Video: Michelle on Michigan
posted at 9:28 am on January 15, 2008 by Allahpundit
No one knows anything — except, er, that they don’t call it the WWF anymore. Close enough, boss!
I was surprised no one thought to mention Huck here, but eyeball the last 10 polls or so. After flirting with 20% a few weeks ago he’s really come back to earth. Which is probably good news for him: Expectations are low and McCain and Romney need the state much more than he does. Any kind of surprisingly strong showing, even if he’s third, gives him buzz going to South Carolina on Saturday.
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WWE! My bad. Last time I paid attention to wrestling, Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka and Andre the Giant were in the ring…
Michelle on January 15, 2008 at 9:35 AM
No, no, AP; it’s OBVIOUS Michelle WAS talking about the actual WWF, the World Wildlife Fund! They deal with endangered species, and after today a few candidates will be endangered…
radjah shelduck on January 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM
Sorry Michelle, your the greatest, but this is a must win for Mitt. All of the advantages are his. The Romney machine has been working this since his dad, he has spent an enormous amount of time and money…no one has come close to the amount of money Mitt has spent in the past year. This is Romney territory, if he loses this, he can’t win any contested state.
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This should be a cake walk, a slam dunk…the fact they are calling it so close is amazing, and shows his lack of personal support, his machine is running strong, he isn’t.
right2bright on January 15, 2008 at 9:37 AM
Fact is that the most believable individualist free-market small government guy still in the race is Rudy, and Rudy ain’t dead yet.
What Rudy needs today is the Yacht Salesman to pull out the victory in the Michigan Regatta.
Go Mittens!
Typhoon on January 15, 2008 at 9:37 AM
Two of my faves.
Allahpundit on January 15, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Best wrestling ever was the old Saturday Night Wrestling on Channel 11 in Dallas/Fort Worth from the North Side Colosseum in Fort Worth, with your host Dan Coates…
“I saw it. Did you see it? Threw him across the ring like a raaaaag doll.”
It’s been all downhill from there.
Sorry, just had to throw that in.
Typhoon on January 15, 2008 at 9:43 AM
Of course I’d like to see Romney win it, but as long as McCain doesn’t win, I will be happy. No one on either side has made so well a career for himself by stabbing his supposed base in the back at all turns as McCain has, so hopefully Michigan remembers this.
BTW who is that other guy, not Doocy?
amkun on January 15, 2008 at 9:44 AM
I was always a fan of BoBo Brazil and his awesome “Coco-butt” (head-butt that is).
BacaDog on January 15, 2008 at 9:48 AM
I once saw Ken Patera lift Andre The Giant over his head. Now that was an amazing sight.
thekingtut on January 15, 2008 at 9:51 AM
Hee. Which GOP candidate will be the Macho King?
If the GOP candidates were WWF wrestlers, which ones would they be?
John McCain = Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Mike Huckabee = Hillbilly Jim.
Michelle on January 15, 2008 at 9:57 AM
McCaine Mutiny in Michigan?
profitsbeard on January 15, 2008 at 9:57 AM
Look’in for a raise…
right2bright on January 15, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka!!! LOL !!!! Too funny. Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s real name is James Reiher and he comes from Fiji. He once held something called the ECW championship belt. He is now 64 years old and lives in New Jersey. Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka!!!! ROTF!! LOL!!! Too funny!
Larraby on January 15, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Once, just ONCE, if either Bryan or Allah had the guts to get into that squared circle with me… I’d slam them both on the canvas! Then I’d throw them out of the ring! Then I’d go out and throw them back into the ring! And then I’d pin them, ONE, TWO, THREE! And I’d be Hotair Intercontinental Wrestling Champion!
radjah shelduck on January 15, 2008 at 10:10 AM
The absence of a primary contest for the Dems in Michigan combined with primary rules of engagement that allow both Dems and independents to crossover and vote in the Republican primary sets the table for a chaotic outcome. An outcome not unlike what happens when rigged polling data is extracted from a poll with loaded questions.
The pundits will have their panties in a bunch over the results, but we need to remind ourselves their opinions are biased and worthless whether the process is fair or not. They’ll be fun to watch.
I don’t think the results in Michigan will reveal anything substantial. We should err on the side of caution and wait for the results from other states, before we declare who leads the race or needs to pull out of it.
fogw on January 15, 2008 at 10:11 AM
Good interview Michelle. And ruDy is dead. He’s losing ground in Florida WHILE he’s the only guy campaigning there. How do you think he’ll do after SC when all the candidates go there?
Again, he’ll probably finish somewhere behind Ron Paul in Michigan. I like Ron Paul better than ruDy because ruDy would use the government to bully Americans around.
Other than ruDy, I could support any of them, but I don’t like any of them. McCain should be booed for using the one issue with the soldier who has an illegal mom. . . IT’S NOT ABOUT THEM. It’s about we can’t afford the social programs for LEGAL Americans and now you are requiring Americans to pay for another 12 million ILLEGAL social programs.
