[Cicero]

Interesting that this article points out that Jewish support for Democrats began to drop EVEN BEFORE Bush came out so strongly in favor of Israel, and that even the presence of Lieberman on Gore's ticket failed to pull in as many of their votes as in the previous election. That's a very encouraging sign, because historically most Jews have considered Christian conservatives to be their enemies. The Bob Jones controversy that McCain and the press whipped up was meant to solidify support for Gore among this constituency, as well as to drive a wedge between conservative Protestants and Catholics. Instead, it may have backfired among more religious-minded Jews, just as it backfired among sensible Catholics and Protestants.

On the other hand, I doubt whether the Green Party would be crazy enough to sign up Cynthia McKinney. What could she possibly bring them but trouble? Ralph Nader is a first-class troublemaker, but his concerns are very different from hers, to say the least.

I don't think the McKinneys have anywhere to go at this point. They are washed up. But the controversy will linger and continue to expose the flaws in the Democrat coalition.

[Brookhaven]

I doubt whether the Green Party would be crazy enough to sign up Cynthia McKinney.

The Green party has already extended an offer to McKinney. The article was posted here on FR.

If all of the Green party's platform were implemented, we would have a communist form of government. The Green party IS the american communist party. That's not what they call themselves, but they are.

Communist governemnts have historicly been anti-semetic. I don't know why, but there seems to be some correlation. The more a government drifts left towards a socialist/communist form of government, the more anti-semitic it becomes.

Given how far to the left the Green party is, I wouldn't be suprised to find a strong, anti-semetic movement within the Green party.

[justanotherfreeper]

it may have backfired among more religious-minded Jews, just as it backfired among sensible Catholics and Protestants.

It certainly backfired with this Catholic. Bob Jones University does not take one thin dime in my tax money, and is perfectly entitled to say whatever stupid thing they like. And I should point out, for however "hateful" the left says they are, no one from Bob Jones University has ever thrown used menstrual napkins inside a Catholic church, put elephant dung on pictures of the Blessed Virgin or put a crucifix in urine. That's all been done by the left with my tax money!

I doubt whether the Green Party would be crazy enough to sign up Cynthia McKinney

A couple other threads here on FreeRepublic report she has already been approached to run publicly by several high-ups in the green party. The Greens need 5% of the vote to get public funding through the presidential campaign fund, Cynthia might do much better than Ralph at getting a significant percentage of the black vote. The Greens aren't so left that they don't want the cash!