Discussion: Rand Meets With GOP Mega-Donor: Tells 'American Jewry' He Stands With Israel

system1 · March 6, 2015, 4:42pm

Discussion for article #234040

astro_walker · March 6, 2015, 5:25pm

Unlikely. Most american jews dislike Netanyahu and see right through his war mongering.

rssrai · March 6, 2015, 5:26pm

I think that people who are sympathetic to Israel do not want to see a war with Iran. Republicans keep pushing for war and I just see that as backfiring. Thank goodness for President Obama, because if a republican was POTUS we would already be at war with Iran.

whatithink · March 6, 2015, 5:26pm

This obsession with Israel is sickening. And, of course he was going to meet with Adelson. Every Republican candidate jumps whenever he snaps his fingers.

darrtown · March 6, 2015, 5:29pm

One mega donor Jewish guy meets Paul and that means all Jews are gonna vote GOP??? That’s really fractured reasoning

khaaannn · March 6, 2015, 5:31pm

No. They KNEEL when Adelson drops his pants.

mames5 · March 6, 2015, 5:31pm

I have wondered about this. Is this even a serious possibility, or is the American Jewish electorate too socially progressive for the GOP?

berkshire_boy · March 6, 2015, 5:31pm

Is “Jewry” an archaic term, like Negroes? Seems a little tone deaf at least.

afisher · March 6, 2015, 5:32pm

Love the hyperbole: Increasingly drifting. As Rand sits down with One Person.

cabchi · March 6, 2015, 5:33pm

Just continues the Paul family’s extraordinary insight into the Jewish community. If it’s Hillary v Rand, it will be Hillary with 90% of the Jewish vote.

As to other political races, the Republican party’s visceral connection to the Jewish community is exemplified by the fact that zero Republican Senators are Jewish, while there is all of 1 Republican Congressman as a member of the historically dominant Republican Congressional majority.

avattoir · March 6, 2015, 5:35pm

“Gallup Poll”.

Big wow there: GOP-owned and operated polling concern, noteworthy over the past 13 years for ‘push polling’ questioning and dubious sample adjustments, that in 2012 proved LEAST accurate, independent, reliable and trustworthy, comes up with the “American Jewry” - kid you not - ‘move’ toward GOP.

So poll. What compelling. Who convinces? Why point?

More accurate, reality-world description of typical member of “American GOP Jewry” = one that looks, sounds, speaks, and doles out moolah just like, as well as answering to the name of, “Sheldon Adelson”.

Pretty much every single one. Damnedest thing, that.

callmeeric · March 6, 2015, 5:36pm

“I think that should send a message to a lot of American Jewry that really the time to think about who supports Israel is now,” Paul said.

And just yesterday TPM was reporting on how Rand didn’t do humor.

cabchi · March 6, 2015, 5:37pm

This is wrong. Most Jews do not dislike Netanyahu. It is a figment of the political left’s imagination to think so. But most American Jews - by a very big majority - voted for Obama and are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on Israeli issues: not a free ride, mind you, but the benefit of the doubt.

sonsofares · March 6, 2015, 5:38pm

Great news! Now just get the Knights Templar and Illuminati vote and the presidency is yours!

phillydave · March 6, 2015, 5:38pm

He was going to say “Hebrews,” but caught himself.

feathered_head · March 6, 2015, 5:39pm

The jews drifting towards the GOP are mostly the elderly. They were children during WW2 and they internalized a lot of fear. Knowing some of my older relatives and their friends, they are not media savvy and are most susceptible to propaganda that targets their fears of anti-semitism and their own latent bigotries. They are the ones who regularly forward those obnoxious Obama hates Israel chain emails. They aren’t right wingers in any other respect – just super paranoid and getting played because of it.

jeffgee1 · March 6, 2015, 5:40pm

Sorry, Curly. Maybe Adelson funds the GOP. “American Jewry”? Nah gah happen.

george_spiggott · March 6, 2015, 5:42pm

Australian Actress Margot Robbie may go out with me.

It’s just as likely.

darrtown · March 6, 2015, 5:42pm

“Paul also said that President Obama’s icy rapport with Netanyahu could
tilt Jewish voters toward the Republican Party. A Gallup poll from
January indicated that American Jews are increasingly drifting toward the GOP, though the study made no mention of the bumpy relationship between the two leaders.”

Paul completely glosses over the absolute support Israel has. That Bibi and Obama don’t get along is more Bibi’s fault for acting like Dick Cheney and his unreasoning statements. In 2002 in a speech to Congress Bibi said if we take out Saddam there’d be a settled peace in the mid-east. MMMhmm that worked out REAL well didn’t it? Paul mistakes personal dislike for national dislike.

rich_in_nj · March 6, 2015, 5:44pm

Jews aren’t one issue voters, dude.