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The mysterious Jewish vote
Jerusalem Post ^
| 12-01-02
| JACKIE MASON
Posted on 12/1/2002, 12:36:11 AM by SJackson
Why would most Jewish people prefer being attacked by a mob of contaminated turtles than be caught voting for a Republican? Where does this fear of Republicans come from?
Since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which is now about 60 years ago, American Jews still have fixed in their minds the image of the Democrats as the symbol of salvation and the Republicans as thieves, frauds, exploiters, lowlifes, and opportunists.
The truth is that the Jews are half-right if they are judging the Republicans of 60 years ago.
Both parties have changed in the intervening 60 years, the difference being that the Republicans have changed for the better and the Democrats for the worse. Today the Republicans stand for exactly the same policies that the Democrats abandoned many years ago.
Sixty years ago Roosevelt fought for the right of equal jobs for all minorities; today's Democrats have invented something called affirmative action, which should really be called negative retribution. Affirmative action is not a fight for equality, it is a reward for irresponsibility.
It claims to stand for equal opportunity. That is a fraud! It really stands for opportunity without equality, because it demands the right to deny opportunity to anyone who cannot qualify as a minority.
Ironically the greatest defenders of affirmative action are the Jews, who feel so guilty for just making a living that they will do anything for someone labeled "a minority," although they would never do it even for their own children. If their own child were 20 years old and refused to go to college, refused to get a job, and refused to get up in the morning, he would find himself not only thrown out of the house, he would most likely be thrown out of a window. But if someone is a member of a minority, a Jew suddenly becomes his psychiatrist, benefactor, and fundraiser because without even knowing him a Jew feels that it is his own fault if somehow his back can't even get off the bed.
Giving, caring, sharing, and sacrifice are nurtured in the Jewish home to the point of harassment. Since he is guilt-ridden for rising out of poverty himself, the Jew has to help other minorities as quickly as possible, and no matter how much he does he is always asking forgiveness for not having done enough.
That is why no Jew would ever think that affirmative action should also include the Jew. He feels that if he made it, so can another Jew. And if the existence of anti-Semitism didn't stop him it shouldn't stop his fellow Jew. But if he is Black, Hispanic, red, green or a mixture of orange and pink, a Jew is convinced that unless he can become a lawyer without passing the test, he will be forced to remain a janitor for the rest of his life.
The Jews are so guilt-ridden that they can't even remember their own victimization under the constant plague of anti-Semitism. They think of themselves as co-conspirators with the white Protestants who persecuted the minorities of this country, but they keep forgetting that they were never invited to be members of that club, that even now most gentile clubs still have a hidden sign that says "No Jews Allowed." How can any thinking man forget that it was once as hard for a Jew to get a job in a major corporation as it was for him to become the Pope? Almost every ad in The New York Times read "White Christian Only" until as late as 1960.Obviously they can't remember, because it might eliminate too many guilt trips and a Jew can't live without them.
AS FAR as the Jews are concerned, the Democrats can't do any wrong, and the Republicans can't do anything right. When it was discovered that the secretary of state to the elder president Bush had used that well-known epithet "F- the Jews," the popularity of the Bush administration couldn't withstand the shock and they were condemned as hopeless anti-Semites.
But when Hillary Clinton was caught making blatantly vulgar anti-Semitic remarks, Jews reacted with contempt not for her but for the people who had the nerve to mention it publicly. When the headlines quoted her as calling someone an "F--ing Jew bastard," even after he offered to take a lie detector test and passed it resoundingly, she claimed that he was not only a liar but a thief, a lowlife, and a degenerate.
Yet nothing could diminish her popularity among Jews for a second. She had bought herself immunity from every Jew the day the word Democrat was attached to her name. The proof is that even after she hugged and kissed Yasser Arafat's wife, and even after she demanded a Palestinian state without insisting that Jewish lives be protected from suicide bombers, she still wound up with the great majority of the Jewish vote in her senatorial campaign. But, if she were a Republican, the whole American army wouldn't have been been able to protect her.
