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Title: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: taxed on July 18, 2017, 08:48:59 PM
I've been a fan of Kid Rock for a long time, so I'm a little biased, but I know he's a libertarian, which I am at heart, but I think he's sincere.  His music is drenched in pro-American patriotism, having fun, and chicks (sorry feminazis - you ain't gonna like this one).

I don't know all his policies yet, but I do know he's pro-freedom, pro-American, pro-First Amendment, and pro-Second Amendment, so that's a good start.  This is Michigan for goodness sakes.

Here's his campaign page: https://www.kidrockforsenate.com/

Here's his site you click over to.  The landing page sets the tone: https://kidrock.com/chooseyourvideo

Here's a sample song that I like...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIGZLjugKA

Here's a recent Dan Rather interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmEPITo2ZjA


The Dems in Michigan are about to have no idea what hit them.  If you think Trump was over the top, fasten your seatbelt. He's running against Marxist Debbie Stabenow.  Debbie, good luck hon... you're gonna need it.

-- If I don't get to it, move it to the 2018 vetting thread after a few days...
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritche (Kid Rock)
Post by: taxed on July 18, 2017, 09:26:40 PM
https://www.facebook.com/kidrock/posts/10155317900835049

QuoteOnce again the press is wrong. First of all, I've got 15 days from my announcement to file paperwork with the FEC! Second, I'm not signed to Warner Bros!!! - which simple fact-checking would have revealed. I have recently worked out a unique deal with BMG, Broken Bow, CAA and Live Nation to release music ON MY TERMS. Like politicians write books during their campaigns, I'm planning on putting out music during mine and IT ALL STARTS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT. It's not a hoax, it's a strategy and marketing 101! No plans for an album or anything else that has been the usual norm in the music business OR politics.....and.....

Senator Stabenow and I do share a love of music, although probably not the same kind. I concede she is better at playing politics than I am so I'll keep doing what I do best, which is being a voice for tax paying, hardworking AMERICANS and letting politicians like her know that We the People are sick and tired of their bullshit!

"I am the captain now."
#fakenews #kidrockforsenate #kidrock #podunk #greatestshowonearth

(image from his post)
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19990141_10155317895630049_6653465294623910285_n.jpg?oh=7507fdc653ede2515f59ca67f0b48f62&oe=59C3EC27)

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: Solar on July 19, 2017, 06:06:35 AM
Get used to hearing Senator Rock. :thumbsup:

Not my style of music, but that was just a stepping stone for getting out his pro American message.
One thing certain, the nation is sick and tired of Establishment pols, so anyone with a following such as his, has a few steps ahead in any race, especially if they're going up against a leftist traitor from either party.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: taxed on July 19, 2017, 02:02:45 PM
Quote from: Solar on July 19, 2017, 06:06:35 AM
Get used to hearing Senator Rock. :thumbsup:

Not my style of music, but that was just a stepping stone for getting out his pro American message.
One thing certain, the nation is sick and tired of Establishment pols, so anyone with a following such as his, has a few steps ahead in any race, especially if they're going up against a leftist traitor from either party.

I really hope he stays conservative.

What I can't wait for is how he handles the opposition when they try to throw dirt his way. Something like this:

DS:  "My opponent here has been seen having sex with 4 girls on a tour bus once.  I'd like for him to explain this behavior to the people of Michigan."

KR:  "Folks, that is simply not true."

DS:  "Well, I figured you might deny it, so that's why you can go view the recording yourself online.  Now Mr. Ritchie, do you deny it now with this video evidence?"

KR:  "Yes, I do."

DS:  "I hope everyone now sees how this man is a liar.  I'd like to al....."

KR:  "You're lying."

DS:  (with a smirk) "Please, Mr. Ritchie, you've been caught, and everyone can see it."

KR:  "That's just not accurate ma'am.  It was 6 girls.  Two were under the covers when that video was taken."

Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: Solar on July 19, 2017, 03:11:26 PM
Quote from: taxed on July 19, 2017, 02:02:45 PM
I really hope he stays conservative.

