The Detroit News is reporting this afternoon that actress Melissa Gilbert has announced she is running for the Democratic nomination for Congress, against Freshman Congressman Mike Bishop in Michigan's 8th District. This is the seat previously held by Mike Rogers, and is considered a pretty safe Republican district.
Gilbert, and her husband, actor Tim Busfield, live in Howell.
I promise, no "an actor - really?" comments, as Ronald Reagan was certainly an actor, and he was successful both as Governor of California and President. But of course, Gilbert is no Ronald Reagan.
Predictably, she says she is for "families", a "new economy", and "helping people who have fallen through the cracks." Or in other words, the same old Democrat Socialist Redistributionist hogwash we have been hearing for the last 70 years.
If Bishop has any political chutzpah he should be able to deal with Gilbert and her tired rhetoric easily. Her name recognition will help her, certainly. I've never heard her speak as herself, so I have no idea how she carries and presents herself. We shall see.
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She can't even pay her own taxes or other debts, so what makes her think that she's qualified to handle the nation's finances? Oh, right...Democrat.
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