[Chancellor Palpatine]

David, David, David - I can't believe it took you this long to find the fickle core of the social conservative. It'll take a few more slaps to the face to get you to realize that you can't forge any real consensus with them, and that they are unappeasable. As Bruce Willis said in the first Die Hard (after the terrorists shoot up the black cop's car) - "welcome to the party, pal".

To them, you'll always be known as "that Jew who used to be a communist, and who is just letting his true colors shine through."

[jwalsh07]

It'll take a few more slaps to the face to get you to realize that you can't forge any real consensus with them, and that they are unappeasable

LOL, a fine example of a bigot defending against "bigotry".

[Larry Lucido]

"welcome to the party, pal".

Sgt. Al Horowitz?

[Mamzelle]

So much for the religious conservatives rejoicing in a possible reappoachment with American jews, brought together in the mutual concern over the survival of Israel.

It is a curious phenom, the distaste I often sense in jews toward the evangelicals, even as the jews moan about the antisemitism of the religious rightward. Classic psychological projection--the evangelicals are always under quick suspicion for any hint of attitudes that don't alarm when expressed in other sources.

I watch the Ralph Laurens deify, in a kind of resentful admiration, the Anglican blueblood Episcopalians, who barely hide their disdain for Judaism (it interferes with a cozy relationship with Muslims). Yet Ralph (what is his real name, anyway?) Lauren wouldn't deign to dine with a Baptist, lest his tweedy elbows knock against an evangelical Chistian.

I read National Review Online, a socially conservative (mostly) magazine written only by jews and a couple of catholics--if a Baptist ever writes an article, he's treated as exotica. You can tell that they're really trying to be polite and tolerant of these bizarre footwashing snake-handlers, but their nervousness keeps breaking through. What exactly are they so nervous about? Maybe you can fill me in...

[Clemenza]

To me, David Horowitz will always be the Red Diaper baby from Sunnyside who cowrote a good (if sensationalistic) book on the Kennedys, often has good things to say and on some occasions, says silly things. He is a shameless self-promoter, as any good capitalist SHOULD be.