What by the many arms of Vishnu is this fresh hell?:
The wife of former Rep. Patrick Kennedy (son of Ted) has jumped into the Democrat primary for the 2nd district in New Jersey. If that district sounds familiar, it is because it was in the news a lot at the end of 2019. Rep. Jeff Van Drew currently represents the district. He switched from the Democrat Party to the GOP in December.
Patrick Kennedy spent most of his career drunk, just like his father, Ted. Young Patrick seems to have cleaned himself up. He hasn't left any women to drown in an overturned Buick, anyway.
You're goddamn right we're being mean and snarky.
At least Mrs. Kennedy seeks to represent an area from which she actually hails*, unlike her husband's uncle, Bobby, who carpet bagged from Massachusetts to Washington DC to New York. That was the only Republican vote our Kentucky born grandmother ever cast.
As mentioned previously, NJ02 is Trump country. Mrs. Kennedy could win in a year that favors Democrats, say 1986 or 2006. This year does not favor Democrats.
*Like our own Tom Malinowski.
Former Governor Chris Christie, who knows a thing or two about winning elections in New Jersey, lays it down:
You know what’s happening in blue New Jersey, a very blue state. Jeff Van Drew switches from Democrat to Republican, from the majority party to the minority party in the middle of impeachment because of impeachment. Andy Kim, who won his seat two years ago, is now losing to Katie Gibbs, his Republican challenger. And Tom Malinowski is losing to Tom Kaine Jr., the son of the former governor.
New Jersey may be blue, but we ain't California, we're more a light blue. Medium blue?
As previously noted, Tom Malinowsi is our congressman. To be honest, we've gotten to like the man. He's more or less sane, and has a sense of humor. Malinowski could be a Dem president's secretary of state. Oh well.
Democrat Jeff Van Drew, representing NJ-02, is a staunch opponent of impeachment and is switching parties.
Van Drew's district is south Jersey; affluent Philly suburbs, pine barrens and the shore. Eagles, Flyers, 76rs and Phillies. It had been represented by 11 term Congressman Frank LoBiondo, a longtime GOP squish for whom our college roommate used to work, also Sean Spicer. This is Trump country 50-46.
Van Drew's switch will probably make no difference vis-a-vis the coming impeachment vote, but it's a nice topper for all the other Dems who will vote no.
Pelosi the Pox almost certainly has the votes to carry through the articles of impeachment, because I guess she wants to hand the gavel over to Kevin McCarthy in 2021.
