WILL N.J. VOTE FOR A WEAK DEFENSE? (Lautenberg Supports Polls & Not Record)

NY POST ^ | 10/14/02

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

When New Jersey Democrats recycled Frank Lautenberg following Sen. Bob Torricelli's flameout, they probably thought personal integrity had been put to bed as an issue. Wrong.

On Friday, no doubt reading from a script prepared by poll-obsessed Dems like Tom Daschle, Lautenberg backed a resolution giving President Bush the authority to act against Iraq. And, in so doing, he repudiated his own 18-year Senate record on national-security issues. Not that it didn't deserve repudiation.

[Fracas]

During the last few years in the Senate, Lautenberg averaged a 95 percent rating from The Council for a Livable World, a group of far-left physicists with an agenda to "elect the congressmen and women who support nuclear disarmament" - unilaterally, we seem to recall.

Ping!

Wonderful. Instead twins - McDermott & Bonoir - we have triplets! OTOH, there's Wellstone, Boxer...sigh.

[Cyber Liberty]

"We suspect that Garden Staters understand what's at stake."

I don't share the author's optimism....

[Cicero]

The Post doesn't really believe this either, but it's always a good idea to be polite to people you are trying to persuade to change their minds.

There's some possibility that rank-and-file union workers might vote against Lautenberg if they can be persuaded that he is a radical peacenik. These are the guys who came over and helped dig out the rubble at the WTC. That's why Lautenberg is keeping a very low profile on this subject and is pretending that he supports Bush, and that's why his record needs to be brought to the voters' attention.