John Gizzi of Human Events has a nice wrap-up piece of the political state of affairs in Michigan.

Gizzi correctly analyzes the sham Reform Michigan Government Now proposal as a power grab in the tradition of hard-left subversion, larded with enough superficial items meant to appeal to conservatives to reveal the utter cynicism of its authors.

Upholding Lincoln’s adage about the inability to fool all the people all of the time, RMGN has been condemned by Michigan Democrats and Republicans and by press around the country. So Democrats are now training their remaining ammunition on defeating Chief Justice Cliff Taylor. Here’s the fun part: The blowback from RMGN is so powerful that the Democrats can’t get anyone to run. As you’ve read here before, former Gov. James Blanchard and fellow Democrat Marietta Robinson both decided they didn’t want to run in a year in which they’d be tied to RMGN. “That leaves,” Gizzi writes, “Wayne County Circuit Judge Deborah Thomas, who raised only $28,000 in a losing bid for another Supreme Court seat in 2004.” Not satisfied with this sacrificial lamb, “Democratic party elders and union leaders” are in a “desperate search.”

For Michigan Democrats, it’s a political American Idol in which all the contestants are going to be seriously off-key.