How many suckers will spend $1000 to meet "Joe the Plumber"?

Wingnut conservative Steve Lonegan is still behind in the polls against his opponent, former US Attorney and establishment favorite Chris Christie, for the NJGOP gubernatorial primary but now he's really getting serious by bringing up the heavy artillery.

Who else but "Joe the Plumber" to plug the leaks in a campaign that seems to be going down the drain. In a recent press release the Lonegan campaign announced that for only one thousand dollars donors to the Lonegan campaign will enjoy a private one hour meeting with Joe and Steve, undoubtedly to talk about fixing toilets and leaky faucets.

I may have spent a few hundred dollars on a plumber for one hour's worth of work, but one thousand seems a bit much. I just hope whoever pays that much doesn't end up wading through a pile of manure.

This proves you don't have to be a wingnut to be nuts

Pastor Shannon Wright of Plainfield on Saturday officially announced her entry into the New Jersey gubernatorial race as an independent, according to PolitickerNJ.com. Pastor Wright is an ordained minister who co-founded the online Faith, Grace and Mercy World Outreach Ministries with her husband, Michael.

Formerly the campaign manager of Franklin Township Mayor Brian D. Levine – a Republican candidate for governor - Wright bailed on Levine last month amid disagreements within his campaign about its direction and the weekly bad news out of Republican conventions suggesting the candidate was freefalling.

She won’t reveal how she intends to finance her run for governor, but promises to run hard and campaign in every county. “It’s time to put the bloom back in the Garden State,” proclaimed Wright. “It's an honor and a privilege to have this opportunity. If I become an example for young girls, proving that they can be anything they want to be, then I've done my job. I'm looking forward to doing what it takes to get New Jersey back on track and it would be an honor to be the first African-American woman in a position to do that."

Wright’s 18-year old son, Michael, said as he observed Levine tanking, he encouraged his mother to run for governor so she could help improve New Jersey's economy. “I was trying to coax her into doing so, in part because it’s been extremely hard for me to get a job,” he said. “I told her I wanted a job, so she needed to run.”

If she wins it will be interesting to see what kind of job he ends up with. Maybe State Treasurer or Attorney General.

Alan Keyes fears Obama will scandalize young Catholics

Alan Keyes was near the Notre Dame University campus in South Bend, Indiana to protest the school's invitation to President Obama to speak at this year's graduation. Keyes said he speaks for all Catholics in calling the university's invite a contradiction of the church's beliefs. "To hold that up as somehow worthy of honor at a catholic institution before the minds and hearts of young catholic students whom you will be in fact scandalizing, you'll be betraying them with a falsehood that might confuse them and lead them down a road that ultimately risks their spiritual well-being," said Keyes.

I don't know about spiritual well-being, but if Alan Keyes is any example I'd be more concerned about emotional maturity and psychotic behavior.

Alan Keyes says "Show me!"

Appearing at a tea party in front of the White House on tax protest day, Alan Keyes was asked by a reporter if he had a message to send to Obama. With all the issues of unemployment, taxation and national bankruptcy, it seems the only thing on Alan Keyes' mind is Obama's birthplace as he told the reporter, "Show us your birth certificate!"

Maybe someone's been putting kool-aid in the tea Alan's been drinking.

Fox News drinking the kool-aid

Fox News host and senior vice president of Fox Business News Neil Cavuto suggests bias is keeping mainstream media from covering anti-tax “tea party” rallies with the same enthusiasm they devote to civil rights protests and anti-war rallies.

Fox News is offering extensive coverage of the nationwide rallies, dispatching Cavuto and three other top anchors to various cities. Cavuto was reporting from Sacramento, Greta Van Susteren was in Washington, Sean Hannity was stationed in Atlanta, and Glenn Beck was appearing at the Alamo in San Antonio. “I know why we are there,” Cavuto told listeners. “I’m not quite sure why they are not,” he said, speaking of other media outlets. “Apparently these populist protests don’t count that much for them. Millions concerned they’re being taxed to death counts even less for them,” he said.

Maybe Fox News isn't taxed enough if they can afford to send these clowns all over the country just to report on some circus side shows.

Today New Jersey; tomorrow the World!

