Unanue likely to be replaced by Dick Zimmer

If you were going to run the run. Why get in when you didn't think of it until some fatcats asked you.?

is hands down better than any of the three current candidates.

Dick would make a wonderful Senator.  But please, Dick, don't run the same campaign against Lautenberg that you did against Torricelli.  Trying to tag Lautenberg as a "Liberal" like you tried to do against Torricelli isn't going to work in NJ.  Show people how bright you are and give us more than cheap rhetoric.

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I saw that too and loved it!

It is the economy stupid and finances, stupid.

Zimmer is a horrible candidate who had his chance and blew a sure thing race to Bob Torricelli by ten points.  Then he blew another sure thing by losing to Rush Holt in 2000.  Why?  Because Zimmer's legislative focus moved from cutting spending to a strange fixation with the abortion issue.

Even many abortion supporters don't go as far as Zimmer, one of the few Republicans to endorse Partial Birth Abortion and the Roe v. Wade decision which legalizes abortion up to and including the day of delivery.

Look it up.  You won't find anyone who served in Congress with a more pro-abortion record than Dick Zimmer.

Coupled with his advocacy for gun control laws, there is little reason to think that this has been has any rationale for his candidacy other than to satisfy his insatiable ego and obsessive lust for power. 

In all fairness, it was Mike Pappas who lost the seat to Holt originally, not Zimmer.

 And Pappas was a strong Conservative..

Dickie Z is a non-starter.  I wasted way too much of my time trying to get this yutz elected against Toricelli.  One of the worst candidates I've ever seen.  He may be the only GOP candidate that Lautenberg could actually out-campaign.

It's as simple as ABZ - Anybody But Zimmer.   

As soon as we dig him out of our couches, they are trapped in there with the loose change.

Not only does the GOP brass want to go back in time, they want to go back to the really awful time.  

If you're going to discuss the abortion issue, at least do so accurately.  Roe v. Wade does not as you say, "legalizes abortion up to and including the day of delivery."   While it does allow women the right to make their own decisions regarding their preganancies, it does not allow for abortions to be performed "the day of delivery".  Where do you get your so-called "facts", Marie Tasey?

He was the guy Shaftan wrote that catchy tune...Twinkle Twinkle Kenneth Starr...that he performed on the floor of the house.  Rick did a great job on gettting him re-elected.

Out of tune. Out of touch.

Under Roe v. Wade, in practice an abortion can be performed at any time prior to birth.  In the event a woman's physician determines that a woman's mental or physical health is at risk, an abortion can be performed regardless of viability.  Even gruesome procedures such as partial birth abortions are allowed up until the last moment.  Liberal icon Richard Cohen wrote a remarkable article titled "Mea Culpa on Partial Birth Abortion" several years ago.  Anyone who doubts what I say should read Cohen's piece.  It is shocking.   

As for Zimmer, he voted against overriding Clinton's veto of a bill banning partial birth abortion on September 19, 1996.  I could never support someone who can find it within his heart to abide de facto infanticide.

And let's not forget Dick's "portraits in courage" moment when he voted against the GOP's budget plan to avoid takintg heat from the Torch during their Senate race.  Dick stabbed his colleagues in the back at a crucial moment when character -- or in Zimmer's case, a lack thereof -- was ripe to be revealed. 

By definition, anyone who aids and abets partial birth abortion lacks "ethics". 

As for the "meaningless" budget vote, this was Dick's Alamo moment.  When the heat was on and the bird was in the oven, Dick metaphorically exited the kitchen and drove over to the pick-up window at Mickey D's to grab a Big Mac.  This constitutes a clear lack of conviction to principle, which I find unacceptable in a candidate.

Being a professional lobbyist, Dick already knows his way around K Street.  At least he won't need a map.      

He lost to Holt in his own district (I live in it). There is no hope to win this seat. I still don't know who I am going to vote for. I think I will write in myself in the primary or maybe I will calm down and vote for Jersey joe...

This is the very behavour that gives the Republicans a bad name.

Like him or not Jersey joe has won the respect of the rank and file in the party. It seems more than Ironic that the folks who  cry " its my party too" and protect  the so called 11th Commandment have no trouble overturning conventions, extending deadlines,and throwing legitimate hardworking candidates under the bus. I respect Joe because he has a great work ethic who will give Lautenberg a good fight. The rank and file will vote in June be ready for the backlash

That quote is from Gerald Ford, not Thomas Jefferson.  Confusing the two is kind of ... sad.

Especially since Jefferson was responsible for dramatically increasing the government's activitiy, though no Republican will admit that.  His ratcheting up of the Navy and war against the Barbary states dramatically increased federal taxes on states (not individuals, but states) and the federal power on the seas.

Fedupnj It is you who need to get the facts.  Mountaintop and Martin Two are absolutely right. Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton legalized abortion for the entire nine months of pregnancy if the mother's "health" is at stake.   Health has been defined by the Court in the context of abortion to be any reason - "emotional, psychological, familial and the women's age - all factors relevant to her well being."   If you would like more information on the abortion issue, please let me know.    

Zimmer being pro-choice and voting against the partial birth abortion ban while in Congress really turns me off.

 I'm not going to vote for him in the primary, but I would still vote for him over Lautenberg in a general election.

The Honorable Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States

I didn't think I could ever be around to see the day when Dick Zimmer, who lost at 8:01 p.m., a minute after the polls closed to Bob Toricelli, would be the standardbearer for the Republican party and their hope for the US Senate seat this fall.

GOP = Losers.  Haven't beens and never will be's with Wilson and Kyrillos as their spokespeople.  Please save everyone's time and money and don't put up a candidate.  What an embarassment this has turned out to be.