What I can't wait for is how he handles the opposition when they try to throw dirt his way. Something like this:

DS:  "My opponent here has been seen having sex with 4 girls on a tour bus once.  I'd like for him to explain this behavior to the people of Michigan."

KR:  "Folks, that is simply not true."

DS:  "Well, I figured you might deny it, so that's why you can go view the recording yourself online.  Now Mr. Ritchie, do you deny it now with this video evidence?"

KR:  "Yes, I do."

DS:  "I hope everyone now sees how this man is a liar.  I'd like to al....."

KR:  "You're lying."

DS:  (with a smirk) "Please, Mr. Ritchie, you've been caught, and everyone can see it."

KR:  "That's just not accurate ma'am.  It was 6 girls.  Two were under the covers when that video was taken."

QuoteDS:  "My opponent here has been seen having sex with 4 girls on a tour bus once.  I'd like for him to explain this behavior to the people of Michigan."

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Uhh, yeah, your point? I mean, after all, it had nothing to do with an unpaid intern and I wasn't cheating, and on top of that, they were well paid, unlike the lady in the "Stained Blue Dress".
Again, your point ma'am?
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: taxed on July 19, 2017, 03:40:36 PM
Quote from: Solar on July 19, 2017, 03:11:26 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Uhh, yeah, your point? I mean, after all, it had nothing to do with an unpaid intern and I wasn't cheating, and on top of that, they were well paid, unlike the lady in the "Stained Blue Dress".
Again, your point ma'am?

The best part about it from when I was looking through articles last night is the Dems are TOTALLY freaking out about this.  The election analysis sites had her as a solid blue before he ran, so it will be interesting to see how that changes once they get going.  When I was looking for his campaign site, I finally found it on page 3 or 4.  All the results before were libs in a panic because post-Trump they seen how that can go in MI.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: walkstall on July 19, 2017, 04:19:43 PM
Quote from: taxed on July 19, 2017, 03:40:36 PM
The best part about it from when I was looking through articles last night is the Dems are TOTALLY freaking out about this.  The election analysis sites had her as a solid blue before he ran, so it will be interesting to see how that changes once they get going.  When I was looking for his campaign site, I finally found it on page 3 or 4.  All the results before were libs in a panic because post-Trump they seen how that can go in MI.

It sounds like he will freak out the Dem's and RINO's more then Trump.   :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: taxed on July 19, 2017, 05:18:32 PM
Quote from: walkstall on July 19, 2017, 04:19:43 PM
It sounds like he will freak out the Dem's and RINO's more then Trump.   :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

They drop tens of millions in a single district in GA for a congressman race -- 1 out of 435... imagine how they're going to melt down after they lose a solid blue senate seat in a blue state... I can't wait until this heats up.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: quiller on July 21, 2017, 09:24:19 PM
Quote from: walkstall on July 19, 2017, 04:19:43 PM
It sounds like he will freak out the Dem's and RINO's more then Trump.   :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

He'll drag votes away from the GOP frontrunner, a Jewish woman unlikely to oust Stabenow but still wealthy enough and with time enough unlike Ritchie to seriously engage on the campaign trail. The Detroit News RINO editor Nolan Finley called for him to do more than just talk about jumping in.

Finley also assessed the Donks' present frontrunner-by-default, Gretchen "No Record" Whitmer (link below). Note RINO enthusiasm for the reputed home team, here.

QuoteTrump is the variable. If the mid-term election turns out a ton of outraged Democratic voters, it could be a slaughter for Republicans up and down the ballot. Whitmer might be able to coast in on the anti-Trump wave.

She also might be helped by the entrance into the GOP primary of state Sen. Patrick Colbeck of Canton Township, a tea party darling who is bound to tug the Republican primary way to the right and limit the party's appeal to independents in the general election.

But for Democrats who still see little hope for Whitmer, they can wait a while longer to see what Geoffrey Fieger is going to do.

Whitmer is Granholm Redux. Disaster on high speed rails, colliding with itself headlong at top speed. Fieger (Jack Kevorkian's celebrity-hound ambulance-chasing shyster) is a disease. And after eight spineless years of Rick Synder, Finley's dead wrong about what will appeal to independents in the general election.

