What has happened to the party of Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy? Isn’t Jimmy Carter a born again Christian?
I can’t imagine the delegates in Charlotte knew what they were voting for last night. Like ObamaCare, they had to pass it to find out what was in it.
Senator Dick Durbin went on the offensive with FoxNews’s Bret Baier over the omission of “God” and “Jerusalem” rather than simply answer the question:
“God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.” This is the first time I’ve ever heard God referred to as a “franchise.”
New York Senator Chuck Schumer could not explan why “Jerusalem” was taken out of the platform. He said he does not know President Obama’s postion on Jerusalem. Charlie Rose is not buying what Schumer is selling:
Newark Mayor Cory Booker was co-chair of the platform committee. I sent him a tweet asking why “God” and “Jerusalem” were taken out of the platform. Hopefully Booker will be more forth coming than Durbin and Schumer.
A Quinnipiac poll released this morning indicates that Governor Christie’s approval numbers remain strong among New Jersey voters…53% approve of his performance compared to 42% that do not….and that Christie would have been reelected if Newark Mayor Cory Booker was his Democratic opponent and the gubernatorial election was held last week when the poll was taken.
That’s good news for Christie, the NJ GOP and New Jersey taxpayers. Yet, in their write up of the poll, Quinnipiac did their best to spin the poll as a negative for Christie and the lazy main stream media is so far following that lead.
While 58 percent of New Jersey voters watched Gov. Christopher Christie’ keynote speech at the Republican National Convention, only 22 percent of voters say it makes them think more favorably of the governor, whose 53 – 42 percent job approval rating is barely changed, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
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“If Gov. Christopher Christie’s speech marked the opening of a 2016 presidential campaign he might want to try again. People who like the governor liked the speech; those who don’t didn’t. The net result – zero,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Quinnipiac surveyed 1560 registered voters from August 27-September 2. Christie delivered the keynote address at the Republican National Convention late in the evening on August 28. The Bobcats pollsters didn’t start asking about Christie’s speech until the third day of the seven day poll.
While showing their own biases, the Bobcats purported to measure New Jersey voters’ prejudices regarding offices seekers’ gender, race, creed, sexual orientation and waste line.
The numbers say that New Jersey is accepting of most. In the poll that has a margin of error of +/- 2.5%, 3% said they would be less inclined to vote for a female candidate while 10% would be more likely to vote for a female. 4% said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who was African-American and 1% would be less likely to do so. 11% would be less likely to vote for a homosexual and 1% would be more likely.
Atheists and Muslims did not fare as well. 39% would be less likely to vote for an atheist, 1% would be more likely.
15% said they would be less likely to vote for an obese candidate, 1% would be more likely to vote for the big boned.
Does this mean that we should adjust Governor Chirstie’s numbers? Would his numbers be 14% higher if he was svelte? No, it doesn’t mean that. It means that this poll is seriously flawed. It reveals more about the pollsters than it does about those being surveyed.
Barack Obama’s reaction to the closing night on the Republican National Convention was a tweet at 12:23 am that said This seat’s taken and included a photo of the president sitting with his back to the camera apparently at a meeting in the White House.
The media is spinning the president’s tweet as a shot back at Clint Eastwood for his skit using an empty chair for his imaginary conversation with Obama.
I didn’t take it that way. I read it as an arrogant and off handed dismissal of Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech and the case Romney made for his candidacy.
Either way the president’s tweet is offensive and beneath the dignity of the office.
A word to the wise among the New Jersey Republicans in Tampa. Cameras are everywhere. Our own Brian Nelson was swimming “far out” on deep water, 75-100 yards from shore, when Asbury Park Press photographer Thomas Costello clicked this photo for Capitol Quickies.
Our condolences go out to Middletown Committeeman Gerry Scharfenberger and his family on the loss of Gerry’s father, Joseph.
A World War II veteran who served in the 323rd Wildcat Division Infantry in Japan, Joseph was 90 when he passed on July 27. He is survived by his wife Irene, 6 children, 9 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren.
Visitation is today from 2-4 and 7-9 at the Kimble Funeral Home in Princeton. Following a funeral mass at St Paul’s Catholic Church in Princeton, Joseph will be buried with military honors tomorrow afternoon at Washington Crossing National Cemetary in Newtown, PA.
This is a sordid story of where America is headed. This true story involves a retired couple that we will call Couple A, and a woman and her boyfriend we will call Couple LZ (you’ll see why in a moment). Couple A lives in New Jersey. They have worked hard their whole lives and done well for themselves; so well that they bought a second home as an investment property also in New Jersey with the intention of eventually retiring to that home. In the meantime, they rented the home to Couple LZ, though it’s not that simple.
You see, when Couple A put the home up for rent, the female partner in Couple LZ responded to the ad and rented the home solely under her name. The woman in Couple LZ is a divorcée with two kids from her dissolved marriage (the oldest is an adult living in Atlanta, GA, with his father) and a third teenaged kid from her boyfriend, with whom she had been with for years to form Couple LZ. Why did she rent the home on her own? Because she had been receiving rent assistance checks from the county government because she is a “single parent” who makes only about $30,000 a year in salary. What she never told the county, or Couple A, was that her boyfriend was living with her and that they refused to marry because their combined salary would’ve made them ineligible for the over $1,000 a month county rent subsidy as he makes about $60,000 a year. Furthermore, the woman had told the county that her oldest son was living with her so she could increase her subsidy (again, he lives in Georgia and is a legal adult).
So she rents the home for 3 years, collecting tens of thousands of dollars of tax-funded dollars in rent subsidy.
In the wake of the Freeh Report that presented “an unprecedented failure of institutional integrity leading to a culture in which a football program was held in higher esteem than the values of the institution, the values of the NCAA, the values of higher education, and most disturbingly the values of human decency,” the National Collegiate Athletic Association imposed sanctions on Penn State University this morning that include a $60 million fine and a four year ban on all post season play by the university’s football team.
All wins of the football team dating back to 1998 have been vacated and the record of the late coach Joe Paterno will reflect the vacated records.
Student-athletes will be allowed to transfer out of Penn State without effecting their eligibility to compete at their new schools.
The $60 million will be used to fund an endowment for programs, external from Penn State, to prevent child abuse and assist victims.s
