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When Roukema announced her retirement last year, Sumers - convinced that the next primary winner would be Garrett or another conservative like him - left the GOP and entered the race as a Democrat.

Roukema herself has remained quiet about how or whether she will weigh in on the race.

This is the sort of crap conservatives get from the GOP in this state.

The way I look at it now, there’s one party in power in NJ – it’s composed of all democrats and 80% or so of the Republican politicians. This one party will do anything they can to keep the “Schundler wing” (of which Scott Garrett is a solid soldier) from gaining ground.

Garrett will make a GREAT representative, if he can hold on.

[Black Agnes]

You got that right. I guess they're going to treat Garrett the way they treated Schundler. I will never forget little donny D supporting the democrat, or forgive it either...

[an amused spectator]

"I think our members will be very excited about this race," said Emily's List President Ellen Malcolm. "The last thing they want to see is another right-wing Republican who is going to spend his life trying to take away a woman's right to choose a chance to get self-inflicted breast cancer."

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

The way I look at it now, there’s one party in power in NJ – it’s composed of all democrats and 80% or so of the Republican politicians. This one party will do anything they can to keep the “Schundler wing” (of which Scott Garrett is a solid soldier) from gaining ground.

Garrett will make a GREAT representative, if he can hold on.

I used to live in the 5th. Roukema was a Whitman clone and she kept winning GOP primaries simply because people there find fishing a lot more important than voting in a primary. Then they had no choice but to vote for her in the general election.

I just don't see how a Demo could win that seat. Unless the fine people there would find fishing a lot more important then voting in a general election. And this may very well be the case, given how interchangeable the 2 'maojor' parties have become lately.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

The way I look at it now, there’s one party in power in NJ – it’s composed of all democrats and 80% or so of the Republican politicians. This one party will do anything they can to keep the “Schundler wing” (of which Scott Garrett is a solid soldier) from gaining ground.

Garrett will make a GREAT representative, if he can hold on.

I used to live in the 5th. Roukema was a Whitman clone and she kept winning GOP primaries simply because people there find fishing a lot more important than voting in a primary. Then they had no choice but to vote for her in the general election.

I just don't see how a Demo could win that seat. Unless the fine people there would find fishing a lot more important then voting in a general election. And this may very well be the case, given how interchangeable the 2 'maojor' parties have become lately.