New Jersey Senator Cory Booker sees himself as the natural successor to Il Duce Obama, and therefore the natural choice for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2020.  You have to admit the two do have a lot in common.  Both are African-American.  Both served as Senators from large Blue States.  Both Obama and Booker attended Ivy League law schools and never had any job not connected to the government, that is, in the real world.  Most importantly, both Booker and Obama are fake, phony frauds who are largely full of crap.  Like Obama, Cory Booker tries to stay on every side of every issue.  As David Harsanyi of the New York Post has noted, Cory Booker has posed as a friend of the Jews, who supports the move of the American embassy to Jerusalem and has said he was against the deal that propped up the Iranian terror regime of Holocaust deniers and warmongers.  The same Cory Booker also supported the same Iran deal and criticized moving the US embassy to the historic capital of the Jews.  Booker doesn’t consider this to be contradictory, preferring to characterize himself as “a truth teller.”  To paraphrase Slick Willie Clinton, I guess it depends what your definition of “truth” is.  Now, it’s true that most politicians are long on image and short on substance, but Cory Booker’s entire public life is all image and no substance.  Booker’s a guy who came up from the mean streets of Newark, right?  Wrong.  He was born to parents who both were corporate executives, and he grew up in Old Tappan, as well-to-do a community as any of the upscale towns in northern Bergen County.  Booker went to Stanford, was a Rhodes Scholar, and then went to Yale Law School.  Only then did he decide to enter Newark politics.  Cory Booker was called a carpetbagger and a Republican (not that!) – by other Democrats.  And since his political image was a complete fabrication, Cory Booker never has shied away from any opportunity to falsely enhance that image, even if he had to make stuff up.  As Mr. Harsanyi wrote in the Post,  during his time as a candidate in Newark, Booker conjured up “T-Bone,” a stereotypical urban street tough, drug peddler and central character of Booker’s founding myth.  “One moment T-Bone was threatening the life of the Mayor, and the next he was seeking Booker’s wise counsel, sharing the intimate details of his life story — and, no doubt, a few tears — while turning to him for inspiration and solace.”  Now, I spent more than four years supervising the Essex County Narcotics Task Force during those years, so I can attest that it’s not necessary to create imaginary drug dealers in Newark, there are plenty of real ones.  But that’s just what Booker did.  T-Bone was an imaginary person that Booker later claimed was a composite of a number of people he met in Newark.  I really wish I had known that during the summer of 2006, when I spent an entire real weekend in the office with a number of real NJ State Troopers who were busy trying to protect Mayor Booker from the imaginary drug dealer who he said was threatening his life.  Had I known the threat was not real, I would have stayed home, and simply imagined that I had been in the office.  The point is that Cory Booker, himself, is not real.  It’s all an act.  It always has been.  When he was Mayor, the Congressman from Newark died.  Someone suggested Booker might run for the House.  I said “no,” it wasn’t a large enough stage for the theatrical Mr. Booker.  Only the Senate would do.  And he’s really made his mark there.  Senator Booker became the first sitting senator to testify against another Senator when he testified against Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions during his confirmation hearing.  Pure grandstanding.  Now that he’s Obama’s heir apparent, Booker has gone whole hog in on the Trump resistance. His performance at the hearings for Brett Kavanaugh hit a new low.  Democrats have been trying to delay the confirmation vote as long as possible.  Kavanaugh is uniquely qualified for the Supreme Court, so Democrats have resorted to paid protesters in the hearing room to continually interrupt the proceedings with shrill outbursts.  They also complained about not having enough of Kavanaugh’s papers from his days working in the GW Bush Administration.  It’s all a sham, because the Dems have yet to examine any of the hundreds of thousands of documents made available to them.  Enter Cory Booker, stage Left.  Booker announced that, Senate rules be damned,  he would illegally release confidential emails sent by the nominee in 2001 and 2002 concerning racial profiling — a topic that could potentially derail the president’s pick.  He then dared the Senate to expel him.  There were several factual problems with that.  First of all, the emails weren’t confidential, staffers having spent the entire night getting them released pursuant to a Democrat request.  Then, the documents merely demonstrated that Kavanaugh had expressed his opposition to using racial profiling in post-9/11 law enforcement screenings.  In other words, Kavanaugh advocated for obeying the law, and respecting the constitution.  No matter.  Booker insulted his Senate colleagues, disparaging their “sham rules,” and announced, “This is probably the closest in my life I’ll get to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.”  Perhaps he forgot that the guys who said, “I’m Spartacus” got crucified after they ran their mouths.  But that’s our Senator Booker.  In Texas, they say someone who’s a phony is “all hat and no cattle.”  Cory Booker is no hat, and no cattle, just bullshit.