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“...Fat boy’s old primary opponent Steve Lonegan ... but was a flaky candidate...”

Impy, I’m curious as to why you’re saying he was flaky?

I’ve heard his radio spot-ads on the local stations, and they were right on the money. He comes across to me as a plain-speaking, no-nonsense REAL conservative.

Not jumping on you, just not understanding where you’re coming from re Lonegan.

I wouldn't call him flaky, but to say he and his supporters are cocky and arrogant would be an understatement. ("If you don't support Lonegan, you HATE blind people!!") Clemenza is from NJ and could probably explain it better than me.

Basically Lonegan lucked into getting elected mayor of a tiny town a few thousand residents, and has attempted to run for higher office FOUR times now (state legislature, Congress, Governor twice), and not only lost but hasn't come remotely close to winning in ANY of those campaigns. In 2006, he was polling he in single digits the entire time and came in a distant fourth, but managed to peel away enough conservative votes from Bret Schnundler to ensure a RINO was nominated. The problem is Lonegan rubs people the wrong way with his scorched earth tactics, and voters react to him negatively. Running him for U.S. Senate would ensure the RAT wins, it's similar to those quixotic attempts to continually elect Sharron Angle, John Raese, Alan Keyes, etc.)

I also think Steve Forbes is yesterday's news and couldn't get elected to the U.S. Senate in NJ (though he'd have no problem having the funds to run a viable campaign), and I say this as someone who backed Forbes for President TWICE (in 1996 and 2000)

Bottom line, we need to recruit a better candidate to run in the special.

I also agree a seat warmer appointment is lame, I would have preferred Christie appoint a conservative who can actually run for and win the seat in his own right (which is a tall order in NJ, I would have gone with former Congressman Mike Ferguson). But at least we didn't get an appointment that would make us physically ill, like Whitman, Kean Sr., or... (puke) Geraldo Rivera, or a treasonous RAT appointee because "the people of NJ elected a Democrat for six years and I have to respect their wishes".

The seat warmer is apparently a practicing Catholic and says he's a conservative Republican and against amnesty. Time will tell if it's true. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say he's probably a Norm Coleman type Republican and will vote with us 70-80% of the time.