Yeah, if I didn't know they were different people, I'd have thought Eric Cantor had gained 10lbs.
Posted on 06/11/2014 2:30:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I don't think his faith had anything to do with the race. My guess most Jews wouldn't know who he is if asked, and wouldn't know he was Jewish. Dems will argue, of course, it was the issue. Elected 7 times, the voters just found out he was Jewish.Related threads
Lefties Drag Cantor's Jewish Faith Into Shocking Loss, When They May Have Contributed to His
Freepers are chiming in that they didn’t know he was a Jew. A total non-issue but Blabberman-Schultz will probably be pushing this memo.
Too much schmuck. Not enough mensch.
I see the Republicans as having an opportunity right now to get Jews to support the GOP.
Cut off aid to PLO and Hamas, and recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol. Also, stop saying that Judea and Sumeria
are occupied which is nonsense.
See the Dems get Jews votes but no longer talk the talk of supporting Israel. GOP has to just be seen as pro Israel.
The only reason we even knew his religion is because the liberal press told us. They obsess with a person’s race, religion and gender. We saw him as a republican. Funny that.
How insulting to Jewish voters to assert that they put their religious identity above their love of their country.
If open borders for a welfare state reflects Jewish values, I submit that there’s something wrong with Jewish values.
Jewish CONSERVATIVES on the other hand are ecstatic.
Count me as one.
I agree. When I read this piece of drivel I felt so blessed I was Republican... As hard as it is to believe for the folks at Politico there are people who can see past race, sex, and religion. After reading this liberal divisive filth I feel sickened.
Well, this Jewish guy is not upset about Cantor’s loss.
At all.
He was a liberal and needed to go.
I think a lot of conservative Jewish folk had great hopes for Cantor. I certainly did. It’s socially problematic being conservative and Republican for a lot of Jewish Americans. Cantor represented a “great Jewish hope” for a lot of conservative Jews, to show that, yes, it was OK to be Jewish and politically conservative.
Sadly, Cantor turned out to be a lot like Colin Powell. Powell was “the great black hope” for conservative blacks. Well, Obama-supporting Powell was pathetic and needed to go, too.
So, while I still hope for a “great Jewish hope” to get politically-conservative Jewish Americans out of the closet (and there are a LOT more than polling or voting would lead one to believe), I am not sad to see Cantor go, in the least.
Liberal Jews are bad for the Jews and bad for America and Israel.
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As a complete aside, does Brat look almost like a clone of Cantor, or is that just me? I have to look at them side-by-side to tell the difference. Not to stereotype my own people, but Brat looks pretty damn Israeli to me. Be hilarious if that was the case and really put the race baiters on their heels.
Israel’s greatest friend has always been the American conservative. Someone said during G.W. Bush’s administration that if Bush could run for Prime Minister of Israel he’d win in a landslide. Yet he lost the American Jewish vote in a landslide. Go figure.
There’s a fairly wide gulf between American cultural Jews and Israeli nationalist Jews. I would say Zionist but that word is too freighted with other connotations. Being Jewish does not automatically make one a supporter of Israel, regardless.
Cantor wins 7 primaries and general elections - no trend can be established.
Cantor loses 1 primary - Republicans are anti-Semetic.
It would be, wouldn’t it?
” Yet he lost the American Jewish vote in a landslide. Go figure.”
A question often pondered here, with no resolution, especially considering American ex-pats in Israel vote in the exact opposite pattern (80% plus for Republicans).
My personal theory is the simplest: Jewish Americans are products of their political environment -—— most are urban and located in liberal areas. So they vote like their neighbors.
Fortunately, my tribe is small and scattered and really politically insignificant in all but the tightest of racists in certain swing states. We could have all voted for McCain and Romney and Obama would have still won.
racists = races Ha.
I shouted out to my husband this morning: they’re identical cousins! Brat has blondish hair, only difference, lol.
>> “Brat looks pretty damn Israeli to me.” <<
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You might be very surprised to find out how much of the “white” race is descended from the dispersed northern kingdom Israelites. Especially “Dan” whose name is stamped on so much of Europe.
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I agree with you and see this as a very obvious way to continue to demonize those who want the government to stop wasting money.
Most Jews were either ‘Red Diaper’ babies or wore ‘Democrap’ brand diapers - as the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Good riddance of Cantor and his ‘legalize the criminal aliens’ sick shtick.
One can’t help wondering what the Almighty must think as Jews vote to reestablish the “House of Bondage” from whence they were once led.
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