Getting Desperate? @CoryBooker is “Done”

By Phil Kerpen | BookerFail.com

Cory Booker (D-Twitter)With the most appropriately named ad ever, the Newark mayor is hitting the airwaves today with a desperate negative attack ad against conservative Steve Lonegan. The ad is called “Done.”

What is done? The three short days since Booker proposed a trillion dollar tax hike that dropped like a lead balloon? His free pass from the media? His status as a strong favorite in this race? Yes, yes, and yes.

The ad attacks Lonegan for wanting to “privatize Social Security,” when what he actually supports is guaranteeing benefits to retirees while transitioning younger workers to a personal account system that would pay them higher benefits through real investment returns.  The chief actuary of Social Security determined that such a plan can achieve full solvency without tax increases or benefit cuts — and with a guarantee that nobody could do worse than what the current system promises.

Quite a contrast from the $38 billion toll hike scheme to “privatize” the Turnpike and Parkway that Jon Corzine proposed, Cory Booker supported, and Steve Lonegan led the fight to defeat.  Booker lamented just weeks ago that Corzine wasn’t reelected.  And Booker’s own failed scheme to privatize the Newark Watershed Authority so it could could float a massive bond issue without voter approval had much more in common with Corzine’s toll scam than Lonegan’s responsible plan to save Social Security.

Booker’s desperate attack ad also calls Lonegan extreme for being pro-life — even though Booker was taken to task by famed liberal Cokie Roberts for himself being “over the top” on abortion when he deleted the words “safe, legal, and rare” from the Democratic platform he co-chaired.  Booker supports taxpayer-funded abortion and wants to repeal the ban on partial birth abortion, so he probably thinks Pat Moynihan was “extreme” too.

Then “Done” goes on to tout how far-left Booker is on his job-crushing $10.10/hour minimum wage hike, his support for a federal gun ban, and his alleged ability to “get things done,” despite his astonishing record of failure in Newark, where unemployment has jumped from 8.5 percent to over 14 percent on his watch and violent crime is up 24 percent since he reduced the police force by 246 police officers, 19 percent of the force.

And of course Booker famously instigated a riot on the floor of the Newark city council chamber, complete with police spraying mace into the crowd.  That level of dysfunction makes the showdown in Washington over government spending look tame.

Gets things done? Only running a pathetic campaign and setting himself up to lose what once looked like a sure thing.

Phil Kerpen
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Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment, and a former vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity as well as a past researcher for the Free Enterprise Fund, the Club for Growth, and the Cato Institute.

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  1. Corey should have a Obama Lover Stamp on his Head. The US Senate doesn't need another Marxist.

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