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Barbara Buono (D CAND-GOV): the Alvin Greene of New Jersey.

It is a measure of just how poorly that this woman is doing in her bid to beat Chris Christie in the general election that I will get media points from her campaign for spelling her name correctly* and noting that she’s running for Governor of New Jersey. Another measure:

[Barbara Buono] was by then the party’s nominee, and the party needed a new state chair. In New Jersey, the gubernatorial nominee has always been granted the right to pick the chair, no questions asked. But when Buono picked her guy, the party big shots simply refused to accept her choice and forced her to settle on a different candidate. “They didn’t just throw her under the bus,” says Buono’s former campaign aide. “They threw her under the bus and drove over her back and forth, over and over.”

Hell, even the people in my own party who cordially despise Chris Christie aren’t talking about Buono.  That’s how bad off she is.

Via

Moe Lane

*I am, in fact, a cruel man and a bit of a jerk when it comes to Democratic candidates and politicians.  But I’m not a bully. Well, OK, I am a bully to trolls.  But only to them! And they deserve it, anyway!

Meet Barbara Buono (D CAND, NJ-GOV). Or, as MSNBC called her: “Dawn Quixote.”

Ain’t Chris Matthews the total ass, Ms. Buono?

Barbara Buono, known more widely as the woman Democrats put forward to run against Chris Christie after Cory Booker took a pass, is asked her first question early, before the cameras go live and the set falls silent for the countdown to air. The state senator is in Hardball‘s Washington studio for a national television interview — her third-ever — and a rare chance to get her name on the screen and into the living rooms of Chris Matthews’ tens of thousands of MSNBC viewers.

But first — before any talk about New Jersey, where Buono has experience two-decades-deep in the state legislature — a query from the cable news vet, as she later recalled it:

“Can I say you’re attractive?” Matthews asks.

“No, you can’t,” Buono remembers responding.

She slogged to Washington for this?

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