President Bush To Campaign In New Jersey

[BlueNomad]

President Bush To Campaign In New Jersey

Oct 17, 2004 2:46 pm US/Eastern


(1010 WINS) (EVESHAM, N.J.) President Bush was scheduled to appear Monday at his first campaign rally in New Jersey, another sign that Republicans believe they can win a state that has voted for Democratic presidential candidates in the last three elections.

The appearance at the Evesham Recreation Center comes one week after Vice President Dick Cheney's appearance in the same part of Burlington County, a county where Republicans dominate local politics.

Some Democrats have characterized the recent top-of-the-ticket Republican stumping in New Jersey as a ploy to get Democrats to spend their money there as well.

Statewide polls have shown Sen. John Kerry with a lead in New Jersey — but Republicans say the polls they've commissioned have shown the race to be much tighter than that.So far, Kerry has not campaigned in New Jersey, a state with 15 electoral votes. But in the past month, Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards has been in New Jersey twice....

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[latebloomer]

1. Out of my state, vile creature!

Out of my country, come to think of it.

Out of all our lives!!

[Cha]

2. Nobody says what time he is going to

give his desperate speech..I want to know.

Good..glad he's wasting his time in New Jersey!

[Pachamama]

25. 1:15PM EST

Terra Terra Terra! You have a GAY Governor! OMG!

:scared:

[unblock]

3. a typical rovian bluff

he's probably campaigning in the philadelphia suburbs and really is after pennsylvania.

in any scenario in which he wins new jersey, he's winning anyway even without new jersey.

[KittyWampus]

5. Ya, He's Planning On Swinging By The Amish Too, Dontcha Know

[diplomats]

6. Bingo

Rove did this in 2000. He had Bush campaign in California late in the game to make the public think Bush was so far ahead he could afford to spend time in a blue state. In fact, the race was much closer than the WH would let on, and that's the case now.

[sandnsea]

21. Yep, PA too

And when somebody starts bluffing, and doing it this badly, they are T-O-A-S-T.

[Jersey Devil]

29. yep, looking for Phillie TV coverage for sure

That's really a Philadelphia suburb and he is throwing curves at Kerry while really campaigning for the PA vote.

[rocktivity]

37. Ding ding ding! Unblock, you're our grand prize winner!

It's about 15 miles east of Philly, so chances are it will get eastern PA coverage!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Dimsdale]

4. Bullshit, no way The Chimp wins NJ.

BTW, while he's there maybe he can stop in Hamilton Township near Trenton where Pickles was confronted by Ms. Niederer whose son was killed in Iraq. I'd like to see the fucking piece of shit himself confronted on his illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Chimpy, The Leader. Too fucking much!

[creeksneakers2]

7. He knows the press will cover

it as Bush the bold leader who will go anywhere to fight terror.

Bush has a terrible record for fighting terrorism. He ignored it completely until 9/11. Then he let proxies fight the war in Afghanistan. Then he stared ignoring finding Bin Laden at all. Then he passed on plans that might have taken out Zarqawi.

There is no way Bush should be ahead in who can better handle terror. Kerry and crew better get an ad and some emphasis to fight back on this news story tomorrow. Kerry has never even used the Zarqawi thing or followed up on Bush's lie in the debate.

For the last few days, the Kerry crew has been talking about flu shots and losing points.

[daleo]

8. This would be handy if there was an electoral cheat in the works

I hate to sound too suspicious, but this would be handy cover if they really can fix the electronic voting. "Our win in New Jersey was really no surprise - why, we even had President Bush stump here late in the campaign. People shouldn't be so suspicious."

[liberalpragmatist]

9. Good

Let him spend money and time in a futile effort.

Meanwhile, let Kerry stump in Ohio, Florida, Colorado, and Nevada.

* Don't get me wrong. Bush COULD win New Jersey. But if he wins NJ he'll already be winning in a nationwide landslide. Any other scenario and expect Kerry to thump Bush.

[obreaslan]

10. I live 5 miles away from where he is speaking,

And the chicken-shit picks the second most repug town in the whole area, Marlton.

Cheney picked Medford, the most repug town last week.

Other than those two towns, no one here is voting for him. It's a ploy to make him appear as though he's doing better in other places, so he can grace us with his almighty presence. He knows he is losing in PA, so he's got to make a good showing in the Philly market.

GET OUT OF NJ, AND GO BACK TO TEXAS!!!!!!

[JohnnyCougar]

48. Welcome to DU, obreaslan!!

Cheers! :toast:

[obreaslan]

52. Thanks Johnny.

Been a lurker for a while, finaly registered. :D

[JoFerret]

11. Roving for a flag factory like Poppy

...desperate ploy

[Mister K]

12. Let him waste his time here

I believe that the people in Jersey are too smart to vote for him. Yes, I do live in a town which Repubs hold the majority but most can see through his lies and accept the truth.

