Lonegan's fundraising letter

He makes a strong case for real change.

Lonegan will be an interesting sub-plot to next year's gubernatorial. With only two states conducting governor's races (NJ & VA), Lonegan could certainly tap into a national conservative donor base to make him very competitive financially.

Vote Column "A" All the way!

. . . but the guy with the bad hairpiece might actually pull this one off. He'll get lots of money from wingnut whackjobs around the country who have nothing else to contribute to next year. If Crowley gets into the race with Merkt and Christie the country club set will be divided and the bad hairpiece could win with less than a third of the vote. Throw in endorsements from "Jersey Joe" and "Maverick Murray", with their small but devoted faithful, and he's got something better than a small chance.

Lonegan is right on the issue to emphasize of taxes and spending, he attracts the support of everyone in the Republican party, he draws the vote of independents on the fiscal issues, and he is a clear contrast to Corzine that Republicans have not had in years.  He can raise the money, and he can beat Corzine because he is the choice voters have been looking for from a Republican candidate.  Lonegan even has the record as mayor of someone who kept taxes and spending down and can point to that record (and his efforts to fight for taxpayers with AFP) to show he will do what he says.  Actually, he already beat Corzine on the ballot questions last year and could do it again.

Christie is a good corruption buster, but that is not the issue that will bring everyone in the Republican party out to support him in the general election and it certainly won't bring support of independents who are more concerned with their pocketbooks in these times.

Although I agree with Lonegan on several issues, the fundraising letter was an embarrassing, amateur production.
The paper was thin, dime store quality.
Every page had several sentences underlined, and in bold type. He couldn't figure out what message was important, so he emphasized everything.
He claimed that he was campaigning "eighteen hours a day, seven days a week" which is physically impossible, and implies that he has stopped going to church, because he's campaigning for votes on the Sabbath.
He claimed to have raised $180,000 so far, but the return address is still a P.O. box - so he either hasn't got any money, or he's too dense to have a campaign office rented.
He asked me for money - up to $3,000 - but he couldn't be bothered to provide a business reply envelope - basically, I have to provide the stamp as well as a check.
If Lonegan wants to be Governor, he has to carry himself with the dignity and professionalism of the office before his campaign begins. The letter he sent out this week was a joke.

Is this the first fund raising letter you've ever received? They are all like that...

This letter is poorly written and if his campaign themes are echoed in this letter he has ton of work to do. 1st and foremost this letter needs to be trimmed way down. After that he needs to remember that 80% of this state dem or rep is pro-choice and nearly 90% are for gay marriage (whether they activly support it, think it should be legal, or could care less how marriage is defined). finally he needs to realize that NJ is a progressive state in a progressive region. NJ voters by and large are not afraid of change, they are not looking for conservative leadership.

"they are not looking for conservative leadership"

...well they ought to be looking for it because the 'leadership' we've gotten from RINOS and liberal/socialists is destroying this state.

If a conservative can't win in NJ next year then they can't ever and the state is doomed to hell.

I would give everything I could to make sure that Lonegan was the GOP nominee next year, he would be easier to beat than CC for sure. Furthermore, the RINOs mentioned by Garden State Patriot are so defind by him because they are rational and moderate not the Neo-cons that dominate the GOP. Of course liberalism is not the same thing as socialism, but thats a point lost on the likes of the extreme right. You calling liberals socialists is like me calling Conservatives facsists. It does nothing but stifle debate and enflame tempers. On more point that I can make is that lets suppose socialist democrats like Bernie Sanders were the leaders of the Democratic party, all that means is that they recognize that the free-market cant fix every single problem, that all people are not able to pull themselves out of poverty, that there might be a responsibility to make life better..."socialists" in America are by far social deomcrats like the parties in Canada and Europe. The free market cant fix all of our problem, it leaves people behind, and not because they are lazy. I am not a socialist, but their are tenents of Socialized Democracies that our nation could certainly benefit. The fact that the extreme right uses the term "socialist" as a boogyman is rediculous, Americans are smarter than that as we see by Obama's crushing defeat of McCain on the heals of the latter's socialist charges