Some conservatives to sit out NJ Gubernatorial race over abortion rights.

[NNadir]

Although like many New Jerseyans, I am upset that we cannot keep Richard Codey as our Governor, I will of course be voting for John Corzine next Tuesday.

We should win, especially with help like this:

"TRENTON, N.J. - Conservative Republican Dave Pawson agrees with GOP candidate Doug Forrester on most issues in the New Jersey governor's race. But when Pawson goes into the voting booth next Tuesday, he won't pull the lever for Forrester — or for the other guy, either.


Forrester's increasingly vocal support of abortion rights in his campaign against liberal Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine (news, bio, voting record) has so alienated Republican conservatives that they are threatening to withhold their votes on Election Day.

"People like myself will not click Corzine or Forrester," said Pawson, a 54-year-old public school teacher. "They'll vote for the Assembly candidates and their local races but skip the governor's race."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_el_gu/new_jersey_governor

We are about to lose reproductive rights in this country as part and parcel of our slip into third world status. For a long time abortion as a wedge issue has worked for the other side, since they antichoice crowd has been highly motivated by it, and the human rights side has been complacent and distracted.

Now of course, people like Forrester are beginning to feel the heat on the reality that small government doesn't really place police patrols in uteruses.

We are in for a hell of a time in this country, and it shouldn't take this much suffering to arrest the forces of wholesale ignorance represented by the Repukes. Still the fact that the Repukes are having their so called "ideas" tested by cold reality cannot help but bring us to a change of course. It may come too late, but come it will.

[yankeedem]

1. Wasn't Forrester anti-choice the last time around?

Forrester is a tool. And he's the best and the brightest of what the Pukes could come up with in NJ.

[NNadir]

2. I think so. To tell the truth, I seldom listen to what he says.

It's not like I'm a swing voter.

[napi21]

3. I have a dumb question.

If a voter decides not to vote for any one or several people on the ballot, does the votes he does cast still count for that person?

The reason I ask, is because one of the things I think I remember from the voting count in Fl in 2000 was that some ballots were tossed out because they were incomplete! Yes I know some voters voted for 2 people, but I'm not talking about that.

I always thought you could just bypass someone you didn't want to vote for too, but after the 2000 fiasco, I now question it.

[Kber]

4. I like Codey too.

Wonder if he'll try to get his old job back.

[NNadir]

5. He never lost his old job.

But he is a fine man.

To be perfectly honest, I'm pissed off that Corzine got bored with the Senate and is leaving the seat at risk.

I've wanted my congressman, Rush Holt in the Senate for a long time, but not at risk to the future. I'd hoped he'd take Lautenberg's seat when Lautenberg died.