GOP gubernatorial candidate and professional wingnut Steve Lonegan stepped up to the mike at the podium on the front steps of the State Capitol in Trenton to address the true believers at one of the "Let Them Drink Tea" parties sponsored by various rightwing groups across the country. “You heard them talk about ‘Yes, we can’ last year and what that turned out to mean was apologizing to Europe for the greatness of America, it meant “Yes, we can” create more government,” yelled Lonegan as American flags waved among the crowd of Tom Paine and Patrick Henry wannabees who want to turn the clock back to 1776. “We will tell them, ‘Yes, we will,’” he cried. “America will be better than anyone on the planet, and the answer doesn’t come from the Whitehouse or this Statehouse, it comes from you, the people!”

Lonegan knows about planets. He's been to so many of them it must be hard to know which one he's on.

Steve Forbes shows real chutzpah

Steve Forbes is back in the news, though barely noticeable, as he endorsed (surprise, surprise!) Chris Christie for Governor of New Jersey. Wingnut supporters of Steve Lonegan are heartbroken, however, but Steve Forbes is no fool and obviously wants to have some influence on the general election campaign as well as a Republican administration if Christie is elected.

In his endorsement of Christie, Forbes indulged his usual hyperbole to describe the current economic situation in New Jersey. Of course everything bad is the fault of New Jersey Democrats. According to the sage from Far Hills, "New Jersey's woes are all self-inflicted. Debt has ballooned, from about $3.5 billion 15 years ago to more than $33 billion today.

Now that's chutzpah. Forbes has got the nerve to bring up the last 15 years during which more than half the time Republicans ran the State and he was their economic guru. But then what does one expect from a horse's ass who'd spend millions of dollars of his family's fortune making a fool of himself in the 1996 and 2000 Republican presidential primaries.

Steve Lonegan gives new definition to "wingnut"

It seems marital status and divided loyalties have become an issue in New Jersey's GOP primary for Governor, according to the website PolitickerNJ.com. Rightwing extremist Steve Lonegan is fighting an uphill campaign to gain the nomination from establishment favorite, the former US Attorney Chris Christie. Recently in a TV interview he accused Rick Wright, a staff employee of the Assembly Republicans who endorsed Chris Christie, of disloyalty for having an Obama sign on his front lawn last year. Wright responded that the sign belonged to his wife who works for the Corzine administration. Lonegan's answer to Wright's explanation was, ""Let other people decide what that means... The question becomes does all of this influence of Jon Corzine on his household's income impact the advice he gives the Republican caucus?"

I guess if Lonegan wins the election Republican Party employees will be required to answer, "Are you now, or have you ever been, married to a Democrat?"

This should make Chris Christie wet his pants

The New Jersey Conservative Party State Chairman is urging voters who have registered as members of his party to change their party affiliation to Republican so they can vote for Steve Lonegan for Governor, according to the PolitickerNJ.com website. By doing this, State Chairman Stephen Spinosa is effectively calling for the end of his third-party movement in order to boost Lonegan's chances.

"The reason I take this action is because in these times of great economic turmoil, it is vital that all of us do their part to see to it that the best man for the job gets elected. I believe that Steve Lonegan is that man," said Spinosa. "The prosperity, the solvency and the security of our state can only be served by nominating him in the primary, and then electing him as our Governor this November."

Last year, there were 45 voters registered as members of the Conservative Party statewide. That says it all.

NJ-GOP debates and global warming

Professional wingnut Steve Lonegan is performing his usual shtik, this time demanding that his opponent in the NJ-GOP gubernatorial primary, Chris Christie, join him in opposing the League of Women Voters as sponsors for their debates. Lonegan claims the LWV is a "left-wing political lobby" that advocates abortion, gun control, higher income and property taxes, and more government spending for health care and welfare.

Lonegan noted that in 2005 "when ELEC ruled that the LWVNJ was to moderate, I had no choice but to participate," Lonegan said in his letter to ELEC, noting that he was one of seven candidates in that race. "But this year, I am one of two. The debate cannot occur without my presence."

If the debate doesn't occur, at least there will be a definite reduction in the amount of hot air and gas polluting New Jersey's atmosphere.

Sarah Palin takes Alaska's "birthright" off the market

Sarah Palin doesn't want us to forget she's still around and cooking something up for 2012. This time she got up on her high horse and in an opinion piece published in the Anchorage Daily News proclaimed she would not accept some of the stimulus money offered to the state by the federal government. However, like the police captain in "Casablanca" who says he is shocked there is gambling going on while someone hands him his winnings, Sarah tosses verbal darts at the federal government while pocketing most of the money she claims is so costly. According to the sage from Wassilla, "My job is to help Alaskans count the cost for the long term, not sell our birthright for short-term gain."

I don't suggest she sell Alaska's birthright. But selling some of those expensive threads she got last year might be a good start.