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In real politics (4.00 / 1)

you control the story as much as you can, you control the news cycle as much as you can, and you use what happens to paint the opposition in the colors you wish.

Junior Kean's staff has proven itself to be beyond incompetent.  They could have killed this easily and quickly in several different ways and, instead, showed what a bunch of amateur yahoos they are by just issuing denial after denial each time.  When you say, "I don't know nuthin' 'bout it", you leave it to the press and the opposition to know something about it, and you leave it to them to force responses from you.

All along I have been watching this campaign and wondering what we can do to "brand" Junior and his cohorts effectively so that the voters will have an unambiguous choice in November.  You have to pin your branding to something.  This is the something that gives us our branding.  The opposition is trying to brand Senator Menendez as corrupt, but they are incompetent and there is nothing to pin it to.  Xpat showed that by proving that Junior's charges are false.  But Junior has been disappearing every time something happens and his side has been simply lying and deceptive.  And that is the Junior Kean brand:  false and spineless.  When Kean's staff is caught, red-handed, indisputably lying on the web logs and then lying about their lying, Junior tries to dismiss it as nothing and run away from the issue without ever addressing the issue.  When families of military personal want some questions answered about Junior's position on Iraq, Junior, spineless and evasive, just won't answer.  And so it goes.  The Junior Kean brand:  spineless and false.

DBK

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by: DBK @ Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 15:18:38 PM UTC

Are you guys kidding me (0.00 / 1)

Seriously, do you really think that Jill has the time to post on blue jersey....your site does a wonderful job of spin tho I must say....you acknowledge that the entire office has the capabilities of accessing the internet via the unique IP address (yet it must have been hazelbaker), and you only rave about the free press...only in your fantasy land would Jill Hazelbaker actually visit your site...You WISH....sinking to a new low democrats are!!!

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by: Bob's Look Alike @ Sat Sep 23, 2006 at 00:30:55 AM UTC

nice try (0.00 / 0)

For those who can synthesize two or more ideas at the same time, here's the deal:

The IP address is only one part of it.  There's also the fact that she knew information that wasn't public at the time, the comment is nearly identical to the comments she made to reporters, and she tried to feed Record reporter Herb Jackson the same oppo research that she posted in the comment.

One message that Melli said linked Hazelbaker to the anonymous posts concerned Menendez's relationship with a non-profit group that leased office space from him and is now the subject of a federal investigation.

On Tuesday, Hazelbaker had sought to downplay a contention by Ellen Weintraub, former Democratic lawyer for the House ethics committee, that Menendez's lease did not violate House ethics rules.

In doing so, Hazelbaker directed a Record reporter to another political Web site, the National Center Blog, on which a writer suggested that Weintraub did not deserve her current job on the Federal Election Commission. The writer asserted that Weintraub had a conflict of interest because her husband was on the Senate Democratic staff.

An ironic twist

Later that evening "cleanupnj" posted the same information on bluejersey.net, a day before the article appeared in The Record.

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by: Juan Melli @ Sat Sep 23, 2006 at 03:53:26 AM UTC

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The fact that you can use "fantasy land" and "Jill Hazelbaker" in the same sentence makes me shudder.

XT

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by: Thurman Hart @ Sat Sep 23, 2006 at 03:58:25 AM UTC

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Sad, indeed, on party is.  On the dark side, have they fallen.  Drunken, Yoda surfs upon Blue Jersey.  Astroturfs with the force.  Trolls with massive self-esteem issues.

*sigh*

Child of illigitimacy, you are.  Canine of female persuasion, intercoursing maternal relatives.  Ignorance, heaping piles, repeating endlessly, you are.

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by: Thurman Hart @ Sat Sep 23, 2006 at 04:06:25 AM UTC

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