McCain makes blue collar statement as regional HQ opens in Woodbridge

John McCain is making it very clear that he will energetically propose and seek solutions to pocket book problems faced by the average person.  And that approach will definitely appeal to New Jersey voters.

Right out of the box, he has engaged the issue of rising gasoline and fuel prices, by making a series of proposals that would help reduce American dependence on foreign sources of oil.

Obama, on the other hand, has tooted the same tired nay-sayer song, refusing to consider any new drilling anywhere, including pursuing shale oil reserves, he has rejected consideration of nuclear development. 

All he offers is more yammering about need to invest in alternative sources.

Yes, we need alternative research and development, but we have to survive until those "solutions" become viable. 

So his message of "change" is starting to jingle-jangle in peoples' pockets like so much "chump change."

As heavily Democrat leaning as this state has voted recently, the high levels of fiscal dishonesty (e.g., calling for the constitutional approval of new borrowing, but refusing to include a brand new $3.9 Billion dollar borrowing scheme), coupled with the rash of cases in recent years of out-and-out corruption by numerous Democrat leaders, and now including the Encap fiasco, will eventually come home to roost for them.

John is banking on a pocket-book issue campaign to attract nominally Democrat-leaning voters. It is certainly worth the effort, and the Democrats may well get themselves a real surprise this fall.

by Trochilus

Please John McCain. Oh Please waste your time in New Jersey campaigning!!!!! And make sure you remind voters of you and your Republican friends in New Jersey's support for Off-Shore Oil Drilling, continuing the war in Iraq, the surrender of Afghanistan, the disregard of the need to capture Bin Laden, lack of family values (divorcees unite) and just about every stupid Bush policy there is. All that so we can enjoy election night cheering on President Obama!

or does Leonard Lance appear as if he would rather be somewhere else... ?

Re: Commentor/Trochilus
Your insights and math are dazzling, but you omit two FACTS: the US Attorney is a Republican and he is running for Governor. He is taking down every Democrat he can possibly indict so that the D party is weakened by the time he takes on Gov. Corzine. If you think R's in this state are clean -- think again. Hunterdon and Somerset have corrupt R's to the same extent that Essex and Union have corrupt D's. Problem is that the US Attorney General Christe isn't looking for them.

HamiltonJunkie,

It seems that you and all other wild-eyed lefties have convinced yourselves that Barack Obama is running against George Bush. It’s the most fundamental mistake in politics, but please, PLEASE keep at it!

As for your issues, try to understand what is being recommended.

John McCain proposed that states be given a bigger voice in making decisions about drilling off their shores. That’s it.

What is your beef with that, HJ?

If the people of New Jersey do not want off shore drilling, then under the McCain proposal New Jersey would be in a position to prevent that from happening. Or, is it that you just intrinsically love federal mandates?

It so happens that the people in some shore states, however, want to increase off shore drilling.

Virginia is a perfectly good example.

Recently, many of the lead Democrat politicians in New Jersey, e.g., State Senator Ray Lesniak and also Congressman Bill Pascrell have been publicly touting Senator James Webb for Vice President (and so, perhaps, had State Senator Shirley Turner, who seemed to have some trouble at first remembering who she thought she was for, except that she knew it was someone from Virginia).

by Trochilus

McCain is as close to W as one can be...anytime you forget that remember what endeared him to most reasonable americans in 2000...and then picture him on stage hugging Jerry Falwell. McCain bailed on his bonafides the second he helped navigate the SS Bush

1) Want to repeal Bush's tax breaks for the rich 2) Find the likes of Pat Robertson to be hatemongers 3) Find Foxnew's perverted attacks against Barack Obama to be rediculous 4) Do not want to continue another 4 years of failed war policy in both Iraq and Afghanistan the list of how out of step McCain now is is staggering...I only wish he were the candidate of 2000. He had my respect then, this election might have featured real candidates then. As it stands now McCain is a shadow of what he used to be and Obama is the only real choice for people who recognize that the United States has major problems that cannot simply be fixed by car magnets and chants of USA USA USA. This country is a fantastic place, but we need to keep that status. We need to rebuild our image amongst the community of nations and McCain is in no position to do that.

