Tom's Journal

http://www.swingstateproject.com/2006/06/njsen_tom_kean.php

Help me understand this. Both of the candidates for NJ’s Senate seat agree to give speeches at a conference.

Menendez gives a rockin’ speech, calls Kean, Jr a “light weight” and a “coward”

Kean, Jr gets up on stage and gives a cowardly, light-weight speech.

Reporters ask Jr questions. He gets so scared he hides in the elevator. (He took it from the current floor to... THE SAME FLOOR.)

Look, Kean, Jr... the sooner people find out you aren’t a clone of your dad the better it will be for New Jersey. You claim you are your own man, but you’ve never voted against a Bush idea. Your dad was his own man, and broke away from the Republicans on important issues such as education, the environment (”Having clean water to drink is not a Republican or Democrat issue”), GLBTI issues, AIDS, sex education, and many other issues. That’s why people liked him.

The more word spreads that you paid Tomicki for $50,000 to help craft your message so that homophobes and racists would “read between the lines” but not sound like the bigot you are, the better it is for NJ. Tomiki is the guy who says that battered women shouldn’t be allowed to get divorced (they just need to STOP BEING SUCH A BITCH), that gays shouldn’t marry, and that blacks should... well, he thinks the secret to winning the black vote is to give every black minister in Camden a $2,000 donation the week before election night in exchange for not encouraging their members to vote.

You aren’t your father. I knew your father. We were on a first-name basis... and I don’t just say that because every time I met with him I was wearing a nametag that said, “Tom” on it. I’m saying that because I honestly believe that he remembered that he had a good way to remember my name, such as remembering that it was the same first name as his.

And that’s my rant.


P.S. No, one more point. Kean, Jr is so disconnected with New Jersey that he doesn’t know that Route 1 is a traffic jam at rush hour.

Footnotes:

* -- Yes, an insult based on out-dated gender-stereotypes. Blow me.**

** -- Yes, a sex-negative retort with potential homophobic implications. In reality, I’d love a blow job right now.