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Title: Rand Paul Victory Poses Risks For Jewish Republicans as Tea Party Movement Surges
Source: The Jewish Weekly
URL Source: http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/n ... ks_jewish_republicans_tea_part
Published: May 26, 2010
Author: James D. Besser
Post Date: 2010-05-26 12:56:16 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 892
Comments: 6

RJC, in unusual move, opposes Tea Party candidate.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Washington Correspondent

 Rand Paul, the Tea Party insurgent who was the upset victor in last week’s Kentucky Republican Senate primary, could be the biggest headache yet for a Republican Party that hopes to capitalize on the populist surge without getting tainted by the angry movement’s extremists.

While some political observers say Paul’s strong pro-Israel views could be a magnet for Jewish campaign givers, even some ardent Jewish Republicans are worried about what they see as the political newcomer’s views on U.S. foreign policy and his positions on issues such as civil rights. All of which led the Republican Jewish Coalition to oppose his candidacy for the nomination and, in an unusual move, to spurn him now that he is the party’s standard- bearer.

“Rand Paul is outside the comfort level of a lot of people in the Jewish community, and in many ways outside of where the Republican Party is on many critical issues,” said Matt Brooks, the RJC executive director, adding that leaders of his group worked on behalf of Paul’s primary opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.  

Brooks called Paul a “neo-isolationist” and pointed to positions like his strong opposition to federal legislation barring discrimination by private businesses, although after last week’s storm of controversy he insists he would not vote to repeal the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

University of Florida political scientist Kenneth Wald said Paul is the leading edge of a Tea Party movement that is “a huge problem pointing right at the heart of the Republican Party” — and now the most prominent figure in a churning, amorphous movement that could badly undermine the party’s outreach to Jewish voters.

Jewish Democrats, battered by recent controversies over the Obama administration’s handling of the Israel issue, couldn’t be happier.

“This is manna from heaven for us,” said Ira Forman, CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC). “And it’s not just in Kentucky; like Sarah Palin, Rand Paul is going to be very good for Jewish Democrats.”

But a prominent GOP strategist said it all depends on how the GOP responds to the grass-roots surge that has energized the Tea Party movement.

“The two elements that I see that are consistent across the Tea Party movement are demands for lower taxes and smaller government,” said Lee Cowen, who was a fundraiser for former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney in the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. “Those are things a growing number of Jewish voters agree with.”

The Tea Party activists and their political passion offer a major opportunity for the Republicans as they seek to regain control of Congress and set the stage for the 2012 presidential election, he said.

“It’s just a grass-roots movement that’s still relatively disorganized,” he said. “It’s up to the Republicans to take advantage of it. The key will be to find ways to make this work with the Republican core.”

And a leading political scientist predicted that Paul’s ascendance could help pull a Tea Party movement with isolationist leanings closer to the pro-Israel orbit.

Johns Hopkins political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg said Rand Paul is a “godsend — he’s the sort of the person the Jewish community should be working with.”

Ginsberg says that much of the Tea Party movement is isolationist, and it includes “some who are seen as meshuganah,” or crazy.

But Paul represents a major opportunity for pro-Israel campaign givers to influence that movement, he said.

Ginsberg’s calculus applies only to campaign givers. Jewish voters “are still Democrats; it would take a major earthquake to upset that,” he said.

But with Jews making up a miniscule proportion of the overall electorate but a huge proportion of major campaign givers, any shift of Jewish money to the incipient Tea Party and its advocates could be significant in 2010, he said.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0) (Edited)

I've lived here for nearly 17 years and I can't recall ever seeing a Synagogue in this state. I guess I could look in the yellow pages.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-05-26   13:02:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Mudboy (#0)

Ginsberg says ... it includes “some who are seen as meshuganah,” or crazy.

It's you!

Hmmm. Interesting ... badeye

Biff Tannen  posted on  2010-05-26   13:10:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Brian S (#0)

Gee, the Tea Party is 'surging'?

You and GO65 and other leftwingers were telling us for months it was a astro turf, small minority of ignorant rednecks!

Then you guys were saying it wouldn't last.

Then you said the candidates they backed would lose.

Now its 'surging' huh?

(laughing)

For approximately 72K, BP Oil bought Owe-bama. And as President, he let them Spill, Baby, Spill! Its documented.

Badeye  posted on  2010-05-26   13:38:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Boofer (#3)

The title of an article is a statement of fact?

Maybe every article I post from here on out will be Boofer Sucks Cock...

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace

war  posted on  2010-05-26   13:41:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Brian S (#0) (Edited)

This whole article is a joke.

Two points of fact:

A.) Jews are less than 2% of the U.S. population, and shrinking as a percentage of the population.

B.) Jews regularly vote 75% to 80% Democrat.

The reason that Israel has become important to the GOP is not due to big numbers of Jewish voters, but rather due to big numbers of Christian "dispensationalist" voters, who are a large subset of the evangelical movement.

The Dispensationalists believe that we are in the "last days" when god will gather all of the Jews in the world (about 13 million today) to Israel, where the Anti-Christ will murder all but 144,000 of them. That 144,000 will covert to Christianity and preach the Gospel to everyone who is left after the "rapture".

The Dispensationalists want to hurry this agenda along so they can be "raptured".

Yes to placate the Dispensationalists, GOP candidates need to say that they "support Israel". Rand Paul has done that. So it doesn't matter what left-wing Jews like Ira Forman have to say.

jwpegler  posted on  2010-05-26   17:16:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: jwpegler (#5)

Also, Rand is every bit the NeoCon that Cheney or even Sarah are.

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Toss: ADL,CAIR and the Vatican into the pit they belong in.

During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051
from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years,
according to financial disclosure records.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories /0510/36783.html#ixzz0oyfhPrvS

WhiteSands  posted on  2010-05-26   23:01:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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