It won't be Robert Ritchie or Geoffrey Fieger. But if Trump keeps piling up LONG term successes like alien roundups, job increases, more than 3% annual GDP growth (and so on!)---with any luck at all those angry Donks won't outvote the rest of us here. So many indies and evangelicals sat it out over the same process handing us New York trash in a well-cut suit.

The gubernatorial race may devolve to a female/female scrap, either way the primary ends, but my home state may openly pile up the joke votes, throwaways because Neither of the Above was listed.

What they won't do is get Kid Rock for Senate. We're not Minne-SO-ta, ya know, so THANK ya very much!

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2017/07/20/finley-democrats-look-stuck-whitmer-gov/103845602/
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: taxed on July 21, 2017, 11:56:02 PM
Quote from: quiller on July 21, 2017, 09:24:19 PM
He'll drag votes away from the GOP frontrunner, a Jewish woman unlikely to oust Stabenow but still wealthy enough and with time enough unlike Ritchie to seriously engage on the campaign trail. The Detroit News RINO editor Nolan Finley called for him to do more than just talk about jumping in.

Finley also assessed the Donks' present frontrunner-by-default, Gretchen "No Record" Whitmer (link below). Note RINO enthusiasm for the reputed home team, here.

Whitmer is Granholm Redux. Disaster on high speed rails, colliding with itself headlong at top speed. Fieger (Jack Kevorkian's celebrity-hound ambulance-chasing shyster) is a disease. And after eight spineless years of Rick Synder, Finley's dead wrong about what will appeal to independents in the general election.

It won't be Robert Ritchie or Geoffrey Fieger. But if Trump keeps piling up LONG term successes like alien roundups, job increases, more than 3% annual GDP growth (and so on!)---with any luck at all those angry Donks won't outvote the rest of us here. So many indies and evangelicals sat it out over the same process handing us New York trash in a well-cut suit.

The gubernatorial race may devolve to a female/female scrap, either way the primary ends, but my home state may openly pile up the joke votes, throwaways because Neither of the Above was listed.

What they won't do is get Kid Rock for Senate. We're not Minne-SO-ta, ya know, so THANK ya very much!

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2017/07/20/finley-democrats-look-stuck-whitmer-gov/103845602/


You seem to underestimate his popularity.  He has more money than any of the candidates, more name ID, and can get 50k+ together at a time.  I'd be amazed if he doesn't win.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: Solar on July 22, 2017, 07:06:52 AM
Quote from: quiller on July 21, 2017, 09:24:19 PM
He'll drag votes away from the GOP frontrunner, a Jewish woman unlikely to oust Stabenow but still wealthy enough and with time enough unlike Ritchie to seriously engage on the campaign trail. The Detroit News RINO editor Nolan Finley called for him to do more than just talk about jumping in.

Finley also assessed the Donks' present frontrunner-by-default, Gretchen "No Record" Whitmer (link below). Note RINO enthusiasm for the reputed home team, here.

Whitmer is Granholm Redux. Disaster on high speed rails, colliding with itself headlong at top speed. Fieger (Jack Kevorkian's celebrity-hound ambulance-chasing shyster) is a disease. And after eight spineless years of Rick Synder, Finley's dead wrong about what will appeal to independents in the general election.

It won't be Robert Ritchie or Geoffrey Fieger. But if Trump keeps piling up LONG term successes like alien roundups, job increases, more than 3% annual GDP growth (and so on!)---with any luck at all those angry Donks won't outvote the rest of us here. So many indies and evangelicals sat it out over the same process handing us New York trash in a well-cut suit.

The gubernatorial race may devolve to a female/female scrap, either way the primary ends, but my home state may openly pile up the joke votes, throwaways because Neither of the Above was listed.

What they won't do is get Kid Rock for Senate. We're not Minne-SO-ta, ya know, so THANK ya very much!

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2017/07/20/finley-democrats-look-stuck-whitmer-gov/103845602/



Quote"Trump is the variable. If the mid-term election turns out a ton of outraged Democratic voters, it could be a slaughter for Republicans up and down the ballot. Whitmer might be able to coast in on the anti-Trump wave."

