David Richter allies himself with biggest Never-Trumper in South Jersey

By Rubashov

Has David Richter’s campaign team taken leave of its senses?
 
Yes, we get that she’s attractive… and a former Assemblywoman… but she supported two far-Left Democrats against two conservative Republican Assembly candidates just a few months ago.  Happily, the Republicans won. 
 
Last November, Republicans Ryan Peters, a former Navy Seal, and Jean Stanfield, the former Sheriff of Burlington County, defeated two far-Left Democrats.  In order to win, Peters and Stanfield had to overcome a lot of treachery, a lot of scumbaggery, but the worse of it came from “Republican” turncoats like former Assemblywoman Maria Rodriguez-Gregg – who David Richter himself praised in a press release yesterday, when he accepted her endorsement.
 
This is what David Richter said – yesterday – about former Assemblywoman Maria Rodriguez-Gregg: 
 
“I would like to thank Maria for her endorsement.  She has dedicated her life to public service, first in elective office and more recently as a tireless advocate against domestic abuse.  I am truly honored that she has chosen to support my campaign for Congress.”
 
In fact, Maria Rodriguez-Gregg is a tireless advocate for Democrat Party causes and is notorious for being the Number One anti-Trump Republican in South Jersey.  She is the Democrats’ fig-leaf when they want to make their anti-Trump rantings appear bi-partisan…
 
When asked as a Republican woman, where does she fit in the current party with Donald Trump as its head, Rodriguez-Gregg responded: “Is it even my party anymore?  It is hard being a Republican woman with the state of the party today.”

https://www.insidernj.com/rodriguez-gregg-trumps-gop-even-party-anymore/

 
“I think it’s my whole life experience that leads me to not being able to support him.”

https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2016/06/nj-only-hispanic-republican-maria-rodriguez-gregg-wont-support-trump-103153

 
“At the end of the day he’s so divisive and he has taken multiple policy positions that I’m not sure I know where he stands on the issues,” Rodriguez-Gregg told PolitickerNJ.

https://observer.com/2016/06/rodriguez-gregg-says-she-cant-vote-for-donald-trump/

 
And from yesterday’s press release, it is clear that David Richter courted Maria Rodriguez-Gregg for her endorsement.  The statement put out by Richter’s own campaign clearly states:  “Since the first time David reached out to me…”
 
What’s wrong with David Richter?  Did someone take a dump in his brain and forget to flush it? 
 
In yesterday’s press release, Maria Rodriguez-Gregg writes:  “I look forward to working with him (David Richter) in the future.”  On what?  Being a social liberal?  The anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party?  The never-Trump rump of the GOP congressional caucus? 

Former Assemblywoman Maria Rodriguez-Gregg is a turncoat, she sided with the corrupt South Jersey Democrat machine and supported two far-Left Democrats against two conservative Republican Assembly candidates.  She placed herself beyond the pale.
 
Apparently, this doesn’t matter to David Richter who, after all, was quite happy to do business with the government of terrorist dictator Muammar Gaddafi or go into business with Joe Biden’s brother in order to secure a government contract.  There’s a lack of moral compass to David Richter.  His cause, the only cause he seems to recognize, is the face staring back at him in the mirror each morning.  He appears to be a moral dead zone.  The solipsism he displays is frightening. 

"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was 'not done' to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals."

(George Orwell, aka Eric Blair)

Quoted by Chris Hedges, in his bestseller, “Death of the Liberal Class" (2010).

In attack on Sen. Doherty, Mandelblatt ignores class

It is becoming clearer by the day, that the anti-Trump backlash led by the Women's March organization, is an inverted revolution -- a revolt of the One-Percent against what they see as a threat to the imposition of their world view on the rest of us.  Make no mistake.  Their economic well-being is not threatened.  They will continue to privately smile when they cash checks from their unearned income, while demonstrating to the world that they are outraged at their "privilege". 

Once upon a time, the behavior of the One-Percent was constrained by a moral code that was broadly democratic -- in that it applied to everyone.  Even the very rich were advised "not to frighten the horses."  That however is no longer the case, and it will be some future historian who will draw the exact line when we, as a culture, slipped from being a vaguely Christian one to something decidedly Post-Christian, even Anti-Christian.  Like when the Emperor Constantine decidedly to make his subjects put aside their old gods for the new, we are... quite suddenly... somewhere else.

