Holding the Keys for Michigan Republicans

(cross posted from the designated conservative at http://dcon2012.wordpress.com/)

So I'm sitting on a folding chair in an undisclosed location of a small Michigan downtown commiserating with 40 fellow republicans last week....  

After spending much of this year holding the keys for the McCainiacs and my Democrat friends who drank the Obama Kool-Aid, I was thrilled just to be in the same room with other designated drivers conservatives of the Party.  Here are a few snippets of the conversation:

• “The Democratic tsunami was larger in Michigan because the Michigan Republican Party wasn’t ‘there.’”
• “25% of the people in the room are Ron Paul ‘true believers’.  The Party leadership deliberately ignored Ron Paul - remember, he’s been right about everything he said.” 
• (of course, a non-Paulite in the crowd pointedly noted that Ron Paul himself supported a third-party candidate in the general election instead of the Republican standard-bearers!)
• “The Republican candidates that were successful in the last election did so despite, not because of, our party.”
• “You cannot be successful if you’re telling your (volunteers) to start fighting now and we’ll tell you what you’re fighting for later!”
• "The reason Republicans stayed home and only 20% percent of precinct delegates actually volunteered is because we didn’t have an actual Republican at the head of the national ticket!"
• “The Party needs to teach Econ 101 - socialism removes checks and balances from government and leads to corruption.”
• “Fight with everything you have not to become Canada (so said a Canadian expatriate and local businessman); the government makes money disappear!”

For the rest of the story, visit the designated conservative.