It is hard for those of us who have thinking and logical minds that question what is happening in this country to understand that for some people PARTY is the religion...it is the god...it is the savior...it must be upheld.
It seems (at least to me) that Democrats are much more reluctant to turn even Independent than are Republicans. My family would choke on a chicken bone before they ever voted anything other than Democrat. Jews have voted for Democrats since Roosevelt was President and helped in the rescue of the Jews from Hitler. They aren’t about to give up their party.
They may hate Obama but they will still vote Democrat. One of you posted that there are only about 5% Jews in the country....all I have to ask is how many of that 5% have either wealth or power or both...and, if not, how many have connections with someone who has one or both? Most of them.
The money will go to the Democratic party and the Jewish voters will just turn their heads as if ignoring they have turned their backs on their ancestry, their ancestral country and this country as well. They will not recognize that they gave money to Obama...it will be giving it to the Democratic party and that is all that counts.
It seems (at least to me) that Democrats are much more reluctant to turn even Independent than are Republicans. My family would choke on a chicken bone before they ever voted anything other than Democrat. Jews have voted for Democrats since Roosevelt was President and helped in the rescue of the Jews from Hitler. They aren’t about to give up their party.
I don't know how many people realize this, but this bloc-vote approach has been the Democrat m.o. since at least the "redeemer" governments of the post-Reconstruction South. Just as today Fundamentalist Blacks (though I must confess to some doubt as to just how Fundamentalist Blacks are any more), Catholic Hispanics, and Jews (including even some Orthodox Jews) automatically vote for and support the Democrat party regardless of any and all considerations, from about 1877 on the majority of Southern whites were exactly the same way. It made no difference who the candidate was, whether he was left, right, center, none of the above, or an abomination, the Democrat would always receive the votes of the South. Most of the South didn't even have a Republican party--exactly like today's inner cities. As late as the 1950's the (for that time) Adlai Stevenson carried the "Bible Belt" because of its ancient, unthinking grudge against the Republican party. In fact, to this very day there are white Southern "yellow dog Democrats" who are still voting against Abraham Lincoln at every election. And neo-Confederate publications are still claiming that the Republican party was founded by Marxists and was "red from the beginning" even as they hail the original American "red," Thomas Jefferson, as their hero.
During most of this time the rural South was allied with Northern urban Irish Catholic Democrat machines against the rural people of the rest of the country, but they didn't care. They were Democrats and that's all that mattered. Urban Irish Catholics are still voting Democrat and remain the longest-lived Democrat voting bloc, spanning the time from the alliance with the "Solid South" to today's alliances with freaks.
I am proud and humbled to be able to say that I am the descendant of Southern Unionists who have been Republican since Lincoln and have never been defiled and polluted with the foulness of the Democrat party.