But look at it this way, if McCain wins, at least he’ll be out of the senate.
ThackerAgency on January 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Huck may be familiar with the old time wrestler, Haystack Calhoun.
captivated_dem on January 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM
and ummm. . .McCain is winning (and will likely win) in California.
ThackerAgency on January 15, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Anyone else not able to see the video?
Kahuna on January 15, 2008 at 10:25 AM
I’m in Michigan, I did my part.
swami on January 15, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Last time I saw rasslin’, there was a WWF. I must have been in middle school.
As to the subject at hand, I have to agree with Mrs. Malkin about Mitt Romney. If he does not win MI, it will certainly be a disappointment for him. However, it will not be the end of his campaign, much as I would like to see that.
fourstringfuror on January 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Ummm…No. McCain is currently ahead in the polls in California.
Honestly, how could he not be?
Want to know a secret? Look at their positions on the issues and the closest there is to Reagan in this race is Rudy, by a good. wide. margin.
The mainstream media, however, hates him for running the pimps and whores out of Times Square, while the conservative media can’t forgive him for his stand on abortion (even though I truly do believe that he’ll appoint and fight for strict-constructionist judges while McCain and Mittens and even Chuckleberry I believe would put on their Monty Hall hats and go to the Dems in the Senate to play “Let’s Make a Deal”.)
So given that he’s been counted out and villified so completely on all sides even as McCain has once again been elevates to plucky sainthood by the MSM, what’s actually encouraging is that Rudy seems to have a base of support of guys like me who ain’t going nowhere.
Let McCain lose in Michigan and let Rudy take Florida, and the press on all sides will lok just as dumb then as it…well, has this entire season.
Go Mittens!
Typhoon on January 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM
No matter how many times you say it, it won’t make it true. NO REPUBLICAN IN HISTORY would have ever even contemplated suing gun manufacturers (Reagan would not have). It is unconscionable and is not something that Rudy can just run away from on his record. He took decisive, definitive action AGAINST the 2nd amendment of his constituents. He used the government’s lawyers and tax dollars to sue a legal American company. Reagan wouldn’t have considered that.
Reagan was against gay marriage and was PRO LIFE. These issues are things that a president can be directly responsible for (over decades) in appointing Supreme Court justices. I could never support someone who does not respect the 2nd amendment to appoint a judge who would also support the 2nd amendment. Just because he SAYS he disagrees with the lawsuit THAT HE FILED does not take away from the FACT that HE FILED IT as a bully. They are called SLAP lawsuits and are used when someone in power can’t get their way.
That is NOT leadership. It is bullying.
ThackerAgency on January 15, 2008 at 10:38 AM
The Kos-Kidz are trying to persuade MI Democrats to vote in the GOP primary; just to make mischief. Well, two can play that game. We should persuade MI Republicans to vote NONE OF THE ABOVE in the Democrat primary. After all, the GOP primary will be rendered meaningless by so many Democrat voters tainting it.
infidel65 on January 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Yeah, I understand.
But I’m more of an economic conservative than a social conservative. And the bottom-line issuse of conservatism should be freedom, and the Constitution.
Fact is I’m old enough that I voted for Reagan, twice.
Want to know when Reagan became Reagan? Want to know when the country realized that the Carter years were over and there was a Leader in the White House? It was the day Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.
I can see Rudy doing that. The others, not so much.
McCain is a statist, through and through. Mittens, he’ll say anything to anybody. Chucklebeery is a Christian statist.
I’m going to grant you everything you’ve said, but it changes nothing in my mind. Rudy’s the guy I see most protecting the Constitution and limiting the Federal government’s reach into my life and my wallet.
He’s also got a pair and the ability to communicate and offer better ways when it comes down to the Dems trying to take control of the heatlh care sytem for themselves.
And that’s equally as true as everything you said.
Typhoon on January 15, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Oh, wait…
Well, no. He wasn’t. This silly issue wasn’t even on the radar screen when Regan was President. People would have considered such a notion absurd.
Maybe he would have been. Maybe not. He did oppose a ballot initiative to fire gay trachers in California on the basis that what the did in private was none of the state’s business, so you could make a case either way.
But either way, it’s conjecture.
Typhoon on January 15, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Wow. Talk about deja vu. Romney lost Iowa after outspending everyone 10-1; lost New Hampshire in the part of country where he should be strongest.
The rest ofthe states are going to be an uphill battle all the way.
And the best news of all? Primaries are a LOT cheaper to buy than general elections. Romney’s got by far the worst cost-per-vote ratio of any candidate. And in a national election, the money he can “loan” himself will count for squat.
logis on January 15, 2008 at 11:24 AM
I’m voting Thompson today. Keepin’ hope alive, I guess. If he wins a delegate, it would be a surprise. Living in Michigan, I guess I’m used to standing in line to vote for a losing candidate. At least this time the line will probably be short. I’m guessing McCain takes it here.
