Red fish

When my subscription lapses to the Detroit Free Press this September, this piece by Stephen Henderson will officially be the figurative straw that broke the camel's back.  At column's end, Henderson--either woefully ignorant or embarrassingly naive--makes this assessment of the Senate race between Democrat Debbie Stabenow and republican Pete Hoekstra:  "It's hard to see how the state could lose no matter who wins."

Un-fucking-believable.

Let me count the ways Hoekstra would be worse for our citizens, in no particular order:

1)  He's a racist as judged by his oft viewed Super Bowl ad with the Asian speaking in a broken accent
2)  He thinks equal pay for women is a "nuisance."
3)  He thinks we should drill for oil in the Great Lakes.
4)  He's a fiscal conservative, the absolute last thing we need in the Senate right now with our economy still struggling.
5)  He's a deficit hawk, the absolute last thing we need in the Senate right now with our economy still struggling (the failures in Europe aren't from overspending, they're from not spending enough).
6)  Henderson is living in fucking La-la Land if he thinks Hoekstra is going to be some maverick republican based on a couple of half-assed compromises he made when he was in the U.S. House.  If he wins, the day he steps into the Senate Mitch McConnell is going to stick a pole up Hoekstra's ass and he's going to dance however the republican powers that be want him to, just like every other fucking republican in the Senate (and the House, too, for that matter).

That's just off the top of my head.

I mean, if Henderson, head of the Free Press's editorial board, thought he was so great, why did the Free Press endorse his opponent, Clark Durant, for the republican primary?

Frankly, this was merely a Free Press sop to its republican readership.  Henderson just puckered up his lips and placed them squarely on their lily-white asses.

His questionable assertion as to Hoekstra's viability as a candidate for the state of Michigan is beyond disgusting.  We can just call him the Kung Fu Panderer.

Peace,
emaycee