Monday, January 12, 2009

Going with the statistics found at nj.com (http://blog.nj.com/njv_thurman_hart/2009/01/first_gubernatorial_poll.html) and you will see how the image looks in the state of NJ. It seems that little is known about our politicians and that there is a long hard road for Republicans. What a discouraging piece. To bad this was already known so Thurman gets the Captain Obvious award for this week (even though he's just going off the polls fed to him.) It's even harder for someone like Lonegan who is the conservative candidate while Chris Christie is the pseudo-conservative.

Let's break down the numbers. What we have mostly is the unknown. Nearly a fifth of the electorate in New Jersey do not have enough information about the Senators to ahve an opinion, and a whole 12& for Corzine. 12% for the biggest, most high profile job in the state is NOT good news for Corzine - no matter how you slice it. And this is AFTER the man has been canvasing the state to gain support for this years budget. The Democrats are a group of unknown individuals by a large segment of society. Additionally, what society does know about them has a strong negative - the positive/unpositive ratings are less then or greater then 5%. So, the Democrats (especially Corzine who is the negative nelly in the group) have to be very careful of their actions.

Thurman says that the good news for Republicans is that voters don't know them - I would think that would be the good news for the Democrats - cause the voter DOESN'T know those who are HOLDING the seat.

Chris Christie is not a bad person, but running him is not going to get us the 'change' we need, and honestly, he hasn't thrown his conservative credentials out there enough - so there might be hope for him as well. It will be interesting to see the upcoming campaign. But again, I must reiterate, that this campaign needs a true CONSERVATIVE to deliniate the difference between the Liberal and Conservative.

I once watched Gov. Corzine on C-SPAN (back when he was a lowly Senator) and he said something to the effect that the Democrats could run a dog and they would call him a Liberal - Wrong. We would call him a DOG! A Liberal is a Liberal is a Liberal. When he looks in the mirror every morning he doesn't see a TAX CUTTING CONSERVATIVE - he sees a TAX INCREASING LIBERAL! Big difference between the two - and we need a Candidate who is NOT afraid to use the L word.

One thing that is clear is that Lonegan is a conservative, and he is a proud - out there conservative. He doesn't feel the need to hide his true feelings and you can hear this in what he says and see in what he writes. What we need this coming election is someone who is a Conservative with a capital C - the opposite of what we now have in office - which is someone with a capital L.