notion that McCotter is somehow morally suspect without providing a shred of evidence. His crime seemingly is that he is a Republican.

You throw out smirkingly, "Hmm, what does he know." When you know nothing more than the rest of us, yet by that smirk you suggest he is a co-conspritor in election fraud. The tossing of rocks and hiding of hands is not taking the high road. In fact, it is mud-wrestling.

Your passive-aggressive debating style does nothing to further anyone's cause save those who favor mud. We know those people all too well. The half-truth tellers, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Ed Shutlz, Rachel Maddow. We know those who stir up rancor in the hope to further their personal agendas by throwing mud, smearing half-truths, all with the false backpedalling of "I'm only asking a question..."

Being a Republican isn't an illness, just as being a Democrat isn't an illness. It is a choice one makes and it doesn't render them immediate suspects in the violation of both Federal and State laws.

See you at the picnic.

[Woodward's Cousin]

Nolan Finley on McCottergate:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...Cotter-to-quit

The perpetrators should be able to be identified by AG Schuette in fairly short order. I expect GOP AG Schuette to do a thorough and effective investigation and chrge anyone complicit in this fraud.

[Novine]

"He had 1800+ signatures of which only 244 survived. So say they kicked 1800 total. All duplicate signatures are both kicked. So with 900 good signatures kicked for duplication, plus 244 surviving ones, he would have had enough to make it in without the duplications. Probably not the scenario but "facepalm" inducing all the same."

Everything that has been reported indicated that it wasn't just that the signatures were duplicates. The photocopies appeared to be of older petitions that were cut and pasted into the current form. The state doesn't keep the older petitions so there was no way to compare these fakes to the ones previously submitted.