November 10,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Republican Donald Trump’s stunning victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to become the nation’s 45th president will have immediate repercussions on New Jersey’s key players.
Here are the 2016 presidential election’s Garden State winners and losers :
WINNERS
Bergen County Democrats
Bergen County Democrats made a clean sweep in Countywide elections.
Chris Christie
All we can say is you can’t fall off the floor .
GOP State Sen. Michael Doherty
The Conservative New Jersey state senator was an early Trump supporter. Doherty (R-Warren) was the only state legislator to board the Trump Train right from the get go as other Republicans waited for Trump to gain momentum.
U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur
MacArthur (R-3rd Dist.) was the only GOP House member from New Jersey to attend the Republican National Convention that nominated Trump unlike the rest of the NJ GOP Cowards.
Jared Kushner
Trump’s son-in-law acted as a top adviser to the Republican nominee. Liberal Kushner is the publisher of the New York Observer, which owns the New Jersey political news website PolitickerNJ.
Kellyanne Conway
New Jersey native ,Trump’s campaign manager, she cheerfully guided and disciplined the Trump campaign to take the White House. If she were a “liberal ” we would be all hailing her as breaking the glass ceiling ,being the first women to run a successful national campaign.
the late Antonin Scalia
The late Supreme Court justice from Trenton is the role model Trump says he will use to choose future Supreme Court picks.
LOSERS
The Bergen County Republicans
The “silent majority ” never appeared .
U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker
Two more years in the minority for New Jersey’s U.S. senators. Menendez (DR) still an ethics cloud over his head , while lightweight Booker (Twitter) failed at race baiting .
Pollsters , Election Experts and Media Outlets
The Election Day results were as big of a loss for pollsters , the mainstream media was outed for being even more bias than everyone thought and the experts were wrong about every single issues ,every single day.
Barack Obama’s legacy
Trump campaigned on undoing the president’s legacy and scaling back or nixing the executive orders he signed while in office. Trump will look to turn back trade deals, climate deals, Iran Nuke deal and Dodd-Frank.
Bailout nation is over. October’s Obamacare bills , plus GOP control of the courts ,house and senate make repeal and replacement of Obamacare almost a given.
Kim Guadagno
Turned on Trump falling into ill repute with the GOP base ,gearing up for a 2017 gubernatorial run ,joined the ranks of GOP cowards.
U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett and Josh Gottheimer
Scott Garrett (R-5th Dist) lost in a highly contested contest to Clintonista Democrat Josh Gottheimer . Gottheimer ran a campaign based on name calling and is left rudderless with Clinton machine seemingly out of business. 7 term Garrett, will leave with a smile on his face when the Trump administration pushes through the “Garrett agenda” ie …repeal Obamacare ,repeal Dodd-Frank and cancel the Iran nuke deal.
Yes, Voted down the foolish northern casinos , but said yes to the tax raising amendment as well as voted for all the campaigns that said they would raise taxes from Hillary,Gottheimer, Bergen Freeholders ,sheriff, and so on .
Kelli Ann Conway definitely showed up well this fall. Who needs a Springsteen/Bon Jovi lovefest concert when a tough New Jersey lady is available to serve as a fighting general (a’la Lincoln’s civil war stalwart U.S. Grant) to lead your campaign troops to battle?
Garrett’s major sin this election cycle was that he didn’t morph into something he wasn’t in response to recent waves of demands made by people living so-called “alternative” sexual lifestyles and by others, mostly young adults with a weak or misguided spiritual life or no connection at all to a traditionally organized religion, and who see themselves as social justice warriors engaging in the latest, greatest civil rights battle.
In fairness, how does an honest federal or state officeholder who believes in traditional Christian morality withstand such a well funded Alynskyite attack and win re-election? Particularly in northern New Jersey where so many brainwashed progressives are busy buying up almost all of the available housing stock.
Garrett should try to make peace with Trump and those early Trump supporters like Mike Doherty who resisted abandoning him when times became tough during the general election season. With any luck, Garrett, with his great experience, innate intelligence, and unshakably ethical approach to governing, will secure a prominent position in Trump’s administration and help him move forward with the many important policy imperatives they hold in common. As a country we could be looking at at least 16 straight years of sober and responsible Republican control of the executive branch if Trump and Pence play their cards right, keep their noses clean, and put on a clinic on real leadership, each of which can safely be predicted.
Trump won this race his way, rather than kowtowing to the republican establishment like Reagan did in choosing establishment mole George H. W. Bush as his vice-presidential running mate. This will pay big dividends. As long as Trump has reasonable success in obtaining long-needed tax reform and reviving our moribund economy he will be very well set up for re-election four years from now.
Job number one in terms of keeping liberals and progressives frustrated and rudderless for as long as possible should be for non-establishment patriots like Trump to fight hard to prevent them from credibly claiming that they have reoccupied the moral high ground. These phonies are constantly trying to portray themselves as our moral “betters” and their political opponents as the worst possible thing–hypocrites. Weak-kneed, wishy-washy republicans have been letting them get away with this nonsense in the media for decades now. With this huge victory by Trump, they have finally been exposed as morally bankrupt. Nothing chaps their asses worse than this kind of undeniable public humiliation. Normal, red-blooded Americans who were never brainwashed by sociopathic college professors are absolutely loving it.
Hopefully nobody gets killed in the next few days or weeks as the diasappointed SJWs indulge themselves in shameless riots (not protests) in the streets of our major cities and elsewhere. If someone does unfortunately die, Trump will probably take it very personally. No doubt he would call Obama and Clinton and their narrow-minded political operatives out directly and severely for their immoral unwillingness to maintain law and order while they transition out of power.
Lets just hope Trump keeps his campaign promises
He can break every one of them for i care as long as he simply promotes a business friendly environment. Without that, you can’t have all the other nice stuff. Dems never understand this.
James – I hope you keep an eye on Little Josh…..it should be fun to see how our little guy does down in DC.
In the meantime, let’s hope the GOP can find someone to come to the forefront and give us some hope for 2018-19.