N.J. GOP Leadership Salutes John Adler While Blue Jersey Needles Runyan?

In eulogizing the late John Adler, our counterparts at Blue Jersey regrettably used John Adler’s tragic passing to take yet another cheap shot at his former opponent, Jon Runyan:

“Adler lost his seat to GOP former football player Jon Runyan, despite a public debate the Harvard-educated Adler won easily over an embarrassed and poorly-informed now-congressman Runyan.”

Really??? So much for the “civility” our liberal friends are always whining about. We understand that this is an emotional time but something in our political discourse should remain sacred; keeping politics and death separated is a pretty good place to start, don’t you think? From the Republican side of the aisle, there’s been nothing but warm sentiments today for the man who was an undeniably intelligent and hardworking father, husband, attorney, legislator and former congressman…

Governor Christie:

“Congressman Adler was a fine public servant and a good person. His untimely death is an awful shock. Mary Pat and I will be praying for his wife, Shelley, and their four sons during this sad and tragic time.”

Congressman Runyan:

“May John rest in peace, and may those he left behind be comforted in the knowledge that his lifetime of public service to our community has left a lasting legacy for which they can be most proud. I valued and respected his leadership and his commitment to the people of New Jersey’s Third District and indeed the entire state.”

Senator Tom Kean:

“I want to extend my deepest condolences to John’s wife, Shelley, their four boys, and the entire Adler family. John was smart, passionate, energetic, and dedicated throughout his long career in public service. He was a friend to all of us in the Senate and a living reminder that it is possible to disagree with one another without being disagreeable. New Jersey is a better place having been served by John Adler. He will be missed.”

 

 

 

 

 

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6 Comments

  1. I am a Republican who strongly supported my friend John Adler in both his 2008 and 2010 congressional elections. I'm sickened not only by John's very untimely death, but the stupid, nasty and highly inappropriate shot partisan shot that "Blue Jersey" took at John Runyan. I for one am very touched and grateful for Congessman Runyan's kind and thoughtful words, as well as those by Gov. Christie and so many others. And "Save Jersey," too — thanks.

  2. I reached out personally to the diarist and was rebuffed for suggesting there was anything wrong with the world of the classless eulogy.

    I was embarrassed to read it and I hope you won't hold it against the entire BlueJersey community, most of whom would have gone with something a bit less…. obnoxiously worded.

  3. You people have a lot of gall the way you talk. You skewered him while he was alive and you whine about a line in a eulogy? Here's some of those "civil" things you said about poor John Adler…

    "The History of Adler’s Sleazy, Low-Life Campaign"

    "It’s easy to lose track how many times John Adler has embellished, distorted, and downright lied to our faces about candidate Jon Runyan. The 22-year career politician has lost any shred of respect he had left, and has been reduced to a sniveling, desperate politician, clamoring to hold on to the only thing he knows: living off the public’s dime."

    "EVERYTHING ADLER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST, HE DOES HIMSELF! That’s not my spin, that is a fact. Here comes my spin…this, in my most humble opinion, makes him lying, two-faced, hypocritical, sniveling, and desperate. With the slimy tactics he’s laid forth, I refuse to believe otherwise. Shame on you John Adler"

    What a bunch of hypocrites you are. You attack him personally and you can't be civil while he was alive, but you're holier than thou now that he's passed.

    Its all of you on this site that should be ashamed of themselves.

  4. @Rick Ambrosia . . . What a sniveling, self-serving and utterly inappropriate comment you have posted!

    Charges and counter-charges made during the course of a political campaign are one thing.

    Baseless and highly personal attacks, including name-calling, by supporters are quite another. I suppose such background chatter has unfortunately become a campaign staple . . . an all-too common form of dissolute discourse that really lends little or nothing to the understanding of the contests, or of the true character of the political opponents themselves.

    But the sudden and untimely death of John Adler had nothing to do with any of the above. Jon Runyan merely sought to make a thoughtful and kind statement about his former opponent in what are very sad, obviously painful and no doubt difficult circumstances for John Adler's family.

    For you to try to use the sad and untimely death of a politician as an occasion to once again regurgitate the sort of dissonant, vile and ugly political fluff that some of his supporters aimed at his opponent back during the campaign, is really the very definition of over the top.

    Any decent person would be too ashamed to ever say such things. Your willingness to do so says volumes.

  5. You know what's sniveling and self serving? Speaking nice about someone after they're gone instead of when they're alive. You people make me sick. There isn't a bigger bunch of hypocrites on the face of the planet than what's on this site.

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