July 10, 2008 - 1:22pm
No gubernatorial bid for Sabrin
By Matt FriedmanFormer Republican U.S. Senate candidate Murray Sabrin said today that he won’t run for Governor next year.
Towards the end of his Senate campaign, Sabrin said that, if he didn’t win, he would consider running for Governor to keep U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, the establishment Republicans’ favorite prospective nominee, from getting the nomination.
Reached on vacation in Alaska today, Sabrin said that he would devote his energy towards advancing his philosophy of limited government and laissez faire economic policy.
“It’s something that people have asked me about previously, and I’ve just got to concentrate on my career, writing and being an activist. Doing things that will move this agenda forward of freedom and limited government,” he said.
Sabrin, who’s run for senate twice and once for governor, argued that Norman Thomas, who ran for president as a Socialist six times between 1926 and 1948, was more successful in getting his platform implemented than most of those who actually won the presidency. Sabrin hopes he can have a similar effect on state policies (obviously from a different ideological perspective).
“It’s kind of interesting is that people who have had the most success are sometimes those who didn’t win,” said Sabrin.
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Murray
Licking his wounds
I'm going to miss him..
Damn! There goes my entertainment for next year.
I wonder if he's in Alaska to kill some caribou..he sure didn't seem to like them much in the primary.
Dr. Maverick Gadfly
Murray is the F-R-O-N-T-R-U-N-N-E-R for biggest ego in NJ if he thinks his candidacy would stop Chris Christie from getting the nomination.
Financial angels flew away
I guess "Cowboy Cal" didn't payoff on the Derby and his political sugar daddies simply got tired of pissing their moolah down the black hole of another "Maverick Murray" circus act. More likely, however, Murray's already made a deal to support Steve Lonegan in exchange for a prominent role in the campaign and, should the unthinkable happen, an important job in a prospective Lonegan administration.
Insanity.
Tell me Murray, what part of the Norman Thomas agenda ever became a reality?
How about Lyndon LaRouche? Gus Hall? Gene Debs? Harold Stassen?
Time to let the grown-ups runs real campaigns and go play in your academic sandbox.
Vote Column - All the way!
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You're kidding right? The New Deal...
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If the NJ GOP nominates Chris Christie, they will prove that they have absolutely no sense.
The NJ GOP doesn't nominate
The NJ GOP doesn't nominate anyone, although if you want to say the voters are the "NJ GOP" then you can make that case though.
It's the voters that matter, all this nonsense about "the establishment" is overplayed whining by right wingers who can't even win a low turnout primary in this state anymore.