I Knew They Were Desperate, But ...

by: huntsu

Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 01:05:16 PM EST

I know the NJ GOP is pretty desperate, but I had no idea how desperate they truly are.  Today we get to see with three articles on PoliticsNJ.com PolitckerNJ about the NJ Senate race against Frank Lautenberg.

First we have GOP Chairman Tom Wilson sticking his keyboard in his mouth with this unintentional gem from a written statement:

"Anne Estabrook ran for all the right reasons and is ending her campaign  for the right reason,? he said in a statement.

Estabrook withdrew because she had a mini-stroke, which I don't really think should be called the "right reason."  But we've long ago expected Wilson to say the wrong thing even while trying to say the right.

Next we see that the grassroots GOP doesn't really think they have any bench strength, or really any strength, in their current crop of candidates or even the entire state.  PolitickerNJ has two articles, one with Al Leiter saying he will not run and the other with Mike Huckabee's NJ chair saying Huckabee will not run.

Why is this desperate?  Because Leiter lives in Florida and Huckabee lives in Arkansas.  They're not NJ residents.

Now, that worked in New York for Hillary Clinton back in 2000, but she chose that and then won it convincingly.  Oh, yeah.  And she's a Democrat.

The last time the GOP tried to import a US Senate candidate it was Alan Keyes who got crushed by Barack Obama back in 2004.

But I encourage them to try it again, given their awesome success rate with candidates -- whether from NJ or not.