OMG, I about peed myself reading that tripe.

There is no such animal, this is Midterm, Dims just don't turn out, not only that, there is no Dim party, they are not organized, their message is all 'Hate Trump', they run on absolutely nothing, and this author actually thinks there's some kind of organized mob of leftists that will show up at the ballot box, not in support of any particular candidate, but as a vote against?

The rest of your post makes little sense, filled with anecdotal nonsense splattered with conjecture based on nothing.
Let's look at reality instead, shall we?

QuoteLANSING, MI -- Republicans have a stronghold on Michigan political offices, and they're looking to keep it that way.

"We brought down the blue wall," former U.S. Rep. and current Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller told a cheering crowd at the Michigan Republican Party Convention in Lansing Saturday morning.

Four months after bringing home the first presidential race since 1988, Michigan Republicans were glowing with President Donald Trump's win. American flag apparel, Trump t-shirts and the president's signature "make America great again" hats dotted the audience.

But the state's Republican's weren't just gathered to celebrate. They were there to get to work.
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/02/michigan_republicans_working_t.html

For a little HILLARity, read this nonsense, where the left wants Stabenow to lean even further left.
This does not bode well for any Dim running, where a fractured party exists only because a 27% base of Marxists stuck around, and are now pushing what's left of the party, further left.
And no, that angry 27% does not translate into votes.
Warren sees a real threat in a Kid run, a very serious threat,

http://www.inquisitr.com/opinion/4220576/swing-left-debbie-stabenow-your-progressive-voters-have-an-independent-berniecratic-option-now/

The following is the shock and horror of a Rock run in a climate of a Trump win where they didn't take him serious either.

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/342101-warren-on-kid-rock-senate-run-we-all-thought-trump-was-joking

As to the point about Patrick Colbeck running, again, the author is lost in 1976 Carter politics.
How is it a guy who won Lansing Mi. Senate, somehow an obstruction to other Pub candidates?
I think the author is more a leftist than a RINO.

QuoteShe also might be helped by the entrance into the GOP primary of state Sen. Patrick Colbeck of Canton Township, a tea party darling who is bound to tug the Republican primary way to the right and limit the party's appeal to independents in the general election.


Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: quiller on July 22, 2017, 07:33:29 AM
Unbowed, I repeat: Robert Ritchie will not be our next Senator from Michigan. He might even survive the primaries, but will not advance unless and until his opponent drops dead before the balloting.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: taxed on July 22, 2017, 07:36:52 AM
Quote from: quiller on July 22, 2017, 07:33:29 AM
Unbowed, I repeat: Robert Ritchie will not be our next Senator from Michigan. He might even survive the primaries, but will not advance unless and until his opponent drops dead before the balloting.

Yeah, this lady is going to connect with us 40-somethings:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Debbie_Stabenow%2C_official_portrait.jpg/220px-Debbie_Stabenow%2C_official_portrait.jpg)
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: taxed on July 22, 2017, 07:40:39 AM
QuoteDinner time at my house. What do you think Schumer is spoon-feeding Stabenow tonight?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFSYBBFXgAITwjL.jpg)

https://twitter.com/KidRock/status/888502179098656769

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: quiller on July 22, 2017, 07:41:43 AM
Quote from: Solar on July 22, 2017, 07:06:52 AM

OMG, I about peed myself reading that tripe.

I thought it fairly amusing, myself. As for the psyche of the RINO editor Finley....

QuoteThere is no such animal, this is Midterm, Dims just don't turn out, not only that, there is no Dim party, they are not organized, their message is all 'Hate Trump', they run on absolutely nothing, and this author actually thinks there's some kind of organized mob of leftists that will show up at the ballot box, not in support of any particular candidate, but as a vote against?

The rest of your post makes little sense, filled with anecdotal nonsense splattered with conjecture based on nothing.

Finley's drivel, or mine?  :cool:  Uh-oh......

QuoteLet's look at reality instead, shall we?

Took awhile, wading down into your post, but there it was. Reality.

QuoteI think the author is more a leftist than a RINO.

