Okay, Forrester was probably never going to win in New Jersey. But, let's suspend reality for a second...because now Bush is officially 0 for 2 last week. The Reverend Moon's right-wing rag proclaimed that "Bush 'sank' GOP in Virginia." Can't have a more authorative Republican source than that.
Now, the GOP candidate in New Jersey says Bush sank him, too:
In an interview published yesterday in The Star-Ledger of Newark, the state's largest newspaper, Mr. Forrester said his campaign had done "all the right things we were supposed to do." Still, he said, he could not overcome a spate of bad news for Mr. Bush, like the administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina.Bush is on a roll. There are a lot more Governors, Senators and Representatives left for him to sink next year.
As a result, he said, "it was not a foolish thing" that Mr. Corzine had sought repeatedly to link him to the Bush administration. "If Bush's numbers were where they were a year ago, or even six months ago, I think we would have won on Tuesday," Mr. Forrester told the newspaper, in his first interview since losing to Mr. Corzine, by 53 percent to 44 percent. "Katrina was the tipping point."
