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To: Torie
What happened had nothing to do with Gilman's religion.

I find this argument to be almost humorous. Since when has "religion" had anything to do with the Jewish vote? The majority of Jews in the U.S. are not religious, and religion plays no part in the way they vote.

They see their Judaism as a social artifact; they consider themselves one more oppressed minority. Witness the almost rabid fear that the ADL whips up among its consitutency about "fundamentalist Christians" (the only consistently solid support, I might add, that Israel really has in the U.S.)

Jews tend to be liberal, period. I would venture to say that there are as many notable Jewish conservatives--not RINOs or neo-Cons but true conservatives like Michael Medved or Laura Schlessinger--as there are African-American conservatives.

And the GOP is just as likely in the near future to capture either of those demographics as the other.

16 posted on 06/28/2002 8:20:13 PM PDT by Illbay
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To: Illbay
Well that is also overly simplistic, since unsurprisingly, close to half of American Jews are pretty conservative on economic issues, even while a chunk of those are fairly liberal on social issues. I get along with these folks very well ideologically, but then I am a neocon.
17 posted on 06/28/2002 8:24:23 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Illbay
By the way, I think Reagan got about 40% of the Jewish vote.
19 posted on 06/28/2002 8:25:35 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Illbay
I wouldn't necessarily count Medved or Schessinger either. I would suggest Paul Gottfried. He's one of my favorite writers, possibly even ahead of Pat Buchanan in my view.
92 posted on 06/29/2002 9:58:10 PM PDT by Phillip Augustus
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