Monday, September 04, 2006

WHAT DO BUSH AND HIS FAR RIGHT ALLIES REALLY THINK ABOUT JEWS?

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It's too sad to argue with gay Republicans. I mean how many times can you say being a gay Republican is exactly the same as a Jew in the 1930's being a Nazi? Gay Republicans are usually self-loathing elitists. Or just stupider than a lemming. And then there are the Clarence Thomases, Michael Steeles, J.C. Watts, Alan Keyeses, Ken Blackwells, Thomas Sowells, Ken Hamblins, Larry Elders... opportunists, mostly mentally ill, and sell-outs one and all. I pray they never live to regret their support for the political party that has institutionalized within itself the KKK. But what about Jewish Republicans?

I grew up in Flatbush, a part of Brooklyn where there were no Republicans. Or none to speak of. In fact, they didn't even speak of themselves. Now and then some local Republican club would dig up a candidate to run for something and I always laughed that you could always tell from the campaign posters who was a Democrat and who was a Republican. All Democratic signs were emblazoned gigantically with the word "Democrat." The Republican was apparently ashamed to mention what party he was affiliated with, which at least showed a little good sense. (It's kind of like what some Republicans are trying to do now-- a little too late though, especially for notorious rubber stampers like Jim Gerlach (R-PA), Deborah Pryce (R-OH), Mark Kennedy (R-MN), Joe Lieberman (?-CT), Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Clay Shaw (R-FL), Heather Wilson (R-NM), Chris Shays (R-CT), Mike DeWine (R-OH), Jim Talent (R-MO), Nancy Johnson/Cheney (R-CT)... even a 100% rubber stamp imbecile like Santorum managed to cook up some cockamamie issue he disagrees with Bush on to show he's "independent.")

Anyway, it was a pretty Jewish neighborhood and everyone's grandparents understood that the political right was the mortal enemy of Jewishness. Sometimes a Jewish family in the 'hood would get rich or maybe just wanted to make believe they were rich (like my old grade school chum Norm Coleman) and then they would switch their political affiliation and often-- like the climbin' Colemans-- their religion too. As time wore on, I looked with dismay as some materialisticly-obessed Jews forgot the lessons our grandfathers learned about what the political right always has in store for Jews. Today as many as 25% of Jews have forgotten.

I've always been able to look at Bush's narrow, hateful face and see the bigotry right down to the core of his dark, dark soul. So it was no surprise today when I read at Raw Story that Bush was still pushing his evangelical claptrap about all Jews going to hell in 1998. In the new book about Bush's sick brain, The Architect it's revealed he repeated his 1993 statement about how only people who accept Jesus go to heaven. This time he was playing the role of Texas governor and talking to a couple of reporters. "You know what I'm gonna tell those Jews when I get to Israel, don't you Herman?" he asked a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. Ken Herman, replied that he didn't know and Bush, apparently thinking he was a riot, blurted out, "I'm telling 'em they're all going to hell."

I forgot which ring Dante would assign a monstrosity like Bush and I certainly hope his Jewish supporters, lik the disturbed African-Americans who support him or the homosexuals who support him, never live to regret their support for the American version of the far right that has done so much grievous harm over the centuries not just to their co-religionists, but to the entire tenor of human relations that allows people with differences to live together with respect and in a degree of harmony.

4 Comments:

At 8:20 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"What Do Bush and his far right allies (christo-fascist jesus-crackers) really think about Jews"?
Easy: accept Jesus as your Lord or go to hell. The real question is why are Jews on any part of the political spectrum playing with these wackos. The historical analogy would be the Polish or Ukranian Jews, living in the Shtetln, trying to ingratiate themselves with the local peasants.
Same people, same result.

Steve

 
At 8:52 PM, Blogger maimun said...

The Sunday before Election Day 2000, a national Muslim organization came out endorsing Bush and Muslims across America all jumped on their computers to spread the word and swing votes.

As you said, I too, have "always been able to look at Bush's narrow, hateful face and see the bigotry right down to the core of his dark, dark soul."

That was when I started using the phrase "Chickens voting for Colonel Saunders."

I don't understand it. That they might be teaching their children that being a victim or target is fine scares me to death.

But, that's exactly what this administration wants.
Maimun

 
At 10:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

MoveOn deletes an egregious anti-semetic posting from a bulletin board where thousands have posted perfectly appropriate comments. Two weeks later, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League)publicly rebukes MoveOn (without fact-checking, apparently) for the posting (which, remember, had been removed) -- at the request of the Lieberman campaign!

If you would like to POLITELY complain to the ADL and request an apology to MoveOn, here is the site: http://www.adl.org/contact_us.asp

Sadly, a Lieberman complaint to the has resulted in an unfounded charge against MoveOn.

 
At 4:31 PM, Blogger M. Shahin said...

Another bombshell, Bush let drop!

Like maimun, I didn't trust this guy since I first saw him. He always looked like a gangster to me, and now he has proven it hands down.

 

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