I saw some of these still shots over the weekend and, frankly, while the message was infuriating, the visuals were hilarious.
What a pathetic bunch of miserable, crabby, posturing geezers.
Let me set the stage for you before I assault your eyeballs with white and silver-haired radicals - some free-standing, some in wheelchairs - holding signs, chanting, and going so far as to co-opt the younger, more nubile set's Handmaidens' Tale red cloak garb.
(What do I know? Maybe they winter in The Villages - there are rumors that go way back about the Florida retirement community being a den of sexually obsessed geriatric swingers.)
In any event and for whatever reason, people of a certain age who should know better but don't were alerted to the fact that the Republican candidate for governor, Jack Ciattarelli, was going to be in Pitman, NJ, for a campaign stop.
Like the dutiful lemmings they are, they made their nasty little signs and swarmed, just as clueless as the Spanberger booster with the racist sign in Virginia.
Only this was mere days after a Republican activist was assassinated in broad daylight in front of thousands of people.
Protestors at a Jack Ciattarelli event tonight in Pitman NJ with an 8647 sign
— Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey (@wakeupnj) September 17, 2025
This needs to be called out every time, it is literally stating to end the life of a sitting president
That isn't free speech, it's hate speech pic.twitter.com/qGA179do9F
They seem nice.
They also, nearly to a one, seem less than spry.
What do you notice about all these people coming out to protest Jack Ciattarelli?
— Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey (@wakeupnj) September 17, 2025
This was taken in Pitman NJ🧵 https://t.co/HPlEOXm81a pic.twitter.com/7uZsJ9lrsO
Courting the youth vote, this is not.
In the crowd, there are a few snarling fresh faces, but very few. And when they arranged themselves for yet another original chanting exercise, one almost expected to hear a united chorus of 'Get OFF MY LAWN!!!'
Instead, it was the rote and tiresome 'hey, hey' crap, while bobbing Democrat gubernatorial nominee Mikie Sherrill's campaign posters up and down.
Pitman New Jersey @Jack4NJ
— marlin (@averageJohn911) September 17, 2025
Paid protesters.!! @wakeupnj @juliepatriot67 @AmericanXLive @EdTheTruckerNJ pic.twitter.com/wOoXQzXDut
A well-attended protest it was not for all the fervor of the participants.
— NJ Government Disaster (@nj_gov) September 17, 2025
In their defense, it's hard to get excited about Sherrill - she'd simply be a continuation of rodential Gov Phil Murphy's ruinous policies, only with better teeth. That might explain the lackluster protest outing peopled by nursing home dregs.
At the @Jack4NJ Pitman Town Hall in Gloucester County, NJ, a @MikieSherrill supporter waved “86 47” and mocked Charlie Kirk’s cold-blooded murder less than a week after the tragedy.
— New Jersey GOP (@NJGOP) September 17, 2025
If Sherrill won’t publicly and forcefully condemn it, she owns it. Silence in the face of… pic.twitter.com/6xqXiGJ1xz
...If Sherrill won’t publicly and forcefully condemn it, she owns it. Silence in the face of celebrating political violence is disqualifying — she is unfit to be Governor of New Jersey.
Sherrill's already being bodied for saying she wouldn't allow NJ parents to opt OUT of LGBTwhatever education in schools for their children.
Jack Ciattarelli just started running this new paid digital ad today on YouTube going after Mikie Sherrill using a comment she made about education during a Dem Gov primary debate on WNYC in June
— Andrew Arenge (@MrArenge) September 16, 2025
Full debate is here: https://t.co/ezkOBtYtJ0
Screenshot includes full quote pic.twitter.com/RvMAaYQ83w
As well as being relentlessly hammered for votes made during her time in Congress that are central to debates raging today.
It's not an accident that Sherrill and Spanberger are near mirror images, both policy and supporters-wise.
They were also roommates.
Mikie Sherrill Voted Against the Laken Riley act, Parental Bill of Rights, Outing Men in Women's Sports. Wants Bailouts for Sanctuary Cities and Net worth increased by $7M during her time in office
— Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey (@wakeupnj) September 14, 2025
NJ Deserves Better, not someone who will make it worse🧵https://t.co/f6zkuitlxa
This is the candidate who swears she's worried about the enormous utility rates NJ residents pay, ignoring the fact that it was all Democrat policies and a 'clean/renewable energy' push that ruined a once energy self-reliant state to begin with.
New Jersey families are getting squeezed by rising utility costs while bad actors go unchecked.
