First off, does anybody have any idea what the hell this guy is talking about? That's some god-awful bit of rhetoric there, Droney. BTW, identity politics went out of style around the time we elected Kennedy. I doubt you're going around telling black people to only vote for black candidates. Next you'll be scolding us for not voting in nice predictable blocs like the Satmar. Well excuuuuuse me for having values beyond, "is he a member of the tribe"? Mea culpa, asshole."If you consider yourself first and foremost part of the pro-Israel community, you will stick with Joe Lieberman," said Grossman, who also is a past president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "If you’re so overwhelmingly convinced that ending the war as soon as possible is of paramount importance, I could understand why you would find Joe Lieberman a candidate you could no longer support."
"The people who are doing this have no concern for Israel or issues of concern to the Jewish community," said Dr. Ben Chouake, president of Norpac, a nonpartisan, New Jersey-based political action committee. "This is an example of an extreme left that really is looking to put a scalp on their wall to show that they have power."
..."I find the behavior of a large segment of the Jewish community to be reprehensible and outrageous," said John Droney, a former chairman of the state party who is advising Lieberman to run as an independent. "When he’s in trouble like this, they all ought to rally to him. It’s too bad that you have to listen to an Irish-American to realize that you’ve got to support your own home cooking."
This last bit is nice, too:
"There’s no question about it; Lieberman is running a two-phased campaign," said
Rabbi Menachem Genack, an Orthodox Union official who lives in Englewood. "He has to run against a nationwide coalition of bloggers and also against Lamont."
Damn straight, Rabbi. And if you're smart, you won't piss off any more bloggers- we've still got our eyes on you from Postville.
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