By Selwyn Duke

If you’re a Democrat operative forced to resign for
facilitating vote fraud, what do you do for a follow-up?

If you said brutally attack your girlfriend, cracking her
skull, your name just might be Patrick Moran.

And if you’ve skated on both counts, your father just might
be Jim Moran, Democrat congressman from Virginia.

Patrick Moran was the field director for his father’s
campaign before the election — that is, until a sting operation caught
him on video coaching an undercover reporter on how to commit vote fraud.
He sounded as if he’d already achieved semi-pro status, too. But since
undermining our republic is obviously right up there with jaywalking, he didn’t
have to spend any quality time basket-weaving with one of his father’s most
reliable constituencies. And now we learn that Moran’s relational conflict
resolution is morally congruent with his philosophy on electoral success.
Writes Washington’s City
Paper:

Moran and his girlfriend were
fighting outside 14th Street bar The Getaway [in Columbia Heights, DC] around
1:23 a.m. on Dec. 1, according to a police report, over Moran talking to
another woman at the bar. Suddenly, Moran allegedly slammed his girlfriend's
head into the bar's metal trash can cage.

After the attack, police described
Moran's girlfriend as "bleeding heavily from her nose and also observed
that her nose and right eye were extremely swollen." One of the ambulance
technicians who transported her to Howard University Hospital told police that
Moran appeared to have broken her nose and given her a skull fracture under her
right eye.

Moran subsequently pled guilty to assaulting his girlfriend.
This would seem to have been for good reason, as the police report “describes
both a Metropolitan Police Department sergeant and an Alcoholic Beverage
Regulation Administration investigator seeing Moran slam his girlfriend's head
into a trash can cage outside the Getaway[,]” writes
the City Paper.

But it seems that “Getaway” describes more than just the crime’s
location in this tale.

Both Moran and his girlfriend now say that the incident was
an “accident,” with the latter blaming it on a “broken high heel.” Well, I am
quite sure a heel was involved.

And while Moran was originally charged with felony domestic
violence assault, he ultimately got off on simple assault. And the punishment?

Probation.

So let’s get this straight. According to police, Moran the
Younger was observed slamming his girlfriend’s head into a metal object by two
law-enforcement officials, an impact that caused a broken nose and fractured
skull. And he walks?

It’s nice when daddy has power, money, and influence.

…And, it seems, a warped moral compass.

Note that Moran the Elder (D-VA) said in an official
statement that he hoped his son’s and the victim’s “privacy will be respected,”
described the situation as “embarrassing” and said that the two were “good
kids.”

But “good” clearly has a different meaning in Jim Moran’s
(leftist) culture. Just consider his response to his kid’s vote-fraud
facilitation: he didn’t say anything about ethics, but simply called
it “outright stupidity.” I guess he was disappointed in his son — that the
boy got caught. He surely taught the lad better than that.

Speaking of which, the origin of P. Moran’s
conflict-resolution skills may be no mystery. As Jenny Erikson at Café Mom tells
us, “[I]n 1995, Capitol Hill Police had to pull [Rep. Jim Moran] off
California Republican Randy Cunningham on the House floor, and he once told Washingtonian
magazine, ‘I like to hit people.’”

Rep. Moran also has a history of making anti-Jewish and
anti-Catholic statements, and once, after attending a Mass in which the priest
criticized Catholic politicians who ignore Church teaching, approached the
priest red-faced and shouted, “You priests don’t know
anything about abortion!” (For more of Rep. Moran’s “Morantics,” click here.)

As for Moran the Younger, I guess we have to ignore his
latest (alleged) “stupidity” as everyone is now falling in line and saying that
there’s nothing to see here; move on. It was just the attack of the killer DC
trash-can cage. But I do have to wonder what kind of offer that you can’t
refuse was made to the female victim.

Ah, abusing our electoral system and women — true liberal
family values. Now all we have to do is see what Patrick Moran will do for the
trifecta. 

                                   
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