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Mayor Steve Lonegan's 10 Conservative Principles:

1) The progressive income tax is an immoral, wealth redistribution scheme taken from the playbook of Karl Marx.

2) Small business and corporate taxes should be eliminated entirely to catalyze New Jersey’s lagging economy.

3) Energy rates should be kept low and proceeds should not be used to “solve,” “fix,” or “address” global warming.

4) COAH should be overturned entirely, not “gutted” and reincarnated in a different form as Christie suggests.

5) Every child should receive an equal share of state aid for their education regardless of where they live.

6) The judiciary should be accountable to the people and should be precluded from legislating from the bench.

7) Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood should not receive taxpayer dollars.

8) Law-abiding citizens should have the right to carry firearms as the citizens of Pennsylvania do.

9) Illegal immigrants should not receive government services and should be deported.

10) Corzine’s record is abysmal; Christie will keep the entirety of it in place with only minor changes here and there.

As nice as that may be, why would anyone from Maryland or Arizona or California have an opinion that matters? The voters of New Jersey will decide who “won” the debate by voting for the next governor. If New Jersey does as it has in the past then count on Corzine still being the governor the day after swearing in.

Maybe Lonegan has a chance and New Jersey has a chance.

If Lonegan wins the primary, he will have to deal with a spoiler named Daggett, who once served in the Tom Kean Administration.

Lonegan best represents Republican political philosophy. He will also fix the system. The system is backing Christie because the Republican part of the system doesn't acknowledge the need to be “fixed”. Like the Dems, the Republican insiders are very much a part of the overall problem and they view “outsider” Lonegan as a threat as his primary loyalty is to the voting taxpayers of New Jersey and basic principles of traditional American moral and economic values, not personal fealty to entrenched party bosses and career politicians.

I don't like the Lonegan flat tax plan. The way it is structured it raises taxes on singles making as little as $23,000 per year and for couples making $67,000 per year. It lowers taxes on those making $500,000 by almost $14,000 per year. How can he call that plan fair. Christie wants to lower taxes for all groups. Thats why I am voting for Christie. Christie also has the support of solid conservatives like Steve Forbes and Chris Smith.Corzine would love to run against Lonegan because he is an extremist who would be defeated in a landslide whereas Christie can win in this very blue state.