Runyan pledges he'll retire after he's elected

On the day after he won the GOP primary for Congress in the third district , Jon Runyan announced his pledge that, if elected, he would not serve longer than eight years. “I think the biggest problem in Washington is people are not worried about fixing problems, they’re worried about getting re-elected,” he said.

How would he know? The only time he ever spent in Washington was getting smacked on his rear end by the Washington Redskins.

Jon Runyan on term limits and "original intent"

GOP candidate Jon Runyan began his general election campaign for Congress with a promise he had first made during the primary: not to serve more than eight years or four terms in the House of Representatives if elected in November.

"When our forefathers founded this great country, they never intended to have career politicians running our federal government," Runyan said in a prepared statement.

He must have read that little tidbit in his pocket constitution.

Lonegan annoints a TNut to take on Rothman

Steve Lonegan announced his endorsement of John Aslanian, the Tea Party Republican running for Congress against Steve Rothman. “John Aslanian shares my conservative values, is solidly pro-Life and will fight Cap and Trade and the entire left-wing Obama Agenda,” Lonegan said in a statement released by the Aslanian campaign. Lonegan points out the importance of Republicans running a strong candidate who is ready to run the kind of campaign needed to win. “John is the only candidate running who is taking this race seriously," said Lonegan.

The real question is whether anyone besides Lonegan takes this clown seriously.

GOP county bosses buying Pampers, just in case

Burlington County GOP Chairman Bill Layton said people should not get too excited by the prospect of an upset - or even a contest, in the third district GOP congressional primary between establishment-backed Jon Runyan and tea party favorite Justin Murphy. Layton said Murphy has done his best to rile up the anti-organization crowd in Burlington and Ocean, where the bulk of 3rd District Republican votes are concentrated.

"The Tea Party movement is good and fine, but it's not enough in a primary where organizations and lines are everything," Layton said. "I understand the environment. Look, if you're an incumbent right now, you should be scared. If you're in elected office, you should be wearing a diaper."

Given how Runyan has performed so far, if anyone is wearing diapers these days it's Bill Layton and Ocean County GOP boss George Gilmore.

Lonegan endorses a loser (so what else is new?)

Steve Lonegan likes 6th district tea party candidate Anna Little to defeat her establishment-backed rival Diane Gooch in the primary. "I'm sure Diane Gooch is a very nice person, but Anna Little's experience as a mayor and lawyer set her apart," Lonegan said. "She was just phenomenal at our question and answer session. She answered every question and took a principled stand on everything from abortion to illegal immigration. I happen to be partial to mayors and freeholders who run off the line. I did it."

And lost. Badly.

Peasants with pitchforks and TNuts with bats

Steve Lonegan showed up recently at a rally to support 6th district tea party candidate Anna Little in her quest for the GOP nomination in the primary and begged the crowd for more money to support her campaign.

"This is a campaign of pitchforks and bats," says another Little supporter, who returns repeatedly to the microphone to make another last week plug for the longshot mayor of Highlands.

Are they trying to win an election or storm the Bastille?

TNuts decide 80% of the primary (make sense?)

Three clowns want the nomination to challenge Democratic Rep. Steve Rothman, and they all spent more than two hours in a Knights of Columbus hall in Teaneck trying to convince a coalition of TNuts they had the right stuff.

"This is a decisive night," candidate Sergey Shevchuk of Fair Lawn said before the forum with about 125 people. "To a degree, this will 80 percent decide the outcome of the primary election, because these are independent people who want to choose the candidate with the full package."

80 percent? I doubt this bozo gets 8% in the primary. He may be a "full package" but he's playing with less than a full deck.