Who to avoid at the voting box

For Michigan readers: The Detroit Free Press reports that the state GOP convention has nominated candidates for the "non-partisan" (yeah, right) parts of the ballot -- supreme court justices, and trustees for the big state universities. The article also says the state party will campaign on the message, "If you like what Gov. Granholm and the Dems have done for Michigan, you'll love what Obama will do for the Nation." Yeah, Granholm is a wimp, but she is still dealing with the 12 years of Gov. Engler's disasters.

The GOP nominee for the Supremes is incumbent Cliff Taylor. His rallying cry is something like this: Leftie liberals can't get their ideas accepted in the marketplace of ideas so they are using the courts and it is up to justices like me to thwart those ideas. I've heard the Michigan Supremes, heavily laden with GOP justices, have been rated the worst such court in the nation.

Other nominees (so you know who to avoid in November):

MSU trustees: Scott Romney, Lisa Bouchard.

UofM regents: Susan Brown, Carl LaFond.

WSU regents: Danialle Karmanos, Torion Bridges.

State Board of Education: Scott Jenkins, Richard Zeile.