...it's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there...
i've always believed that much of the far left is anti-semitic as well as anti-Christian. It's just that the anti-semitism had to be kept under wraps because so many Democratic voters are Jewish. In Europe their anti-semitism is open and blatant. Some Democrats in the U.S. would have it that way here too.
At a recent "Bush impeachment festival" held by House Democrats, someone let the cat out of the bag.
The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration 'neocons' so 'the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world.' He said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.Just when i think i can't be shocked anymore by how disgusting the Democratic party has become, along comes another low. What is wrong with these people?'Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation,' McGovern said. 'The last time I did this, the previous director of Central Intelligence called me anti-Semitic.'
Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), who prompted the question by wondering whether the true war motive was Iraq's threat to Israel, thanked McGovern for his 'candid answer.'
At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations -- that an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there was an 'insider trading scam' on 9/11 -- that previously has been used to suggest Israel was behind the attacks.
Democrats, to judge by recent events, appear to be losing their collective minds in some form of shriek therapy. Being out of power may do that to a party used to having its way for many decades in Congress. But there is one other possible explanation for the apparent insanity. With so much money concentrated in the hands of some hard left advocates (think George Soros, Hollywood, trial lawyers, internet millionaires and some union bosses), the Democrats may feel the need to feed the beast - to protect and cater to their hardcore base, so as to keep the money flowing into the political coffers for future campaigns. So the strategy is for Democrats to be completely over the top in their attacks - trashing Bush, America, our military, Republicans, and Israel, all of whom are targets of the activists, to keep the moveon.org and Dailykos crowds happy.My personal opinion about traditional Jewish support for the Democratic party is that it is based on a vestigial fear that Republicans are "the party of white Christians," ergo the party of bigots. Sound familiar?*
But if the Democrats keep letting their anti-semitic elements have the floor, we should probably expect to hear more thinly veiled anti-Christian fear-mongering by Dean and his ilk, to compensate for the damage.
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* In other words, when Howard Dean uses the statistically inaccurate label "the party of white Christians," he's really using coded language designed to keep secular Jews and people who fear religion in the Democratic camp. Divide and conquer, the age-old Democrat strategy.
"traditional Jewish support for the Democratic party is that it is based on a vestigial (although historically justified) fear that Republicans are the party of White Christians, ergo the party of bigots."
Bullshit, the historical connection of liberal jews to the Demoncrats has its roots in the socialist politics many jews carried with them from the old world, and shared with the D's in the new.
Ten whacks for you, and sit in the back of the class.
Posted by: Casca on Jun. 20, 2005I don't think the Democratic Party's far left element has any idea about the power of the new media. They have been saying these things for years, it is just that no one reported it.
The best disinfectant is sunshine. Just keep talking morons.
on further reflection, i have deleted the parenthetical.
Posted by: annika on Jun. 20, 2005All is forgiven. I too drink and write.
Posted by: Casca on Jun. 20, 2005Casca is right. The Jews in Europe adopted socialism because it promised equality of income. The Jews thought that to achieve equality of income you had to forget differences in religion. Wrong.
The socialist regimes of Germany and Russia both engaged in mass murder of the Jewish people. However, the Jews in America still retained their socialism and left-wing politics in face of those exterminations. Go figure.
Bush hatred has moved many Jews (especially in the academic world) to be anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian. It is all part of the madness that is the Democrat Party today.
Posted by: Jake on Jun. 21, 2005If the Democrats are so anti-Semitic, why are so many leading Democratic senators Jewish? Do the anti-Semites include Feinstein, Boxer, Feingold, Wyden, and Schumer?
Posted by: Hugo on Jun. 21, 2005"However, the Jews in America still retained their socialism and left-wing politics in face of those exterminations. Go figure."
Glad to see you put that in the past tense, though. It's changing, finally. Go to Palm Beach County, the most Jewish county in Florida and the second-most Democratic (after Broward) and you'll see the GOP in explosive growth mode. The retirees will always vote mindlessly for the Dems, but other Jewish voters, especially younger ones, don't have that kind of tribal loyalty. I mean, seriously, the irony of Dean calling the Republicans the "white Christian party" wasn't just in getting that from the former governor of lily-white Vermont: Ken Mehlman said something like "all the people who attended my bar mitzvah will be very surprised to hear that."
Now, as a Jewish Republican from Massachusetts, I suspect we could still hold a convention in a broom closet, but everything's relative.
Posted by: Dave J on Jun. 22, 2005You don't have to be anti-Semitic to disagree with the way that Israel is treating the Palestinians. There is a lot more going on over there than Fox news decides to tell us ;)
Posted by: joe on Jun. 22, 2005Oh my God, you're an idiot. I can't take it. I'm going to sue Slate for linking to you.
Posted by: Jon on Jun. 22, 2005It always amazes me that people think it's OK to just randomly toss out insults like that. No argument, no "you're wrong because X, Y and Z," just "you're an idiot," as if it's self-evident and beneath them to justify it. Thanks, Jon, for demonstrating your OBVIOUS intellectual and moral superiority.
Posted by: Dave J on Jun. 23, 2005Divide and conquer is a Republican strategy that has worked well these past 20 years. How did Bush win the last election otherwise? The whole gay issue was a divisive issue designed to divide and conquer.
Posted by: Tony Martin on Jun. 24, 2005Tony: so Bush foisted "the gay issue" on the country, then? Funny, I thought it was the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts that did that.
Posted by: Dave J on Jun. 24, 2005Dave, don't forget the "My way or the highway" Mayor of San Francisco. His arrogance was LARGE.
Posted by: Mark on Jun. 24, 2005