I Hate Fox News

Not to sound like a broken record but c'mon team McCotter. The quality of this upload is really bad. I don't really care that much (being the ancient, old, non-smartphone toting person that I am) about the poor pixel count of this vid, but other folks will.



Thad keeps on saying that this election is the social networking election for the Repubs. The T-Mac team needs to start listening to their boss.

Getting To Know Thad

The media doesn't hate Republican politicians. The media hates politicians that don't help them sell newspapers and instead just say a lot of words that mean nothing...case in point the Hilary Clinton 2008 Prez Campaign. Seth Mandel says some nice things in this write-up he did for Commentary Magazine about my main man Thad. Below are some highlights:

"McCotter may be the smartest–and easily the funniest–candidate in the field. I wrote about him here in May. Concerning policy, this is the basic roundup of where he stands:

McCotter is also aching to reframe the terms of the debate. The War on Terror, to McCotter, is really the War for Freedom, to be fought against “kufar fascism” with our “arsenal of democracy.” To McCotter, the United Nations is a “global Tammany Hall.” He decries the left’s “civil religion” and the pro-China lobby’s maxim, in his words, “make loot not war.”

McCotter is pro-market–he rails against the overregulation he calls the red tape worm–but he also warns against the transfer from a nation-state to a market-state ruled by global elites, referencing Wilhelm Röpke’s “humane economy.” And while he is pro-free trade, he seeks to advance the cause of “freedom trade”–tying trade agreements to human rights and ethical trade practices (and quoting Natan Sharansky in the process).

On defense, he is a vigorous supporter of peace through strength (instead of “peace through speech”), and he is especially tough on Iran and China. He compares the Iran-Syria alliance to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and calls for a Liberty Alliance that would not include a military component."

CSM Write-Up is Informing

a12iggymom's blog shared an informative July 3rd, 2011, Christian Science Monitor write-up by Husna Haq on my main man Thad.

Article Highlights:

"A lifelong Michigander born in Detroit to public school teacher parents, McCotter enjoyed a solidly middle-class, heartland upbringing. A high school football star, he finished first in his class at the University of Detroit, then went on to earn a law degree. He was elected to the Michigan state Senate in 1998. In 2003, he became the representative for Michigan’s 11th district. [McCotter is] an eccentric Beatles-loving, joke-cracking guitar player who’s always surprising his colleagues (by quoting rock lyrics on the House floor, for example, or hanging a picture of John Lennon over his congressional office desk), McCotter plays lead guitar for the Second Amendments, a bipartisan rock band made up of House members that performs for US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan."

“He has a strong voting record that [appeals to] the Republican constituency, he thinks for himself, and he’s willing to go outside the box on some things,” says Jack Holmes, a political scientist at Hope College in Holland, Mich. For example, after serving two terms as chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, McCotter recommended phasing it out and using its funds to pay down the national debt."

"in a race where most candidates are schooled by image consultants in the finer arts of polishing their personas, McCotter is refreshingly real, says Professor Holmes, who’s heard McCotter speak several times."

"McCotter has strong opinions and he backs them up in his strongly conservative voting record. That includes consistent “yes” votes on anti-abortion, pro-Second Amendment, strong defense, and antitax legislation. Perhaps most importantly, he voted against the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus package, earning him tea party praise."

Read Full Article Here:

10 facts about Thaddeus McCotter and his run for president

Arrogance Is A Campaign Issue

I was talking a friend who happens to be a MI Republican insider about McCotter a few days ago. I said McCotter was a great candidate and it will be exciting to see if his message gets traction. My friend said McCotter doesn't have a chance. 'Not only is McCotter too late, too unknown, and too underfunded, he's pompous and cold.'

Yesterday's email from the campaign is definitely the wrong tone for the McCotter campaign, seeing as how he needs to downplay the fact that he comes off as an arrogant know-it-all. Here are a few choice bits from that email:

 -- "Presidential Candidate Thaddeus McCotter dominated the debate on Twitter hosted by TheTeaParty.net." --
 -- "Congressman McCotter showed his understanding of the issues" --


Both of these quotes are said in the first paragraph of the email and written by campaign staff. They are unneeded and heighten, instead of diminish, the impression that McCotter sounds like an arrogant prick sometimes. It is true that McCotter most certainly would dominate any debate and he definitely has an understanding of the issues. However, that is not what his campaign emails need to highlight, as McCotter makes these characteristics clear in every interview he grants. Maybe Cain's campaign but not McCotter's. Thad's campaign emails need to help back his image away from the "I'm the shiznit" impression he gives. He needs to be humanized. The following quote from the email was good and the kind of message that should be expounded on:


 -- Congressman McCotter showed...why he is uniquely positioned to unite the Republican Party and take back the White House." --


McCotter is a great candidate and whether he is or is not too big for his britches doesn't really matter to me as a voter. But, it does matter to a huge amount of other folks as Romney's 2008 campaign's huge expenditures with minimal results proves. Please McCotter staff, for the sake of those of us who want to see him win, show Thad crying with a family who has been wronged by the Obama govt or whatever but don't heighten his arrogance in your own communiques.


Also on a technical note, this email had a bad link in it. At the top it said, with a typo I might add, "Having trouble viewing this email? View is in your browser", but when I clicked on the link it took me to a generic message from the campaign thanking me for my support. Let's go team McCotter. Get with it!