It has been proven numerous times that a Republican can't get more than 30% of the Jewish vote even if he saved every Jew from drowning. Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin once confided to me that the two presidents who did the most to save the State of Israel were Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. But if this information was blasted into every Jewish home in America, 30% will still be the fence that no Republican could ever climb over.
Nobody in America, including the Jews themselves, has worked harder than Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell to support the State of Israel. They have dedicated almost every sermon, every speech and every prayer to the fight for the Jewish state. But the Jews suffer from such blank prejudice towards Republicans that they can't accept what they are hearing, and suspect Robertson and Falwell of having some mysterious hidden agenda and therefore they should not be trusted.
The writer is a US comedian and newspaper columnist.
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posted on
12/1/2002, 12:36:11 AM
by
SJackson
To: SJackson
I love Jackie Mason. He's right about this. (He's also very funny.)
To: SJackson
Jackie Mason hits it on the head. The truth is most American Jews are really assimilated liberals. They will vote their liberalism before they vote their Judaism. Being liberals first and Jews second its no surprise most American Jews would slavishly vote for Democrats at every conceivable opportunity even if it were demonstrated a fair of number of them were anti-Semites and hostile to Israel's survival. About the only Jews who do vote Republican are Orthodox and a handful of Conservative Jews and unfortunately they are minority in the Jewish community. As for the Reform Jews, they can be be described as the Democratic Party in a kippot and wearing a tallit. The worst offender is Tikkun Magazine led by Mikey Lerner, though David Saperstein's Religious Action Center does run a close second. The GOP is better off attracting Jewish votes from the traditionally observant community and writing off those who are brain-dead liberals in the Reform and secular worlds.
To: goldstategop
A large percentage of Reform Jews worship Socialism more than YHWH
To: SJackson
The Republican Jewish Coalition is growing every year. There website can be found
here.
To: SJackson
For many jewish voters ignorance is bliss.
To: Clara Lou
Thge most baffling thing about American jews' love affair with democ
rats: FDR did not lift a finger to help jews emigrate from Germany in WWII, and in fact, did everything he could to stop them. By the time secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau forced FDR's hand, and threatened to go public with what the Nazis were doing and that the USA was not allowing jews to emigrate, most of the Jews had been shipped to Poland for extrermination. Maybe 200,000 Jews were saved after America began to allow the emigration of the Jews as refugees, but that is a smal amount compared to 6 million or so.
When I saw the PBS documentary "America in the Holocaust", I was shocked to learn that the USA, and particularly FDR did not want the Jews to come here, but instead chose to pretend that the reports of extermination were "greatly exagerrated". I mentioned the documentary to a Jewish friend who said "oh, every jew knows about all that". So that is the real frustrating thing here. Why do so many American jews feel some sort of affinity with the democrats, and FDR in particular, when you would think they would villify them for allowing so many jews to die?
To: Clara Lou
He was a regular guest on Hannity's talk-radio show last year, and faded; but he shows up occasionally on Hannity & Colmes.
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posted on
12/1/2002, 1:00:34 AM
by
Cobra64
To: Bella_Bru
My Jewish roommate in college (1970-2) was a flaming liberal. Now, today he make me sound like Ted Kennedy! I converted an ultra-lib into Ghengas Khan!
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posted on
12/1/2002, 1:03:39 AM
by
Cobra64
To: SauronOfMordor; Sam Cree
A large percentage of Reform Jews worship Socialism more than YHWHM Exactly, and that is the root of the problem.
To: Cobra64
Great! You save a life. G-d bless you.
To: SJackson
The author hits the nail on the head. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the New York Hasidic Jews as a bloc and swing vote put Hitlery Clintoon in office? I thought I read that after the carpetbagger took the New York Senate race.
