The CD2 primary is heating up and the first hard punches have been thrown by a guy we at The Bob and Steve Show admittedly like to make fun of, congressional candidate Bob ‘Trojan Man’ Patterson. You may recall Patterson is the guy who once wrote about the remarkable chemicals found in semen and Bob and I, with our sometimes juvenile sense of humor, just can’t let it go.

Anyway, there was a shot launched at fellow Republican congressional candidate David Richter in Breitbart yesterday and it has Patterson’s sticky fingers all over it.

I have no issue with the Breitbart piece, there is no new information in it, at least nothing I didn’t already know. I don’t even have an issue with Patterson taking the shot, as messy as it was. Honestly, I’m a little proud of Patterson for taking a shot because I love to watch a good fight.

But here’s the deal, having someone write an article that complains Richter didn’t support candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 primary is stupid. There are many Republicans who didn’t support candidate Trump. That happens in primaries!

If not supporting candidate Trump in the 2016 primary is a disqualifier then I should get zero clients. I freely admit I was not a candidate Trump supporter. In fact, I didn’t settle on him until October 31, 2016 when I filled out my mail-in ballot. I even posted it on Facebook:

Since then I have been an ardent supporter of President Trump and I like him more the longer he’s in office.

I’m not the only political operative who didn’t back candidate Trump. Seth Grossman’s political consultant, Rick Shaftan, was a big supporter of then-candidate Ted Cruz. Shaftan headed a group that sent anti-Trump robocalls to 180,000 Republicans in South Carolina during the 2016 primary. Today, as best I can tell, Shaftan is a big supporter of President Trump.

My point is people take sides in a primary, sometimes the wrong side. After the primary we get together and support the winner. That’s what’s supposed to happen!

Another point in the attack on Richter is he donated to Democrats in the past. That’s what folks in big business do. If a business owner donating to Democrats is a disqualifier then I’m going to have to rethink my support of President Trump because he gave to Democrats, a lot.

Now, before anyone suggests I’m writing a defense of Richter, not all of the punches Patterson threw in the Breitbart piece were bad. The part about Richter having “strong business ties to James Biden, Joe Biden’s brother,” is fair game and, frankly, an attack I’ve been waiting to see. I’ve personally discussed the issue with Richter, he has a good answer, but that discussion was not for this blog so he’s going to have to answer any questions about Biden’s brother himself.

I am surprised to see the attack came from Patterson. If you doubt it was him consider that Patterson, before landing a job a the Trump administration, wrote for Breitbart. There’s also the fact that Brian Fitzherbert is not mentioned in the Breitbart article. The article says:

As New Jersey Republicans consider whom to vote for in the Republican primary for the state’s second congressional district, Republicans can choose between the more establishment-minded Richter and the more populist Bob Patterson.

I’m not going to argue who the “populist” is, nor is it my intent to defend any candidate, I’m just pointing out the that the attack came from Patterson and that Fitzherbert was left out of the first real fight in CD2.

The only other thing I see from this attack is Patterson just kicked the door wide open for Seth Grossman to get into the race.

If Grossman, who has been making noises on social media, does get in the race then Patterson will have succeeded in leaving his stain on this race.