Lynsie Lee had probably the best summation of the GOP/Shaftan/Lonegan’s position about Booker:

Lee, reached by phone today, said she questioned whether the Shaftan interview would hurt Lonegan’s campaign more than Booker’s.

“It sounds weird. He’s supposed to be conservative and he’s ragging on Cory Booker for acting conservative,” Lee said. “He’s trying to make Cory Booker look bad, I think it made him look worse.”

The Booker campaign was not amused by Shaftan’s rant.

“These comments are disgraceful, demeaning and beneath even the incredibly low bar set by the Lonegan campaign thus far,” Booker spokeswoman Silvia Alvarez said. “If you want insight into the kind of senator Mr. Lonegan would be, start here.”

Troy Stevenson, head of Garden State Equality, the state’s largest gay rights group, said Shaftan’s “homophobic, misogynistic and pornographic tirade is a disgrace.”

Booker acts appropriately and how conservatives claim to act and Lonegan’s campaign chief thinks he should have been inappropriate. which is all too often how conservatives do act.