Ed Koch backs Republican in Weiner's old district

[Ken Burch]

Source: CNN

(CNN) - As the special election to replace former Rep. Anthony Weiner heats up in Brooklyn and Queens, the Republican candidate, Bob Turner, received a ringing endorsement Monday from one of the Empire State's top Democrats.

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch announced his support Monday for Turner amid hopes that the special election in the 9th congressional district, a strongly Jewish area, will become a referendum on President Barack Obama's policies on Israel.

In his anger over the president's May Mideast speech, which recommended that a peace solution include a return to Israel's pre-1967 borders with land swaps, Koch said in a statement Monday that Obama is "willing to throw under the bus" and end relations with the state.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/25/ed-koch-backs-republican-in-weiners-old-district/

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More reasons to despise Ed Koch. The old bastard is not only backing another Republican(his endorsements helped Reagan carry New York twice, and helped keep Al D'Amato in the Senate) but he's also lying(nothing in Obama's Israel/Palestine speech equated to ending diplomatic relations with Israel).

[hlthe2b]

1. He's been a RW neocon defender/promoter for years....

why this would surprise anyone, is beyond me. :puke:

[JackRiddler]

2. Which is what he was in office for 12 years, also. Not just a defender but the genuine article...

Right wing, anyway. Neocon wasn't as prominent a category back then.

[BigDemVoter]

3. Pardon my French. . .

But Ed Koch is a fat motherfucker, and I LOATHE him.

Didn't he make a big enough mess out of NYC???? Now he's thinking that New Yorkers give one big fat shit what he thinks & will vote based on his judgment?

[Vincardog]

4. Ed Koch every new Democrat and every centrist sellout can KISS MY HARRY ASS

[aquart]

5. How else did the turncoat slug get a highway named for him?

And how infuriated am I every time I see that sign?

[Bonhomme Richard]

6. Ed Koch is a self serving Dick. n/t

[Cool Logic]

7. Perhaps he is a Bloomberg Republican....

You know, a Democrat.

One of the reasons Bloomberg became an R, is because there weren't enough of them to fill the ballot.

[CreekDog]

15. i'd argue Koch is to the right of even Bloomberg

and Koch hasn't said anything smart in decades.

[Cool Logic]

19. I would have to agree. However, my point relates to the possibility

that Turner, may have entered the race as an R, to avoid facing a D until the actual election.

[alp227]

8. As DLC/DINO as he is Ed Koch is NOT related to the oil tycoons n/t

[Ken Burch]

11. Didn't say he was. What's your point?

n/t.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. That's why he's a FOX News regular

he's the new Zell Miller

[marasinghe]

10. ed koch is an irrelevant POS which keeps floating to the surface at odd intervals,

stinking up the discourse - just to distract his own ego, from his own uselessness, both during his failed terms as mayor of NYC, as well as thereafter.

[KamaAina]

12. "How'm I doin'?"

Not so good, Ed. Not so good. :grr:

[PoliticAverse]

13. Ed Kotch ? The book on him has already been written...

http://www.amazon.com/City-Sale-Koch-Betrayal-York/dp/0060160608

[Judi Lynn]

14. He gets sillier every year. Sure hope his candidate won't be taken seriously.

http://brooklyngop.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bturner.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/-OBe7e2o9N0Y/TitbkIl4FkI/AAAAAAAAAac/pWwmJehsq2M/s320/turnerfundraiser.jpg

Does Congress need yet another one of these?

[BeyondGeography]

16. Go away, ya old fart

[karynnj]

17. Ed Koch supported W over John Kerry, because he agreed with Bush's actions in

Iraq and thought he was better for Israel. The NYC area Jewish population voted overwhelmingly for Kerry. Koch attacked Carter incessantly. Koch has long ago lost any influence he had.

[indypaul]

18. There is no fool like an old fool. n/t

[mopinko]

20. alzheimers