You got it, Bwana.  :biggrin:
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: Solar on July 22, 2017, 08:05:35 AM
Quote from: quiller on July 22, 2017, 07:41:43 AM
I thought it fairly amusing, myself. As for the psyche of the RINO editor Finley....

Finley's drivel, or mine?  :cool:  Uh-oh......

Took awhile, wading down into your post, but there it was. Reality.

You got it, Bwana.  :biggrin:
I still don't see any supporting facts in your post to Richie's possible failure as a candidate.

Point being, not only does he have Trump's support as well as others in the GOP, but the Establishment was going to run one of their own against Stabenow, in a State where a real Conservative is about to run for Governor and win.
Point being, the inertia is in the radical Richie's favor, a guy just as off the hook as was Trump, which in Mi seems to be a strong suit, as opposed to a stuffed shirt like Stabenow, the person the base wants to push further left, meaning she's been pandering to the right side of the field, meaning the State is leaning right.

All this translates into a Richie win. I'm in no way a fan of the guy, but one thing for certain, the people love two things, someone willing to get in the face of Marxists and the other being, he's not an Establishment hack, he's not even a politician, that's what got Trump elected.
In today's political world, that's a solid formula for winning.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: Solar on July 22, 2017, 08:06:20 AM
Quote from: taxed on July 22, 2017, 07:36:52 AM
Yeah, this lady is going to connect with us 40-somethings:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Debbie_Stabenow%2C_official_portrait.jpg/220px-Debbie_Stabenow%2C_official_portrait.jpg)
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Bingo!!!
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: taxed on July 22, 2017, 08:25:34 AM
Quote from: Solar on July 22, 2017, 08:06:20 AM
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Bingo!!!

I think he doesn't understand how far a pro-American, pro-freedom, fuck PC attitude will go.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: Solar on July 22, 2017, 08:46:25 AM
Quote from: taxed on July 22, 2017, 08:25:34 AM
I think he doesn't understand how far a pro-American, pro-freedom, fuck PC attitude will go.
Exactly! We are on the verge of taking over the GOP as evidenced by the last three scathing consecutive midterms slaughters over Marxist domination, where an actual Conservative was about to take the WH, only to be out done by a radical non politician, politician, Trump.
In other words, the nation showed the world it's sick to death of Marxists of all colors and is going about the business of killing off politics as usual.

I have to admit, as much as I hated the Marxist Obozo, he was just what this nation needed to wake it the fuck up, and the same goes for Trump, I hated the liberal for stealing the election from Cruz, but truth is, we now see just how evil the gop'E is and the tactics they're willing to use against anyone not agreeing with their leftist agenda of destroying America.

Cruz will be far better off thanks to the swamp draining Trump did in exposing just who runs the leftist GOP.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: quiller on July 23, 2017, 04:14:14 AM
Quote from: taxed on July 22, 2017, 08:25:34 AM
I think he doesn't understand how far a pro-American, pro-freedom, fuck PC attitude will go.

Geez, dude, ya think you got enough litmus paper for me to lick about a druggie promoting new music? And after about ten years of reading my posts, are you SERIOUSLY trying to tell me I do not understand a "fuck PC" attitude? You need your medications checked, sonny. I'm the exact same guy I was when I signed in here --- and I do not support druggies for federal office. Period. End of muthafugging statement, kapisch?

At what point do you expect me to give up my desire for experienced professionals and not publicity-seeking entertainers? And where were the rules that say I (the Michigan native who actually gets out and around and hears such things) can NOT impart "anecdotal," like Solar does for solar panel industry (etc.).

Kid Rock? Sure. Have at it. Make a zillion dollars, it's the American way. That just can't be why we elect him. If he were to run for GOVERNOR, he would definitely not make it. I hear that every single time his name has come up. Those who did say anything even remotely positive inferred that the Senate job is out of our area, where he (or Stabenow or anyone else) won't be underfoot, so have at it --- Kid.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: taxed on July 23, 2017, 08:05:16 PM
Quote from: quiller on July 23, 2017, 04:14:14 AM
Geez, dude, ya think you got enough litmus paper for me to lick about a druggie promoting new music?

