Unfortunately Dingell has a decent lead, but Steele sounds like a fighter.
“The real reason I’m running is I just couldn’t get to be 80 years old and look back and say I didn’t try to protect [our way of life] for my kids and grandkids.”
Boy do we need alot more of these types of people!!!
84 years old. Retire already for crying out loud.
These politicians are ridiculous.
Did John Dingell EVER have any other job?
If not, then how is he going to polish his resume? This is not 55 years of experience, it is one year’s experience some 55 times.
Over that span of time he has learned nothing and forgotten nothing, much like the Bourbons of France or the Hapsburgs of Austria.
I heard a clip from Dingell on Glenn Beck this afternoon. It was the one where he was comparing the Tea Party (during the summer town halls) to the Klu Klux Klan.
What a despicable man. It would be a nice cap on November 2nd to hear he’s lost his seat.
FIFTY-FIVE FREAKING YEARS! He has been in the same office since before most of the people in the US were born! He just WILL NOT give up the power he has accrued until they stuff him in a box and bury him. And the sooner bastards like him are dead and gone, the better off the country will be.
Too funny, either he or his father have been in that seat since the 30’s. History could happen this year.
That’s why I donated to Steele.
Throw out the bum, Dingell.
I still remember Al Gore stalking Dubya during one of the 2000 election debates, hounding him about some stupid Gun bill or something, and Gore trying to show how smart he was because he could name the sponsors...”What about Dingell-Norwood?” he asked in a smarmy way.
Dubya just ignored him. :)
I found a Dingell Norwood article...apparently it was another attempt, as Dingell put it, to “control the people”.
In other words, it was an attempt to give government more control of your health care:
http://www.freedomworks.org/publications/dingell-norwood-hurts-patients-helps-trial-lawyers
This guy’s a “young gun” compared to Dingellberry. Donations ho!
The 84-year-old incumbent has held his seat since 1955... [Robert] Steele [his Republican challenger] tells NRO... he's more fired up about the DCCC's website, which calls him "an ultra-wealthy doctor who made millions off the broken health care system." "The fat cat is John Dingell who lived in DC since he was 7 years old and who gets all his money from PACs and special interests," Steele, a 52-year-old cardiologist from Ann Arbor. "I've never participated in partisan politics in my life. . . . The real reason I'm running is I just couldn't get to be 80 years old and look back and say I didn't try to protect [our way of life] for my kids and grandkids."Doc' the Vote! Thanks coaltrain.
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Dingell and his cheerleaders at the DCCC have some gall to call his opponent "an ultrawealthy doctor who made millions off the broken health care system." What a bigoted stereotype! How the heck do they know how much Dr. Steele has made unless the 'Rats are illegally tapping into his tax returns? And regardless of how much he made from his medical practice, he has contributed infinitely more to the benefit of the country by prolonging and improving the lives of his patients. Contrast that to Dingell and his Democrat pals who has only contributed to hampering the careers of physicians and other professionals by imposing government control over them!
And will someone please ask doddering Dingell why the health care system is so badly "broken" that he has to be a cheerleader for Obamacare, which will suck out any humanity that remains in the system at a horrendous cost to society.
http://www.robsteeleforcongress.com/
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