Jewish Americans and Democrats
A few days ago, we posted a long article giving some of the reasons that American Jews might want to think their rather lock-step support of the Democratic Party for the last 60 years. Here’s another reason, gathered for us by James Taranto in his Best of the Web Today.
Further evidence that Jews don’t control the world: Rep. Jim Moran, a Virginia Democrat, defeated challenger Andrew Rosenberg in yesterday’s primary, 59% to 41%. Since the seat is safely Democratic (Al Gore’s margin in the district was 20%), Moran is as good as re-elected. As we noted in March 2003, Moran blamed Jews for threatening Saddam Hussein’s hold on power:
“If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this,” the Connection newspapers of northern Virginia quoted Rep. Jim Moran as saying last week. “The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going and I think they should.”
In the past week, “Moran’s longtime pollster, Alan Secrest, said he quit the campaign because of anti-Semitic remarks Moran made at a private campaign meeting,” the Associated Press reports. Moran denies it.
The incumbent also accuses Rosenberg of trolling for Republican votes in the open primary. Rosenberg denies it, and as a former aide to Sen. Ted Kennedy, he wouldn’t be the first choice of most GOP voters.
Got that? According to Democratic Congressman Jim Moran, who was just resoundingly approved by 59% of Democrats in his primary, if the Jews had just exerted some of their influence, the liberation of Iraq wouldn’t have happened…you know, that super-secret Jewish cabal which controls the government – all they had to do was give the Illuminati a call and they’d have instructed President Bush to change course.
Thus the utter degeneracy of the Democratic Party – my father has been a registered Democrat all his life (a leftover of the long time Irish-Catholic support for the Democratic Party), but I think this might be sufficient for me to finally push him over the edge and realise that no decent person could be a member of a Party which cannot do the very simple task of booting out an anti-Semite. This wasn’t brain surgery, good people – anyone who talks about some group using its influence to single-handed change US policy is a raving nutter which no one would want to be within a mile of … but the Democrats kept him, and by a very strong vote.
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Skeptic,
You’re welcome.
As for the religious right, there’s been entire books written about the connection, I couldn’t possibly do justice here in one post even if I had the time.
No, that won’t wash. If you’re going to state that the religious right is the reason you, as a jew, won’t vote Republican, and expect me to accept that as an argument, it behooves you to explain to me what you mean by the Religious Right, and exactly what about that group offends your Jewishness.
Why is it the left brings up completely irrelevent names in a discussion? Ann Coulter? Why would anyone bring her name up? We bring up the names like Hollings and Moran, public policy makers who make decisions for all of us, and they bring up Coulter, Buchanan, and Duke. How pathetic. That would be like bringing up Michael Moore or Al Franken when arguing a point we don’t agree with.
Mark:
In the 5:46 post I made yesterday I linked to a list of names of public figures (mostly GOP politicians). Jesse Helms is retired (like Hollings is about to be) and Kurt Fordyce was retired by the voters, but Trent Lott still holds office.
Also– an incumbent only getting 59% in a contested primary isn’t a good showing. As I said yesterday, Moran is one Democrat I (and apparently a lot of others) wouldn’t support.
cj: Well, I have seen Al Franken and Michael Moore cited frequently by conservatives as examples of liberals they can pin this or that on.