Hiding Political Corruption Behind Moral Corruption

So Jim McCreepy is a rump ranger, eh? But that’s not why he’s sort of quitting as governor of New Jersey.

And he’s being “blackmailed,” by his former Hershey Highwayman, eh? But that’s not why he’s quitting, either.

The reason McCreepy is quitting is because the Garden State Dem machine is making him its latest scapegoat for the latest rafter of corruption scandals its one-party rule has generated.

Y’see, McCreepy oversaw an administration that dabbled in everything from extortion to bribery to obstruction of justice to “improper campaign donations” to the hiring of felons to top posts. That’s not to say that McCreepy was uniquely corrupt himself; he was simply, more or less, the figurehead.

What McCreepy did was make his “lover,” Golan Cipel, his homeland security advisor despite the fact that Cipel was both completely unqualified and was not even an American citizen. And what McCreepy did yesterday was use his “coming out of the closet” as a “gay American” to not only divert public attention from his scandals, but actually generate public sympathy, since as everybody knows, these days the most “courageous” action any public figure can take is to proclaim their homosexuality.

Or, put another way, McCreepy used his moral corruption as a shield for his political corruption.

If Kobe Bryant had done that a year ago, I doubt he’d have ever been prosecuted.

It goes without saying that McCreepy’s “resignation” wasn’t effective immediately, since that would, according to the New Jersey state constitution (whatever portion of it the Democrats haven’t wiped their asses with), require a special election on November 2nd to fill the remainder of his term – an election that the ruling party might actually lose. But by lingering past September 15th – and McCreepy says he’ll leave two months after that – the state senate president Richard Codey (a Dem, of course) will move up and occupy the job until January of 2006, after which current Senator Jon Korzine will take over, whether he’s actually elected or not.

All I can say is (1) I thank God I don’t live in New Jersey; and (2) the same thing I was thinking as I was listening to McCreepy’s stomach-turning attempt at turning perversion into noblesse – “Wouldn’t it have been so much easier to have elected Brent Schundler instead?”