B-1 Bob' (Dornan) Back on Calif. Campaign Trail

[Khephra]

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- It has been eight years since he was turned out of office by a young, liberal upstart and his comeback bid was soundly rejected by voters two years later. Now the firebrand conservative ex-congressman known as "B-1 Bob" Dornan is asking voters for one more chance.

Only this time, Dornan, famous in the 1970s, '80s and '90s for his slash-and-burn tactics targeting liberals, is trying to unseat a fellow Republican whose record is equally conservative.

He all but retired from politics after losing back-to-back congressional campaigns to Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Santa Ana, in 1996 and 1998. But now he has decided to seek the Republican nomination for the congressional seat of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach.

Rohrabacher, whose Orange County district is next to Sanchez's, differs little on the issues from Dornan. Both support a freeze on taxes, favor the war in Iraq and oppose President Bush's proposal to allow temporary work visas for undocumented immigrants.

more................

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-b-1-bob-congress,0,6743697.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[fujiyama]

1. This ought to be a riot...

Watching two fucking lunatics like these two duking it out! Though from what I've seen Dornan seems like the bigger asshole.

Do dems have any chance of taking this district?

[dusty64]

4. Yup, it ought to be entertaining.

Are any Democrats running there?

[Judi Lynn]

2. So he has come to the end of his Sanchez-bashing career, it seems!

God, he really ran that into the ground, didn't he? Oh, Loretta Sanchez cheated. Oh, Loretta Sanchez tricked and defrauded, and stole votes, etc., etc.

From the article:

"This is King Lear raging on the heath," said John J. Pitney, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in Pomona. "Dornan's been out of the limelight for quite some time, and he wants it back."

Dornan, who scuffled with another Republican congressman on the House floor in 1985 when he called him a "draft-dodging wimp," said he would be tougher on terrorists than Rohrabacher, a better friend to Israel and a stauncher opponent of Islam.

"I would be the pre-eminent scholar on the dark side of Islam," he said recently, defining the run-up to Tuesday's primary election as "a one-issue campaign -- terrorism."

[uhhuh]

3. Man, oh Man!

B-1 bob just can't get over the fact that Sanchez KICKED HIS ASS!!! He has to win the district next to hers, just to get close to being supported where he feels he rightly belongs. He is soooo jealous of her broad appeal in the district.
(Or maybe he is secretly in love with her and just wants to be close..oh, so close...) Is there such a thing as congressional district stalking?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. From Garden Grove to Huntington Beach!

A regular Horatio Alger.

[0007]

6. The only thing Dornan is good at is bashing and doing a senseless rant

[calimary]

7. Oy, he's going after Dana Rohrabacher? What fun!

What a delicious thing to watch. Two knuckle-draggers at each other's throats!

Maybe they'll both tear each other to bits and leave a Democrat to walk in amidst the wreckage and take it.

Both of 'em can go straight down on the Eternal Express Elevator, for all I care...

[myomy]

8. Betcha Dornan is really proud of his "hot-shit" prez.

"to hell with the people, where's mine?"

[SoCalDem]

9. Fun Fun Fun.. Two losers...opposing each other..Dana's a pip

Shaykh Hisham met with many of the Senators and congresspersons, and was invited to pay a visit to Dana Rohrabacher's office. Representative Mr. Rohrabacher had been one of the guest speakers at the last International Islamic Unity Conference.

During his lecture at the Unity Conference, Mr. Rohrabacher praised Islam and Muslims of which he has experienced both firsthand. Mr. Rohrabacher was a powerful supporter of the mujahideen of Afghanistan during their struggle against the former Soviet Union and was instrumental in getting aid in the form of supplies and advanced weaponry delivered to them. In his talk, he had described his many adventures in the mountains of Afghanistan when he spent time in the ranks of the mujahideen in close battle with the Soviet Army.

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http://www.ocweekly.com/printme.php?&eid=38162

COVER | FEATURE Vol. 8 No. 01 September 6 - 12, 2002
Rogue Statesman
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s absolutely crazy, quite possibly illegal back-channel chats with the villains of Sept. 11


by R. Scott Moxley



Rohrbacher with Afghan rebels, 1988
Photo courtesy Congressman Dana Rohrbacher

" says the Taliban are devout traditionalists—not terrorists or revolutionaries. He believes a Taliban takeover would be a positive development."

—Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 1996 issue

In the hours after the deadly Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist strikes, fear loomed that the federal government had fallen into disarray and would be impotent to stop additional attacks. It didn’t help that President George W. Bush hid for several hours at military installations in middle America or that a Bush staffer claimed (without evidence) that Air Force One was a target of foreign terrorists. Members of a special House Intelligence subcommittee on international terrorism evacuated the U.S. Capitol and, in hopes of calming public anxiety, called an emergency press conference.

"Today’s vicious attacks were clearly intended to instill fear, cause panic and kill innocent Americans in large numbers," said Representative Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia), head of the House terrorism group. "If terrorists believe they could shut down the U.S. government and paralyze the American people, they were simply mistaken. The government is functioning."

Then Chambliss turned to a bigger question: How could Middle Eastern terrorists hijack four loaded passenger jets and convert them into missiles without any detection by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies?

"Obviously, nobody knew that this threat was imminent in the way that it happened," Chambliss said. "But terrorism throughout the world, particularly directed at Americans, has been in existence for any number of years. And our committee is striving hard to ensure that we provide the best intelligence possible to hopefully ensure that these types of incidents don’t ever happen again."

..please read this article.....

Research assistance provided by Anthony Pignataro.

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http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/wsn/2001/msg01609.html
(this is a wonderful site..lots of links)
Dana Rohrbacher, California congressman, then identified the Taliban as
the ruling controllers among
various factions in Afghanistan and characterized them as "opium
producers." Then Rohrbacher asked Maresca: "There is a Saudi terrorist
who is infamous for financing terrorism around the world. Is he in the
Taliban area or is he up there with the northern people?"

Maresca answered: "If it is the person I am thinking of, he is there in the
Taliban area." This testimony
obviously alluded to Osama bin Laden. Then Rorhbacher asked: "... in
the northern area as compared to the place where the Taliban are in
control, would you say that one has a better human rights record toward
women than the other?" Maresca responded by saying: "With respect to
women, yes. But I don't think either faction here has a very clean human
rights record, to tell you the truth."

So women's rights were introduced into Congressional testimony by
Congressman Rohrbacher as the
wedge for UNOCAL to build its pipeline through Afghanistan. Three
years later CNN would be airing ist acclaimed TV documentary "Under
The Veil," which displayed the oppressive conditions that women
endure in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban (a propaganda film
for the oil pipeline?).

Rohrbacher then went on to say that a democratic election should take
place in Afghanistan and "if the
Taliban are not willing to make that kind of commitment, I would be very
hesitant to move foreward on a $2.5 billion investment because without
that commitment, I don't think there is going to be any tranquility in that
land."

[Judi Lynn]

10. That first link's a winner! Unbelievable.

"It’s amazing that the local media won’t touch this story," said Schipske. "I guess either it’s hard to imagine Dana Rohrabacher negotiating with the Taliban or the story is just too big for them."

Bob Dornan, unless he's gone senile, will have a picnic with material like this he can lob at Rohrabacher! As gruesome as it is to think of Dornan winning, how can he miss, if Rohrabacher will be his toughest competition?

Thanks for the info. I had heard he was connected to the Taliban, but I didn't know how far into this he got. Very interesting.

[mobuto]

14. That's not a real beard

Can't be. Nobody has a beard like that.

[David__77]

11. Dornan is a nut.

I would, on some level, love it if he got the nomination. I think they should run him for governor here.

[yellowcanine]

12. Rohrabacher vs Dornan: it doesn't get any better than this, folks.

You can't make up shit like this. You mind passing that popcorn?

[mobuto]

15. Contribute money to both sides

just for the sake of entertainment? Maybe we can get Dick Armey to come out of retirement and run against Tom DeLay.

[LiberalFighter]

13. It would be interesting to see how much...

in contributions each gets. What will the on-air attacks be against each other?