I still admire him for speaking his mind, but his decision to have a special election is completely political in nature after all. I have to pull back my statements from before. Silly me, I thought better of him.

You see, he scheduled the special election to fill the empty New Jersey Senate seat for a few weeks before the regular election in November. This will cost the state millions of dollars, and has the express purpose of making sure that all of Cory Booker’s Democratic supporters who will turn out to elect him in October aren’t necessarily going to be there in November when Christie himself faces a Democratic challenger. His worry was that Booker’s supporters would turn out and, while in the booth, also vote for Christie’s opponent. Can’t have that now, can we? So a separate election it is.

Would a Democrat do the same thing? Sure, probably. Doesn’t mean it’s right, and doesn’t mean I’d support it — but then again, who am I to be surprised that there are politics in politics?