Tea Party extemism could push away Jews

[Thunder]

http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c37_a17948/News/National.html

that's right folks. if the Tea Party goes too far down the road of Birtherism, anti-AGW, anti-Evolution, pro-Evangelism, anti-Fed, Jews will not wanna be part of the party.

And if you push the Jews to the other party, you are bound to lose, cause Jews tend to follow the prevailing winds of common sense and moderation.

 

[Alferd_Packer]

cause Jews tend to follow the prevailing winds of common sense and moderation.

Is that why they voted for Joe Lieberman?

 

[Thunder]

naaaa...that's cause they wanted to see the first Jewish VP.

 

[hgc]

Jews have long voted for Democrats overwhelmingly for a long time now. I think the tea partiers can go ahead and foresake Jewish voters, and get their freak on.

 

[ProbeX]

The tea partiers getting their tea bagger freak on will help the Republican Party fracture before the next election ( ... how the heck could they not see that their "tea bag" terminology would jack up their sexual reputations?). Anyway, I wouldn't write off Jewish voters quite so quickly. They may be a relatively small part of the population but they are a pretty reliable voter block and politically active to the point of holding a lot of influence in politics.

Right now the Republican Party is scaring off minorities, which is a very bad political move. Some are flushing the Black and Latino vote down the toilet, two voter Blocks they will likely need in play for next election. I don't know that they can afford to alienate the Jews too.

 

[Accidental Martyr]

Jewish people don't want to hang out with the KKK? Shocking.

 

[Skeptic]

http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c37_a17948/News/National.html

that's right folks. if the Tea Party goes too far down the road of Birtherism, anti-AGW, anti-Evolution, pro-Evangelism, anti-Fed, Jews will not wanna be part of the party.

I don't know. The white-hating, Jew-hating, ranting reverend whose church Obama frequented didn't stop most Jews from treating him as the greatest thing since sliced bread.

 

[ProbeX]

I don't know. The white-hating, Jew-hating, ranting reverend whose church Obama frequented didn't stop most Jews from treating him as the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Of course that was all an attempt at guilt by association. But a number of tea baggers, as well as some of the other Republicans (the ones who actually admit to being Republican), are the culprits of their own anti-minority posturing in this situation.

 

[r0ast_p0tat0es]

http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c37_a17948/News/National.html

that's right folks. if the Tea Party goes too far down the road of Birtherism, anti-AGW, anti-Evolution, pro-Evangelism, anti-Fed, Jews will not wanna be part of the party.

And if you push the Jews to the other party, you are bound to lose, cause Jews tend to follow the prevailing winds of common sense and moderation.

Aren't there more gay Republicans than Jewish Republicans anyway?

 

[ponderingturtle]

Aren't there more gay Republicans than Jewish Republicans anyway?

Closeted Gay Republicans or Out Gay Repbulicans?

If it includes the first group then I am sure there are more gay republicans than jewish ones. If it is the second I am not so sure.

 

[Cleon]

Closeted Gay Republicans or Out Gay Repbulicans?

I think he's talking about all Republicans, not just the ones in Congress.

 

[Loss Leader]

Well, my immediate area has about 300,000 residents with an immense Jewish population, far in excess of the national average - as high as 1 in 3 by some estimates. We recently had a Tea Party event, our first. It drew 400 people, many from outside the area.

There was no mention of how many were Jews. My official guess is "not many".

 

[Thunder]

Jews have tried to make allies with extremists before. We tried to make friends with the fascists in Italy......it didn't work.

We tried to make nice with the Communists in the USSR and other states......it didn't work.

I think we have learned our lesson. Moderate is the way to go...if we cherish our skins and scalps.

 

[Cynic]

Of course if the Jews weren't a minority here, that might be different -- not that it can't be said of anyone. The lesson remains that any party whose primary red meat issues have an element of exclusion, minorities that don't quite fit the profile have every reason to distance themselves from them. Republicans have been playing a game for decades, trying to leverage a majority by appealing to "Christian Values" while hoping that such a majority will be enough.

While single-issue voting shouldn't be the norm, what level of cynicism must exist for the Log Cabin Republicans to even exist?

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

How soon they forget. Lieberman was the token liberal on the 2000 Democratic ticket.

His opinions weren't considered extreme until after the 9-11 massacre when the rest of the Democrats ... well you remember don't you?

 

[Cleon]

How soon they forget. Lieberman was the token liberal on the 2000 Democratic ticket.

On what planet? He was the token moderate, there to counterbalance the meme of Gore as some radical environmentalist.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

I campaigned for Dukakis in 1988. In the New York primary. Against that "right wing sonovabitch Al Gore".

In 2000 Gore was a Bill Clinton "New Democrat" and Lieberman was the east coast liberal. Lieberman had (and still has) a consistently liberal record on abortion and social issues generally. His only deviation at that time was so-called tort reform.

Never mind what Republican extremists have said about Gore since then.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Also, Gore's "enviro-whacko" image owes a lot to stuff he did after 2000, even if his basic position has not changed.

 

[hgc]

I campaigned for Dukakis in 1988. In the New York primary. Against that "right wing sonovabitch Al Gore".

In 2000 Gore was a Bill Clinton "New Democrat" and Lieberman was the east coast liberal. Lieberman had (and still has) a consistently liberal record on abortion and social issues generally. His only deviation at that time was so-called tort reform.

Never mind what Republican extremists have said about Gore since then.

Lieberman was never the liberal. He was first elected to the Senate by running against incumbent Republican Lowell Weicker from the right.

 

[Cleon]

Also, Gore's "enviro-whacko" image owes a lot to stuff he did after 2000, even if his basic position has not changed.

What are you talking about? Gore had an environmentalist rep when Clinton put him on the ticket in 92.