New Jersey Gubernatorial Candidate Displays Chutzpah [Opinion]

Former United States President Ronald Reagan’s “11th Commandment” is dead in the New Jersey Republican Primary election.

"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican,” said President Reagan during his 1966 campaign for Governor of California.

President Reagan’s “11th Commandment” is 59 years old!

New Jersey Gubernatorial candidate Bill Spadea has relentlessly attacked fellow Republican Jack Ciattarelli for not being supportive of President Donald Trump.

This is a preposterous political attack by Spadea … however, not surprising, as Ciattarelli holds a commanding lead over Spadea for the Republican Nomination for Governor of New Jersey.

To make his case, Spadea has gone back in time to a 2015 interview, where Ciattarelli said that Trump “is not fit to be President.”

This was a decade ago and before Trump was President of The United States.

Did Spadea forget that he wrote an outrageous opinion - editorial on January 14, 2021. This was just 6 days before Spadea thought that President Trump was leaving The Presidency forever:

He's beaten. He's tired. He would have been better off resigning the office…. Pray that we eventually elect a president with the strength, courage and commitment to the Constitution and the American way of life to ignore the polls, the optics and the haters and be tough enough to fight, wrote Spadea.

When you compare what Ciattarelli said a decade ago versus what Spadea wrote 6 days before Trump left following his first term … it’s not even close.

Spadea wanted Trump gone from The Presidency forever, despite his successful first term. Ciatterelli made a comment (a decade ago) before President Trump was elected.

Most things said can he forgiven and forgotten, however, Spadea crossed the political rubicon with his blistering attack of the incumbent - outgoing President Trump.

The current Spadea digital advertisement uses President Trump’s real voice, while "actual quotes from Jack Ciattarelli (are) voice recreated using Al!"

"We're excited to debut our newest ad. President Trump deserves our support and our loyalty, said Spadea. We all saw what happened in his first term when weak Republicans and members of the DC Swamp turned their back on him and tried to derail his Presidency,” said Spadea.

Spadea is actually criticizing himself in his own advertisement.

Spadea’s quote above and political attacks against Ciattarelli regarding President Trump gives the word “chutzpah” a new meaning.

See President Trump (below) during multiple appearances in Wildwood, New Jersey. The second President Trump Wildwood rally (2024) is the largest political event in New Jersey history … attracting more than 100,000 attendees.