— Mikie Sherrill (@MikieSherrill) September 17, 2025
As governor, I’ll hold them accountable and deliver solutions that actually work. pic.twitter.com/LpvwMd2cgu
Oh. Forgetting that she said this as well.
IT'S GONNA COST YOU AN ARM AND A LEG...BUT YOU'LL DO IT
If there’s enough $$$ behind this devastating @MikieSherrill clip?
— Matt Rooney (@MattRooneyNJ) September 12, 2025
Her campaign may not recover. Seriously. It’s that devastating. pic.twitter.com/iwgt7ojkBq
Democrats are something else.
What they are less of every day is 'popular,' and even in deep, deep blue sections of the state, Sherrill boosters are worried.
...It’s hyper-anecdotal. Sure. But Bishop Timothy L. Pernell Jr. – a pastor in Bloomfield which is situated in deep “blue” Essex County, New Jersey – warned his social media followers this week that he’s “running into a lot of blacks and Latinos who say they are voting for Jack [Ciattarelli].”
I THINK WE HAVE A PROBLEM
🚨This is interesting...
— Matt Rooney (@MattRooneyNJ) September 15, 2025
Bishop Timothy L. Pernell Jr. - a pastor in deep "blue" Essex County, New Jersey - is warning his social media followers that he's "running into a lot of blacks and Latinos who say they are voting for @Jack4NJ."
"I think we have a problem." 👀 pic.twitter.com/rP3UnjzoTN
That tracks with signs...
The only Sherill lawn signs I’ve seen in Plainfield have been in the part of town where the majority of the people are white liberals. I’ve even seen a few Jack signs in Plainfield where I would never have expected to see them. So this is not at all inaccurate.
— Robert 🇺🇸 (@Pride21American) September 15, 2025
...current polling...
🚨New Jersey Governor Poll🚨
— Matt Rooney (@MattRooneyNJ) September 11, 2025
🔵Sherrill 47% (+2)
🔴Ciattarelli 45%
National Research | 9/8-10 | +/-4%
Detailed memorandum: https://t.co/IJqdg0E1zR
...and event turnout.
So @MikieSherrill's average event crowd size is a couple dozen. At best.@Jack4NJ's are 100+ across all 21 counties.
— Matt Rooney (@MattRooneyNJ) September 15, 2025
There's an enthusiasm gap right now in New Jersey, and it got wider this week.
The energy is unambiguously one-sided with 50 days left to go... pic.twitter.com/SqdZJVeQdM
The DNC is spooked badly enough that they're pumping another $1.5M into the state party's coffers specifically to target those minority voters who are slipping from their clutches. As you know, the DNC is not exactly flush with cash, so the internal numbers have to be frightening.
A month after putting down a $1.5 million investment into New Jersey to boost Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair)’s gubernatorial campaign, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is going double-or-nothing.
With seven weeks left to go before Election Day, the DNC announced this morning that it will send an additional $1.5 million to the New Jersey Democratic Party’s coordinated campaign to hire new on-the-ground staff, make more voter contacts, and experiment with new tactics and tools to sway voters in the races for governor, State Assembly, and local office. According to the DNC, it’s the largest investment the national party has ever made in an off-year New Jersey election.
“With stakes this high for New Jerseyans, the DNC is all in to support Democrats up and down the ballot who have a proven record of delivering results for New Jersey,” DNC Chairman Ken Martin said in a statement.
DNC money will also be used to expand outreach in New Jersey’s Black, Hispanic, and Asian American communities, which swung towards Republicans last year and which Martin told the New Jersey Globe his party is committed to winning back.
Communist candidate for New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has officially endorsed Sherrill, capturing the always-critical progressive-socialist-professional-moocher nod.
Oh, that should help.
Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, said he supports Rep. Mikie Sherrill in her bid to become New Jersey’s next governor.
If all Sherrill can muster at any given time, 50 days out from the election, is a school of snarling blue hairs, this contest is at drawn dagger length, and nowhere near the ten point lead they were boasting of a short time ago.
When even the black podcasters are going after her for making $7M extra buckarooskis in stock trades while in Congress since 2019?
Congress sure paid off for Mikie Sherrill 💰 She went to Washington and tripled her net worth. Learn how 👉 https://t.co/76uiYhBMqc pic.twitter.com/9KdiZUwiU8
— Jack Ciattarelli (@Jack4NJ) September 16, 2025
It could be red dawning in NJ in November if the GOP momentum keeps up.
Wouldn't that be something?
