It’s not just the campaign’s fault. Frankly, it’s stupidity on the part of my tribe. American Jews have the most insane paranoia about Evangelical Christians (among their biggest supporters). They are more afraid of Evangelicals than Muslims.
As soon as Sarah was labeled an Evangelical, Jews thinking of voting McCain jumped ship. I am truly embarrassed.
BTW notice that Jews living in Israel do not have the luxury of being fools. They support McCain heavily.
You are dead-on freespirited. Both the old and new testament clearly underline God’s support of the Jewish people. Most Christians know the words and realize that they are to support the formation of the State of Israel and growth way beyond her current borders. Since May of 1948, Israel has flourished to now over 5 1/2 million Jews. If you believe in scripture, God will punish those that oppose Israel and reward those that promote her right to exist. Actually, all of Lebanon and a portion of Syria and Iraq belong to God’s chosen people. 78% of American Jews should know this if a simple Gentile sinner like me does.
Agree with you wholeheartedly. I’ve never understood my “tribe” and their predilection for self-destruction. Even someone as historically astute about the plight of Jewish people worldwide as Dershowitz is supporting Nobama and basically shrugging his shoulders about the future of Israel.
Regarding Evangelicals, you’re absolutely spot-on. However, in spite of this, the campaign could have done a MUCH better and MUCH more aggressive job of pleading their case with American Jews. And, everything I’ve heard indicates that Sarah is a strong supporter of Israel. Why not have her - during one of her many trips here to Florida or to Penna. - address a primarily Jewish audience and attempt to reverse the extraordinarily unflattering portrait painted of her by the MSM. But, in hopefully will not be McCain’s epitaph, he played way too “gentlemanly” to the point of letting the opposition define the issue. It’s ultra-evident that the stonewalling by the LA Times is an overt attempt to protect Nobama from what is a likely damning anti-Israel event.
We cry and scream here online and verbally with our friends/relatives about these issues, but all you hear from McCain campaign is crickets. I even participated in a teleconference last week with McCain and Lieberman for Jewish supporters. Instead of harping on the security of Israel, McCain spent most of the time talking about Joe the Plumber. As I stated earlier, I still believe that there are enough Jews aware of reality that McCain will get better numbers than did Bush in the Jewish community. Hopefully, this will be enough to help carry the day in these important battleground states.