J, it is pathetic that your only response to this latest volley of drivel from our "nerd" is  "I hope he comes out and corrects his position soon"?    He is not the guy for this and everyone knows it.   Problem is... he had better be there,  or the wheels will really come off the bus if Verge is driving.

Pray. It is all that is left to us now.    Michigan is in for another four years of blown away behavior.   I sincerely hope that we wake up and get our heads out of our proverbial buttocks by 2014.   What a waste.

Honestly, I am kinda liking the way Snyder is bitch slapping the knuckle dragging victimhood union puppet around.  And, he's also right about the MDP's stale retooled DeVos type attack ads.

Snyder described Democratic attacks on his Gateway record as "people ... making stuff up because it's the old way of doing things."

"It's people who are scared that there's a new world coming -- about being more positive, about being more proactive and about actually addressing the issues that matter to our citizens of Michigan," he said. "It's time for old-school politics to go away."

Uh-huh, oh, but wait...

Snyder said today the Democrats are wrong to focus on stock options he exercised in 2000 before the value of Gateway shares fell significantly.

"I actually had a pattern of selling that was fairly consistent over a number of years to diversify from a good financial planning perspective," he said.

Now, green energy policy often fails to work economically or environmentally because it subsidizes technology that doesn't make sense. For instance, the federal government has heavily subsidized the production of ethanol produced from corn, as it can be used for fuel. This seems to be a great idea on the face of things, because we're growing fuel, as opposed to importing it. However, this ethanol is produced from corn grown using hydrocarbon-based fertilizers (i.e. oil-based fertilizers). This means that we use oil to produce ethanol that we then use to replace oil in gasoline, only we're replacing less oil than was used to fertilize the corn in the first place. This means that our government is subsidizing a process by which we throw away oil at great expense and calling it green energy policy.

The point of this story is to illustrate that green energy is not necessarily a loser economically, but green energy policy is very poorly constructed. The question, in my opinion, is whether Snyder would push a sensible green energy policy, or follow in Granholm's footsteps of good intentions and failed execution.

I am not certain what it is you are working on in the back round J, but unless it is a new GOP candidate, count me (and many others) out.   There ARE other choices.   We will not be frightened by the GOP that our vote will syphon off votes and let Bernero win.  If he wins he was elected by the people of Michigan and they(we) will have to suffer his lunacy.

Bill Scheutte?  C'mon.  Are we really tired of the colusion and connected politics and expanded intrusion on our Liberty or are we just full of bluster and grandstanding? Find a candidate that is solid on Liberty.  Solid on preserving our property rights and solid on upholding the constitution.  Then you will have a candidate who believes that which we founded our nation upon.

My son just received his very first pay check in his life on Friday.  I went through it with him.   Gross- $64.86   Net- $52.48    "where did the other twelve dollars go Dad?"   I tried to explain FICA, SS, MI State Tax and Medicare; then I could not answer because I truly do not know...  do any of us?