Your statement is rather general and infers that anybody with a ‘D’ would have won in 2008?
Am I reading this right?
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Thanks for the local point of view. I visited Cape May many years ago. I don’t know about the whole district, but the Cape May I visited was full of scorchingly wealthy people and luxury summer homes. I still don’t fully understand why this guy’s no vote on impeachment would suppress Dem turn out on the down ticket.
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It was a choice between him and a Bernieist with no political experience. In other words, it was a choice between a near-guaranteed win with him, or a guaranteed loss with Tanzie Youngblood, as this isn’t the kind of district where a budding “squad” member would do well in a general election. The DCCC got it right.
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She has to directly say why, but I theek she’s saying that the majority of NJ Democrats completely support impeachment and his position might hurt turnout.
Now, Van Drew’s comments didn’t help him, but I’m thinking that his impeachment stance is way different than the state party’s.
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But getting it right would have to not have either of these two idiots as the only options.
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I think the dems are DUMB for not demanding the recordings and/or transcripts of the Zelensky and Putin phone calls. The intelligence committe should demand officals explain why those conversations are stored on the super secret server in a departure from normal practice.
That isn’ t to say that lil trumputin will release the information, but if under pressure the administration publishes a memo of the conversation just imagine how devastating that would be.
The cleaned up Zelensky memo of the conversation was shocking and that version contained the “least” worse passages of that conversation.
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Tell me what “getting it right” means. What candidate in that district would be better?
Keep in mind if this guy does flip, “getting it right” will be an option that is back on the table. If there’s a better candidate, he or she can be found and run against Van Drew. Or to put it another way, if there really is a better candidate, him flipping is no loss because he’ll be replaced. But if there isn’t, then this is all a particularly angry waste of bits and bytes.
I ought to add there’s this attitude that the DP goes out and simply picks the people – “anoints” is a word I see often – who run. That’s not usually the way it works. Usually, there’s a strong candidate or two (sometimes even more) who declare or says they’re interested, and the “establishment” then decides which one to throw its support behind. In this case, Van Drew was it – no other reasonable candidate appeared. So they supported him. As I already said, given the alternatives they made the best choice possible.
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To me getting it right means to find professional people who live in the district that can prove they can be loyal but principled.
He won because of a sweeping election with Trumpish chops. In this district that may have been the best result one could hope for. But now he is a national embarrassment. Only because he is an unprincipled selfish prick. IMO he is a stamped made old school version of a Dixiecrat. I get it in 2018 every seat mattered. But now with a soft cushion it doesn’t. That is someone the DNCC should reject from the very start and rid themselves of.
I’m a moderate myself and can say this guy never was a moderate or centrists, he was an opportunist.
The fault may be with the DNCC for accepting it, but the extreme left(aka bernie bots) forced this because reality never seems to be their strong suit.
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That will go so well with the eggs Benedict he’s serving.
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Will the DCCC learn their lesson “this time”? You think that Lieberman would have been the ultimate wake up call, what was that a decade ago now? One could almost surmise that the DCCC is most concerned with keeping the party anchored right of center. I applaud this asshole, at least he is not going to stay burrowed in party like the rest of the blue dog ticks, who will undoubtedly enjoy the full support of the Dem establishment against any true progressive challengers.
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This district had been sending the same GOP rep to Congress since 1992 … a fair amount of this district is actually located south of the Mason-Dixon line … and often behaves like that means something. It is a quirky area…and very eclectic.
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Not sure what the question is? A different Democrat, after earlier expressing doubts, made the decision to support impeachment based on the evidence he saw and heard.
That’s how it is supposed to work. Or is that why your baffled, which is understandable.
I think you nailed it
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Trump carried the district in 2016. From what I’ve read the district’s GOP has said they’re not interested in him and would not nominate him to run as their party’s candidate. He’s a two year wonder. If his political skills are as bad as this makes them out to be it’s probably best the Republican and Democratic parties ditch the asshole.
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Everything Donald Trump touches dies.
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Yes. I’m from NJ, and while we have our share of corruption – famous for it up he-ya – this POS is special. You can just see from his clothes what an empty suit he is. Get the hook!
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I’ve lived in South Jersey (Cherry Hill), Central Jersey (East Windsor) and North Jersey (Lyndhurst and Morristown). You are so right about the rural parts of the State and some of the “down the Shore” areas. Cape May is close to Delaware, which is nestled next to Maryland and borders Virginia, etc. etc.
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Yeah.
Reminds me of the immortal line from the Sopranos Episode “Pine Barrens” where Paulie asks how it’s possible to get lost in effing New Jersey, and Christopher immediately corrects him by saying, “South Jersey,” like it’s a foreign country.
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So I checked out Van Dew’s congressional page. Pretty light on bio, but then he’s Dr. Jefferson Van Drew, DDS. So what’s up with Republicans’ attracting dentists?