I grew up in New Jersey and was somewhat active in the Republican Party there through high school and college, until I left to move to Virginia. During that time, the New Jersey GOP managed to do pretty decently. They elected two Governors — Tom Kean and Christie Todd Whitman — who, while not conservative, were about as conservative as a Republican can be and still win a statewide election in the Garden State.
Then, the wheels came off. With the exception of this year’s Senate Candidate, Dick Zimmer, most of the statewide candidates that the NJ GOP has nominated over the past decade or so have been second-tier candidates, and almost none of them have had the kind of political experience you need to actually fill the job they were running for.
Now, it seems, New Jersey Republicans have just decided to completely abandon reality:
NEWARK–CNN’s Lou Dobbs isn’t talking about rumours that he’s thinking about running for governor of New Jersey.
Dobbs lives on a 300-acre farm in Sussex County.
Dobbs told The Star-Ledger of Newark he’s “not going to comment.”
State Republican chairman Tom Wilson tells the newspaper the Dobbs’ buzz is circulating among GOP officials and fundraisers in New York City and Washington.
Wilson says the first thing Dobbs should do is register as a Republican. The CNN host switched from the GOP to an independent in 2006.
New Jersey’s current Governor, Jon Corzine, is immensely unpopular right now, but with an idiot like Dobbs as his opponent, he can pretty much be guaranteed a second term.
H/T: Jason Pye
