A Mistake! NJ's Largest Newspaper....
calls their endorsement of Christie a mistake! (Oh, they just noticed?) A bitter pill for those of us who supported Buono. They also go on after criticizing Christie to justify their endorsement by citing some of his accomplishments and calling Buono "not up to the job". The portion that goes after Christie is fun to read however.
Not quite. An endorsement is not a love embrace. It is a choice between two flawed human beings. And the winner is often the less bad option.
But yes, we blew this one. When the endorsement ran, I could not get a cup of coffee in the People’s Republic of Montclair without my liberal friends taunting me. Back then, I pushed back.
Yes, we knew Christie was a bully. But we didn’t know his crew was crazy enough to put people’s lives at risk in Fort Lee as a means to pressure the mayor. We didn’t know he would use Hurricane Sandy aid as a political slush fund. And we certainly didn’t know that Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer was sitting on a credible charge of extortion by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.
Even before this scandal train got rolling, this endorsement was a close call and a split vote among the editorial board. We regard Christie as the most overrated politician in the country, at least until now, a man who is better at talking than governing. We criticized him for trashing the working poor, for his tea party approach to the environment, for his opposition to gay marriage and a livable minimum wage. And so on.
Forgot the link: http://blog.nj.com/njv_tom_moran/2014/02/chris_christie_endorsement_is.html#incart_m-rpt-1
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Someone should have yelled at him "Get a brain, MORAN!" before the paper made that ill-advised appointment...!
Maybe sent him the tee shirt to go with the poster...?
- So who gives a shit about this nonpology anyways? The shit's still on yer shoes, stupid immoral editor persons......
that virtually ignored Buono.
Criticized him? Ouchie!
For taking anti-human, bigoted, ignorant, anti-environment, anti-human rights and worker rights and then going after the Commons, the social safety net and all of that?
They wait until after Christie's wrecking crew takes the Fifth to question their judgment of supporting a man they knew was a bully? No alarm bells?
What were Christie's superior policy points versus Buono's?
I doubt seriously that any of the things on the list that they oh, much too late criticize him for, were on her platform.
at those guys.
No coffee for you!
without further ado.. I know I do! 
"Yes, we knew Christie was a bully. But we didn’t know his crew was crazy enough to put people’s lives at risk in Fort Lee as a means to pressure the mayor. We didn’t know he would use Hurricane Sandy aid as a political slush fund. And we certainly didn’t know that Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer was sitting on a credible charge of extortion by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno."
thanks Lax~
You endorsed Governor Soprano for the same reason just about everybody else did: because he was going to win anyway. Or (now that we have the true picture of Christie's management style) perhaps it was because you feared receiving "radio silence" from the his administration, or even being boycotted by your most lucrative advertisers. But now that you've been scooped by the relatively small-potato Bergen Record and even the national media is wondering why they didn't notice that the emperor has no clothes, it's safe to pile on and take yourself off record of having endorsed the REAL loser.
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