Murray Sabrin makes Ron Paul cry

I like this one a lot.  

I am very happy Dr. Sabrin's campaign has been willing to call-it-the-way-it-is.

Can you imagine if we found out about Jersey Joe's manifesto in the Fall when Lautenberg would hang him on his own words?

Can you imagine if we found out about Playboy Andy's illegal activities in the Fall?

Now you know why the Republican Party continues to lose. It seems Dr. Sabrin is the only candidate who REALLY wants to WIN.

MESSAGE to GOP Leaders: STOP sending us TRASH for candidates - YOU are polluting our system!

Go Murray Go!

...has a point. Sabrin is pointing out the political liabilities that Democrats will only exploit to their fullest come election time--and you can't argue about that.

BEST ONE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Political correctness is tyranny with manners." - Charlton Heston

So what you are saying is that Sabrin was the first person to discover that Pennachio had written the manifesto and that Andy Unanue was a party-boy?

Give me a break.  That was public knowledge and the political reporting class were the ones who put it out there.  Sabrin just jumped on the bandwagon to make political points.  Lauding him as a truth teller for that is revisionism at its height.

Negative campaigns are pretty normal for primary challenges, but at some point Murray forgot who he was opposing and was a tad bit too critical on those he was opposing.

For Instance - There was no need to call for Pennacchio's exit for a 17 year old thing he wrote.

I didn't agree with a bunch of the stuff he wrote, but he shouldn't resign for putting his ideas out ther 17 years ago, give me a break.

And they jumped on Andy Unanue within sceonds; calling him a "slick playboy" was pretty unneccessary. It makes for good entertainment, but doesn't really help Murray's case.

But where they really went off the reservation is their crusade against the NJGOP and several county chairs.

I know I'll get branded as defending the establishment here, but does anyone think it's the job of a US Senate candidate to go after Chairman Wilson and a few county chairmen? That job's reserved for challengers of those chairs, and last I checked Murray's not running for NJGOP Chairman or BCRO Chairman, or any of those. A U.S. Senate candidate who focuses most of his time on attacking the NJGOP and County Chairman is a lost cause.

If Murray had stayed on his message of limited government and stuck with the economics stuff, it would have never gotten to this level and he may have gotten even more support. It's my assumption that Murray's actually lost support and I know a few of his backers admit they don't like the negative campaign.

Slash and Burn Kamikaze campaigns make for great entertainment, but in the end they are either forgotten or they damage the little resources some County organizations have and give the Democrats a much better shot at winning. (See the primary challenge for Republican Freeholder candidates in Bergen County)

If Murray were as good a candidate as his supporters say, he wouldn't have to resort to childish tactics such as name calling. He would be able to craft a message, based on his platform, that the average person would understand and appreciate.

"Does anyone doubt for a minute that if PolitickerNJ cared for substance that Sabrin wouldn't be putting out Press Releases explaining the natural rate of interest and how the systematic lowering of the rate through the artificial fiduciary media has caused our current economic crisis?"

Actually, PolitickerNJ.com provides all candidates, party organizations and elected officials with passwords that enable them to post press releases directly to this website. There are no limits on content, length or frequency.

Being a good candidate has nothing to do with being understood or getting elected. If Thomas Jefferson were alive today and wrote of Lockean property theory and classical liberalism he would be criticized as a pompous intellectual. Some times ideas are complicated and if you are not going to spend the time understanding them beyond a 10 second soundbite, you shouldn't be voting. Sabrin is not conniving and manipulative enough to be a good politician. He has a hobby that immediately discounts him from getting elected. Is it sleeping with hookers? Clubbing baby seals? Nope. He enjoys reading books and understanding issues. Establishment hacks hate this sort of subversion.  

That is correct, but then explain to me why the press releases don't get the same attention as the front page cartoon that portrays Sabrin negatively?

I understand the position of politickernj. Given that a site has a certain amount of front page space the editors need to choose material that will appeal to their readers and increase their traffic. I should not have said that PolitickerNJ doesn't care about substance, but rather their readers do not. The low level of discourse here is primarily a function of the fact that you are covering politicians. Politicians are generally vacuous knaves filled with rhetoric; the coverage follows this fact.

I would like to see PolitickerNJ host an online debate between Pennacchio Sabrin and whoever else the GOP wants to put it. It will be abundantly clear that Sabrin has more than a fifth grade "we good they bad" understanding of the world. Unfortunately, if he were to begin speaking with polysyllabic words the bulk of the viewers would turn off because "goldarnit, thiz is too interlectual." 

Dr. Sabrin all the way, despite stones (beans!)(pharmaceuticals too!) being thrown his way by the establishment leaders. Way to go Murray!

We, the great unwashed, are clearly not worthy of the great gifts that his Murray-ness has apparently deigned fit to bestow upon us.  We struggle with monetary policy, economic geography and polysyllabic vocabulary.  We probably could not even gain admission into the low to middle tier institution that Murray teaches at. How can we ever hope to appreciate his keen political acumen and policy initiatives?  Is he trying to save us from ourselves?  Perhaps we would all be better off if he found another charity case.

The point of the cartoon is not candidate qualifications, nor is even electability (or, in Murray's case, the lack thereof).  The cartoon is a statement about his campaign tactics and the tactics of his surrogates.  Whether we uses one syllable ("dumb") or as many as 5 ("reprehensible"), the tactics of the Sabrin campaign have been vile, childish, counter-productive, mean-spirited (see I can hyphenate too) and, in the end, they will surely backfire.  How does "disco-playboy" elevate the debate?  Fascist manifesto?  Sure, you hear that word in kindergarten every day.  There are no negative connotations (4 syllables) there.  Sabrin has not highlighted the weaknesses of his opponents; he has engaged in nothing more than old-fashioned name-calling.  It's not appropriate at recess, and it's not appropriate in a US Senate campaign.

I don't always agree with Steve Lonegan but kudos to him for taking a stand againsy pointless vituperativeness (i'm on a roll now).

 It's not attention span and it's not IQ.  Murray has not communicated any ideas.  He has communicated nothing but bile and invective.  Any chance he ever had of communicating an idea is gone forever because people have tuned out the negativity.

He has no business in the US Senate.

He can never win an election in this state

Welcome to unelectable fringe candidate - opolis; population:Murray

I've read everyone's comments and the comments which are most questionable are the ones where they say "all Murray Sabrin has done is throw mud"; well I actually did 15 seconds of research and looked at his website www.MurraySabrin.com to look at his press releases and WHAT did I find (ISSUES, issues, and more ISSUES)? (here is the link so you don't have to do your own searching http://www.murraysabrin.com/PressReleases.aspx)

How come these ISSUES are not discussed or there isn't a cartoon about Murray Sabrin wanting to legalize freedom by lowering the drinking age, or a cartoon about Murray Sabrin calling for all the combat troops to come home from Iraq, or a cartoon that discusses Murray Sabrin's concerns about the Federal Reserve policies? HOW COME?

How come Jersey Joe has only agreed to debate Murray Sabrin ONCE? There are people on this website who are "backing" Andy Unanue and they have NO IDEA what his positions are on the issues nor the ISSUES.

Will Sabrin beat either Lautenberg or Andrews?

I didn't think so. Shut-up everybody! Sabrin is dead, and he's taking the GOP with him.