Now that the Supreme Court isn’t going to walk Douglas Forrester across the finish line in New Jersey, things just seem to be going from bad to worse for 
the one-time, future, accidental Senator from New Jersey. He’s campaigning with all the grace and pizzazz of a live fish on a hot griddle.
Today Forrester denied Frank Lautenberg’s claim that he supported Social Security privatization, only to have it revealed that his primary campaign website endorsed just that policy.
Then later in the day Forrester made the shrewd call of attacking Lautenberg for being too old. Following up on his earlier challenge to debate Lautenberg 21 times in 21 days, he said “It doesn’t have to be a three-hour debate every day. That may be too much for him.”
When called on this gaffe, Forrester denied any effort to call Lautenberg’s fitness for office into question. Then, however, he apparently realized that if he kept his mouth shut he wouldn’t be able to keep this helpful insult-senior-citizens campaign angle going. So he jumped again into the fray, claiming that it was hypocritical for Lautenberg to accuse him of making age an issue when he, Lautenberg, had made age an issue when he first ran for the Senate against Millicent Fenwick in 1982. The idea, presumably, was to expose the 78 year old Lautenberg as the real denigrator of the aged. “There should be no age limit,” intoned the rapidly deflating Forrester, “But there should be a limit on hypocrisy.”
On Tuesday, TPM has it on good authority, Forrester will launch a stinging new attack on Lautenberg’s unseemly habit of cavorting with smelly poor people.
