Stop Blaming AIPAC When Your Shitty Politicians Lose

I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked that Democrats’ first instinct is to blame the Jews for the ouster of horribly unpopular members.

Squad member and congressional embarrassment Rep. Cori Bush lost her primary to comparatively moderate St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell in a highly scrutinized election. Bush follows her Squad colleague New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman into political oblivion, a trend some are attributing to the off-putting nature of the progressive caucus.

Still, others are pointing the blame on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, better known as AIPAC. In both races, the group spent heavily to help push their preferred candidate over the line. In the Bush/Bell race, AIPAC flooded the airwaves with nearly $9 million worth of ad spending. In New York, they spent about $15 million making it the most expensive House race in American history.

With all that in mind, progressives argued that the only reason Bowman and Bush lost their races was AIPAC spending. Following Bowman’s defeat, leftist darling AOC said “I think we need to have a real conversation about the AIPAC. What we do need to have a real conversation about is how a Republican — primarily Republican and largely Republican-financed — organization is playing and dumping money and playing an extremely divisive role in the Democratic Party.”

Sidenote, she didn’t seem to have all that much to say when it was Democrats meddling in Republican primaries to boost opponents they saw as more conducive to their ends. From the Washington Post in 2022, “Democrats have spent nearly $19 million across eight states in primaries this year amplifying far-right Republican candidates who have questioned or denied the validity of the 2020 election.” 

AOC wasn’t the only one to hit AIPAC over the losses. Bush vowed revenge against AIPAC following her primary defeat claiming she was “coming to tear your kingdom down” and “all they did was radicalize me, and now they should be afraid.”

But while AIPAC makes a convincing boogeyman for a party increasingly embracing its anti-Semitic side, the massive cash attack doesn’t tell the entire story as Democrats are well aware. 

Of course, I’m not naive. The money definitely helped Bush and Bowman’s opponents to beat their rivals. But Bush lost her race by five points. This really wasn’t a nailbiter election suggesting there was more than just AIPAC money at play. 

Bush was a lousy member of Congress and a lousy candidate plagued by controversy. 

Just days after Oct. 7th when Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel to slaughter innocent Israeli civilians, Bush tweeted “Israel’s collective punishment against Palestinians for Hamas’s actions is a war crime.” Following in the footsteps of her disgraced Senate colleague Bob Menedez, Bush was the subject of multiple investigations by the Justice Department, FEC and House Ethics Committee because she paid her husband campaign money to serve as a bodyguard. And in a somewhat surreal video, Bush claimed she touched a homeless woman and cured her cancer, something that mainstream news outlets seemed unwilling to cover. 

Did AIPAC do that? 

Bowman also had serious issues that caused his campaign to crash and burn. He lost his race by even bigger margins than Bush did, with 10 points separating him from his competitor George Latimer. Bowman also made despicable comments immediately following Oct. 7th implying that reports of mass rape by Hamas was Israeli propaganda. “There’s still no evidence of beheaded babies or raped women,” Bowman told a crowd of gathered terrorist sympathizers. “But they still keep using that lie for propaganda.”

Bowman would later walk that comment back. He also had to walk back past writing that implied 9/11 was an inside job. 

From Bowman’s… poetry? 

2001/Planes used as missiles/Target: The Twin Towers/30 minutes later/Both buildings collapsed/Onto themselves/Later in the day/Building 7/Also Collapsed/Hmm.../Multiple explosions/Heard before/And during the collapse/Hmm.../Allegedly/Two other planes/The Pentagon/Pennsylvania/Hijacked by terrorist/Minimal damage done/Minimal debris found/Hmm…

I would tell Bowman not to quit his day job, but that choice seems to have been made for him.

And all this insanity doesn’t even compare to his surreal decision to pull a fire alarm to try and delay a vote on a bill that would continue to fund the government. 

Bowman initially claimed he “thought the alarm would open the door", but then made things infinitely worse for himself by releasing a jaw-dropping messaging document that said any criticism was an overreach by “MAGA Republicans” and that the GOP should “instead focus their energy on the Nazi members of their party before anything else.” He then had to apologize for that as well. 

All this to say, there was plenty of reason outside of AIPAC money that Bowman and Bush lost their races. They were stupid, uber-leftist, buffoons that couldn’t go 30 seconds without some new controversy. 

I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked that Democrats’ first instinct is to blame the Jews for the ouster of horribly unpopular members. After all, Kamala Harris’ decision to snub Josh Shapiro as her VP pick over Tim Walz was absolutely due to concern that the former's Jewish heritage could be a problem for the ascendent anti-Semitic wing of the party. 

I hear that Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is next on the chopping block. I wonder if there’s anything in her past that might be a problem… 

Nah, better blame AIPAC.