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Rasmussen: Only 31% Of Democrats Back Israeli's Decision To Take Military Action
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Posted on 01/01/2009 7:34:22 AM PST by hamburglar

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans back Israel's decision to take military action against the Palestinians, but only half as many Democrats (31%) agree. A majority of Democrats (55%) say Israel should have tried to find a diplomatic solution first, a view shared by just 27% of Republicans.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; gwot; hamas; islam; israel; jihad; sympathizers; unholyalliance
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1 posted on 01/01/2009 7:34:23 AM PST by hamburglar
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To: hamburglar

Guess it’s a good thing for the people of Israel that American democrats don’t run their country.


2 posted on 01/01/2009 7:37:16 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: hamburglar
A majority of Democrats (55%) say Israel should have tried to find a diplomatic solution first

Like what? Ask them to pretty please not fire rockets at our citizens?!

3 posted on 01/01/2009 7:37:23 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: hamburglar

No surprise about the rats, but there are 38% Republicans against Israel defending itself?


4 posted on 01/01/2009 7:38:16 AM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light!)
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To: mainepatsfan

And the Jews’ in America vote Democrat. What is up with that?


5 posted on 01/01/2009 7:38:50 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: hamburglar

WOW! Thirty One percent? I’m shocked it’s that much!


6 posted on 01/01/2009 7:39:39 AM PST by AnnGora (I am unique. Just like everybody else.)
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To: hamburglar

Democrats are idiots. Period.


7 posted on 01/01/2009 7:40:21 AM PST by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity.)
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To: 70th Division
And the Jews’ in America vote Democrat. What is up with that?

Many Jews in America would support Hitler if he had a D after his name.

8 posted on 01/01/2009 7:40:46 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: 70th Division

One would hope they’re among the 31% of Dems who dare to think that Israel has the right to defend itself.


9 posted on 01/01/2009 7:40:59 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: 70th Division

Liberals first, Jews second. Their liberalism trumps everything else.


10 posted on 01/01/2009 7:41:08 AM PST by webschooner
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To: hamburglar

I’d wager that that’s about the same percentage of dems who would support the USA defending itself from attack. Peace at any price.


11 posted on 01/01/2009 7:42:55 AM PST by ScottinVA (All I needed to know about islam I learned on 9-11.)
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To: hamburglar

Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Quaeda; the Taliban, Islamic Jihad - all Muzzie terrorists! How come there are not, say, 5 Presbyterian terrorist groups? Or 5 Episcopalian ones? Just Muslims?


12 posted on 01/01/2009 7:42:57 AM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: hamburglar

So why doesn’t the headline say: “62% of Republicans Back Israel Protecting Herself?”


13 posted on 01/01/2009 7:45:04 AM PST by madison10
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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Consistant, I doubt 32% support military action to protect the US.

14 posted on 01/01/2009 7:54:15 AM PST by SJackson (The American people are wise in wanting change, 2 terms is plenty, Condi Rice)
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To: hamburglar

War is diplomacy by other means. What fools these morons be.


15 posted on 01/01/2009 7:56:15 AM PST by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find!)
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To: hamburglar

War is diplomacy by other means. What fools these morons be.


16 posted on 01/01/2009 7:56:30 AM PST by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find!)
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To: ScottinVA
I’d wager that that’s about the same percentage of dems who would support the USA defending itself from attack. Peace at any price.

That's right, it has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with the idea that our enemies can be placated with diplomacy. Which is a far greater threat to the US than Israel.

17 posted on 01/01/2009 7:59:19 AM PST by SJackson (The American people are wise in wanting change, 2 terms is plenty, Condi Rice)
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To: hamburglar

Democratic bumper sticker:

I’m against the next war too.


18 posted on 01/01/2009 8:03:20 AM PST by vietvet67
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To: 70th Division

And the Jews’ in America vote Democrat. Whats up with that?

Its because the jews in America are not the same as Jews in isreal. Ours are pampered America hating liberals that want to destroy us with the ACLU, they even hate isreal.


19 posted on 01/01/2009 8:15:53 AM PST by Americanexpat
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To: hamburglar

This really is not a surprise. Most liberal Democrats also oppose gun ownership and the right of Americans to defend themselves in their own homes.


20 posted on 01/01/2009 8:19:57 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: hamburglar
"Rasmussen: Only 31% Of Democrats Back Israeli's Decision To Take Military Action"

This is why the Israelis are taking swift and decisive action right now, before Obama takes the oath of office, they know the incoming Democrat Administration will leave them to their own devices anyway.

