[js1138]

Oh, I disagree - judging by the innumerable "No Blood For Israel" signs (with a swastika in place of the "s", for the sake of tastefulness, I suppose)

Do you suppose the Jewish community didn't see that?

I suspect a bunch of them will abandon the cut 'n run party.

[Objective Reality]

Do you suppose the Jewish community didn't see that?

If they didn't, I propose that we should be in the business of showing it to them. I have long contended that a major cornerstone of election '04 should be mass quantities of footage from inside the various anti-Bush / anti-War / anti-Israel rallies, every revolting detail, with the final point of each ad asking "Are these the people you want in charge of your country?"

We'll see how deep the resentment runs if, in a few months, Kerry sharpens his rhetoric against Israel. That would prove to me that a sizable percentage of the large donors have left the fold, and he's turned instead to the Mike Farrell Hollywood pro-PLO types for donations.

I'm starting to think now that the whole manufactured campaign against The Passion of the Christ was little more than an attempt to stem the tide of defections of Jewish Americans from the party whose rank-and-file clearly hate the existence of their homeland, to the party which clearly will defend it. In hindsight it looks to me like a thinly veiled "You cant trust Christians, they're closet Nazis, so don't pay attention to the overt Nazis on the Left, m'kay?"

[Antoninus]

Do you suppose the Jewish community didn't see that?

If they didn't see it then, they'll see it at the RNC in New York. I'm beginning to think having the Convention in NYC was a stroke of genius. Every long-haired critter in the country is going to be banging his drum in the streets during the convention, carrying signs with swastikas, and maybe even getting violent. It'll be a perfect counterpoint to President Bush inside--effectively saying to America: If these people are against me, do you really want to be on their side?