Michigan Gov race: Yo, Schuette: You're running against Whitmer, not Granholm

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Hope Schuette gets all warped up in his Time warp


Yo, Schuette: You're running against Whitmer, not Granholm
By Larry Gabriel



Courtesy photos

Hey, Bill Schuette: That's Jennifer Granholm on the left. Your opponent is Gretchen Whitmer.

The advertising in the gubernatorial race between Democrat Gretchen Whitmer and Republican Bill Schuette so far has shown fascinating contrasts.

Schuette has mostly spent his advertising dollars to declare that Whitmer is Jennifer Granholm 2.0. — ..........................................

The names have changed but the argument remains the same. Schuette seems to believe that if you say "Whitmer," "Granholm," and "tax hike" enough in the same ad that people will begin to believe it's all the same thing.



That isn't working. Schuette seems like a man stuck in a time warp with a tired and true playbook for a game that's passed him by. He's banging on about taxes and has followed President Donald Trump down the trail of anti-immigrant rhetoric. I don't know how big an issue immigration is for Michiganders, but I don't think it ranks high on the concerns of most of us. However, it's Trump's issue, and if there's anything to know about Schuette it's that he is a Trump without the showmanship.

Trump endorsed Schuette during the primary season and Schuette is going to ride that endorsement as far as he can take it — for better or for worse. But whenever the attorney general looks home to Michigan it seems all he can see is Granholm.

Schuette can't get his head out of the past and the Republican playbook........................................................

But I digress. The point is that Schuette is fighting a ghost. His major contentions — that Whitmer is Granholm, and that Trump endorsed him — will not serve Schuette well enough to make him governor. The two women are not interchangeable — that's a Republican kind of calculation on women, and Trump is getting less popular by the day. Schuette may have a few other tricks up his sleeve, but so far that's the thrust of what he's shown.

Whitmer has not fallen into the trap of trying to prove that she is not Granholm.............................

Link to tweet

Hey, Bill Schuette: That's Jennifer Granholm on the left. Your opponent is Gretchen Whitmer.

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1. I knew they were going to go that direction.

I was push polled about two months ago. The thrust of it was were you satisfied with Jen Jens Governorship. They came back to that a couple times. When I said I was, that she started out in the hole and did the best she could under the circumstances. They didn't want to talk to me anymore.

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2. Granholm served two full terms

I hope that Whitmer does the same.