Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Thaddeus McCotter 2012

Over the weekend, Thaddeus McCotter announced his run for the presidency.

If the election were held today, and the race was between McCotter and Obama, I would vote for McCotter in less than a heartbeat.

I would like to see him win the nomination. He certainly would make a terrific vice presidential nominee.

In any event, I think McCotter will play a significant role in shaping the Republican candidates' dialogue. That's a good thing.

Moreover, the Leftist media will have to contend with McCotter's discussion of substantive issues rather than dwelling on their unfair characterizations of Mitt Romney the Ken doll or Michele Bachmann the flake or Newt Gingrich the serial groom.

The Republicans' chances in 2012 took a giant leap forward with McCotter's decision to run.

Visit his campaign website.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I first saw McCotter on cspan during the run-up to Obamacare being passed. Impressed by his even temperament and demeanor as well as command of the facts. He reminds me somewhat of Paul Ryan in that regard.

heartlander said...

I think Thad McCotter is one of the greatest minds in the Republican Party -- and he's one of the very few conservatives who really "gets" some very important things that I don't see any of the other candidates addressing: the multipronged threat from Communist China; the bad side of globalization and completely unfettered free trade; the crucial importance of maintaining an American manufacturing base; and the vital neccessity of healthy "intermediating institutions" -- churches, PTAs, Little League, Kiwanis clubs, bowling leagues, Boy Scouts, etc. -- that make for healthy families and communities and thus stand between the individual and the government. Without these institutions, nothing buffers and protects individuals from the reaches of a power-greedy government.

I read his book, Seize Freedom!, and I hope it is read by many millions of Americans. It establishes McCotter in my mind as what I would call a G.K. Chesterton conservative -- a very high compliment indeed.

HOWEVER, I have two major concerns with Rep. McCotter:

1. His support of unions. Granted, he has supported PRIVATE-sector unions, not the public-sector unions that are killing us, BUT even the private-sector unions are very tangled up with communists such as AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.

2. Despite his strong support of the war against jihadism, he seems to buy the all-too-common misperception that there is a "good" Islam from which the jihadis are some kind of heretics. That's just not true. ISLAM ITSELF is the problem. The Qur'an calls for violent jihad. Islam calls for the ultimate imposition of shari'a in every single country on the planet. McCotter needs to have some long talks with the likes of Allen West, Steve Coughlin, and Frank Gaffney, and get disabused of that false notion.

Mary said...

I would love to watch McCotter and Obama debate.

It would be no contest.