"But, I was extremely disappointed when he usedDr. Martin Luther King's birthday in a manner certain to alienate African-Americans."
Gee, you mean he told them that they should be judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, and thus he would oppose affirmative action?! Scandalous! Outrageous! How dare he not feed the meme of entitlement and government-sanctioned bigotry?!
This is the problem I have with the Lonegan-bashers - your active insistence that we need to lie or misrepresent our positions in order to be elected. Screw that! Affirmative action -is- rank bigotry, plain and simple, and if Lonegan had the courage to go into the lion's den to make that clear point where it needed to be made the most, more power to him. If we -can't- win by being honest and principled in our positions, then we seriously shouldn't win at all, and New Jersey should get what it deserves.
You guys want to "win" by attacking our own for standing up for our principles. We should "win" by conceding half the battle before the general election even begins. Screw that. Conservative principles -can- and -should- (and do, elsewhere) win without having to be watered down or supported only in a mealy-mouthed "I'm ashamed of what I stand for so I'll lie about it" manner.
Yeah, New Jersey is liberal right now. Wotta genius you guys are for figuring it out. The thing is, though, that we're not going to win anyone over by being mealy mouthed and lying about where we stand. That just feeds into the "hidden agenda" smear that the Liberals in Canada are using to successfully maintain power even in the face of scandals that actually make corruption in NJ look tame by comparison. The worst thing we can do is "hide" our agenda... our agenda is correct and we can only convince others of that by being open about it and making strong, confident arguments in their favor, not by acting like we're just trying to sneak our way into office and then enact our agenda against the voter's wishes.
The biggest problem in NJ government is dishonest politicans. We want to solve the problem. You're doing so by attacking the one honest politician on this ballot and supporting instead those who will be "properly" apologetic for conservative positions. If you're that ashamed of conservatism, go ahead and vote Schundler, but leave me out of it, thank you.
Qwinn
"But, I was extremely disappointed when he usedDr. Martin Luther King's birthday in a manner certain to alienate African-Americans."
"Gee, you mean he told them that they should be judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, and thus he would oppose affirmative action?! Scandalous! Outrageous! How dare he not feed the meme of entitlement and government-sanctioned bigotry?!"
The tact that Lonegan took to "communicate" this idea was meant to alienate. Lonegan either wanted to chase moderates and minorities from the GOP, or he is too dense to realize that was what he was doing.
Anyhow -- as Lonegan sinks from THIRD TO FIFTH in the polls, Lonegan did not manage to chase people away from the GOP. He just chased people AWAY FROM HIM!
Blabbering in a crude, rude, and offensive manner is NOT a strong statement of Conservative values. It's just CRUDE, RUDE, and OFFENSIVE BLABBER!