To: SJackson
Oh, I don't know, I think some of them are starting to wake up. You'll never change the die hard liberals, but the average Jew would have to be blind not to see who's been on their side during this latest dust up. They are also starting to recognize the difference between being accepted and being used.
To: SJackson
Unless something unforseen happens before the 2004 erection, I would put $100 that the US Jew vote goes 50% Bush
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posted on
12/1/2002, 1:22:09 AM
by
rface
To: TopQuark
The problem alluded to is historical. In the darkest days of WWII in Europe, the Jews identified themselves with the Communists, in their unified opposition to Nazism. This comradeship continues to this day, despite the changed dynamic. Even after the real nature of the totalitarianism of Communism was known (by the late 1940s), the Jews continued to hold Communist sympathies, perhaps rightly crediting the Soviet Communists for helping defeat the Nazi scourge. But they were not able to change their views to account for changing geo-political realities, and that intransigence is reflected today in their unquestioning support of Socialistic principles embodied by the Democratic party. Jewish liberals have been at the forefront of the "white guilt" syndrome, and many of the most outspoken liberal radicals of today are Jewish. The Republican party has a long way to go to change these deep rooted misconceptions identified by Jackie Mason above, and perhaps things like Bush's unflinching support of Israel, the depravity of suicide bombings, the vile nature of radical Islam, and the anti-Semitism of the left (Cynthia McKinney, Noam Chomsky) will make them see the light. They will then realize that the Republicans are the strongest defenders of Israel and the Jews.
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posted on
12/1/2002, 1:30:56 AM
by
nwrep
To: SJackson
HRC is more dangerous to this country than the Japanese and "communists" of the mid 20th century.
As a budding and continuing activist, then achieving a Juris Doctorate, she studied the most effective methods of propaganda use, including using a cute airhead puppet whore (drug loving prick who she could then control as a spokesperson to the public she so hated and wanted to direct, for the old Nazi style doctrine would not work here in the Good 'Ol USA, at least for now.
. HRC is a whore of Greek Mythological demeanor, but the bodies she puts forth and destroys will never be her own (Vince Foster knows that for a fact).
Why haven't any of her ( or Bill Clinton's for that matter) college/university graduate treatises or thesis papers been made available to the public?
Her attempts and efforts of total control of the monies and government agencies over the medical community was soundly defeated.
Her use and abuse (Travelgate, FibbieGate) of her husband's office was evident over the eight years of hell the country was put through.
. This Clinton megalomaniac (Bill and Algore are washouts) continues to believe that she/it will be able to control the minds and actions of he American "ignorant masses".
This bitch has more to learn, like the fact that evidence is kept from her until it is needed.
Verified Fact #1 - Associations with "more than questionable" large "banc" deposits are fun to read, but she doesn't even know they are "out there".
This Hillary Rodham Clinton criminal will give Tammany a run for the money, but this fraud and murderess is going to be caught and prosecuted...
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posted on
12/1/2002, 1:31:09 AM
by
Vidalia
To: SJackson
The writer is a US comedian and newspaper columnist.
And believes in the truth...
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posted on
12/1/2002, 1:37:48 AM
by
Vidalia
To: SauronOfMordor
That's exactly it--remember who the organizers of the communitst party were? There are deep socialist roots among many Jews. I have a number of socialist organizers in my ancestors--union leaders of the 30's and 40's, too.
I had an uncle who was, like so many of his day, a great lover of FDR--then he found out about the incident of the ship of Jews (St Louis??) that FDR had sent back to Germany and wouldn't let land in the US. My uncle cursed FDR to his dying day.
To: OldFriend
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To: SJackson
"Nobody in America, including the Jews themselves, has worked harder than Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell to support the State of Israel"
I was telling my brother this just the other day (after Thanksgiving dinner was over) and he just brushed it off as not valid. I told him I couldn't understand him--he is intelligent, educated, goes to synagogue every Friday night, and is still a liberal Dem (he also works for a PBS station--need I say more??)
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