I stopped reading after this.  Yes, he did a lot of drugs.  So did I.  He stopped doing drugs.  So did I.  He's only a couple years older than I, so his crazy music was when he was younger, as I was.  Now he's older and his music tastes changed.  So am I and so did mine.  I don't even like his older stuff like I did when I was younger.  That doesn't mean I'm throwing him out with the bathwater.  If you're looking for someone who has led a squeaky clean life, then he's not your guy.  My life hasn't been clean either, but that doesn't mean I, or he, can't grow up and care about grownup stuff.

When you're standing in line to vote for Stabenow, be sure to wear a "I'm with her" sticker.  They love that.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: quiller on July 24, 2017, 07:09:14 AM
Quote from: taxed on July 23, 2017, 08:05:16 PM
I stopped reading after this.  Yes, he did a lot of drugs.  So did I.  He stopped doing drugs.  So did I.  He's only a couple years older than I, so his crazy music was when he was younger, as I was.  Now he's older and his music tastes changed.  So am I and so did mine.  I don't even like his older stuff like I did when I was younger.  That doesn't mean I'm throwing him out with the bathwater.  If you're looking for someone who has led a squeaky clean life, then he's not your guy.  My life hasn't been clean either, but that doesn't mean I, or he, can't grow up and care about grownup stuff.

When you're standing in line to vote for Stabenow, be sure to wear a "I'm with her" sticker.  They love that.

I don't vote for Democrats, and Ritchie is not going to win the Republican primary.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: Solar on July 24, 2017, 07:18:09 AM
Quote from: quiller on July 24, 2017, 07:09:14 AM
I don't vote for Democrats, and Ritchie is not going to win the Republican primary.
Yeah, we said the same about the unknown Senator from Chicago.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: quiller on July 24, 2017, 08:08:39 AM
Quote from: Solar on July 24, 2017, 07:18:09 AM
Yeah, we said the same about the unknown Senator from Chicago.

As did I. Obama didn't have to put any career on hold when he ran, either. At the state level, running a separate business from House or Senate duties in ONE thing --- but performing concerts is in fact quite another for implications of donating to his campaign.

If Ritchie tries playing both sides he will be annihilated as just another publicity-seeker, a Pat Poulson wanna-be in the 60s or George Burns' wife Gracie Allen running for President in the 1940s. Entertainers try this crap all the time. Dwayne Johnson's another. Yeah---RIGHT!

The state GOP had resounding success with John Engler. They got burned to the bone with Spencer Abrahaam, the worthless slug preceding Dumpie Debbie. Can she be removed, after two terms? Best o'luck. Bringing in new blood has been done, yes, but for scandal or malfeasance, not for utter uselessness.

Present GOP Gov. Rick Snyder did manage to stagger through eight years, but the Lt. Gov., Calley, wants to veer even farther left and that won't sit still with the outstaters who already think Lansing is Moscow Incarnate. (They're wrong: Moscow is on US-12.)

The GOP got smart. They may back Calley. They won't back Ritchie.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: Solar on July 24, 2017, 08:26:58 AM
Quote from: quiller on July 24, 2017, 08:08:39 AM
As did I. Obama didn't have to put any career on hold when he ran, either. At the state level, running a separate business from House or Senate duties in ONE thing --- but performing concerts is in fact quite another for implications of donating to his campaign.

If Ritchie tries playing both sides he will be annihilated as just another publicity-seeker, a Pat Poulson wanna-be in the 60s or George Burns' wife Gracie Allen running for President in the 1940s. Entertainers try this crap all the time. Dwayne Johnson's another. Yeah---RIGHT!

The state GOP had resounding success with John Engler. They got burned to the bone with Spencer Abrahaam, the worthless slug preceding Dumpie Debbie. Can she be removed, after two terms? Best o'luck. Bringing in new blood has been done, yes, but for scandal or malfeasance, not for utter uselessness.

Present GOP Gov. Rick Snyder did manage to stagger through eight years, but the Lt. Gov., Calley, wants to veer even farther left and that won't sit still with the outstaters who already think Lansing is Moscow Incarnate. (They're wrong: Moscow is on US-12.)