P.S. - If, by chance, he does take Jersey, I am leaving the state.

[onehandle]

13. Yeah, let him waste his time.

Hopefully he'll spend time in Illinois campaigning with Keyes and then spend his last week in California.

How 'bout it, General Rove?

[Pachamama]

26. Excellent idea...don't forget MA George! n/t

:kick:

[StupidFOX]

16. My thoughts exactly

(applied to PA)

[VegasWolf]

14. Afterwards, bush campaigns in San Francisco! n/t

[SoCalDem]

15. More rooftop activism, please..

Let the photogs take pictures as they land..

"GO HOME BUSH"..

"YES...WE HATE YOU"..

"NO NJ 4 U"

etc..

like they did pre-convention in NY..

[PROGRESSIVE1]

17. Uh, Karl.....New Jersey is NOT a swing state!!!

Has he forgot about Ohio!?! :crazy:

Maybe Rove is loosing his touch?

[njdemocrat106]

18. Here in Ocean County...

The Bush/Cheney signs and stickers outnumber the Kerry/Edwards stickers by at least 10 to 1 (Bay Head is particularly disturbing in this matter). I've always insisted that the North Jersey folks have a better grasp of reality than the South Jersey folks. I took a ride through Glen Ridge, in Essex County, the other day. It's one of the toniest towns in the state, and I saw numerous Kerry signs, but no Bush signs. What does that tell you? (No offense to my fellow South Jerseyans voting for Kerry).

[Senator Lamb]

19. sadly

yes, i live in monmouth county and im in ocean county alot, all i see is bush/cheney signs. if i new how to upload pictures on this board, i have this image of new jersey with half of it covered by a confederate flag. either they are rich greedy bastards, dumb, or whitetrash.

[Jersey Devil]

31. What about Holiday City, Silver Ridge, the retirement towns?

I'd be curious to know what is going on down there. Up here in Bergen the Kerry support is strong.

[Pachamama]

28. Re. the sign thing...the Rethugs have been busy ripping down Kerry signs

in a lot of places & putting up their signs everywhere, but don't let it fool you...its a ploy...also, when I was canvassing in OR last week, there were lots of Bush signs at households where the wife would say "ignore the signs, they are my husbands - I'm voting Kerry!"

:kick:

[NJGeek]

32. Sorry but South Jersey is a little sdrawkcab

Ocean County has that bastion of journalism, the Asbury Park Press, which leans hard to the right. It is really a different state down there.

[malachi]

33. Southern NJ below Trenton is like Central PA. You might as well

be in Missibama or Louisitucky. Flat, ugly and populated by the largest moron population in the state.

[Mister K]

35. I resent that remark

I live in Columbus, just south of Trenton, and I am not a moron. My Repub neighbors may be morons but I am not. :)

[brook]

34. Bay Head?

How sad. Not too surprising though. It's even more of a monied group now. My family had a house there when I was growing up. There was quite a bit of anti-semitism and moralistic hypocrites galore. Luckily, I found friends who shared my liberal and somewhat rebellious tendencies.

[njdemocrat106]

49. Update on Ocean County...

I decided to take a drive through a few towns in my county today, just for the heck of it. To lend some credence to what I said about most South Jerseyans (particularly my fellow residents of Ocean County) lacking a grasp of reality, I saw three bumper stickers that particulary nauseated me. In Point Pleasant, I saw one pick-up truck with the Bush/Cheney sticker (which offends me enough) PLUS a sticker beneath that saying "Kill them all, let Allah sort 'em out". Almost immediately after that, I see a beat up Toyota with numerous Vietnam Veteran stickers, including one that said "Vietnam Vets are better off in the Bush". In Lakewood, I came across a van saying "John Kerry is bin-Laden's candidate. Mine is George W. Bush" (umm, Chimpyboy is friends with the bin-Laden family, from what I've heard). Then I head down Route 9 and turn off into Pine Beach, and I see this neanderthal punk-ass kid holding a Kerry/Edwards sign. Originally I thought, "hey, great, he's putting up a Kerry/Edwards sign!". I proceed to see this punk crumple up the sign and spit on it. I gave him my trademark dirty look, but he didn't notice (I swear, if I yelled something, his inbred family would probably come out of nowhere and ambush my car.) Ocean Gate was a breath of fresh air. Surprisingly, LOTS of Kerry/Edwards signs there.

