Mon Apr 19, 2010 at 02:00:00 PM EDT
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Jon Runyan traveled over the river to Philadelphia this past weekend to make nice with the Tea Party as he seeks the nomination of his party to challenge John Adler in November:"Just like all of you standing out here, I'm fed up with what these career politicians are doing in this country," Runyan said. He said taxes were out of control, the stimulus bill didn't work, and people were confused by the health-care overhaul. "We really need to get people like Nancy Pelosi out of office today." We interrupt this sound bite to remind you that that all career politicians aren't equal in the eyes of Jon Runyan as he only dislikes the ones he doesn't admire, like Chris Christie. But back to his rhetoric: Runyan said he was used to having a playbook after his years in sports. Now, he said, he has a new playbook, waving a pocket-size Constitution.
"When you deviate from the playbook, you get your butt kicked by everybody around you," he said. "We need to return to this to turn this country around and give the power back to the people."
I love when candidates use props. He's probably saving the flag tie for later in the campaign. But waving the pocket constitution wasn't enough to get him the support of the local tea partiers as they chose to support Runyan's primary opponent Justin Murphy. It seems like everything will be a football analogy with him and this could be a long campaign. |
| Jason Springer :: Runyan tries to drink the tea with his pocket constitution |
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