Ah, yes, SJ . . . the tick-tock canards trotted right out of Leftie Land!

Lets get the rich! Tax ’em! you say. Even Governor Corzine recognized that continuing down that path would completely destroy this state's economy, as if it needed any additional "help" after he, McGreevey and Codey stripped it clean, and mortgaged the State’s future.

You live in a small town? Well, congratulations. You and your fellow residents now get to fully subsidize the larger cities, and you get zip!

You also have the highest property taxes imaginable because only the Democrat-controlled areas get substantial state money for schools. Please describe how this is in any way financially justifiable.

Pat Robertson -- hatemonger? Oh, please, SJ! The American people ALL know that Reverend Wright is a real hater . . . Barak’s 20-plus year spiritual advisor and buddy, who got thrown under the bus when clips of his vicious anti-American rants hit the street. Father Michael Pfleger is a real hater . . . just ask Hillary‘s supporters! William Ayres is a real hater, too. His kind of “bomb-throwing” is not done with words.

Barack Obama’s long list of hate-sayer friends, are one-by-one getting tossed under the bus.

Barry should write a new book. He could call it, "My New Ex-Friends!"

Heck, if the pace keeps up, it could turn into a lengthy serial.

What specifically are the Fox News "perverted attacks against Barack Obama" that you are talking about?  Name them. Provide links.

Just because the folks at Fox don’t get a tingle down their leg when they hear Barry talk, is not evidence of perverted attacks. As for Chris Matthews and his leg tingle, now THAT is perverted, pure and simple.

Regarding the war on terror, I’ll only repeat what I said before. Had we listened to the cut-and-run Obamas of the world back in 2006 and immediately retreated, al Qaeda in Iraq would now be running the country, or at least a huge portion of it.

They would have declared victory over the "infidels" (us) and our standing in the world would have been set back for decades. Plus, al-Qaeda would have been swimming in oil with which to fund a real huge dose of terrorism world-wide.  They would have brought it here to the United States as soon as they could. Osama publicly urged AQI to bring their terror to the United States, remember?

And now, we'd have to go out and carefully gather evidence against any of the terrorists we caught, in order to take them to court because they get their constitutional rights in spite of waging war against this nation.  Barry thinks that's great!  "ALL RISE!!"  I can hear it now!

And, instead of being confined to some hidden cave, Osama no doubt would have been spirited triumphantly into the new al Qaeda-based Iraq.

But instead of listening to cranks like Barry, and Murtha, and Edwards, et al, the Administration listened to John McCain’s call for a counterinsurgency plan.  The "surge" worked and the impact on al-Qaeda world-wide has been devastating.

But now you still want us to embrace the defeatism of Barack Obama, tha man who had bad judgment in 2006, and to this day refuses to visit the troops he says he wants to command?

Forget it!

by Trochilus

I see.

It's all just spin? So, pretending (as you noted above) that you wish John McCain was the candidate he was in 2000 is not spin? That was before 9/11, my friend. Many of us -- not all of us -- but many of us changed for the better as a result of those horrible events, including Senator McCain.

Tell me, how should I characterize your refusal to respond to my challenge for you to specifically name the "Foxnew's [sic] perverted attacks against Barack Obama" that you referred to earlier? Is it "Un-Spin?" Concession?

Maybe I can help: Did you mean by "perverted attacks" the comment made by Juan Williams (a Democrat who is regularly featured on Fox News Channel) when he said "I think that Obama’s a pretty big flip-flopper at this moment...." in response to an interview question from Hugh Hewitt?

One man's "perverted" is another's "spot on" I guess. (Public financing, gun ruling, debates, visiting Iraq . . .)

And, I'm still waiting for your refutation of my assertions (above) about where we would be today if we had listened to the cut-and-run Democrats back in 2006?

by Trochilus

If you dont obviously see that that is spin...well anyway we would not be bogged down in an endless civil war in Iraq. Hell if we listened to Corzine we wouldnt have been there in the first place. Thank GWB for your weak dollars and the deficit that my children will never even be able to dream of paying off...