Republicans will have a congressional primary in the twelfth district, where two candidates are seeking the chance to challenge five-term Democrat Rush Holt. The Monmouth County GOP organization is backing Holmdel Deputy Mayor Alan Bateman, while Ron Paul’s New Jersey campaign is promoting Dan Maiullo, who says he joined the GOP last November to support Paul’s candidacy. Maiullo says he’s running to “help perpetuate the enormous energy harnessed by the Ron Paul campaign for President,” and wants to his campaign against Holt “as a platform for communicating his principles of freedom and limited government.”
Meanwhile, Holt is reportedly pleased with Bill Foster's victory in an Illinois special election to replace Dennis Hastert. Foster, like Holt, is a scientist.
Christie budget calls for 'shared sacrifice' Gov. Chris Christie today unveiled a $28.3 billion state budget plan that includes deep cuts in spending on property tax rebates and aid to municipalities, schools and colleges, as well as the layoffs of thousands of state workers. ...
"Never forget, some of those shouting the loudest are the architects of the disaster we are now suffering. Do we really want another decade of economic failure? No, this spring it is time to clear away the underbrush to make room for growth. So, today, we stop sweeping problems under the rug. We will not hide our problems until
another day. And we are certainly not increasing the tax burden we place upon our people. Today, we are taking necessary and decisive action to reduce state spending and reform state government. The problems we have hidden for twenty years are evident for all to see. The day of reckoning has arrived. Some are saying, by their choice of policies, that we should descend further into debt and deficit, and risk driving more people out of the state with “temporary” tax increases that always turn out to be permanent. I say we must face up to our responsibility." -- Gov. Christopher Christie
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Is it just me...
or is the Ron Paul army acting like a 3rd party masquerading as Republicans.
God Forbid we have a PRIMARY
OMG THE ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE MIGHT HAVE TO CAMPAIGN! RUN FOR THE HILLS!
This is the problem with the RINOs they dont want to work to win.
I'd like to see this guy's
I'd like to see this guy's platform, but it would be refreshing to vote for a politician that stands for something, rather than someone who simply panders to as many groups as possible and calls himself a "moderate."
That said, the democrats in NJ have gotten the district lines drawn up to ensure that Holt has a safe seat in the 12th district.
The Ron Paul Cult
This cult just becomes more and more belligerent in their attempts to force their propaganda on people. They're becoming just as bad as the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.
"Liberals are people who will believe anything...twice."- William F. Buckley
@ DinoPCrocetti
Funny how you can't explain how... typical. Oh and sorry, I didn't know running for congress was considered propaganda. I guess that's the kind of democracy you bow down to?
Jeremy Spoke in Class Today
Funny how you can't explain how... typical.
Actually, I did explain. I described the traits of how cults operate, the mentalities people in cults have and posted a video clip of how cults operate.
I guess the Libertarian Church of Ron discourages you from clicking on links to dissident blogs, eh Jeremy?
"Liberals are people who will believe anything...twice."- William F. Buckley
Holt
In Jersey, noone is more beatable than Rush Holt. Even among democrats, Rush's "real" support is as thin as an onion skin. This is the opportunity race of the year.
Darn Founding Fathers and their Cult
Oh how far we've come when the accepted behavior is to ignore the principals that founded our country. Yes, Paul's supporters can be pushy at times, but many of them are screaming for people to wake up and take back our country from one side that promotes socialism and the other side who strips us of our liberties and wants to run a police state. This government (both sides) have been so corrupt for so long that whole generations are being brought up to think it is just normal and we should accept it. Both sides spend more money than we have and can't balance a check book while committing this debt to the American people. People have a right to be upset and more people should be.
Ron Paul supporters are frustrated that others can be so blind and unwilling to listen to reason even when they have nothing to back up their argument to the contrary, that some DO go to extremes to try to disseminate their message. But is this so surprising? All Movements are like this. Was following Martin Luther King Jr an act of a cult, even when many of those supporters were much more vocal?
I don't think following the message of Freedom qualifies them as being in a cult any more than our founding fathers or the legions of sheep that just follow the party line feeding into the fear and propaganda that seeks to control everything in their life.
We live with the illusion of freedom but once you are fully dependant on the Government for everything, there is no freedom left and we are no longer a Republic at all.
There might be particular issues that people disagree with, but how can any rational person be against freedom and personal liberties?
There's Two Libertarians running in this republican primary!
So I'm very confused with this race in the 12th...
Dan Maiullo is running on Ron Pauls NJ Campaign in the Republican primary.
and Jason Scheurer is running on Murray Sabrin's US Senate campaign line...in the Republican primary.
Looks as though one of these guys is going to have to step aside since both of them I'm guessing have the same damn platform!
I'd like to personally welcome Jason Scheurer to the Republican Party, it's too bad he joined this year and not last year. You know the year he got 1,775 votes running as a Libertarian in the 14th district in the Assembly race that Republican Tom Goodwin lost by about 800 votes.
If this isn't proof that Libertarians aren't changing their party registration to be politically viable than I don't know what is.
"Libertarians"
Libertarians are doing a better job at being Republicans than the current Republicans. Don't make me point out Bush's approval rating... there's a difference between neoconservatism and paleoconservatism. The GOP used to be what is now known as paleoconservative... now only some of it is. The Libertarian Party is paleoconservative as well.
Jeremy/Sewaren
Jeremy, you are dead on with the neo/paleo conservative comparison.
Sewaren, why do you consider everyone who doesn't support Murray or in this case the Ron Paul candidate RINO's? Estabrook was definitely a RINO but you cannot make that argument against Pennacchio. I'm not attacking, I just want to know.
I've heard it all - MLK and Ron Paul?
MLK was one of our nation's most remarkable leaders and stood against a tsunami of prejudice to unite all Americans in the bond of brotherhood under God. Your political "movement" bears little resemblance to that of the civil rights struggle. How many Ronulans have been beaten with rubber hoses, or had attack dogs sicked on them, or been hung from a tree in the middle of the night? You claim extreme measures are necessary to advance your mission. What mission? Next you'll be gathering up your muskets, dressing up like indians, and throwing coffee grounds into Newark Bay under cloak of darkness.
Please get a grip and a sense of proportion. People actually sacrificed their lives to end segregation and build a more perfect union. Drop the delusions of grandeur and the ideologically superior attitude. You have no idea what utter buffoons you come off as. Ron Paul is an intelligent, principled man who deserves far better than this type of warped discipleship.
Beam me up Scotty.