endorsement of Steve Lonegan, Senator Chiesa
Lonegan Speaks Out on Obama/Booker Endorsement
“It’s no surprise that Barack Obama endorsed Cory Booker today. Booker is not only a strong and enthusiastic rubber stamp for the Obama Agenda, he has proposed a series of radical ideas even further to the left than anything President Obama has suggested.”
METUCHEN, NJ – Steve Lonegan, Republican nominee for United States Senate, released the following statement about President Obama’s endorsement of Cory Booker:
“It’s no surprise that Barack Obama endorsed Cory Booker today. Booker is not only a strong and enthusiastic rubber stamp for the Obama Agenda, he has proposed a series of radical ideas even further to the left than anything President Obama has suggested. People in New Jersey are sick of Barack Obama’s lies, his health care plan, his data collection and his inability to lead our nation back to economic prosperity. Cory Booker is too liberal for New Jersey.”
Lonegan served as Bogota Mayor for twelve years, winning three times in a town that gave Barack Obama 67.5 percent of the vote in 2012. He served for seven years as state director of Americans for Prosperity New Jersey, where he helped defeat liberal attempts to expand big government. Steve Lonegan is the conservative Republican candidate in the New Jersey special election for the United States Senate. Lonegan stands firmly on the bedrock conservative values of small government, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.
I’m getting the sense that Booker’s campaign strategy is akin to a ‘prevent defense’ in football. Teams slip into this non-aggressive, use-your-lead-as-a-cushion technique when they think the other team will not have the time on the clock to make up the difference in the score. It may also be that, what with Booker’s amiable temperament, he doesn’t have it in him to go toe-to-toe with Lonegan. In the meantime, however, I think Lonegan is landing some pretty good body blows and may soon draw blood. Eventually if the polls tighten sufficiently Booker’s supporters may urge him to take the race more seriously but by then he may have waited too long to engage. That’s why many NFL teams that slip into a prevent defense get beaten ultimately-they fail to maintain that aggressive edge and when they finally decide to use it, it’s too dull and won’t cut.
Booker is a nice guy but he’s not effective where it counts. Newark is pretty much the same place with the same problems that existed under the corrupt Sharpe James. Even so, Lonegan has a Herculean task to win the election. It’s Booker’s to lose. He’s more moderate than the ethically-challenged Menendez and the late liberal firebrand Lautenberg. NJ will continue to be a donor state receiving on 60 cents on the federal tax dollar.