21 posted on 01/01/2009 8:22:07 AM PST by rangeryder (If a man says something in the woods, is he still wrong?)
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To: hamburglar

1. RATs hate Jews.

2. Jews vote RAT.

Wassup wid dat?.


22 posted on 01/01/2009 8:26:20 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: hamburglar

Must be the same people polled after the 1993 bombing of the NY Tower “ON OUR MAINLAND”!!


23 posted on 01/01/2009 8:30:13 AM PST by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: hamburglar
I think this situation is going to be wrapped up by Inauguration Day (Hamas will be effectively destroyed, and Fatah will take over Gaza), but if there's a chance that it's not, it will be the next set of groups that Obama will have to choose between when it comes time to piss someone off. Does he go with the Rat base and use the US position on the Security Council to condemn Israel, or does he pander to the Jewish voters who gave him so very much support?

My guess: He can win re-election and most of his immediate agenda without Jewish support. I mean, what are liberal Jewish congresscritters going to do, anyway? Vote with the Republicans to shut down socialism?

24 posted on 01/01/2009 8:32:43 AM PST by hunter112 (We seem to be on an excrement river in a Native American watercraft without a propulsion device.)
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To: 70th Division
And the Jews’ in America vote Democrat. What is up with that?

They are the descendants of those who sheepishly walked into the ovens without a fight.

The Jews who learned the lesson of the Holocaust are fighting for their lives on the front lines in Israel. God bless the Israelites... Have a Happy New Year.
25 posted on 01/01/2009 8:35:57 AM PST by RedMonqey (Embracing my "Inner Redneck")
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To: AnnGora

Just shows that being a Jew doesn’t give you intelligence. The Majority of Jews voted for Obama. Of course they’ll now say they didn’t but they did in lock step. Now they’ll get to witness the Dem Congress sell them down the river right before their little squinting eye’s. Will they learn anything from this? Hell no!


26 posted on 01/01/2009 8:37:29 AM PST by baiamonte
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To: 2harddrive
How come there are not, say, 5 Presbyterian terrorist groups? Or 5 Episcopalian ones?

Ooooh but there are!!!

See those few old, wrinkled pruned up bigots in bedsheets the media points out occasionally and groups like the Southern Poverty Center says are the new threat to America? Liberals are fighting valiantly against these dangerous radicals.

Especially the period after these cornpone terrorist had their Metamucil and before their mid morning naps.
27 posted on 01/01/2009 8:44:16 AM PST by RedMonqey (Embracing my "Inner Redneck")
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To: hamburglar

Democrats are cowards. They are terrified of anything even closely resembling martial conflict. They will cut and run at the least sign of martial opposition.

I despise them.


28 posted on 01/01/2009 8:48:05 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: hamburglar
A majority of Democrats (55%) say Israel should have tried to find a diplomatic solution first

Laws-a-mighty, these folks are completely, baying-at-the-moon insane.

29 posted on 01/01/2009 8:49:10 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for Necro-Americans.)
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To: RedMonqey

Thank YOu! And Happy New Year to you too!


30 posted on 01/01/2009 8:51:49 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: hamburglar

Only 13% of Democrats know how to work a fork.


31 posted on 01/01/2009 8:52:50 AM PST by TonyStark
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To: TonyStark
Only 13% of Democrats know how to work a fork.

75% of democRATS think 'fork' is a verb describing an action between their self and another consenting (or non-consenting) adult, child, or farm animal, the outcome of which has no consequence.

32 posted on 01/01/2009 8:56:24 AM PST by meyer (We are all John Galt)
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To: hamburglar
If most Jews voted Obama/Biden, 78% of the Orthodox Jews voted McCain/Palin.

Conservatives would be helped in office by the B'al Tushuva movement.

33 posted on 01/01/2009 9:03:43 AM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: RedMonqey
Scratch a liberal Goyim, you'll find an antisemite. (Okay, in fairness, only 90% of the time.) Remember, Hillary was credibly accused of calling one of her husband's Jewish campaign workers “a f***ing Jew bastard”. I suspect, based purely on intuition, Rhambo notwithstanding, that 0 harbors antisemetic sentiments. Remember, he attended sermons by a virulent antisemitic racist for twenty years. No decent person would have tolerated twenty years of Rev. Wright. He may be itchin’ to get back at the Jews for whatever slights and injuries he imagines they have done him and "his people".
34 posted on 01/01/2009 9:07:59 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for Necro-Americans.)
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To: meyer

The Norfolk University cheer: “We don’t drink, we don’t smoke; Nor-folk! Nor-folk!”


