Deconstructing: Rucker Supporter Anonymous Comment

This comment was made in response to my blog post of 4/8/11: ‘Tony Rucker Anointed by His Holiness, Assemblyman Green, to run in Primary.’

‘Nat, you're implying assumptions that have no basis. Yes, let's stick to the issues, so we can do something about them, instead of just talking about them. It's not just the Sharon & Jerry show that must close down, but the Jerry-New Dem Show too. We're choking on the reruns and it's rude of you force us to keep watching. Turn the channel.

April 9, 2011 3:58 PM’

Deconstructing it:

‘Nat, you're implying assumptions…’

What assumptions?  He genuflected? He kissed the Pope’s Ring?  These are all metaphors; you know, poetic license.

‘…that have no basis…’

Don’t you mean: that have no basis in fact…?

Fact: Jerry announced that Tony Rucker was his candidate.  Jerry allowed no nominees from the floor, no discussion and no vote by the City Committee. Tony Rucker by his acceptance of Jerry’s nomination implicitly agrees with the totally undemocratic process of his selection. If he does not he should say so.

‘Yes, let's stick to the issues, so we can do something about them, instead of just talking about them.’

Jerry Green is issue number 1. What planet are you on, Mars?  He has presided over the dissolution of Muhlenberg Hospital, provided the key vote that ended Abbot District funding and gave Plainfield Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs, whose biggest accomplishment was to fire a pregnant woman, effective Christmas day, do to give birth on January 2nd.  This from the 3^rd most powerful man in the state!

Did you read all of my post? It has a list of other issues that I asked for a response. So far all I’ve heard is silence. I assume that when Tony Rucker gets the time he will respond, clearly stating the issues and how to solve them.

'It's not just the Sharon & Jerry show that must close down, but the Jerry-New Dem Show too.'

Tony Rucker is Sharon and Jerry’s candidate. He is a player in their show; a potential ‘fourth’ vote in Jerry’s pocket. If not, if he is so independent, why didn’t he run on a separate Independent line. He can’t have it both ways.

‘…but the Jerry-New Dem Show too.’

Politics is theater; it is an exercise in free speech. You know, the 1^st Amendment to the Constitution? You want to shut it down?

So far the only Tony Rucker I’ve seen, is one who is Fact-Free and Solution-Free and comes from the ‘Why can’t we all just get along’ school of politics.

'We're choking on the reruns and it's rude of you force us to keep watching. Turn the channel.'

Nobody is forcing you to watch anything. You have hands; a remote control. Turn it off, yourself.

What’s next, you want me to wi…-no I’m not going to say it.