NOTES ON THE MICHIGAN PRIMARY OF 2010
1. The Bernero victory appears to have been orchestrated by none other than Bob King of the UAW. He knew Dillon was not a union man and therefore he could not afford for him to win and he knew that Bernero was down in the polls. The UAW took over the Bernero campaign coming up with the attack on Dillon’s anti-choice and anti stem cell stance and the rest is history. Dillon is probably kicking himself in the butt for not, at least, explaining his stance on abortion /stem cell.
2. It will be much harder for the UAW to engineer a victory against Snyder. Bernero is a career politician (ran for office 5x in 10 years) that shouts instead of speaks and is pretty rough around the edges. He also projects a non-educated persona; even my Democratic wife says she cannot, in good faith, vote for Bernero since he appears (to her) not to be what Michigan needs and Snyder, on the other hand, fits the bill for her.
3. Snyder says he is against abortion but will support it in cases of rape and incest and will not make it an issue. He is for stem cell research and will stand by his position on that. Right-to-Life will not endorse him and may not participate in this election at all. Snyder received a lot of votes from cross-over Democrats who like him more than their own candidate Bernero.
4. Right-to-life (anti-choice) took a beating when they supported COX which means that the Republicans were ignoring that issue or it was a non-issue to them at this point. I have read where many conservative Republicans do not consider stem-cell research as the same type of problem as abortion; after all, voters of the state did approve stem cell research in Michigan so I don’t think Snyder will have a problem on that issue.
5. In the news media today was a pretend show of Democratic unity but neither Dillon nor Bing of Detroit is willing to give Bernero their support - WOW - what the hell does that mean - will they support the Republican? Is the world coming to an end? I told you folks that this will be one hell of a governor's race!
More later…
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