Brian Moran says the Stone Age was in 1811
By Brian Kirwin | Friday, March 11th, 2011 | PoliticsI just received a fundraising email from DPVA Chair Brian Moran to help the Democrats (yeah, let me reach for my credit card right now). Moran the moron….
Anyway, Moron, who frequently accused others of “debasing political discourse” in the House of Delegates, has espoused a new strategy: Debasing political discourse!
First, he writes “Bob McDonnell, Ken Cuccinelli and the Republicans put forth a Tea Party agenda that looked more like a plan for 1811 than 2011″
Balancing the budget, protecting women’s health, opposing tax increases. What’s so bad about that?
In fact, if you want to talk about 1811, Moron, we can talk about how the Democrat Party was the pro-slavery party.
But I digress, and so does Moron.
“Having been rebuffed by Senate Democrats, Cuccinelli and McDonnell are firing up their corporate-sponsored campaign money machine and hoping they can buy enough seats to take control of the last obstacle to taking Virginia back to the Stone Age.”
The Stone Age? You were just talking about 1811.
Moron actually thinks the Stone Age was in 1811?
And he’s complaining about education? Maybe he should take a few courses in his for-profit colleges that he lobbies for.
Thanks for the email, DPV. I can’t wait until the next one when Moron proclaims the Renaissance occured in 1967 in San Francisco.
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14 Responses to "Brian Moran says the Stone Age was in 1811"
What is it about VA Dems whose last name is Moran?? This is only slightly worse than the WAPO reporter who claimed that the Constitution was 100 years old. I know people even here who have no problem with our sinking leftist education system. May they live happily in the Jurassic.
A couple things, Brian…
Yeah, there’s no connection between 1811 and the Stone Age. It’s all hyperbole, and yeah, it’s weak that he didn’t continue his original analogy.
Lest we forget, the Republican Party of today was created when White Southern Democrats fled to the GOP at the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. I think an argument can be made that the pro-slavery faction of the Democratic Party are the ancestors of today’s right-wing Republicans. I’d further argue that if Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat. Funny how things change.
Balancing the budget – That’s not optional. You really want to take credit for doing something that has to be done anyway by law?
Protecting Women’s Health – What? You and I both know that imposing additional regulations (which is such a Republican thing to do) on clinics wasn’t about the health of women. This should have been blocked by the senate.
Opposing Tax Increases – Yeah, in favor of buy now, pay later, policies (See George W. Bush). Of course, I’m happy to see movement in transportation, but we’re still lacking the revenue.
And did you just knock private schools? I’m suffering from a bit of whiplash here!
“. . . the Republican Party of today was created when White Southern Democrats fled to the GOP at the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964″
This is a persistent fallacy, but it’s still wrong.
The Southern Democrats who “fled to the GOP” in 1964 fled right back out again to George Wallace in 1968. By 1976, Jimmy Carter brought them back to the Democrats. Are you saying Carter is a segregationist, Joel?
Meanwhile, 2/3 of school systems in Dixie were integrated by . . . the Nixon Administration.
The movement of Southern voters to the GOP really began during the 1980s. Now, you may want to think Ronald Reagan was a racist, Joel, but I doubt you’ll get much headway on that one.
How could the RPV be so lucky for the Democrats to elect Brian Moran as chairman.
D. J.,
I have to agree with you. Most of the southern Democrats who became Republicans were Reagan Democrats. This phenomenon created something that had not existed in the South since Reconstruction–a viable Republican Party. Since most southern states, unlike Virginia, have closed primaries, for years the real elections were the Democratic primary. Most voters registered Democratic just to have a voice in local politics. Reagan changed all that.
D.J.- Strom Thurmond and Mills Godwin voted for Jimmy Carter? Bet they didn’t.
SV,
The point is not that all segregationists remained in the Democratic Party, just that they were a small minority in the Republican Party after 1964. I was born and raised here in Virginia, but spent my high school and college years in South Carolina so I reached voting age there in 1969. Believe me, the Democratic Party was still the only organized political force in the state. It wasn’t until the Reagan Democrats appeared in 1980 that we started to see viable Republican candidates. The first Republican governor since Reconstruction wasn’t elected until 1974 and Republican majorities didn’t appear in the legislature until 1994. That hardly tracks with the assertion that segregationists flocked to the Republican Party after 1964. Just didn’t happen.
BK,
Perhaps Moran is confused about the Stone Age and 1811 because he might have attended Liberty University. After all, don’t they teach there that the entire universe is only six thousand years old and that God literally created it in six Earth days?
HR-it’s only inconsitent with that if you believe that segregationists remained the majority in the South. I don’t think they did. I grew up in a house where the ‘n word’ was said everyday. But there was a pretty abrupt generational shift in those sentiments in the mid 60s to the early 70s. Actually, that’s probably a good story about the Civil Rights movement that’s not been written, how it shifted the attitudes of a generation of white Southerners.
You guys are digressing about this slavery thing. Who cares?
Joel is just a Liberal Troll jumping on to distract. This is what they do.
Back to the subject, how do we get rid of Jim Moron? I’m in his district. I cannot stand him for two more seconds. The biggest Republican sweep in a generation and the guy still wins with 61% of the vote.
God I hate my neighbors.
TraderDad,
You may know something about leftist trolls but you are sadly uninformed about leftist voters. They don’t give a rat’s patootie about the honesty, candor or morality of their politicians. They think all of them are highly intelligent and are doing the work of saints. I know this from personal experience. Does that answer your question about Jim Moron?
Haha…I’m a liberal troll…funny.
To answer you question, TraderDad (is your name Joe by any chance? Love those stores!), I touched on a raw nerve on the whole Civil Rights thing.
The shift in the 1960′s was major, and the effects are still prevalent today. If not directly about slavery or segregation, it’s the GOP’s diehard protection of the status quo, even in the face of civil rights, and even common sense. That’s why so many Southern Democrats became Republicans, and why the GOP today remains the party that tramples on minorities and dismisses efforts for a more equal and pluralist society.
Joel,
tell me about the more equal and pluralist societies of Venezuela, Cuba, China and the Soviet Union.
Val: Right, because what goes on in those countries (or I guess went on in the case of the Soviet Union) has something to do with American politics today.
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