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“Somebody explain this to me like I’m a six year old.

What would be a ‘educated, Jewish’ person’s objection to Sarah Palin?”

I will try but I doubt I will succeed. My elderly Jewish parents were well-described by this article. They seriously distrusted 0bama. They could not bring themselves to vote McCain, however. They could not supply a reason. They kept referring to “evil characters he was associated with”, and I asked them, multiple times, “who were they?”, “Can you name them?”, “What did they do?”, “how did whatever they did affect you or anyone else?”, “When did he do these despicable things?” and I am telling you, there was not one single thing, not a date, not even reference to a decade, not a name, not a hint of anything they could refer to. Nothing. I asked “Keating 5?” and they said no, not that.(!) But the illogic in their positions never undermined their conviction that they could not vote for him. When I suggested they vote for nobody for Pres but vote the downticket, that was simply impossible. “That would be wrong”.

And then, Palin. They went absolutely flaming bats**t over her, and that threw them right over the edge. Again, I asked for any kind of reason based on any kind of logic and all I got was blank stares. Sarahs’ various statements about how there would be increased understanding of disabled/Down’s children because she (Sarah) had one absolutely threw my Mom back in her chair. Just blew her away. I asked her what is different about the parallel idea that there would be a greater affinity for Black folks with a Black man in office, and she said the two “had nothing to do with each other”. Huh?

So, I report, you decide. It’s funny you asked to be explained all this like you were a 6-year old and I am telling you, that the reasoning is on the level of a 4 year old. Great swaths of Jews will not vote anything other than “D”, wouldn’t matter if the Dem in question shotgunned two Jews in cold blood in the Rose Garden on CNN live.