Of course, squishy candidates are real popular with the dregs of the GOP's Whitman-era glitterati - cocktail-party liberals and crony capitalists who still want to show that they run the NJGOP - and who are increasingly uncomfortable in the knowledge that they make up just a thimbleful of actual Republican voters. But in elections that increasingly depend on identifying and turning out anyone who will even consider voting Republican, this is a disastrous trend. Like true greedy crony capitalists, it's not in them to share. And the trend has got worse, with the suppression of actual conservative candidates by key players in the neo-Whitman, "My-Party-Too" crowd. Period.ĭespite this, there is a full court press to mint Republican candidates at all levels who intentionally suppress key parts of the GOP base. If these are your first tier issues, what floats your boat, you are not voting Republican. This is, of course, simply an opinion and an opinion that ignores the fact that the only Republican who has won statewide in the last twenty years has been Pro-Life, Pro-Second Amendment, and opposed to Same-Sex Marriage.īesides, in these very partisan times, merely having an "R" next to your name - leave out supporting Donald Trump or Chris Christie - is enough to preclude any significant support from voters who self-identify as Pro-Choice on Abortion, Pro-Gun Control, and Pro-LGBT.
The current mantra coming from some GOP establishment types in New Jersey is that only a "moderate" can win statewide. Yep, just like the good-old-days of "pass the cigars" and "let the interns beware." And that was just what the ladies got up to!
It's "the-past-as-future" for the neo-Whitmanites who want to make the New Jersey Republican Party their private, personal playground.