Cantor totally busts Obama. Looking forward to those pictures of the meeting between Eric and Bibi.
Posted on 08/01/2009 9:38:14 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
Though American Jews make up around 2 percent of the population, they have always enjoyed ample representation in Congress, where they account for around 8 percent of legislators. Only one of them is a Republican, but Rep. Eric Cantor, who will visit Israel this month, says Jews belong in the Republican Party.
"I'm a firm believer there is a big place for the American Jewish Community in the Republican Party," says Cantor, 46, a Virginian seen as one of his party's great promises.
He says he decided to head the delegation of congressmen to visit Israel this month to counteract the "alarming" line that the U.S. administration under President Barack Obama has adopted toward Israel.
"Now it is so important for us to work together as Republicans, members of Congress - the House and Senate - to enhance the U.S.-Israel relationship, especially given where this administration seems to be heading," he says.
"I'm very alarmed," Cantor adds when asked about the state of this relationship. "I think it starts with the White House. That's why I'm feeling very strongly about going to Israel next week. To communicate to Benjamin Netanyahu's government where Congress is."
Most congressmen support Israel and "feel very strongly that a priority for focus" should be Iran's nuclear drive, Cantor says. The visit also aims to show that Washington's opposition to natural growth in the settlements "is not a monolithic position," Cantor says.
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Cantor totally busts Obama. Looking forward to those pictures of the meeting between Eric and Bibi.
Nice to see a politician take a stand like this.
Uh, well, yeah. Especially since the Democrats would dump Israel in a heartbeat.
yup.... kinda of an end run on obama’s policy and a way to let the jewish community know that the rest of america still stands by her.
Cantor is a practicing Jew who lives his religion in every phase of his life; he’s not a ‘secular Jew’ so his fit with the GOP is very good. As a new generation of Jews moves back to their religious roots (much like younger Christians), we can anticipate more Jews simultaneously moving to the GOP.
Wow! That is one gorgeous man. He makes me think of a male Sarah Palin.
We all know that the only thing worse than Jews and Conservatives are Jewish Conservatives.
/sarc
Do you see that a lot of young Christians are moving back to their religious roots?
Those are secular Jews. Calm down.
Could you give an example of ‘a lot of groups’? There are some extremely liberal nominally Jewish groups but I don’t think they are run by the ACLU and they certainly aren’t representing Judaism.
The Jewish vote never changes, 78% democrat is very normal. No republican has ever won the Jewish vote, ever, although in 1916 they did get 45% which was the historical high point.
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Though American Jews make up around 2 percent of the population, they have always enjoyed ample representation in Congress, where they account for around 8 percent of legislators.
That there are so few Jewish Republicans in Congress has to do with voter prefference, sadly. In 2008, good conservative Jews ran in NY-1 and Maryland and both lost. Norm Coleman, though harldy a good conservative, was defeated.
The yidden need to run in places where Republicans have an edge.
yes, I do among my own kids and their friends ... of course, that’s anecdotal, but the youth groups at the churches seem to be growing .. and I’m referring to young adults, not ‘kids.’
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