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Jewish Republican and Democrat groups fight about Howard Dean, places anti-Dean ads
ABC ^ | 2/15/05

Posted on 02/15/2005 1:59:17 PM PST by Cableguy

As the Flournoyian transition begins, the only significant opposition to Gov. Dean's short tenure has come from a Jewish political group — and Republican state parties.

This weekend, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the leading group for, you guessed it, Jewish Republicans, opened a newspaper ad campaign criticizing Dean and alleging that his selection as DNC chair shows that Democrats don't take Jewish concerns seriously.

The full-page advertisement is running in major Jewish newspapers around the country, including papers in California, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New York, and Pennsylvania. To get to Hill elites, it's also running in Roll Call.

It features a comment by Dean in reference to the Middle East: "It's not our place to take sides."

(Contextually, the ad is a bit misleading, as Dean's position has been very Clintonesque . . . but it never seems to come out of his mouth that way.)

The ad also features quotes by prominent Democrats expressing concern about Dean and Israel.

The buy is small enough so that it won't distract the Dean transition train, but it will certainly get pick-up (like in The Note!!!), and it will remind some Democrats who are nervous about Dean why they are nervous about Dean.

The National Jewish Democratic Committee responded with an e-mail broadside yesterday, alleging that " GOP leaders launched a vicious smear campaign against him within the American Jewish community — a campaign that dangerously politicizes support for Israel, threatening the crucial legacy of bipartisan support for Israel. Moreover, it blatantly mischaracterizes Howard Dean's record of support for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship."

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: howarddean; traitor
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To: SweetPilotofCanuckistan
haha......actually most wouldn't have a problem in most parts of SF but there are certain areas that would look at ya like you were a heathen or something......
21 posted on 02/15/2005 3:01:30 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: SweetPilotofCanuckistan
LOL!

I'm not Jewish, but I'm a pilot, and at times I seem to be surrounded by liberal Jews here in South Florida.

I just don't get the connection between being Jewish and liberal, since most EU types are very "liberal"(read Socialist) and their entire history, up to the present day, is not friendly to Israel, to say the least.

But then again, many of them here are not, as well.
22 posted on 02/15/2005 10:28:39 PM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: SJackson

bttt


23 posted on 02/15/2005 10:42:25 PM PST by lainde ( ...we are not European, we are American, and we have different principles!")
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To: bill1952
There are many self-hating Jews out there - and they are the ones G-d warned us of; that our worst enemies would be some of our own. Liberal Jews bear so much responsibility for the degeneration of our society - it's so sad and frustrating.

What do you fly?
24 posted on 02/15/2005 10:46:10 PM PST by SweetPilotofCanuckistan
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To: SweetPilotofCanuckistan
There are quite a few conservative Jewish men (politically conservatives, not necessarily Masorti) in New York. ;-)
25 posted on 02/15/2005 11:16:47 PM PST by rmlew (Copperheads and Peaceniks beware! Sedition is a crime.)
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To: Cableguy


26 posted on 02/16/2005 3:08:57 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free!)
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To: SweetPilotofCanuckistan

"you have to dig for new stuff..."

Try the "recent" link:
http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB/recent.php

Also, if you will poke around the tabs in your profile pages, somewhere- can't quite recall where- there is an option for changing the format, and it will make FD look a lot more like FR if you switch.


27 posted on 02/16/2005 3:17:40 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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