Pennacchio calls on GOP state chairman to resign

I'm not a Tom Wilson fan and I like George Dredden, but Jersey Joe is a real class A Sore Loser. He's more bitter than Hillary was after Obama beat her.

Hey Joe,
You ever think you lost because of yourself? You had basically equal county lines, many more months to campaign, and a low turnout Republican primary. Yet you couldn't even convince your own conservative base, let alone primary voting R's that you were ready for prime time.

I wonder what your reaction would be if other Republicans called on sore losers who just happen to be career back-benchers to resign?

Let Wilson finish his term and face the party come June, if he decides to run again.

If we want any hope in 2009, he should go now. Otherwise we will be flapping about and go into the 2009 General Election with 5 months of organization.

I think that Jersey joe was just throwing out names but, George Dredden would be a good choice. Hes smart, Dedicated, experienced and a straight arrow unlike our current chairman...

Estabrook, Unanue, Zimmer...Wilson backed all of them over Pennacchio, a sitting member of his party. All of them were embarrassments to the party.

what a great guy and rising star in the Republican Party.

The problem is that Wilson is making the Party Democrat clones in policy and position not in outreach. I feel the the GOP can bring the message of smaller, more efficient government to the very people who need it the most, the Working poor that have been used and tossed out every election cycle by the democrats.

I also looked up this George Dredden guy, He sounds much better than Wilson; at least hes willing to fight on principle.

Take a business approach to running campaigns and raise baby raise $$$$$

"Estabrook, Unanue, Zimmer...Wilson backed all of them over Pennacchio, a sitting member of his party. All of them were embarrassments to the party."

And yet, Joe still lost to Zimmer and would've lost to either Estabrook or Unanue had they stayed in the race. What does that tell you?

Joe Finocchio needs to stop crying like a woman and get over it already. He was a terrible statewide candidate and always will be. He needs to keep his mouth shut and stay in his LD where he belongs.

"For his sake, I hope Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing!"- Rudy Giuliani

Imagine my astonishment at learning that there's a Republican Party in New Jersey!

Thanks for the news.

"I would have to point out that Jersey Joe beat the millionaire princess Estabrook in her home county, Destroyed Andy "twelve steps are for quitters" Unanue, and finally after so many opponents that sucked away money Wilson chose Zimmer specifically to beat Joe not win the general."

Okay, really? Seriously??? First of all, no he didn't, second of all, no he didn't and finally, no matter who won the nomination, a Republican candidate was not winning in a state that hasn't elected a Republican to the US Senate since 1972 in an anti-Republican year in a safe Democrat state. Let's not be delusional here, okay?

Furthermore, it is not Tom Wilson's fault that a Republican hasn't won a senate seat in 36 years. He gained control of the party when it started heading south after the party abandoned the state's urban centers and gave machine Democrats carte blance to get re-elected on cruise control. That can't be left on Wilson's doorstep. He can only work with the cards he's dealt.

Maybe, if Pennacchio didn't attack Tom Kean Jr. during the '06 campaign like the arrogant egomaniac he is, he wouldn't have fallen out of favor with the party in the first place. Far as I'm concerned, he got what he deserved and I would never support him for any office on any level.

"For his sake, I hope Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing!"- Rudy Giuliani

Tom Wilson has to be the most inept, unproductive, unsuccessful state chair in the country for either party.

I wouls rather be the Utah Democratic state chair than Tom Wilson!

Vote Column "A" - All the way!

I like Pennachio's logics. I mean, if Zimmer won, Wilson would get credit, amirite? So if Zimmer loses, then BLAME WILSON, amirite?

Extending these logics, Yudin should do the classy thing and resign in Bergen county. Amirite?

I doubt Jersey Jow would have done worse in the general election than Dick Zimmer.

People like Tom Wilson keep pushing for so-called moderate candidates who are said to be electable and they keep losing by double-digits. In fact, the only "moderate" Republican to win over 50% in NJ statewide in thirty years is Tom Kean who at least reached out to conservatives instead of the Whitman approach of freezing them out.

Yeah, maybe New Jersey isn't going to elect the kind of candidate that gets elected in Alabama, but Republicans are never going to get elected anywhere if they run merely as quasi-Democrats and never offer a real difference.