Posted on 10/20/2009 9:54:26 AM PDT by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
JTA reports this morning:
SC GOPers: DeMint like a Jew watching our nation’s pennies’ October 19, 2009
Two South Carolina Republican officials defended Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) by likening him to Jews who "take care of the pennies."
Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County GOP Chairman James Ulmer wrote the Orangeburg Times and Democrat to defend DeMint after a Democratic politician said he didn't help direct enough funds to local projects. "There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves," the chairmen write. [...]
UPDATE 12:45 PM: Late this morning, the Republican Jewish Coalition posted this press release:
UPDATE: S. Carolina GOP leaders apologize for insensitive reference to Jews Tuesday, October 20, 2009 By: RJC Press Office
Washington, D.C. (October 20, 2009) — The RJC has learned that Edwin O. Merwin, Jr. and James S. Ulmer Jr. apologized swiftly for the insensitive reference to Jews in their Sunday article in The Times and Democrat.
Apology accepted. That took just two days. Now, should we expect any time soon for Jesse Jackson to apologize for his “Hymie Town” remark in 1984?
Or Al Sharpton for his “diamond merchants” remark in 1991?
Or Barack Obama for fraternizing with overt Jew-hating radical Islamist Rashid Khalidi?
Or Barack Obama for doing nothing when contributors to his “Organize for America” website compared Jews to Nazis and Palestinians to concentration camp victims only two weeks ago?
Or Barack Obama for seeking to negotiate without preconditions with Iran’s Israel-threatening, Holocaust-denying dictator Ahmedinejad?
Or Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright for referring to the president’s Jewish WH staff “them Jews” in June?
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Oy!
How can people in public life be so stupid?
And that’s why breaking the pork addiction will be so tough. What a difference between DeMint and Grahmnesty.
I guess this is why Lindsay Graham won his primary last year. He directs a lot of dollars to local...etc.
Except for DeMint are all the politicians from SC stupid and nuts?
My Mamma used to say: “If you take care of your peonies, your dahlias will take care of themselves”.
Maybe that's why they're in public life. But you're right, the bozo factor is stunning. If these idjits don't care about themselves then they could care about who will be associated with them.
It wasn’t stupidity....it was purposeful.
They are killing the GOP...
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