Posted on 11/06/2008 7:37:50 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe
Sussex, Warren, Morris and Hunterdon counties were all for McCain in the election. Too bad the big cities always beat us out.
Pearce might run again (only my guess as he is very popular down ). I doubt if Heather will. It will all depend how bad things are in 2010. I'm personally pissed that my retirement income has been trashed and I don't think it will come back anytime soon. That means that my retirement plans of April 2009 may have to be pushed back. Crap!.
Hey FRiend, I have one more debate point:
The starting of Fox News from scratch, is not analogous to starting a political party because starting a political party needs a ton of publicity.
Ross Perot and his billions, could only capture 19% of the popular vote.
If you don’t believe me, look up “Constitution Party”, and “Falcon Party”. They thought as you do.
I’m just wondering if Wilson may instead choose to take a kamikaze run at Denish in ‘10. Pearce should definitely try to try to get his seat back. I’m sad that Pete Domenici never worked harder to build up the GOP numbers at the state level and get us a nice farm team. He only seemed to pay it lip service and never followed through (so many heartbreaking narrow losses). With him gone and an all-Dem delegation, NM has a very bleak future ahead. No doubt the incoming regime will appoint U.S. Attorney party hacks that look the other way at the widespread rodent corruption in the Roundhouse.
Had Perot not quit early on (only to weasely sneak back into the race) when he realized he was actually going to win, he would’ve gotten a lot more than that 19%. It’s amazing, though... all he wanted to do was destroy Bush’s chances, I think he scared himself when he saw he might actually WIN the job.
The blind rabbi was not a good candidate.
I would have liked to see what effect a Perot win would have had. Would a party have formed around him? Dole and Gore run against him in 96?
1994 wouldn’t have happened. Midterms with neither party in the White House?!
Are you writing off the chance to beat Adler? It was closer than I though it would be.
NOPE.
Smith is a strong pro-life advocate but is a RINO with an ACU rating of 61% lifetime and 44% in 2007.
Garrett is the only good one in NJ.
Chris Smith is “very fine”? Nuh-uh. He may be socially conservative but is other wise a “moderate” with a slightly lower conservative rating than Saxton, LoBiondo and Frelinghysen. If you started your new conservative party, Smith would NOT be a member.
Perot would’ve had a big problem having no party members to back him up and essentially both parties would’ve been instantly hostile towards him. He might’ve been more Dem leaning on Social issues (one reason I couldn’t support him at the time, my first legal election) and fiscally Conservative (towards the GOP). But whether he would’ve resolved his premier issue of budget deficits via tax increases or tax cuts to spur growth along with spending cuts, I’m not sure. 1994 may have ended up a wash, although the GOP may still have made gains depending solely upon where Perot was going.
Clinton, had he lost narrowly in a 3-way race, quite probably would’ve made a second go for the office in ‘96. His 1980 loss as Governor didn’t deter him to try again. Whether Dole ran might’ve been questionable, his reason for running was to oppose Clinton (for all we know, he might’ve been able to get along with Perot and stayed in the Senate), so perhaps Dan Quayle would’ve run as the GOP nominee.
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