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Sen. [John McCain] was, well, let me be kind - dreadful - while [Hillary Clinton] and [Barack Obama] were inspiring and uplifting. McCain appeared to be speaking at a corpse convention as if he was afraid of waking them up. If things do not catch fire on the Republican side of the ticket given the dismal poll numbers of the president and the loss of conservative brand appeal, it could spell doom for anyone with the letter "R" after their name on the ballot.
As I watched that night I thought of my Mend, the longstanding Republican, Oakland County Executive Brooks Patterson, that he could be in what we call in political parlance "deep doo-doo."6) There is a Republican apathy factor. "What? Brooks lose? Noway!" is the usual refrain I hear from my Republican Mends across the state. "He is an Oakland County shoo-in, an institution." Yeah, like Gov. Blanchard in 1990. As a former boxer, I know that on any given day any opponent can knock you out. With [Patterson]'s supporters thinking he is safe, it makes him very unsafe. Remember the "inevitable winner" Hillary Clinton?With her solid name recognition, work ethic and pull from women and the Jewish community, Judge Cooper may cause a mini political wave of her own. 4 The incumbent songressman Joe Knollenberg, nearly got knocked out in the last election cycle by an unknown, under-financed political novice with virtually no institutional Democratic Party establishment support.See the full content of this document
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Republicans Should Be Very Afraid
After watching the speeches of Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain on Tuesday, June 3, the night Sen. Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, I believe that 2008 could be one of those political tsunami years ...
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