The South Brunswick Republicans are officially deluded. There really is no other way of saying this.
In a story that will run in tomorrow’s South Brunswick Post, party Chairman Roger Craig talks of retooling and rebuilding the party in anticipation of 2008. But retooling will not be enough. This is a party that has fallen into complete disrepair. It has had trouble fielding candidates and the candidates it has attracted have tended to be weak or have already been rejected by voters.
As I told a friend, if the South Brunswick GOP were a car, you wouldn’t be able to trade it in or sell it. Your only option would be to park it by the side of the Belt Parkway, hope it gets stripped for parts and burned.
In this case, that means purging the party of its current leadership and replacing it with fresh blood.
My friend, who knows a bit about how these things work from the inside, sums up the party’s plight this way:
The South Brunswick Republicans will be a non-entity until one of two things happen … a) the Dems in office make a huge and spectacular error (e.g., a Metroplex-type decision), or b) one or more are implcated, prosecuted and found guilty of a Lynch-like-$-for-decision scandal related to such a bad decision as referenced in a), above.
There a third option (option C), he says:
A local with (state Assemblyman Bill) Baroni’s charisma, intelligence, enthusiasm and vision decides he/she want to run for local office, happens to be a close relative of Bill Gates and can fund his/her own campaign, and is unconcerned about the mud which can be slung in local politics.
Given those options, it’s better for the health to not hold one’s breath waiting for c) to occur before a) and/or b).
Not that a) and/or b) appear on the radar screen at the moment.
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Hank Kalet 