The GOP Kiss of Death

by: Juan Melli

Tue Oct 25, 2005 at 10:00:00 AM EDT

Forrester to get backing of GOP pro-choice group

Doug Forrester is lining up squarely in the pro-choice camp. Again.

In the run-up to the gubernatorial primary, Forrester seemed to disavow statements that were attributed to him during his 2002 bid for U.S. Senate, when he secured a late in the game endorsement from the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition.

That rightward tack helped Forrester fend off Bret Schundler, a hero of the anti-abortion set, by a 36 to 31 percent margin back in June.

But now that same pro-choice group, which rechristened itself as the Republican Majority for Choice in May 2004, is set to endorse Forrester again, apparently satisfied that the GOP gubernatorial nominee's fuzzy spring rhetoric was just that.

UPDATE: Wally Edge reports:

Joseph Tomanelli, a conservative activist from Bergen County who heads the New Jersey Republican Assembly, has withdrawn his endorsement of GOP gubernatorial candidate Douglas Forrester, citing a TV commercial from former Governor Thomas Kean touting Forrester's moderate, pro-choice credentials...

I'm not advocating voting for Corzine; I am advocating not voting for a Governor, but support the Republicans down the ticket.