McCain ally predicting record GOP vote by Jews

The New Jersey News ^ | August 14, 2008 | Robert Wiener

[TexasCajun]

Not suprising, from all the hate we see on the Obama maintained blog.

[TexasCajun]

Not suprising, from all the hate we see on the Obama maintained blog.

[chaos_5]

I just cant understand why Jews would back Democrats in the first place.

[sheik yerbouty]

In big cities, “Stockholm Syndrome”..

[bajabaja]

1. Harry Truman, 1947, first to recognize State of Israel.
2. Liberal Jews, mostly reform, are, well, liberal.
3. Liberal Jews are to the left on defense issues too, including those of Israel, and are the peace contingent in Israeli politics.

But even the liberal Israelis understand what Iran intends.

Louis Farrakhan and Obama have past ties, Obama having attended the Million Man March.

Jeremiah Wright’s church bulletin carried Farrakhanian writings.

Jews understand what Farrakhan is, I hope in sufficient numbers to put Florida in McCain’s column.

[Joe Boucher]

A larger percentage of Jews will vote McCain but the stupid American Jews will still vote for the only candidate who sides with the mooselimbs on the Israel deal, Obamma Lamma Heusein .

[Canedawg]

I just cant understand why Jews would back Democrats in the first place.”

An entire generation of baby boomers’ parents idolized FDR.

Then, many of their baby boomer kids went to college during the 60s-70s social revolution. That’s a lot of indoctrination to overcome.

But now, they should know better.

[Cacique]

There are still enough jews that would vote for the “d” even if the candidate’s name was Hitler.

[MeanWestTexan]

Why Jews vote liberal, in no particular order, some stronger than others:

1. Historical accident: still voting for FDR

2. Urban dwellers (voting patterns no differnt than urban Roman Catholics, for example)

3. The Christian theocrat wing of the Republican party (think The Huckster) scares them to death (sacres me, too. The Huckster wanted to bring back Prohibition.)

4. Pat “Hitler was robbed” Buchanon is the TV face of the Republican party and James “Fuck the Jews” Buchanon is a recent memory

5. Jews (or at least me) were taught that charity is not really charity, it’s wealth that was improperly distributed and there is a duty to get it where it is supposed to go. Ergo, they are suckers for arguments in favor of government-give-away programs.

6. Socialism kinda works if the people are self-motivated and intelligent with family pressure to succeed. Jewish culture is such that free-riders are reasonably uncommon (my no-good nephew being the exception). They assume other people are like them.

7. Legalistic by training, with a strong sense that some codification (regulations!) is the way to run things — ‘cause, after all that’s how G-d did it.

8. Liberal Reform Judaism -— in contrast to the actual religion practised by someone who reads the Torah -— is a social movement defined as being the dissenting voice against mainstream Christianity (and more lately against Orthodox Judaism). Serious Christians are Republicans, ergo Republicans are bad.

[SeeSharp]

"Joe Lieberman proved that you don’t win elections by putting someone who is Jewish on the ticket"

Huh? Of course putting him on the ticket as a candidate for the party that always gets the jewish vote anyway didn't help. But that doesn't mean he won't bring jewish votes over to the Republican ticket.

[MeanWestTexan]

As noted in other threads, the McCain Kippah is outselling the Obama Kippah 55% to 45% (or so). Normally, it’s 70/30 in favor of the Dhim.

Call it the kippah in-trade market.

[MeanWestTexan]

Yeah, that didn’t make any sense to me, either.

[MeanWestTexan]

[chaos_5]

Thanks for posting that!

[Paco]

And a big percentage of American Jews are secular. Secular Jews vote just like secular Americans...liberal.

[HIDEK6]

Sure — positively and negatively,” he said, predicting that Obama’s candidacy will bring unprecedented numbers of African-Americans to the polls. “But I’ve got to believe, unfortunately, there are people in this country to whom race would matter.”

Stop the tape!

Is he saying that it's unfortunate that racist considerations will result in an increase in the number of AAs who will vote?

[MeanWestTexan]

Well, he didn’t say THAT. He was talking about people NOT voting for Obama because of race -— while tied to the positive statement that AA would vote for Obama in record numbers.

It was a very clever indirect statement.

[HIDEK6]

That's obviously what he meant to say.

I was pointing out the correct interpretation of his data.

[ConservativeMind]

So, the vast majority of Jews will still vote for Obama?

This is barely news worth reporting. “Record” votes for a Republican amounts to a handful more, in the end.