However, unless they run a stronger, tougher campaign than the Posthumus and Devos folks, this state is destined for the same results as the last two elections.

Here's a hint -- please -- no more commercials featuring the candidate's kids asking people to vote for their dad!

Whoever the GOP candidate will be, that person had better be prepared to come out swinging and never stop gut-punching the Libs until a knockout has been achieved.

That's not a shot at the other campaigns I've seen, but Cox took it one step further. I still remember when I was at an MSU metting. Cox was still running against DeGrow. Cox, a UM grad of all things, walked in and got the support of everyone in that room - all the cliques. At other events, Cox was always there. DeGrow, never.  Eventually, he dropped out. Cox was then an underdog to Peters, who is now a congresscritter. Not many gave him a chance. He - a conservative -  won, including "moderate" Oakland County. He also won the Reagan Democrats in Macomb County. It's not easy to win both counties because of different social currents in each county.

Cox knows how to win when he isn't supposed to do so. I think the dems will be in a street fight in this campaign.

Yes, he would be an excellent standard bearer for the Republican Party...marching it towards another defeat in 2010!

The excess baggage he's now carrying was not around when he ran for AG.

Having his dutiful wife at his side during press conferences will do little to appease the GOP female voting base, most of whom would kick a cheater to the curb rather than become a public doormat for him.

And Cox is a winnner.  No candidate is working harder.  No candidate is from the right place with the right message.

2nd Amendment. That's a big issue to me as most here well known. What many people don't remember is that it wasn't always cool to be pro-gun, even here in Michigan.

Cox originally had a lot of 2nd Amendment skeptics because he worked in the Wayne County prosecutor's office, and his boss at the time was Mike Duggan. He was there before Duggan became the main boss, but a lot of people just saw the words Wayne County and Prosecutor next to each other and got their guards up.

Cox promised us CCW reciprocity improvements since Granholm at the time was anti-gun and did not help us one bit before 2002. Cox delievered immediately. He also overturned a couple of Frank Kelley's anti-gun AG opinions - and he didn't even promise us anything there.