Hillary has the dem ballot to herself, so she’ll take that, with uncommitted finishing a strong second.
thebriand on January 15, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Michelle is wrong about Mitt being “seen as a hometown guy.” No-one remembers his father, who was a RINO governor 40 years ago. He doesn’t live here and hasn’t in decades. He’s not seen as a favorite son by anyone but the Romney talking points.
Debbie Schlussel on January 15, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Mitt needs to get out and back Fred. MI is not gonna turn out for him. He won’t win FL or SC. Lost Cause
HotAirExpert on January 15, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Rudy’s campaign is dead, embalmbed, and buried. All that’s missing is the tombstone.
Hollowpoint on January 15, 2008 at 12:07 PM
I will be doing my part tonight after work. Yes, I am a law student, have a full time career, and a happy wife at home up here in the Peoples Republic of Michigan. But I have a question- is this a missed opportunity for the GOP to capitalize at a time when the Dems are NOT here stumping to get their message out and turn a state that has been getting more purple every election cycle that I have been a part of to actually turn it red?
GO FRED!
ConservativeLawStudent on January 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Maybe they should all use Huckabee’s example with Chuck Norris as a sidekick, but use wrestlers instead.
- Ron Paul could go with Stone Cold Steve Austin as his sidekick. They are both mean-looking, rough, tough, renegade, son-of-guns from Texas who tell it like it is.
- Romney could have The Rock join him campaigning because they can both “layeth the smacketh down” with their communication skills.
- McCain could get Hulk Hogan because the are both all-American kind of guys between McCain’s military service and Hogan waving the flag in fine patriotic fashion. They are both about the same age too….;-)
- Thompson could use Ric Flair because the they legends of TV from the 1980′s, 1990′s and are still getting the face on the TV even till this day….and about the same age too.
- I guess that leaves Guilianni with the Macho Man. No real comparisons here except it’s feels like I haven’t seen Guilianni since the last time the Macho Man ever wrestled, which years and years ago. At this point, it seems like both their careers are over.
This is what Michelle gets for analogizing politics with wrestling. Very bad puns by me.
Planet Boulder on January 15, 2008 at 12:32 PM
I think I have McCain Derangement Syndrome. Anybody but McCain. I have switched from Guliani to Fred recently. I thought he did absolutely great at the last debate.
TimothyJ on January 15, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka story circa 1998
Driving around in the La’ie area in Hawaii looking for a friend’s house. Being unfamiliar with the area, I made a wrong turn and ran smack dab into the Superfly watering his lawn … wait for it …wearing his trademark leopard print wrestling tights. It appears the man did everything with style.
Big Daddy Cool on January 15, 2008 at 12:53 PM
I hope that the Republican Garden gets weeded, starting with Michigan and South Carolina. Meaning goodbye McCain, Huck and (even though I love his conservatism) Fred. I can’t get past Fred’s age-if he did get in, and somehow win re-election, he’d be older than Reagan was when he left office. I know Mitt is only five years younger, but I think he’s in the best shape for two terms.
If the weaker candidates are weeded out, it’s all the better for our Party. Let the Dems bloody each other into incoherence-let’s show the country that leadership begins in the voting booth. Weed your garden.
Doug on January 15, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Hey, I LOVE blood and messes! woot
Drunk Report on January 15, 2008 at 5:38 PM
as an old school wrestling mark im going to take a shot at this ..
Mike Shuckabee ……….before he lost weight “1 man gang” after he lost the weight Iron Mike Sharpe ala Just another Jobber
John McLame …………. eaither ax or smash of demolition becuase we all know they were just cheep knock offs of the road warriors {just like McLame is a cheep knock off of a Republican conservitive}
Romney ………… Has to be Ted Debiase the million dollar man
Rudy ………….. Adrian adonis
Fred…………..The funker
Ron Paul……….The missing link
Mojack420 on January 15, 2008 at 5:57 PM
That was the eastern championship wrestling {before it became ECW} title later it became the ECW {pronounced EC-Dub} heavy weight title.
When ECW took off and dumped the NWA “by the franchise Shane Douglas” title and became the American version of FMW and change the wrestling world forever.
I might not know a lot but i know wrestling .
Mojack420 on January 15, 2008 at 6:04 PM
We love Michelle!!!
MichelleFanClub on January 15, 2008 at 7:29 PM
The only wrestling I care about are the issuses. Fred has plans and talks issuses. Thanks Michelle for the great insight into the primary.
limowilliam on January 15, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Bravo! I’m gonna have to try that Cheerios and Red Bull breakfast, you’ve made me a believer.
It’s always good to hear Michelle’s take this horse race (or wrestling match). I think that if Mr. Uncommitted delivers an Atomic Knee Drop on Hillary (as it appears is likely), the DUI Klinton smear machine will need a crane to pull her campaign up from under the mat.
Zorro on January 15, 2008 at 8:23 PM