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The latest smear tactic by the Democrats is to paint Sarah Palin as an anti-Semite because she once supported Pat Buchanan. Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida (a self-described "Fire-Breathing Liberal" who has called for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney) has gone so far as to label Palin's nomination "an insult to all American Jews". Well, I'm an American Jew (albeit one of the relatively few who don't embrace the Democrat Party), and I once admired Pat Buchanan for his unassailable patriotism and for his grasp of how the culture war weakens us and threatens our very future. Only when I learned that William Safire and William F. Buckley Jr. had both concluded, "reluctantly", that Buchanan was an anti-Semite did I temper my enthusiasm for Pat Buchanan. But his stands on domestic and moral issues still make sense. So I'm not quite ready to buy the Democrat spin and jump on the "Jews insulted by-, distrustful of Palin" bandwagon. I'm far more embarrassed by the way most American Jews vote for Democrats when it is clearly the Republicans (and American Christians!) who stand more steadfast in support of Israel. I'm also embarrassed at the way Israel itself has allowed Liberal appeasers to assume its "leadership". And don't get me started on the way most American Jews support efforts to subvert the Second Amendment. The entire point of the Second Amendment is that government is not to be trusted, and that, as a deterrent to the tyranny of a government turning on its own citizenry, the government should fear the citizenry rather than the other way around. Who better than Jews should have learned that lesson? What could the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto -- who took on the Nazi war machine with sticks and stones and improvised weapons -- have accomplished if they'd just had a little more "hardware"? So, if we're looking for an insult (as too many ethnic and "special interest" groups seem to be doing nowadays), whose candidacy is the real insult to Jews? Which is worse: That Sarah Palin once supported a man who (later!) praised Adolf Hitler's "courage": or that Barack Obama attended, for 20 years, a church that gave Louis Farrakhan a "lifetime achievement award"? And is Pat Buchanan any more anti-Semitic and anti-Israel than Jimmy "I never met a Commie despot I didn't like" Carter? Are Jews better off with a candidate who is loved by Carter, Farrakhan and Hamas, and who is eager to "dialogue", without pre-conditions, with the 21st Century's would-be Hitler, Ahmadinejad? This smear on Sarah Palin is an attempt to keep McCain from carrying Florida, with its many Jewish voters. It might work, given that they are already predisposed to vote Democrat. But so far, the Jews of Alaska (yes, there are said to be some 6000 of them!) have nothing but praise for Sarah Palin. And I'd bet that Jews living on "The Last Frontier" have a better grasp of reality and survival than those living in Palm Beach.
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