Reply #144: If you go strictly by a head count, I can see what you are saying. [View All]

I agree that it is a minority of Jews who supported Bush.

But what about other, more far-reaching, forms of support? I give you David Horowitz. Read him, if you haven't. He is absolutely on fire in his support of this whole neocon empire, including Bush.

There are many gifted writers and persuaders among Jews. They can have a real effect.

I was just so used to seeing Jewish people in general go more for what is called the "liberal" side of things; it was downright startling when I began to notice some influential Jewish people who were against democrats, against liberals. Look at Jonah Goldberg--and yes, I know his mother is not Jewish, but he definitely takes his paternal Jewish roots into account in his personal identity. Horowitz. Jewish World Review (please tell me that that publication is not really Jewish, but is only calling itself Jewish!)

Scooter Libby. Feith and Perle and Wolfowitz. Chertoff. Negroponte. Ben Ginsburg. Eliot Abrams. Judith Miller. (Okay, she's half Jewish.) Jack Abramoff is connected to Bush as surely as he is connected to many other repubs--don't forget he brokered that $9,000,000 deal where that African president bought an audience with the austere President Bush. How about that Cohen guy at the Washington Post? The one who comes out with those incredible Bush-butt-kissing articles that make all of us roll our eyes in disbelief that ANYONE could be such a shill for Bush. Then there's the ubiquitous Bill Kristol. Charles Krauthammer. Wolf Blitzer. Joe Lieberman. Diane Feinstein (whose husband is minting money in Iraq due to contracts awarded by the * administration.)

This is not a majority of Jews. But this is a group of influential people. These people are not just regular "one vote" people like me, who have nothing but a single vote to offer to a politician.

I don't think any of the above are stupid people. At least in the case of some others who kiss Bush's ass, we can say, well, they're just dullards. (Tucker Carlson comes to mind.) So what in the hell is wrong with these people??

Next week: we ask what in the hell is wrong with Tony Snow, Brit Hume, Joe Scarborough, Walter Williams, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, the entire gentile staff of the National Review, Chris Matthews, Tony Blair, that athlete's wife who wrote those venomous columns in defense of Shrubby, Bill Clinton, the Beltway Boys, and the non-Jewish residents of Crawford, Texas.