GOP Candidates pander to Republican Jewish Coalition.

Northside Storm · Dec 7, 2011

Some alarming things to note...

a) For the libertarians out there, Ron Paul was banned from the debate.

This is the rationale---

Paul's isolationism is so hard-core that he sees America as a force for evil in the world and its adversaries, such as al-Qaida, as being justified in their determination to fight us. Paul's perspective is that of someone who has no quarrel with Islamists who are waging war against both the US and Israel. Even in the GOP's presidential debates, Paul has rationalized the Islamist regime in Iran and voiced opposition to any effort to stop their drive for nuclear weapons that pose an existential threat to Israel.
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b) Gingrich and Romney want to fire a Jewish-American ambassador for having the galls to suggest that *gasp*---the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may drive Muslim antisemitism in Europe.

Huntsman asked about an issue than is infuriating Israel's right wing supporters in the US - comments attributed to the American ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman (who is himself Jewish) that Israel's conflict with the Palestinians is fuelling Muslim anti-semitism in Europe.

Huntsman said: "It speaks volumes about the continued ambiguity this administration has for Israel."

Huntsman says he'd want to find out who wrote the remarks and thought the issue probably went "high up within the State Department".

That's pretty mild stuff compared to Gingrich and Romney, who want Gutman fired.
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c) A vote for Romney is a vote for war against Iran.

Mitt Romney calls for "regime change" in Iran and says US should make clear prepared to use "military option". He called Iran the "greatest foreign policy failure" of Obama administration. All of that goes down well with the audience.
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d) Debating military aid to Israel truly has become the third rail of American politics. America can't afford food to Africa, but arms to one of the richest states in the world, which has a tendency to sell such arms to America's greatest military rival? Great.

But it is also an opportunity for leading Republican contenders to try and repair the damage done by a question about foreign aid at a candidates debate last month in which three of the leading contenders – Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry – said they wanted to scrap existing foreign aid commitments and then have each country justify assistance, including Israel. Although the candidates swiftly said after the debate that they expected aid to Israel to continue, but it still brought a torrent of criticism.
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Yes, they are playing up to the audience, and I guess all of this was to be expected to some degree, but it's a very sad reflection of politics as usual.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ric...dec/07/republican-forum-obama-osawatomie-live

RocketMan Tex · Dec 7, 2011

Did you expect the GOP Candidates to pander to the Democratic Jewish Coalition?

I got news for you....there is one Jewish coalition, and it cuts across party lines.

bnb · Dec 7, 2011

why y'all hating on the panders???

B-Bob · Dec 7, 2011

bnb said: ↑

why y'all hating on the panders???
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exactly!

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