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Fifth Column
Congressman Moran: "They’re out to get me!"
2003-04-10
Rep. James P. Moron Moran, who suggested last month that American Jews had nudged the nation into war, has offended some Jews again by suggesting a pro-Israel lobbying group will finance an effort to unseat him.
"How dare anyone run against me! I'm an incumbent, you know!"
The Virginia Democrat suggested at a recent party meeting that the lobbying group will raise $2 million in an effort to defeat him next year.
"It's not paranoia, they're really out to get me!"
Moran, a seven-term incumbent, said the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has begun organizing against him and will "direct a campaign against me and take over the campaign of a Democratic opponent," The Washington Post reported Thursday.
"Those J-E-W-S are always taking over things!"
AIPAC spokeswoman Rebecca Dinar called Moran's comments "evidence he's gone off his medication again" "ridiculous" and said the organization "had no idea" what the congressman was talking about. AIPAC by law cannot raise money for candidates and by policy does not endorse candidates, Dinar said.
That's too bad. I was going to kick in a few bucks, and I'm neither Jewish nor a Democrat. Come to think of it, I'm not a Virginian, either...
In an interview Wednesday, Moran said he was simply "relaying what I had heard" from a little voice inside his head fellow House member about fund-raising activity against him by AIPAC members in Florida. He said he didn't know if it was true but added, "It's conceivable."
"Anything's possible, you know."
"You'd have to be naive not to recognize that AIPAC is a very important network of people organized around a cause .... But if I have to run against a national network that I don't have the ability to communicate with, it's going to be very difficult."
"They may have already implanted a computer chip in my butt to control me."
David Friedman, Washington regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, said of Moran's reported remarks, "This only confirms what we already knew: that Jim Moran is a raving moonbat bigoted man who perpetuates age-old canards and stereotypes about Jews."
"Remember, we Democrats are the party of tolerance and brotherhood — right, Cynthia?"
Posted by:Mike

#13  What I really find silly is the fact that Jews actually vote fro Democrats. Have they not learned from the mistakes of Dimmy Carter and Zipper Clinton? If these are your friends, you don't need any enemies.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2003-04-10 17:06:56  

#12  While we're on domestic politics:


"Thousands of union workers bearing American flags and homemade signs packed a rally at ground zero Thursday to show their support for U.S. military efforts in Iraq."

Makes me proud to be pro-union.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-04-10 15:57:46  

#11  actually OS, most of bedroom Nova votes republican - NoVa has 3 cong. Districts, 2 are solidly GOP - Affluent folks in Fairfax, contractors in Loudon, military all over. The 8th is Arlington, Alex, and a few parts of fairfax - minorities, gays, Jews, single condo dwellers, rehabbers.

Dems do at least as well in central city Richmond as in Nova.

In any case Moran is NOT particularly liberal - he supports "pro-business" credit reform, and was one of a handful of dems who broke ranks on a key procedural vote on Clintons impeachment. The anti-Israel stuff (and its antisemitic overtones) isnt out of leftism - its more out of left field.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-04-10 15:56:26  

#10  This guys is why so much of the REAL Virginia has gone Republican. REAL Virginia excludes the carpetbaggers around Reston and the DC Bedroom.

I grew up in Roanoke (big Railroad union town back when the old N&W was run from there), Nobody ever voted Republican there, until the Dems blew it.
Posted by: OldSpook   2003-04-10 14:31:48  

#9  Isn't Congresscritter Moron Moran one of the "Baghdad Three"? All the more reason to flush him down the gold cr$$$er.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-04-10 13:46:01  

#8  The amazing differences between an "a" and an "o"
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-04-10 13:17:13  

#7  for more on this guy see www.no-mo-ran.com
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-04-10 12:56:09  

#6  Mike he only got 60% last time in the general, against an unknown Republican, in the most solid Dem district in northern Virginia. (the legislature here protects incumbents by putting all the Dems in Morans district, and leaving Davis and Wolf's districts solidly GOP. this leaves Moran's district very oddly shaped - it stretches along a highway to get Reston, on of northern Fairfaxz county's only Dem enclaves. This helps Dem Moran, as well as GOP Davis and Wolf) I dont want to use the word "cakewalk", but my confidence is high. biggest obstacle is potential division among the challengers State Sen. (and Ex-congresswoman) Byrne, Fairfax cnty exec Hanley, ex-Lt.Gov Beyer, and dark horse ex-Gore aid Bash.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-04-10 12:40:53  

#5  I apologize if the above fake news dispatch is over the top, but I have to ask, isn't it just weird to see some democrats embracing the same bigoted qualities with which they have stereotyped Republicans for the last umpteen decades?
Posted by: FormerLiberal   2003-04-10 12:37:49  

#4  the delightfully named James Moran
Posted by: Frank G   2003-04-10 12:29:33  

#3  liberalhawk:

We R-types wish you well in that endeavor. Good luck and good hunting.
Posted by: Mike   2003-04-10 12:15:33  

#2  In fake news this morning, backpedaled when confronted with his interesting views about Jewish conspiracies. "Okay - maybe it isn't specifically the Hebes," he said in a press conference outside his South Carolina vacation home. "It was the Republicans. For all their talk about how important unilateralism is, the fact is they fear it. Here I am, working hand in hand with politically disparate politicians like David Dukes and Pat Buchanan, and it's freakin' 'em out. I represent the potential for a unification along all party lines, and hence a way to make the world safe from kikes, darkies, and wetbacks. The Republicans don't want anything to do it - they're the ones living in a dream world." The Anti-Defamation League said of his remarks, "Holy shit! How did this f**ker ever get elected to congress?!"
Posted by: FormerLiberal   2003-04-10 12:12:50  

#1  We Democrats are gonna ditch him in the primary - Leslie Byrne for Congress!!!!!
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-04-10 12:07:40  

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