May 30, 2008 - 10:44am
Paybacks are a bitch!
By Wally EdgeEven though he says he’s the front runner in Tuesday’s Republican U.S. Senate primary, Murray Sabrin is already thinking ahead to 2009. One Sabrin friend, with knowledge of the campaign strategy, says that the Ramapo College professor is likely to run for Governor next year. That throws an interesting wrench into the plans of former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, who is likely to count the Ron Paul/Libertarian wing of the New Jersey GOP as part of his natural base in a gubernatorial primary against U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie. Sabrin has been complaining about Lonegan since last month, when the conservative leader pulled out of a campaign fundraiser and slapped his wrists for running an especially nasty Senate campaign.
Paybacks can be a real bitch in politics – that’s something that ex-gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler well knows. Lonegan was an important cog in Schundler’s 2001 primary campaign, but split with the former Mayor of Jersey City when Schundler refused to back Lonegan’s efforts to run conservative slates of legislative candidates in Bergen County in 2003. It’s fair to say that Lonegan won enough votes in the ’05 primary to deny Schundler a second shot at running for Governor. Could Sabrin do the same thing to Lonegan next year?
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Sabrin is a Joke
The only thing in New Jersey bigger than the size of New Jersey's state budget is Murray Sabrin's ego.
Sabrin
Sabrin is going to get less than 10% in the primary, and if he runs again, its only to stoke his ego.
If anyone in the GOP runs against Chris Christie in the primary, it just shows how inept and fractured the party really is.
Lonegan would be better served making a pact of some sort with Christie.
Crack is whack and so is Sabrin!
I honestly thinks he's delusional.
Sabrin = Nut Job = Weirdo
Sabrin is an effing whackadoodle who is in love with himself. The nutty professor takes public financing (not once, but twice) for elections so he can waste taxpayer money to get less than 10%. His message equates to, "Hi... I'm a weirdo." That vane nutty professor reminds me of the freak in Silence of the Lamb. I bet the Nutty Professor sits in alone in his basement, with techno music and his vane YouTube commercials in the background, looking at himself adoringly in a mirror muttering, "Would you $#@ me? I'd #$@ me."