Mayor Ed Koch [Democrat] Says He Will Change Parties Due to Obama Israel Policy

News Max via Uncoverage (Video of interview at link) ^ | May 20, 2011

[Bullish]

Many democrat voters fall right into the hands of the MSM propagandists and never bother to find out for themselves what the issues really are, and what they mean to them personally.
Their ignorance is directly proportional to their laziness to educate themselves on the issues. It's how they ended up with an inordinate hatred of George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan just to name two. It's also how they end up believing ads like the current one showing a conservative throwing a grandma off a cliff.

The Jewish American voters should know better then to go along with them and be such sheep to slaughter, sadly most don't.

[RedMDer]

Many democrat voters fall right into the hands of the MSM propagandists and never bother to find out for themselves what the issues really are, and what they mean to them personally.
Their ignorance is directly proportional to their laziness to educate themselves on the issues.

Well said.

[Talisker]

Hillary thanks you for your effort, Ed, you fool.

[kempster]

Has there been any comment from Joe Liebermann?

[WackySam]

This idiot Koch new Obama’s record

I'm sorry, but this cracks me up.

[Fred Hayek]

Ed Koch may be a Democrat (although I consider him more “old school”), but even more so he loves his city,and this country. He backed GWB in 2004 because his city was attacked.
I don’t agree with Ed on a lot of issues. He is however not a Kool Aid drinker, thus I refer to him as an old school Democrat. An adult, unlike the petulant child act of Upchuck Schumer. Thus Ed Koch gets my respect.
I have to give him credit when he served as mayor. He took the job when NYC was a basket case, and he got the city back on its feet financially. He made some cuts that made his fellow liberal constituents howl in protest - but it was part of getting the city’s financial house in order. Now maybe Guiliani might have had better organizational skills, but he had another job at the time. Guiliani also did not inherit such a bad situation as Koch did, although Dinkins did his best to screw things up during his four years in office, thus Guiliani essentially continued the recovery work of Ed Koch. No, I am not a Guiliani for higher office fan, I just think that both mayors were the best people for the job at that time given the situation. Now Blooming Idiot is undoing it with his nanny-statism.

[Secret Agent Man]

You really believe Koch will be like Ronald Reagan? Reagan figured it out before he got his career started in politics. Not after his political career was over.

[MestaMachine]

First of all, this sanctimonious, “self-righteous Jew” never so much as intimated he was going to switch paries, just obama. Furthermore, any claim of Judaism from koch is as worthless as the wind he spoke it on which carried them away as if he never said them. He is pro-homosexual and pro-abortion among other things. These are NOT tenets of Judaism, and if you can find me anywhere in the Old Testament that gives him sanction, by all means tell me, because I have been living a lie all my life.

[The Mayor]

Good for him, I hope more follow!

[Nuc 1.1]

“I’m a Democrat. I support the Democratic domestic philosophy and policies and will always be supportive of them,” said Koch, mayor of America’s largest city from 1978-89. “But I have no hesitation in crossing party lines when I think America’s interests demand that I cross party lines. “I supported President Obama, believing he would be good on foreign policy, particularly with respect to the support of Israel. It turned out badly.”

One of the most intelligent fools I know of.

[metmom]

That would be nice.

What would be nicer is if it really, truly represented an ideological change as opposed to just a label change.

But this is NY. Switching from Dem to Republican is almost meaningless practically, except for making a statement.

[infowarrior]

He still won’t be a real republican, he is NYC Urb to the core.

Not much different than, say, Rudy Giuliani...

the infowarrior

[SWAMPSNIPER]

None of them do much more than pay lip service to the Constitution.

Making the trains run on time and picking up the garbage impresses the big termite colonies enough to keep them in power.

We really need to split, one group, ours, ruled by laws and let the others have their royal dictators.

There is obviously a limit to the melting pot theory.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

You really believe Koch will be like Ronald Reagan?

Seriously? Did you read my post and then post that question to me? Then, you think I should answer that?

[perfect_rovian_storm]

I thought he stated the case quite well.

How sweet.

[wtc911]

Any American who puts the welfare of a foreign nation as his first priority should put his money where his mouth is and move there. I don't care if it's China, Haiti, Mexico, Korea, India, Egypt, Ireland or Israel.

Far too many American Jews are over-liberal in every area except Israel. The damage that their support for destructive policies is doing to this country is obscene.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks beaversmom.

[Chandalier]

My husband is from a family of wnat I call “instutional democrats.” They vote that way because they’ve always voted that way. My husband saw the light after Clinton was elected, some times I think he’s now even more conservative that I am. :-)

[Chandalier]

ACK! Institutional! There!

[dervish]

waiting for the more influential Dershowitz to cross.