This dislocation has affected people -- ordinary people -- as much as has the imposition of a global economy on what had, until recently, been a Main Street one.  We are not a nation of immigrants, so much as refugees.  We are lost, cut-off from our past, unable to return to it or even, to find it.  A character in a novel by Evelyn Waugh once mused on the nature of memory... "These memories, which are my life -- for we possess nothing certainly except the past."

Enter Senator Mike Doherty, an honest man living in dishonest times.  The Senator expresses himself... honestly.  We say we value honesty when we do not.  What we value is the show of "virtue" above all else.  Like Pharisees, we wear our virtue so that the world can know our goodness and can reflect back that goodness .  Of course, we are not good.  We are simply blind to ourselves.  We fear speaking honestly, exchange honesty for a script of virtuous catch-phrases, homilies, and sentiments.  We say we hate "hate" while engaging in an endless pursuit of hate objects.  We exchange new hates for old hates -- and call it virtue.

Mike Doherty is a convenient hate object.  He expresses the dislocation that so many feel.  He does so in an honest, almost bewildered fashion.  He is concerned for his working class neighbors, concerned for the guy who maybe lacked the money or luck to get into college -- and who must now live by his muscle and grit.  Or the lady who ended up a victim of the sexual revolution, whose husband ran off with a younger gal at work, and who must now make ends meet and chart a way for her children.

The One-Percent don't care about them.  They call Doherty a "nativist" and a "racist" because he worries about how that man will compete in a market glutted with "illegal" labor.  Cheap labor.  The One-Percent love it.  There's nothing like having servants to puff up the ego.  Cheap labor was behind the murder of Julius Caesar.  With slaves pouring into the Republic, he wanted a law that ensured the future employment of Roman Citizens -- but the Patricians weren't having it, so out came the knives.  Oh, and the greedy pricks tried to justify it by saying they were striking down a tyrant.  Same as today.

When you look at who owns newspapers like the Star-Ledger, with their record of anti-worker, anti-union, greedy behavior -- you can trace back every one of their editorial page screeds to corporate self-interest.  George Carlin was right... "They want more for themselves and less for everyone else... rich c*cksuckers who don't give a f*ck about you."

Ever wonder why the only people that these pricks pay well are the columnists?  All the hard news reporters have been reduced to the level of piece-work stringers, but the owners maintain a stable of well-fed, well cared-for columnists who can largely be relied upon to advance their agenda.  They don't pay for facts.  For hard news.  They pay for hit jobs.  For opinion pieces to push their self-interest. 

Hell, the Gannett organization was sued by its own employees for maintaining a regime of systemic corporate racism... and then they have the balls to employ opinion writers to call other people "racist"?  Look at me, don't look over there, look at the pretty opinion writer balloon, don't focus on the bucket load of shit that we're standing in.

Enter Lisa Mandelblatt, Democrat candidate for Congress.  Such a pretty lady with a winning personality... it almost hurts to have to criticize her.  And she sure looks cute, marching against The Donald in that pink pussy cat hat with all those other rich suburban ladies.  But really?  She is going to make pronouncements about the working class... from Westfield???

Westfield is bubbleland!  It is practically the center of the bubble universe.  They have neighborhoods with names like Country Club Estates, The Gardens, Manor Park, Indian Forest, and Stonehenge... WTF!  They say they love people here illegally who can't speak English when what they really love are people here illegally who will work for nothing and who can't backtalk them. 

And working class people?  They have a name for them too.  If you said it about anyone else they would call it "hate speech" but hell, blue collar folk are this season's fashionable hate object.  They call them "trailer park trash."

So perky Ms. Mandelblatt took a shot at Senator Doherty today, calling him out for what she alleged are his "anti-immigrant and nativist statements."  Come again?  This guy was in the Army... who do you think he lived with, worked with, and would have died to protect?  His three sons all signed up.  Who do they live with?

And there sits Ms. Mandelblatt, sitting pretty in Westfield.  You could have chosen to live anywhere... why Westfield?  Isn't that kind of anti-immigrant and nativist of you?