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Steve Lonegan Jumps the Shark

Late last night Conservatives With Attitude, broke the story that the Lonegan campaign is planning to stage a protest outside the Newscorp building tonight at 7:00pm, while Hannity is on air.

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Debates and the State of the GOP primary

Since last week there were two gubernatorial debates in the GOP primary. We watched both and we don’t believe that the debates settled anything. We weren’t overly impressed with either candidate in the first debate. Steve Lonegan demonstrated his grasp of the issues better than Chris Christie; however, his delivery was off big time. We believe Lonegan is capable of performing better than he did in the first debate. We believe he did so in the second debate.

Christie came across better in the second debate than expected. For those of you who have not noticed, Christie is not a great public speaker, nor is he particularly polished in his delivery. Christie did come off better polished than expected in the first debate. His detail on issues is still vague. …

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The secret about those polling numbers (part II)

Because we know our subject matter like the back of our hands, we reported on Monday the following bit on polling in the GOP gubernatorial primary…

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Have Conservatives Grown Tired of Lonegan’s Antics?

In our first Freditorial we told you that Chris Christie would not be the next governor of New Jersey. We still stand by that statement.
One of the reasons we believe this to be true is the surprisingly strong candidacy of former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan.
Well, let us state up front, that “strong” is …

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“KEEP MY BROTHER OUT OF IT”

Chris Christie complained when his brother was brought into his campaign relative to being accused of trading violations by the SEC and named in complaints by the US Attorney in New York.

While offering no explanation and seeming to scold anyone who would dare question what had occurred, he insisted in no uncertain terms that it was unfortunate when a candidate’s family members were brought into a campaign and dragged through the mud. He got petulant and angry and simply said “leave my brother out of it.”…

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Some advice for Mike DuHaime

Dear Mike,

After playing a critical role in two losing presidential contests in 2008, this year looked promising for you.

This winter Chris Christie received a hero’s welcome from what is left of the traditional media when he announced his candidacy. The NJGOP cleared the path for you to be the establishment candidate.

While that was happening, Rick Shaftan, chief strategist for Steve Lonegan managed to offend, insult and alienate every potential ally. All of this left Lonegan to manage the campaign himself.

And somehow with all this and a fundraising advantage you could lose…

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