If the last 2-4-6-8 years should have taught us anything it’s that while ‘bipartisanship’ sounds all warm and fuzzy in theory, in reality it’s doomed to fail because it’s, well, fuzzy. You can’t distinguish yourself from you ideological opponents if you have a record of supporting half of his agenda (please reference our last presidential candidate on a litany of issues not the least of which was the $700 bailout)

This auto bailout is a hanging curveball for the GOP. Outside of the union halls of MI, this tawdry bailout strikes a nerve on Main Street America - bailing out greedy unions and fat cat corporate execs…again. This is tailor-made for a primer on free market economics and to pound home the point that the Rs stand for the average person and capitalism, and the Ds stand for business as usual, influence pedalling and socialism.

I understand that both these gentlemen might both lose their seats for taking a principled stand (although not necessarily) However, whatever short-term negative impact there is to those two seats will, IMO, be vastly outweighed in the rest of the country as the Republican party is able to speak with one voice to the rest of the country that we are the party that rewards success and doesn’t subsidize failure with your money.

Michigan won’t be the same place in 2 years and if all democrats will have to run on is that they say it was the Republicians fault that the bail-out did not go through and that is why Michigan is in a depression…

Michigan will keep losing people and business’s and it won’t have near the importance in America that it used to have.

As much as I hate the bailout, holding that against otherwise sound conservatives like Camp and McCotter sounds like a continuation of the circular firing squad the party is going through at the moment.