Comments on: Going For The Upset http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/10/23/going-for-the-upset/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: TC@LeatherPenguin http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/10/23/going-for-the-upset/comment-page-1/#comment-29380 TC@LeatherPenguin Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:01:55 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/10/23/going-for-the-upset/#comment-29380 If I bet on politics, I'd drop a good piece of change on Kean pulling the upset. All my relatives: mother, sister, aunts, uncles and cousins--and all their wives and husbands (and their voting age kids)--are lockstep NJ Dems that are the core of that vaunted New Jersey Democratic Party machine, and they are all fed up to their eyeballs with the way the party has been operating, with almost every "name" Democrat tarred in some way dating back to the Torricelli switcheroo. Most of them couldn't give a damn about Menendez, since most of them didn't really know who he was before Corzine chose him to fill his Senate seat when he became Governor. He was just another party hack, and the investigation into his financial shenanigans reinforces their belief that the NJ Dems are a pack of liars and thieves. That, combined with the Kean family's name--which carries no such baggage--has almost every last one of them telling me they are gonna vote for Junior sheerly out of anger at the state party's leadership. If I bet on politics, I’d drop a good piece of change on Kean pulling the upset. All my relatives: mother, sister, aunts, uncles and cousins–and all their wives and husbands (and their voting age kids)–are lockstep NJ Dems that are the core of that vaunted New Jersey Democratic Party machine, and they are all fed up to their eyeballs with the way the party has been operating, with almost every “name” Democrat tarred in some way dating back to the Torricelli switcheroo.

Most of them couldn’t give a damn about Menendez, since most of them didn’t really know who he was before Corzine chose him to fill his Senate seat when he became Governor. He was just another party hack, and the investigation into his financial shenanigans reinforces their belief that the NJ Dems are a pack of liars and thieves. That, combined with the Kean family’s name–which carries no such baggage–has almost every last one of them telling me they are gonna vote for Junior sheerly out of anger at the state party’s leadership.

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