Torricelli is lying (Plus, I think this is all a ploy)

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[Rodney King]

First Torecelli is lying his rear-end off. I'll bet those names that he saw in the desk he was sitting at are not there. This should be easy to verify whether Humphries, Fulbright, and Morse signed the same desk.

Second, I'll bet the Sadat story is BS as well.

More importantly, I'll bet that he is not actually resigning. He will announce that he is, but he will not actually do it. Then, next week, the Governor will announce that the law will not allow them to do what they want to do.

Meanwhile, Torecelli will have been going around giving his sob story and telling everyone what a great patriot and congressman he was.

He will then say, well, for the sake of New Jersey he will stay in the race.

The race will no longer have been about his corruption, but about his lifelong service, etc.

Just my thoughts.

[teletech]

I don't think the Torch has any intentions of giving up this race. He knows that there is little chance he will be replaced on the ballot at this late date. All the RAT voters watching this will be chompin' at the bit to get to the polls to vote for this criminal once they find out he is still running.

[texjan]

From another thread-- absentee ballots have already been sent out--they know there is no way to replace him on the ballot.

[AGreatPer]

At first look at your thoughts and post my reaction was Poppy Cock. But, think about the timeing and it is like a perfect ploy.

I know nothing about NJ politics except what I have heard from Exit148.

My question is, "Are people in NJ that stupid that they would fall for this?" Good question, I think.

[montag813]

This was described as a "tearful" press conference. But I have one question....WHERE WERE THE TEARS??? He sniffled and feigned emotion, but did not shed a single tear.

The reality was that the Dems wanted him to resign to make it easier to simply replace him. But he refused. They probably had a screming match before the statement, which is why it was 3.5 hrs late.

[an opinion]

How's this....Torch dosen't run...governor appoints the popular Lautenberg for the election....Lautenberg gets elected...Lautenberg resigns for personal reasons...Governor appoints another Democrat for balance of 6 year term

[Former_russian]

I nominate your post the post of the decade! Being a NJ voter since 1984, I have no other explanation of what we are witnessing.

[Rodney King]

thanks

[Mo1]

WIPE THE SMILE OFF OF THIS MAN'S FACE.

VOTE THE RATS OUT!!

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[JoeSixPack1]

The Torch's polling data dropped like a rock last week and his re-election opportunity was toasted. This whole thing just looks like a backup failsafe plan by the rats. Preconceived at the time he retained his seat, and Rat control of the Senate, when his buds went to jail.

[fightinJAG]

I would not at all put this past the Torch or his good friend, Bubba the Embarrassment.

[fightinJAG]

Shades of New Coke.

[Lancey Howard]

Most likely being New Jersey they will vote for the Democrat.

Yep. You can basically write off New Jersey as a hopeless liberal sewer, owned lock, stock, and barrel by the teachers union. There's lots and lots of parasites in New Jersey, and as a suburb of New York City the corruption is overwhelming. Throw in a higher-than-usual percentage of pedophiles, welfare bums, homosexuals, screeching feminists, minority "victims", illiterates, and assorted other goofballs and the Democrats own New Jersey.

[fightinJAG]

The law clearly allows the Guv to appoint a replacement if Torch resigns, but what is not clear is step two: getting the new Rat on the ticket.

I'm not even sure someone withdrawing from the race actually gets his name off the ballot. Anybody know?

The point of the law, with its timetable, is that voters need a certain amount of time to evaluate the candidate---like more time than there is between today and election day, and certainly more time than between whenever the litigation is concluded and election day.

But how could the Rats have been so stupid to strong-arm Torch to quit unless the fix was in?

[John Lenin]

What makes you think they will change their minds. The Torch is toast !

[fightinJAG]

Sometimes the more I think people (in NJ) here "control of the Senate is at stake," the more this situation redowns to the benefit of the RATS.

[fightinJAG]

And the RATS will be chompin' at the bit to get to the polls and vote Torch when they are bombarded with this national brouhaha over how scared-witless the RATS are that a loss in NJ would cause them to lose control of the Senate.

Talk about millions in free advertising.

As far as they are concerned, if they can get every news outlet in the world to state that if NJ RATS don't get out and vote RAT in this election, the grandma-starving Republicans will take over, they just pulled their ace in the hole.

[fightinJAG]

Yes, it is the timing that gives this ploy analysis substantial . . . uh, gravitas.

Only other explanation for the timing is (1) (as reported elsewhere on FR) internal polls were so bad, so recently that the Rat bosses felt they had no choice but to pull the trigger, OR

2) Major thermal-global-nuclear crapola was going to be revealed that would make the Torch's present rap sheet look like a dance card.

BTW, I share the Freeper's concern about the involvement of the Sinkmaster. Anything he is involved in has to be thoroughly corrupt and somehow self-serving, to either himself or his witch wife.

[jackbill]

He is dropping out and resigning.

Actually, he is doing neither. He has petitioned the Supreme Court of NJ to take him off the ballot and allow the DemocRATs to put someone else on it - in spite of the law that says it can't be done.

If the court rejects his petition, he's still on the ballot, whether he wants to continue to campaign or not.

If the NJ Supremes accept his petition, you can bet your Bippy that there will be a suit filed in federal court. This could drag it on for weeks, and even if a replacement can ultimately be put on the ballot, there will be no time to campaign.

My bet is that the NJ Supremes will say that he's still on the ballot. After all, it's the law, no matter how you read it.

[meyer]

I don't trust it. I figure that its likely a trick. Either that or Forrester just threatened to open a big fat can of evidentiary whoop*ss on him.

[mwl1]

Watch, I predict that he will be on the ballot, and that he will win.

Nonsense, the bad stuff is just beginning for Torricelli. IRS is next.

RATS are trying to turn chicken shit into chicken salad. Won't work.