Stupid Campaign Tactics

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The Republican running against Mayor Cory Booker for the late, and great, Frank Lautenberg’s Senate seat is named Steve Lonegan. I didn’t know much about Lonegan, until now. Now I know Lonegan is an idiot.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry called the nation’s implementation of Obamacare “a criminal act” as he ended his trip across New Jersey today with a rally for U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan outside a Bergen County diner.

Rick Perry? He invited Rick Perry to New Jersey to campaign with him?

In Bergen County, no less. Bergen is right across the Hudson from Manhattan. I lived there for ten years, before I moved to New York. It’s no hotbed of liberalism, but unless the population recently began to feel the effects of mercury poisoning, or something, it’s not that right wing, either, especially on social issues.

And if there’s one thing I know about New Jerseyites, it’s that the howdy partner cowboy act does not resonate with them. It’s utterly alien, like performing Chinese opera at a Polish wedding.

6 thoughts on “Stupid Campaign Tactics”

  1. “And if there’s one thing I know about New Jerseyites, it’s that the howdy partner cowboy act does not resonate with them.”

    Might have done better with the “indian” from the Village People. At he (probably) has some stage presence.

  3. Well, he’ll do better in Bergen than at the Jersey Shore.
    After one “Howdy!”, he’d end up on his ass, with a mouth full fist, and face full of sand.

  4. My first thought was to wonder why anyone would bother campaigning for Steve Lonegan. I saw that Booker’s lead in the polls has slipped, but it’s still in double digits. Is there any chance he isn’t going to win?

    Well, maybe Perry was in the area anyway, trying to find people he could convince to move to Texas.

  5. Bergen co. ? I was born in tea neck, spent the 1st several years in hackinsack. I ran head first into a parking meter outside the Arnold constable store at age 4. I guess that ‘explains a few things.

  6. erinyes… Wow, you came close to being a New Yorker… 🙂

    Northerner by birth, New Yorker by the grace of God!

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