The Kean campaign’s game plan (or lack thereof)

www.GETNJ.com ^ | 11/11/06 | UBERHIPPY

[thenderson]

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In the same way, the Kean effort was not just bad, but extravagantly so. Basting in boobery, the entire process was a recipe for failure. The Kean group exhibited no respect for the opponent, the voters, or even their own candidate. A Conservative in a safely Republican enclave challenged by a George McGovern clone might have gotten away with the Kean campaign’s game plan (or lack thereof). For a Republican running a statewide race (uphill), the error was fatal.

The foundation of any campaign is first do no harm. Don't throw away the chips you have when you sit down at the table. There was a VAST field of anti-Menendez sentiment in Hudson County. Not only was that acreage not cultivated, the Kean group sat idle as the Menendez campaign moved in and began to plow. There was one Hudson County Democrat whose support the Kean group sorely needed. I’m told that the Kean campaign offered NOTHING in return – not even the use of a car.

It was IMPERATIVE for the criticism of Menendez to be based in Hudson County. If people in Hudson County spoke out against Menendez, voters around the State would listen. Plus, those from Hudson County wouldn’t take offense. This year, the road to DC ran through Hudson County. The Kean campaign missed the exit somewhere up in Sussex. By making the attacks Tom Kean's job, his handlers turned him into a mud wrestler. In general, Kean was portrayed as trivial -- if not spiteful. In particular, Hudson voters were irritated -- if not shoved to Menendez.
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[frogjerk]

The dead voters in Hudson County didn't actually witness the campaign so they voted like they always do, RAT!

[Salvey]

The kid had nothing going for him except for his name. He is totally unqualified to be a US senator (for that matter, so is Menendez -- but, after all, this is New Jersey).

[fschmieg]

I agree. He was very unimpressive. What finished him in my opinion was his calling for the resignation of Rumsfeld (so novel) and also Hastert!! Came across as someone with no backbone.

[jmaroneps37]

Regular readers of this site might recall that I posted an extensive essay filled with evidence that bagman Bobby Menendez was a bribe receiving crook who preyed upon the people and civil servants of Union City where he was mayor
until he went to Congress.

I offered that report to Liddy Dole's people and got nowhere. I offered it to Kean's people and got nowhere. I hope the US Atty. for New Jersey reads FR because I'm tired of trying to get dumb people to listen.

The report contained names and numbers. It contained letters from those that Menendez shook down. All for nothing. The brain dead people who went to the polls in New Jersey are suffering from "battered voter syndrome". They just can't help themselves I guess.

[thenderson]

Please post a Link to your essay.

[JerseyHighlander]

Very nice article.

Kean Sr.'s long time contributors felt it would be a nice gesture to help "the kid" out, but would openly laugh while in Kean Jr's presence about Kean's complete fiasco of a campaign.

- That guy Kean Jr. was so out of his league there was no helping him.

When that is the sentiment of people who knew him since he was a teenager, why the hell would anyone either work, volunteer, contribute or vote for the guy?

[JerseyHighlander]

I did read that posting you mentioned. Hope you can get somewhere with this, somewhere you want to go at that. Best of luck, and keep fighting.

[JerseyHighlander]

Here is the thread jmaroneps37 posted:

"Fresh research on Bob Menendez: You decide"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720167/posts