The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is crowing about the Republicans’ inability to find a quality candidate to take on Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2012.
After former congressman Pete Hoekstra announced he wasn’t running, much of the GOP attention turned to former secretary of state Terri Lynn Land. But when Land said last week that she was taking a pass, she did so with a flourish of criticism aimed at the party.
“It’s not about words, it’s about actions. And the actions just aren’t there from the national to the local (GOP organizations) to say that they want to make this a priority and they’re willing to do this,” Land told the Associated Press. “That’s what’s needed in this kind of a race against an incumbent who’s strong.”
Though Stabenow was viewed as vulnerable just six months ago by pundits and pollsters, perhaps Congressman Thad McCotter let the cat out of the bag when he suggested that Republicans are frustrated by the lack of candidate recruiting success.
McCotter went so far as to tell Roll Call that past prognosticators who foresaw Stabenow’s weaknesses leading to an election loss have been off the mark.”She’s proven a whole lot of them wrong,” said the Livonia Republican.
