Posted on 11/14/2005 2:27:32 PM PST by Wuli
If anything Forrester proved that a lot of us conservatives would rather stay home than vote for a RINO. Now Forrester is blaming Bush. Good riddance.
Conservatives lose another election for SPITE !!
Abortion should not determine how New Jersey's CORRUPTION continues to raise taxes.
Sounds just like Bush.
In the end, I wasted my vote on Forrester, because I was deluded into thinking that he might have a tiny chance of ousting that socialist criminal Corzine.
Well, at least I know I've wasted my last vote on that guy.
Its like Ronald Reagan and his landslide victory never existed. Its real simple, if the Republican party wants to totally dominate, they need to quit running toward the middle. Nothing worse than a milk toast middle of the road politician.
Let's put it the other way around. Fiscally conservative Republicans should not nominate pro-abortion candidates and expect pro-lifers to vote for them.
The bottom line for pro-lifers is the right to life. Nothing is more important. If you believe that killing babies is wrong, then you can understand that.
So, country club Republicans who want lower taxes, an end to Democrat corruption, and the like, had better realize that they need to compromise with their brother pro-life Republicans on the abortion issue. Otherwise this kind of fiasco will happen again and again.
You got that right ... rivals over the IDENTICAL political turf..
Forrester lost because he is Forrester!
You're absolutely deluded if you think Forrester would have done a single thing to end corruption in this state.
He just would have made sure he got his.
Forrester was the first candidate I was ashamed top vote for. I always go right down the (R) column-but using Corzine's ex-wife was a B.S move. Keep the families out of it. It was the first time i was ever ashamed of my vote. What a punk.
The GOP in New Jersey is like Pauley Walnuts to the Democrat's Tony Soprano.
They scrounge around pathetically, looking for whatever scraps of graft Bob Torricelli and Sharpe James might have overlooked.
You are wrong. Abortion was not my lead issue, or many conservative's lead issue against Forrester. Conservative interests cover a variety of issues, of which abortion is but one and not always one for all conservatives. The "sum" of Forrester's agenda simply was not that "conservative".
We didn't lose, you did, because your moderate was too moderate for too many of us. RINOS need to decide where they really should make their compromises, with their friends or with their enemies.
Maybe you chould get your facts straight. Conservatives want to cut taxes and make them permanent. RINO's want to take away tax breaks, and institute new Taxes (Olympia Snowe).
I don't give a damn what Forrester said in his campaign. The test of the real man came afterwards when he couldn't own his own loss, instead blaming it on the President. With that single action he justified everyone that wouldn't vote for him.
I personally can tolerate a Liberal Republican like Rudy as Governor or Senator. Forrester would have joined the Whitman's of the Party that I despise. Good riddance.
BTW, conservative or no the Republican would have lost. This is NEW JERSEY! It's corrupt to the bone and the RNC appartus has been gutted. What they need to do is differentiate themselves from the Liberals and start building from ground up a movement and stable of conservative talent. 10-20 years the state could be won by Reps, IF they want to make the effort.
So true. The pubbies that put their vote to this RINO again gave approval to this liberalism. Should have gone to the polls but voted 3rd party & tell the exit polsters what & why they did it.
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