35 posted on 01/01/2009 9:09:49 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for Necro-Americans.)
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To: madison10

I back Israel protecting itself-—on its own dime.


36 posted on 01/01/2009 9:22:37 AM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: hamburglar
This doesn't surprise me, but it sure disturbs me. My piano teacher's father survived his concentration camp sentence, and yet the son is a complete pacifist. He's anti-2nd amendment, and supports socialism in all respects. He grew up in a satellite of the USSR, so I keep reminding myself that he was fully indoctrinated into socialism, but the pacifism still amazes me. He keeps saying that we don't need guns; the police will protect us. Yeah, like they protected his father . . .

Like many people I know, he left a socialist state and loves the quality of life in America. Unfortunately, many of these immigrants want to impose the same socialist constraints on America that strangled the economies and liberties of the nations they left. It shows me how deeply indoctrinated people are, and how poorly they learn from the examples of history.

37 posted on 01/01/2009 9:26:48 AM PST by Think free or die
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To: hamburglar

Big surprise there eh?


38 posted on 01/01/2009 9:27:38 AM PST by Munz (Infiltrate Interrogate Eradicate NEXT!)
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To: SolidWood

David Duke is one of the 38%.


39 posted on 01/01/2009 9:44:52 AM PST by dbz77
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To: Americanexpat

Unfortunately, too many would prefer to be defined as liberals of Jewish descent born in the US. I


40 posted on 01/01/2009 9:52:27 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: hamburglar

The Rats thus prove they don’t support Jews or Israel, but the Jewish vote goes overwhelmingly to the Rats.

Just goes to show that economic issues and ethnic or other issues trump support of Israel for American Jews.


41 posted on 01/01/2009 9:54:19 AM PST by wildbill
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To: hamburglar

And Democrats are not aware of all the summits that have been held to bring about a ‘diplomatic’ solution to the Palestinian mess? Ignorance is no excuse for the stupid opinions of the majority of Democrats.


42 posted on 01/01/2009 9:57:32 AM PST by abclily
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To: hamburglar

43 posted on 01/01/2009 10:00:45 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: webschooner
"Liberals first, Jews second. Their liberalism stupidity trumps everything else.
44 posted on 01/01/2009 10:04:53 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: hamburglar

A majority of Democrats (55%) say Israel should have tried to find a diplomatic solution first
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Are these the same ones who didn’t know which party was in power or who couldn’t name the three branches of government?
Are they the same ones who voted for Obama but don’t even know his stance on Israel?


45 posted on 01/01/2009 10:26:57 AM PST by Joan Kerrey
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To: Americanexpat

Jews are their own worst enemy.


46 posted on 01/01/2009 11:20:07 AM PST by CARepublicans (www.2012DraftSarahCommittee.com)
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To: ml/nj; firebrand; rmlew; dennisw; juliej; OldFriend; nyyankeefan; giantsfan123; pabianice; ...
Ping!

You can be fairly certain that the annonting of "The Messiah" will bring in a CHANGE for the worse in terms of the US government's attitude toward Israel's exercise of her right to defend herself. The 'Rats are expert at government by polls and know who their constituents are.

47 posted on 01/01/2009 12:01:24 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: hamburglar; All

These poll results are similar to others in recent years showing huge party differences in attitudes toward the Israel-Arab conflict.


48 posted on 01/01/2009 12:03:21 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: hamburglar
. A majority of Democrats (55%) say Israel should have tried to find a diplomatic solution first,
So they are not only unwilling to understand the enemy, but completely ignorant of Israel's actions. Israel tired to negotiate, and even let over 200 prisoners go a week before the ceasefire was ended by Hamas.
49 posted on 01/01/2009 12:27:39 PM PST by rmlew (The loyal opposition to a regime dedicated to overthrowing the Constitution are accomplices.)
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To: SolidWood
No surprise about the rats, but there are 38% Republicans against Israel defending itself?

Must be those "palaeos" who are counting on the muzzies to wipe out the Jews and save "western civilization."

50 posted on 01/01/2009 12:33:22 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vay'omer Yosef 'el-'echayv "'Ani Yosef; ha`od 'avi chay?" velo'-yakhelu 'echayv la`anot 'oto . . .)
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