Final Post

You ruined the NJDOT and sold it to the highest bidder and laid off low paying workers that were the bread and butter of the DOT.Go away

From someone who has nothing to say.

She needs to go help her daughter run for congress. That should ensure a Lance victory in the primary!

Vote Column "A" - All the way!

Governor Whitman....

I am not sure why you are leaving but I for one have enjoyed your post. I have had the pleasure of voting for you twice in the primaries and twice in the general election. I wish you well. 

Irrespective of conflicting positions on issues, she is just another New Jerseyan who got dumped on by Bush.

http://www.infowars.net/pictures/may2007/160507Whitman.jpg

I would argue that the following comments are ad hominem:

• "single-handedly destroying the Republican party in NJ" - you don't think the fact that NJ is liberal on just about every major national issue has something to do with that. Gay rights, guns, abortion, etc...
• "nerve to 'bless' us with her wisdom"

When you put words like that how can you possibly be expected to be taken seriously in a public policy discussion. 

My conservative brothers and sisters have to learn to hold their fire and act in a manner becoming of movement we represent. Do I back whitman's social positions? No not at all. Do I think Franks should have beat Schundler in 2001; hell no! Do I think we acheived political progress in the whitman years as republicans, yes we have. Clearly Governor whitman should be shown more respect in this fourm than she has been afforded.

On paper we conservatives should have been running the GOP the moment the State legislarture went democratic in 2002. We have alienated too many of our rank and file by our temper tantrums. We have routinely shown our lack of civility eating our own in a mad rush to show who is the conservative's conservative (see Lonegan 9% that cost Schuldler in 2005 and Talarico's mess in Bergen County). The river that we have cried for ourselves has only made it eaiser for democrats to sail downstream to victory time and again. We have only ourselves to thank for McGreevy, Corzine, Menendez, Lautenberg, Holt and Codey.

We simply need to grow up.

I've heard this argument a hundred time - "Reagan won New Jersey."  It's been 20 years since 1988.  Times change.  I hate to break it to you.  Christie Whitman is not the reason NJ voters support gay rights, gun legislation, abortion rights, etc...  We are a different state with "liberal" views on social issues.  I use liberal with hesitation because many in the Goldwater conservative wing of the GOP are pro-choice and consider it an issue of indivudal rights. 

 NJ might still be voting Republican is the Christian Right did not take over the national party.  Even though our Republicans are rather  left of center at times, the voters think national party labels normally when electing candidates.

I'm not the earth's biggest Whitman fan, but a few people here are a little over the top.  And believe me, Christie Whitman did not "singlehandedly" destroy the state GOP, she had plenty of help.

Keep in mind that Mrs. Whitman has been out of office since early 2001, yet the state party has continued to flounder in her absence.  There are still a lot of people in New Jersey's Republican Party who think the way to win is to be a "kinder and gentler" version of Jon Corzine.  The pathetic state New Jersey's Republicans are in today is proof that this foolish philosophy has failed, but it is unfair to blame Mrs. Whitman for "singlehandedly" pushing that idea.

When Christie Whitman got up at her inauguration, talking about tax cuts and reduced government spending, I had a lot of hope for her administration.  Her poll numbers in early 1994 showed she had broad support across the Republican Party, and was even more popular with pro-Life voters and conservatives than Republicans as a whole.

Unfortunately, these hopes were dashed when the Governor's focus moved from tight fiscal management to a culture of political correctness and virtriolic insensitivity, bordering to the point of outright hatred, for the pro-Life views held by millions of her constituents.

The Governor's early successes and reputation for fiscal conservativsm went out the window as budgets began to zoom higher, state debt skyrocketed and government programs exploded in size.  It's tough to build a party when its leaders are cultural liberals and fiscal liberals.  That was the sad legacy of the Whitman years.  But she could not do it alone.  Remember that her budgets were approved by Republican dominated legislators.  It is that combined complicity here that led to the GOP losing credibilty with voters.  Until the party gets a leader who can restore that credibility, Republicans will continue to lose statewide elections.

You Mental MIDGET, I can refute everything, that you think you know, because you don’t know your  A _ _ from a HOLE IN THE GROUND or anything else for that matter because you a LIAR and know exactly NOTHING..................

So crawl back into the HOLE that you came from with all you other PIG FRIENDS................

You are truly the typical GARBAGE that represents New Jersey and the rest of it’s STENCH.

While she spewed her B. S. we could read or not read it. When she was Governor she did so much damage to New Jersey and sunk the NJGOP and we had to take it.

Mayby she wants to be McCain's VP so she can screw up the country in the modle of NJ.

"Hollywood is a place whre thy'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul." - Marilyn Monroe (She never knew how profound she was.)

After starting the unconstitutional borrowing train down the tracks she jumped off before the de-railment. Thank God the last post has been submitted. Go back to hoity-toity land. Good riddance.

As they "silence is golden" 

If only the Mad Mental Giant possessed an ounce of civility and a junior high command of punctuation…

Who ever else replied in any way to (no and all offense to her)I agree 10,000%, and when she skipped off and absolutly did nothing else anywhere else; oh I can't stand when my dollar is going down the drain just like a wasted flush.

I will miss your postings, for one among many. Please do not hesitate to further the cause of moderate Republicans who know the meaning of civility.

Now we can start to rebuild the Republican Party in this state.  By the way, any chance you can take your daughter with you? 

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
                --Theodore Roosevelt--

Please go away and take your family with you.You are irrelavant.

Did they run out of prunes in your asylum? I read you comment twice and in didn't make any sense either time. Stop posting when you are so full of venom. Take 10 deep breaths, calm down and perhaps a coherent thought might occur. It is possible.

"A Nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. Alexander Hamilton

Good riddance is too good a sentiment for that lying piece of trash.

Because of her administration the NJDOP went from useless to dangerous and costly. the mopes and moles she annointed there aid and abet in circumventing the Constitution. The result is lawsuits brought because the NJDOP abandoned its mission at Whitless direction.

Because she lied and declared the air at Ground Zero safe to breath thousands of rescuers and citizens will suffer a lifetime of pulmonary ailments.

Because she squandered the State pension system on pork our State is in financial shambles.

Because she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth she has no clue on what the real world is like.

Because she devastated so many lives with her blue blood bullshit her daughter doesn't deserve a single vote.

Go away and don't come back you rotton excuse for a human being!

You will be missed. 

Would you kindly take the Torch with you on the way out? 

Thanks and enjoy your retirement from the flames of angry New Jerseyans.  We have so much to be angry about, it can get in the way of civil discourse.  Perhaps you have noticed?

OE