A situation caused to a large extend by Republican bigots like Baker.
Reagan got 39% of the Jewish vote in 1980.
31% in 1984
Bush I got 35% in 1988.
Secretary of State Baker, a bigot, tells Jews like me who voted for Bush to go FU*K ourselves. Classy from a Republican official.
Surprise, surprise, Bush I drops from 35% in 1988 to 11% in 1992, and though I wasn't one of them I can't blame any Jew for voting for Clinton over a President who tolerates bigotry.
And no, there's been no recovery, and yes, Republicans defend Bakers bigotry.
Let me also say that for an official to base American foreign policy on the voting habits of a domestic minority should be a disqualification from office. Shame on Bush I for never addressing this.
And shame on Bush II for never addressing Baker’s perfidy on the Iraq Study Commission.
LOL.
Better to have U.S. foreign policy based on the influence of foreign lobbyists?!
Do you think Jews don’t vote for Republicans because of Baker? The ongoing proof is that most Jews are liberal and they support overwhelmingly liberal candidates and communist dictators, groups that are out to kill them when the time is right.
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. Although I voted for the man **twice** and I'm not Jewish, GWB has told a lot of us to go Fu*K ourselves. These topics on which this has occurred include, but are not limited to, the prescription drug give-a-way, his signing of McCain-Feingold, amnesty and border control, the out of control spending, and most recently, the vote buying "economic stimulus" scheme he's entered into with the DemocRats.....but there are other examples.....
Please. Facts are stubborn things. The Jewish vote in this country has historically gone overwhelming Dem and in some cases, socialist, long before James Baker and other Rep "bigots" came on the scene.
Here is the Jewish Vote In Presidential Elections from 1916 onwards
Another reason to be glad to have left the Republican party. Their brand of conservatism is seldom based on principle and more often than not for sale to the highest bidder.
I saw on the news last night that Baker officially endorsed McCain. If McCain gives Baker any type of cabinet or staff position if he wins in November, I’d bet McCain’s Israel policy will be like that of Bush I (not a whole lot better than it would be if the Witch or Obama win).
“A situation caused to a large extend by Republican bigots like Baker”
That’s a very interesting “take” on why Jews will vote for the party of Jimmy Carter, Arafat smooching Clinton, “blankety blanking n.... Jew blank” Hillary, and and soon, Farakkhan’s protege Obama - over any Republican.
Very interesting to blame their near-suicidal liberalism on Republican anti-semitism.
But hard to swallow. No, impossible to swallow.
Why any Jew ever votes for a Dem is beyond me. The Dems would just as soon give Israel to the Palestinians, which is ironic because there is no such ethnic group. A Jew voting Dem is suicide, and illogical, regardless of what Baker said or didn’t say.