'Jewish Republican' Isn't an Oxymoron

Wall St Journal ^ | 6-10-02 | RONALD S. LAUDER

[SauronOfMordor]

Your free to eat her cooking if you want. I prefer not to.

I taught mine to cook before marrying her. She's pretty good now.

[Phantom Lord]

Mine can cook when forced to do it. Its just easier to do it myself. Not to mention quicker.

But I also put a simple rule in place... I cook, YOU clean.

[veronica]

The Republican Party is no longer reliably anti-Holocaust, but pro-Holocaust Jews are going to remain with the Democratic Party, unless the Republican Party can be transformed completely into a pro-Holocaust party.

:)) This post is a dilly.

[rdb3]

One would hope the latter was more than a borderline cult, though.

Was the former a "borderline cult?" The original 12 Disciples were definitely "Jews for Jesus." Well, Judas was the traitor, but Saul of Tarsus (who became Paul), a "Jew's Jew," replaced him after Ascention and was definitely for Christ as well.

I don't follow your statement, and I don't want to put words in your mouth. What do you mean?

[SJackson]

:)) This post is a dilly.

It's a something, don't know what.

[Clemenza]

Your not married are you.

Happily single. Plan on staying so for some time.

[Bodie]

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[Phantom Lord]

Single huh. Thats why you think she would be "thanking" me later in the evening.

[SlickWillard]

Only about 10% consistently vote Republican in presidential elections. As many as 36% of Jewish-Americans have, on occasion, voted Republican -- usually when Israel was the prevailing issue.

Boy, that's the kind of statistic that could make you awfully cynical.

I am, of course, mindful of the social concerns of many American Jews, which are at odds with the positions of the Republican Party on issues such as abortion

Or, to paraphrase the inimitable Ben Stein, you could say that 10% of the Hebrew population paid attention when they were told Thou shalt not kill, and the other 90% went back to worshipping the Golden Calf.

The truth of the matter is a lot worse than that, however. There are two dirty little secrets of American politics that no one likes to talk about. The first is the horrible animosity that blacks exhibit towards whites. The second is the pure, unadulterated hatred that Jews experience when confronted with Jesus Christ. So long as the Republican party is associated with Christianity, this dream of a Jewish swing to Republicanism is just a fantasy.

[SJackson]

....The second is the pure, unadulterated hatred that Jews experience when confronted with Jesus Christ. So long as the Republican party is associated with Christianity, this dream of a Jewish swing to Republicanism is just a fantasy.

Funny, I don't see that at all. Guess you won't be looking for Jewish votes for Republicans. Oh, well. Lots of more sensible Republicans out there than you.

[SlickWillard]

Guess you won't be looking for Jewish votes for Republicans. Oh, well. Lots of more sensible Republicans out there than you.

Since I don't believe in the very idea of government in the first place, I'm not in the vote purchasing bidness. Also, I'm not a Republican, or, more accurately: I'm no longer a voter registered as a Republican.

[Nonstatist]

The original 12 Disciples were definitely "Jews for Jesus."

Sorry; I was just making an oblique reference to the numbers of "followers"..assuming Jews for Jesus (current organization's adherents) number in the hundreds (? ) , and maybe we'd be talking about a million and a half Jewish Republican voters (or so..)

[Nonstatist]

The second is the pure, unadulterated hatred that Jews experience when confronted with Jesus Christ

Wow, thats quite a broad paintbrush you use. So how do you explain all those Minnesota Swedes that would never vote Republican, either? Same problem ?

[Nonstatist]

The first is the horrible animosity that blacks exhibit towards whites

Actually, the "famous" aphorism goes like this: .. "In the South, the Whites hate the Blacks, and in the North, the Blacks hate the Whites."

[Sam Cree]

I didn't at all take it as a slam, thank you for asking. Sometimes I think, as a member, that they need a slam.

It's definitely ironic, that Jews, in an effort to defend against anti-semititism, are, by supporting the Left, inadvertently helping to set up the very conditions that foster and nurture it.

[Nonstatist]

It's definitely ironic, that Jews, in an effort to defend against anti-semititism, are, by supporting the Left, inadvertently helping to set up the very conditions that foster and nurture it.

But the anti-Semitic Left is still small in this country, as opposed to Europe. And the Blacks arent really feared because of their relative powerlessness (historically). Of course, once they find they can't truly influence the Democrap agenda, they might bail. And Israel is the key starting point, IMO.

[Arthur McGowan]

I was referring to the many American Jews who fully and emphatically have supported the killing of 41 million babies in America in the last 30 years. If the killing of 6 million Jews in Europe was a Holocaust, what is the killing of 41 million Americans? Therefore, I call them pro-Holocaust Jews. And the Democratic Party is pro-Holocaust, and the Republican Party is only partially and hesitantly anti-Holocaust.

[LostTribe]

>the Finns and the Swedes have never fully "left the Left," as evidenced by Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Add Iowa, Oregon and Washington to that Socialist Scandinavian list.

[rmlew]

I can't believe Lauder wrote such a one-dimensional article. Ronald knows better. He knows damn well that Jews have voted for Republicans in the last 3 Mayoral elections in NYC.
Ronald Lauder ran for the Republican nomination for Mayor in 1989 against Giulliani and Herb London. Many people blame Rudy's loss on the damage Lauder's ads inflicted.

As for national elections, the 2000 elections were intersting. Bush won a plurality of voters under 35. This is quite good given that in the Jewish community, Gore was irrelevent in what became a Bush-Leiberman race.

[SJackson]

I was referring to the many American Jews who fully and emphatically have supported the killing of 41 million babies in America in the last 30 years. If the killing of 6 million Jews in Europe was a Holocaust, what is the killing of 41 million Americans? Therefore, I call them pro-Holocaust Jews. And the Democratic Party is pro-Holocaust, and the Republican Party is only partially and hesitantly anti-Holocaust.

Thank you for explaining. Abortion is clearly a Jewish thing, a Jewish issue.

Thank you for explaining.