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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 06/03/2015 12:54:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rabbi Boteach held the third annual Champion of Jewish Values International Awards Gala last Thursday.
‘Is there a liberal in the room?” One couldn’t help but wonder this while looking around the large ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in Midtown last Thursday evening. It was filled with about 1,000 attendees of what could have been called “The Shmuley Boteach Show.” They were loudly cheering a succession of major conservative political figures outdoing each other in their support for Israel, condemnation of President Obama’s foreign policy, and giving voice to the fears about anti-Semitism at home and abroad.
The formal name of the event was The Third Annual Champion of Jewish Values International Awards Gala. But the host and center of attention was the 48-year-old peripatetic preacher who calls himself “America’s Rabbi.” And the theme of the evening, a fundraiser for Rabbi Boteach’s World Values Network, was, as he asserted in his opening keynote address, “‘Never Again’ must always mean never again.”
The specter and lessons of the Holocaust were ever-present, from the appearance of Nobel Peace laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and special guest Jacqueline Van Maarsen, a childhood friend of Anne Frank, to Rabbi Boteach’s declaration that the world’s “appetite for Jewish blood is back.”
“They hate us because we affirm life,” he roared, and because Israel, with its democratic and humanistic values, “makes its neighbors look terrible.”
With billionaire businessman/philanthropist and backer of conservative candidates Sheldon Adelson on hand, the evening became a kind of audition for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a declared presidential aspirant, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a potential candidate. Both men criticized President Barack Obama for the proposed Iran nuclear deal and for his Mideast policies. Cruz appeared to be the crowd favorite, with a rousing campaign-style speech that envisioned a president in 2017 who instead of “boycotting” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will “stand” with him and Israel.
Christie said “our friends in Israel deserve better than what they’ve gotten in the last seven years from this White House.”
Sen. Bob Menendez, though a Democrat, was praised by Adelson, who introduced him as “a true hero” for his efforts to thwart the proposed Iran agreement. Menendez, who is under indictment on bribery charges, inferred that Obama is naïve in his dealings with Tehran. “Hope is a not a national security solution,” he asserted.
Also on hand was Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer, a close friend of Rabbi Boteach since the diplomat was a student at Oxford University in England and active in the rabbi’s L’Chaim Society. Dermer warned that “we are returning to those dark days” of anti-Semitism.
That certainly seems to be true in Europe. But the fact that there appears to be little if any overt anti-Semitism directed at Adelson, a very public Jewish, Las Vegas-based billionaire outspoken on behalf of Israel and seeking to influence national elections here and in Israel, seems to prove anti-Semitism is not a major threat in the U.S. today.
The World Values Network dinner took place just a few days before a New York Times/CBS poll found that 46 percent of Americans favored a “complete overhaul” of how campaigns are financed in order to rid politics of big-money contributors like Adelson. He is reported to have spent nearly $100 million on candidates during the 2012 election season, with little success at the ballot box.
Ted Cruz Ping! But, yet, the press will not acknowledge Cruz as a valid contender. Reason: he scares the sh!t out of them and they know that he will win over hillary.
I don’t know that it’s a good sign to see Cruz hanging with this guy- Sheldon Adelson is a huge promoter of amnesty:
“....Adelson, who spent nearly $100 million in 2012 and will likely spend a hefty sum in the 2016 GOP presidential primary, “upbraided many in the GOP for their opposition to legalizing millions” of illegal immigrants. He reportedly said that without a “comprehensive overhaul” that would legalize all of the country’s illegal immigrants, the nation would not be “the America that I’m proud to live in.”
Adelson made his remarks while addressing the Israeli American Council (IAC) in Washington, D.C., along with liberal billionaire Haim Saban, a Hillary Clinton ally. This is not the first time that Adelson has lobbied for comprehensive amnesty legislation.....
Have you ever worked on a presidential campaign. Or any other kind?
Yes
I have no problem with naturalizing people who go through the proper channels like all the ones coming from other countries do.
obammy wants to—and may already have done so, open the southern border without any one having any idea who is coming into our country. At least that’s what I read a while back.
I saw in another article that they gave Cruz several standing ovations. Wonderful!
Legalizing give them a right to obtain work permits. It does not give them citizenship. Cruz supports that also.
“Legalizing give them a right to obtain work permits. It does not give them citizenship. Cruz supports that also.”
A shame because these half-measures just mean the problem continues to grow. We reward past lawbreaking. And in large portions of SoCal we have essentially become a province of Mexico.
“I have no problem with naturalizing people who go through the proper channels like all the ones coming from other countries do.”
I remember America pre-1965 and I’m tired of mass immigration, particularly from the third world.
I agree. I would love for a candidate to stand for mass deportation, frankly.
I totally agree with you. I still firmly believe that this gaggle of candidates has one purpose .. to choke out Ted Cruz.
However, everywhere Ted goes, he’s having groups of 500-1000 (one of the most recent said they had to turn people away because the venue was not large enough for more than 500); while Jeb Bush is meeting with 30, but media is saying Jeb is gathering up money. Funny, the left/media are no longer saying anything about what Ted Cruz is reporting as finances. This tells me .. it’s actually Ted who is raking in the money. The last I heard, Ted was ahead of Hillary ..???? Haven’t been able to confirm that because the left/media aren’t talking.
Eisenhower did it, but then Ike wasn’t afraid to put Americans ahead of lawbreaking foreign nationals.
Ike called his deportation program Operation Wetback, the mere name of which makes today’s Republican lizards pee down their legs in fear.
I heard Cruz forgot to tie his shoe at age seven.
That would be an epic great move. All is does is enforce the laws they have ignored for decades.
Oh, My Lord! I demand Links! :):)
I don’t know that it’s a good sign to see Cruz hanging with this guy- Sheldon Adelson is a huge promoter of amnesty:
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So freakin’ what? His money is still good, and Ted Cruz is no political whore. Adelson is not going to talk him into opening up the borders. Give Ted a little credit; will you? Besides, it might just happen the other way around. Ted might win him over on the Illegal Immigration problem. Adelson’s wife “loves” Ted Cruz.
I agree. I would love for a candidate to stand for mass deportation, frankly.
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Get over it; that ain’t happening. No way they are going to try to deport 17 million of them. But, you can keep them from coming in. Take all the Illegals here that are incarcerated..... put them in a chain-gang along the souther border with Border Patrol Guards. Put snipers and good ol’ Redneck boys who are sharp shooters, in watch towers all along the border. The chain-gang dudes bury the bodies.
Unfortunately you are correct. No one seems to have the guts to enforce the law any more which is what got us into this mess. I disagree that it couldn’t be done, but the will to do so isn’t thee. I can’t think of a better reassignment for 90,000 excessed IRS employees than to put them on processing deportation papers.
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