DCCC hits NJ airwaves

If Lance wins, he can thank the DCCC.

Is the whole "Lance/Dance" thing supposed to counter the "Stender/Spender" rhyme? If so, it's just not as funny.

And how can Stender rant about Lance's contributors when she has more campaign money than Lance does? Wouldn't that mean that she has more special interests to dance for?

"I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.”
- Johnny Ramone

when reached for comment Lance said "I respectfully disagree with the content of that television advertisement."

What on earth has Leonard Lance done to merit support for his congressional bid? I applaud him for toning down some of the partisan rhetoric and hackmanship in Trenton, but this is someone who has no vision of federal issues and is not worthy of one's support. On the federal level, where Lance's knowledge of the issues run the gamut from "barely competent" to "completely clueless," we know that Lance supports the doctrine of endless war in Iraq and that he invariably favors the same Bush-Cheney economic policies that have led to record deficits and financial meltdowns.

That the DCCC is already hitting the airwaves against Lance, while Lance has $200k or so in the bank, barely enough to keep his floundering campaign alive, is testimony to the state of the race; anyone who thinks that Stender, who should be commended for her work on global warming in the state assembly, isn't the favored candidate in this race is suffering from some form of conservative dementia.

NJPantherFan: Your understanding of federal issues is, well, comparable to Lance's: very little or nothing. In your rebuttal, if one can call your substance-less post that, you offer no ideas, no reasons to support Lance, that is, besides your own lame platitudes and conspicuous brown-nosing of this poorly-financed, poorly-run congressional candidate.

Since your posts are lacking in anything substantive, let me try to make amends and offer some, as you say, "hard, fact-based research in this race." When it comes to gay and lesbian rights, Lance's positions are indecipherable from Bush's, as when he voted against something as basic as civil unions and spoke out against the Supreme Court ruling as going too far. I've also never encountered anyone who considers themselves "pro-choice" yet has never voted for anything, as far as my research indicates, that is pro-choice legislation. Lance even voted for parental notification, which is antithetical to a pro-choice position. (Those are facts, NJPantherFan, and something tells me you are ignorant about such views of Lance's). For more information on Lance's view on social issues and whether it comports with his record, please see my article here:http://www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8447

So much for the myth of Lance being a "moderate," eh? (Note: For a "moderate" Republican, please see "Chaffee, Lincoln.") 

On economics, Lance, ever the GOP partisan, has voted for Whitman's boondoggle budgets, thus exacerbating state debt, while voting against Corzine's budget tightening measures. Lance, like George W. Bush, who is having a fundraiser this week for him and that guy who is running against Adler, opposes financial regulation, and therefore voted against the pro-middle class Paid Family Leave Bill. (Again, facts, NJPantherFan; facts are our friend). Again, Lance supports tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, as does his ideological brethren, Bush and Cheney.

On the Iraq War, there is no discernible difference between Lance and Bush. Lance favors no timetable for withdrawal, no benchmarks for the Iraqi government, what Lance called in an August interview "an artificial deadline" -- that's Lance-speak for a long-term unilateral occupation of Iraq.

My final advice for NJPantherFan and any other Lance apologist would be simply to do your research on Lance; he's really a social conservative who follows very traditional right-wing Bush Republican policies. My other piece of advice would be to have a stiff drink or two ready on the night of 4 November for when your candidate loses to Stender.