[John_H]

20. Silly Whores, don't you remember this BS gimmick in 2000? We do.

"More importantly, Bush also campaigned in several states...including Illinois and Pennsylvania. The effort in Illinois indicates the confidence the Bush campaign must feel with their overall position. The Bush campaign continues to run commercials in California..."

http://www.ksgcitizen.org/main.cfm?include=subApplication&subApplicationName=quickRegister&fuse=registrationOrLoginRequired&thereferer=http%3A//www.ksgcitizen.org/news/2000/10/30/Campaign2000/That-Was.The.Week.That.Was-6906.shtml


And here's Chimp's mid September schedule from 2000:

Bush Rally - Pomona, California - Thursday, September 14
George W.Bush At The Los Angeles County Fair
Bush Rally - San Diego, California - Friday, September 15

Of course the craven mediawhores fall or pretend to fall for KKKarls idiot hoodoo every time. The rest of us just chuckle and go about our merry way.

[Pachamama]

30. Bwahaha...he won't win CA - if he did, you know its stolen...he couldn't

win it in 2000, and that was before 100's of thousands of Californians lost their jobs and before he had a record of failure..

[drdtroit]

22. "the polls they've commissioned"

pretty much sums it up doesn't it.

It's great to be a Republican. You can lie and cheat, have sex with minors, murder Innocent civilians, feel good about being a racist, accept homophobia and be an anti-Semite.

Now that's my kinda party! :shrug:

[brentspeak]

23. As a New Jerseyan, I'm a bit worried

I've seen a LOT of Bush/Cheney signs on private lawns, from super-rich Franklin Lakes to the lower middle-class town where I presently live (Wanaque). In the past, it was pretty much a given that the country clubbers of towns like Franklin Lakes and Princeton would vote Republican. But places like Wanaque have always somewhat Democrat, or at least evenly-split.

I really believe that the steady, heavy clubbing over the head and prevalence of local talk radio and FOX News have made significant inroads on the minds of many here.

[Jersey Devil]

27. You live in the wingnut area

Franklin Lakes, an area with 10 million dollar homes is hardly the kind of area you'd find Kerry lawn signs. Try coming down to eastern and southern Bergen County and you'll find plenty of Kerry signs and very few Bush posters. I'm not worried. NJ will not go red.

[BlueNomad]

24. CNN

just said they will be covering "this very important speech live...More free press...My only solace is that one of my best friends who is a 52 year old priest living in a NJ shore stronghold claims that Kerry is going to win. He says that all of his parishioners are Republicans but a growing number are disgruntled.

Hopefully some of the truly fed up ones where he lives will stay home. Pray that NJ Democrats get out the vote. That's alot of EVs to be screwing around with. It would not hurt for the ticket to show it's face once before election day...

..then again..Bush & Co could be yanking their chains...who here is on the grounds there?

[njdemocrat106]

50. My church

seems to pretty liberal for a Catholic church. We had one priest who pretty much endorsed Kerry in his sermon (he denounced "one candidate's smearing of another's military service" and ended with "on Election Day, I think it's time for a change"). Quite a few Kerry stickers on cars in the lot too (and one "Vote Democrat" sticker also), though I saw my first Bush sticker this Sunday.

[Dinger]

36. The Boss Should Give Portesters An Impropmtu Concert

[geek tragedy]

38. 2000 Redux

Rove had Dumbya take a victory lap in 2000.

NJ is not in play.

[demokatgurrl]

39. Very disturbing comments on my local (Phila) rw radio

all-news station. Every time they mentioned Bush would be in NJ (which was, oh, about every 15 minutes) they would say this "raises the possibility that NJ is a swing state".

Please, God, no, please save us. I'm in Philly but very close to NJ and have always thought NJ was our more progressive neighbor that we could look to for inspiration. Please, New Jerseyans, don't let your state turn red. :cry:

[boredofeducation]

45. Right Wing NJ101.5 calls Kerry Voters morons

Right Wing 101.5 has been in full spin mode the past few weeks. Even went as far as calling the listeners who are voting for Kerry/Edwards morons. That is how they try to win arguments on that trash station, if you don't have the facts, call the opposition morons and then hang up on them!

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

40. I live in Bergen County

No surprise that these "mini-van, gas guzzling, comfort moms" are for bush. But I do see Kerry signs sprinkled here and there which is significant in my neck of the woods.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

41. Hudson Co. here (Jersey City/Hoboken)

and it's all Kerry here...

[DFWJock]

42. Note to Chimp:

Dont forget to campaign in CA, MA, oh and TX also.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

43. and Alaska

[Cha]

47. And Massachusetts, Delaware,

Connecticut, and Hawaii!

[boredofeducation]

44. More Pine Trees in Southern Jersey than people!

Most of Southern Jersey is wild, undeveloped pine forest. Little more then one million people live in the pine barrons, and this is where I see most of the BC signs.

[Rhoderick]

46. This is Rovian strategy

My guess is that it's a Ruse.

http://www.turnspit.com/archives/week_2004_10_17.php#000446

Rove knows better.

[JoFerret]

51. The thought of the visit seems to have done the trick

NJ now solid Kerry. Thanks Dick and W.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/

[canuckybee]

53. 51% to 38% hahaha