Of Corzine, Pallone says the following extremely flattering things:
"I just think he's great."
"He'll be just what New Jersey needs as governor."
"He's very warm."
"People genuinely feel he cares about them."
Stop the presses: Andrews is a huge fan of Corzine's, too.
Andrews says he has not picked out a Christmas present for the new governor. "The best Christmas present I could give him would be to beat Tom Kean resoundingly next November," he says. Interviewed by phone from his district in New Jersey, Andrews said he would spend the rest of that afternoon on the phone with Democratic officials.
"I'll tell them that America's future will be bleak without me in the Senate."
Andrews declines to answer a question about whether he thinks Corzine is the handsomest member of the Senate.
"We've learned to separate style from substance," he says.
(We apparently didn't get that memo.)
Rep. Rush Holt takes a lower-key approach, operating on the bizarre premise that "this kind of thing doesn't really merit a campaign."
