Robert Byrd Not left?? And Hagel showed huge RINO leanings I thought. Some of the others I might have to question too.
In no way am I defending the anti-Semitic views of those she characterizes on the right in Britain...but it is also true many British conservatives view as part of Jewish history their partnership with Marxists and socialists. European Antisemitism is partly cultural history, but nonetheless ugly.
Had to be nuts? As far back as 1964, Americans for Constitutional Action, which analyzed the voting records of legislators and rated them as to how they conformed to conservative principles gave Byrd an overall rating of 15 and a rating of eight for the year. In contrast, Senator Barry Goldwater rated 100 for the year and was in the mid-80's overall.
Maybe the writer confused him with Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.).
One of the big reasons many American Jews are liberals is because they remember the old right as being extremely anti-Semitic. Many of them have not gotten over that despite the fact that anti-Semites like Buchanan have been bounced from the Republican Party as well as repudiated (or is that refudiated) by W. F. Buckley. And modern conservatives are pro-Israel. Old memories die hard.