As you read on the front page, NJ GOP US Senate candidate Anne Estabrook suffered a mild stroke on Monday and had to jump out of the race where she was a leading candidate. The reaction from the GOP has been nothing short of amazing, rather similar to the reaction of the IL GOP after Jack Ryan dropped out against Barack Obama in 2004.
First you get this call for Al Leiter, the former major league baseball pitcher, to run for the US Senate against Frank Lautenberg.
Then you get this call Mike Huckabee to run for the US Senate against Frank Lautenberg.
And then there is this call -- from the Monmouth County GOP chair, no less -- for Rudy Giuliani to run for the US Senate against Frank Lautenberg.
What is it that these three GOP recruits have in common? Not one of them actually lives in New Jersey!
(Just so you know, Frank Lautenberg does live in NJ.)
I mean, it worked so well for the IL GOP to run Alan Keyes from Maryland in Illinois. I mean it worked out really well for the Democrats!
OK, so we ran Hillary Clinton in New York in 2000. But she won! And we did it with Bobby Kennedy, too, so we have a track record of success.
But I'm all for the GOP importing talent, since they appear to have so little of their own. We've taken all their home grown for the past few decades and beaten them, and we'll take on their ringers, too.