This is just embarrassing:
Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin is an independent group of academic, religious and political leaders, dedicated to promoting consideration of Gov. Sarah Palin’s political positions in the wider American Jewish community.
We find Ms. Palin’s policy positions on Israel, Iran, national security, fiscal responsibility, energy, and social policy – as well as her record on these issues as governor of Alaska and candidate for Vice President of the United States – to be serious, substantive and politically mainstream.
Oh, could she see Israel and Iran from her house too?
Though not at present a candidate for any political office, Gov. Palin’s track record in public office has been exemplary, and has withstood the test of the most demanding scrutiny of investigative news media. Gov. Palin’s ongoing contribution to the public discourse in America is welcome.
Sarah Palin isn't exactly a great friend to American Jews. After all, she did just declare that the United States is a Christian nation.
She denounced this week’s Wisconsin federal court ruling that government observance of a National Day of Prayer was unconstitutional — which the crowd joined in booing. She asserted that America needs to get back to its Christian roots and rejected any notion that “God should be separated from the state.
“Hearing any leader declare that America isn’t a Christian nation and poking at allies like Israel in the eye — it is mind-boggling to see some of our nation’s actions recently, but politics truly is a topic for another day,” Palin said.
So let's get this straight. A group of American Jews have banded together to try to persuade the 78 percent of us who voted against McCain and Palin that we shouldn't hate Sarah Palin?
For her detractors, both conservative and liberal, she is uncouth, unschooled, a hick, anti-science and anti-intellectual, an upstart, and a religious fanatic. There is no group so firmly in the latter camp as American Jews.
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Ask an average American Jew about Palin and you are likely to get a nonverbal response—a shiver, a shudder, a roll of the eyes, or a guffaw.
The vast majority of American Jews are Democratic, liberal, pro-choice, pro-education, and anti-Pat Buchanan. Also, American Jews tend to take issue with that whole "Christian nation" thing. Which makes it a little hard to believe that this "Jews for Palin" group will get very far with the rest of us, given that she's the antithesis of everything most American Jews believe and support.
Come to think of it, this new group may just be the dumbest group of Jews in America. Which is sort of fitting, given whom they're endorsing.