The GOP got smart. They may back Calley. They won't back Ritchie.
He can easily turn any concert venue into a political event, and get away with it legally, like Trump landing at any airport and never having to rent the tarmac because they're open to the public.
Point being, the more concerts he performs, the more attention he garners.
I see Richie as a maybe, but if he throws in and the longer he persists, the more his credibility he gains, and the more backing he'll glean simply for staying in the race,m after all, he's running against a moderate Dim trying to find balance between real Americans and a Marxist base.
She has one viable option, moves hard right, or forget ever garnering a majority vote, while Richie draws across the spectrum, minus Marxists.
I get your point, I really do, and you'd have been spot on 4 years back, but that ship sailed, a new harbor has been built and the water ways dredged.
While her Majesty the SS Leftist Stabenow runs adrift without direction.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: quiller on July 24, 2017, 05:08:57 PM
The Kid Rock candidacy is a Warner Brothers marketing ploy.

QuoteYou can vote to buy Kid Rock souvenirs or albums, but not necessarily to send him to the U.S. Senate.

The attention he draws since Wednesday tweets about a supposed campaign is the product of a Warner Bros. Records promotion. Its name is in the URL and at the bottom of the Michigan stuntman's merchandise page at his new "Kid Rock for U.S. Senate" site.

The label apparently is flogging his next album by using the political process as a plaything -- though the performer still insists he considers a possible candidacy.

"I've got 15 days from my announcement to file paperwork with the FEC [Federal Elections Commission]," Kid Rocks yelps in a statement Thursday headlined: "Once again the press is wrong."

He adds: "Like politicians write books during their campaigns, I'm planning on putting out music during mine. . . . It's not a hoax, it's a strategy and marketing 101!" 

Okay then. That pretty much is all we need to know. 

http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/17880/new_update_it_s_a_strategy_and_marketing_101_kid_rock_says_of_his_maybe-candidacy

Now allow me to point something out here. Kid Rock is in a Tea Party Candidate forum here, but Robert Ritchie is an avid supporter of Donald Trump, who by all reasonable definition is NOT a Tea Party type.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: Solar on July 24, 2017, 06:02:48 PM
Quote from: quiller on July 24, 2017, 05:08:57 PM
The Kid Rock candidacy is a Warner Brothers marketing ploy.

http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/17880/new_update_it_s_a_strategy_and_marketing_101_kid_rock_says_of_his_maybe-candidacy

Now allow me to point something out here. Kid Rock is in a Tea Party Candidate forum here, but Robert Ritchie is an avid supporter of Donald Trump, who by all reasonable definition is NOT a Tea Party type.
The other guy possibly running against Stabenow, is an Establishment pick, who do you choose, a leftist RINO, or a no name non-pol?
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: quiller on July 25, 2017, 05:18:38 AM
Quote from: Solar on July 24, 2017, 06:02:48 PM
The other guy possibly running against Stabenow, is an Establishment pick, who do you choose, a leftist RINO, or a no name non-pol?

Epstein's presumably the RINO you refer to, and the talk I hear and innuendo in what I read is that the state GOP is polite about her candidacy, but it is accepted folklore hereabouts that it is simply not possible to find a Jewish conservative --- they simply cannot be anything ELSE except a liberal. And lib is definitely not what rotund-but-successful John Engler was, or what thinner-and-emptier Snyder dreams he is.

Yes, the backlash-vote concept may in fact win Ritchie the GOP primary, and at that point I will vote against him and against the OTHER Democrat running. That's what I think of metropolitan Republicans.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: ldub23 on July 31, 2017, 02:58:03 PM
I hope the  kid runs. He is the  only  one that can win.
Title: Re: Senate - MI - Robert Ritchie (Kid Rock)
Post by: quiller on July 31, 2017, 05:07:32 PM
Quote from: ldub23 on July 31, 2017, 02:58:03 PM
I hope the  kid runs. He is the  only  one that can win.

Get serious when Ritchie files to run. Until then he's talking trash. Michigan trash, but still trash.