Romney’s going to Israel
According to the Jerusalem Post, Mitt Romney is planning to visit Israel in late July:
Delegates are set to fly in from the US for the event on July 29, which a Republican source said would be “a small meeting, but a big fund-raiser” as the Tisha Be’av fast ends. Immediately after the fund-raising meeting, Romney will host a conference in Jerusalem, where he will lay out his Middle East policy.
Yesterday Romney actively courted black voters, a block that traditionally votes heavily, heavily Democratic. Now he’s doing the same for Jews. He’s not automatically conceding these ordinarily-Democratic special interest groups to Obama.
Recently I was talking to an elderly Jewish man I’ve known for many years, who’s never voted for any national candidate who was not a Democrat. He’s still planning to cast his vote for Obama this year. But for what it’s worth, he reports being none too happy about it, largely because of Obama’s policy on Israel. The fact that this previously-enthusiastic Obama supporter and lifelong Democratic voter was even for a moment seriously considering voting for a Republican is an indication of how deep the dissatisfaction appears to go.
You should punched and head stomped him.
correction:
You should HAVE punched and head stomped him.
Writing is hard when you are ADD.
A cluebat application was needed.
I guess Romney figures that if he can peel away just a few people from each Democrat interest group, that will be enough to win. Makes sense to me.
As for Israel, I wonder if they are holding off on Iran til after Romney gets elected.
If you think about it, Iran stood up to Carter (Obama) but folded immediately to Reagan (Romney).
I can’t fathom why anyone who is Jewish would vote for Obama, unless they consider being a Democrat far more important than being a Jew. And if that’s the case, perhaps they deserve a president who disdains Israel. Israel, however, deserves far more than an America led by the likes of Obama.
RandomThoughts, most Jews do in fact consider being a Democrat more important than being a Jew. Or, to put a finer point on it, their Jewishness is so watered-down that it is practically synonymous with the “social justice” agenda, so being not just a Democrat, but a Leftist Democrat, is to them the fulfillment of their Judaism. None of this superstitious ritual crap.
You might find the following Seraphic Secret piece to be of interest — it’s old, from before the 2008 election, but shows that not all Jews are suicidal (the blogger, Robert J. Avrech, is clearly not, but this one shows that even some of the Jews he knows aren’t, either).
My (Phone) Schlep to Florida
I’ve not read him regularly, but most of what I’ve read has been petty good — here’s another great older piece of his, about being somewhat conservative in Hollywood:
How to Get So Dead in This Town