New Group: Jews Should Learn To Stop Worrying And Love Sarah Palin

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" Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin calls itself a group of "academic, religious and political leaders, dedicated to promoting consideration of Gov. Sarah Palin's political positions in the wider American Jewish community," but for now, publicly, the start-up is just one man.

Binyamin Korn, a Philadelphia-based writer and activist, tells TPMDC the group has been in the works for "months" but he and some as-yet unnamed colleagues decided to launch it now in response to "the escalation of rhetoric from the White House" on Israel.

"We have taken this position because Governor Palin to our eyes is mainstream, charismatic, and she seems to get under the president's skin effectively," says Korn, the former executive editor of Philadelphia's Jewish Exponent. "This is not a question of questioning anybody's Jewish bona fides or their Jewish intentions. This is a question of being opposed to policies, political positions, and ideas about what is really right and good and the best way to go."

Since the group's Web site, JewsForSarah.com launched Friday evening, it's gotten thousands of hits, Korn says. "



The graphics on the site include the picture above of a rifle-wielding Palin.


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[LeftishBrit]

1. 'The start-up is just one man'?

I suppose if the group really works hard, it might be able to double its membership!

[rpannier]

2. Thousands of hits... BFing deal

It doesn't take much to get thousands of hits. If it sounds weird and/or stupid enough many will look.

[ladywnch]

11. thousands of people loooking for the payoff of the joke.

I'm sure most of these people think this is a joke site and if they go to it they'll find out the joke.......not that they support the idea of Palin.

[Walk away]

3. I actually have a Jewish acquaintance who is a big fan of Palin.

He is a very well off, East Coast businessman and author. He is a complete and total neocon. He had actually met Palin during a business trip to Alaska and during the 2008 election he told me that she was brilliant and was more qualified than our President.

I believe he was simply lying because he thinks that he is much smarter than most people he meets. It's a neocon thing. They believe that stars like Reagan and Palin are shiny objects to dangle in front of the stupid base.

Every religious or cultural group has their bad apples.

[KharmaTrain]

4. American Likudniks..."Some Of My Best Friends"

Unfortunately I know several Likudniks...Israel first and foremost and see the GOOP as their "friends". They see fundies like Hagee and Dobson who play up the "we must protect Israel" part but stop listening when it gets to the Armegeddon part. They're cut from the same cloth as Kristol (Mooselini's "Svenghali"), the Kagans, LIEberman and others who get called AIPACer here but Likudniks would be a better definition.

[katandmoon]

5. Well, now the MSM will have a new meme -- "Jews like Sarah Palin"

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6. You can see that coming a country mile away.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Well, you CAN see Israel from Alaska

On the evening news.

[YOY]

8. I couldn't read past the word "academic"

n.t.

[mod mom]

9. Few Jews would be interested but here is one AIPAC type that probably would be:

dangerously utilizing fundies to promote their own agenda:

An Obama-Hater for Clinton, Temporarily
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By Jason Horowitz
March 5, 2008 | 3:12 p.m


Meet Todd Appelbaum, a 46-year-old from Columbus, who wore a shirt that says “Osama for Obama” to the Clinton campaign’s election-night event in Ohio last night.

The white t-shirt, with an image of Barack Obama dressed in traditional Somali garb, is adorned with a blue Hillary Clinton button, although Appelbaum is not what one would call a real Hillary Clinton supporter.

“I voted for Hillary today,” he said, “because I’m concerned that, God forbid, Barack Obama will beat McCain. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

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http://www.observer.com/2008/obama-hater-clinton-temporarily



Patriot Pastors


Televangelist the Rev. Rod Parsley of Columbus preaches against abortion, gay marriage and "judicial tyranny." His Center for Moral Clarity instructs pastors on how to arrange voter registration drives and contact legislators.




By: MARILYN H. KARFELD Senior Staff Reporter
Published: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:59 AM EST

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While Johnson of the Fairfield Christian Church conceived ORP, the Rev. Rod Parsley, a wealthy TV evangelist and senior pastor of the World Harvest Church located outside Columbus, is the name and face behind the campaign. For the last year, Parsley has been speaking to the faithful across the country about gay marriage and abortion on his "Silent No More" tour.

Last July, Parsley formed the Center for Moral Clarity, "a Christ-centered voice and force in the United States to help raise the standard of moral excellence and protect the Judeo-Christian values upon which our nation was founded," according to the organization's website. Among the political and cultural issues the center hopes to tackle are abortion, bioethics, judicial tyranny and religious liberties. The center also instructs pastors and individuals in how to arrange church voter registration drives, legislative contacts, and petition initiatives. It provides legal guidelines and boundaries for ministers under section 501C-3 (the IRS category for tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations).

Several months ago, Parsley's church hosted the third annual gathering of Christian pastors. Its goal: galvanize the Christian leadership to get involved in politics through the ORP. About 1,100 ministers from 80 of Ohio's 88 counties listened to Parsley and guest speaker Roy Moore, former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice ousted over his refusal to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the courthouse rotunda.

Todd Appelbaum, a 44-year-old native Clevelander who has lived in Columbus for the past 25 years, attended the event along with a number of Republican government officials, including Blackwell. Former chairman of Columbus's chapter of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Appelbaum is now active in a Jewish-Christian coalition that works to support Israel and other issues.
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http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2005/07/29/news/local/acover0729.txt

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Bill Kristol is Jewish

and he was apparently the one who persuaded Republican politicians to consider her seriously. :shrug:

[Behind the Aegis]

13. The theory behind that....

...Jews like their politicians stupid and pliable, it makes it easier for us to control them in our Zionist conquest of the world.

BTW, if you think I am joking, I can assure you I am not and would be happy to send you to a few sites which extol the above theory.

[Lance_Boyle]

12. Did he just misspell "Silverman?" n/t

[fascisthunter]

14. Palin has the Same Mentality the Nazis Did

she just wasn't born in that time period and in that country, yet she fits the description just fine.