…I suggest that Doug Forrester completely ignore the NJ Supreme Court ruling and the Lautenberg substitution…AND KEEP RUNNING AGAINST TORRICELLI.
I came to this epiphany after reading Ann Coulter’s Frontpage Magazine column a few moments ago. La Coulter writes:
Torricelli’s Republican opponent, Douglas R. Forrester, has designed an entire campaign — polls, advertisements, issues — on the assumption that he was running against a specific candidate. As soon as his campaign against that candidate began to work and he pulled ahead, Democrats switched the candidate.
But they can only switch the issues if Forrester plays along. Forrester should keep hammering on his legitimate opponent, Torricelli, with a clear subtext that you can’t change political horses in midstream in the name of “giving the voters a clear choice”. It seems to me that the clear choice is to repudiate this sort of political chicanery by electing Forrester to the Senate.
Not that I expect NJ voters to do the right thing.
UPDATE: Via the Professor, Howard Kurtz takes this a bit farther — “[Torricelli]’s an albatross that conservatives want to hang around the neck of every breathing Democrat.” Woo-hoo.
The title of Kurtz’s column? “Torching the Whole Party”. Time to get out the kerosene.