With No Adelson Funds, RJC Moves to Twitter to Derail Hagel Nomination

[Purveyor]

After reportedly burning through $6 million from Sheldon Adelosn during the 2012 election, the Republican Jewish Coalition moved to social media to push its message. Specifically, the official Twitter account of the RJC (@RJCHQ) is in over-drive in recent weeks to derail the potential nomination of Chuck Hagel to be America’s next Secretary of State.

Literally more than eight out of ten tweets from the RJC are about Hagel and almost all of them negative. In fact on Friday, the RJC tweeted and Re-tweeted a combined 110+ tweets and the overwhelming majority were about Hagel.

Many Dems are not happy with Hagel so no one would expect the RJC to be anything less than active in derailing the potential Hagel Nomination. But it is unclear at this time if the RJC – with Mr. Adelson taking a breather – will post billboards yelling “Hagel? Oy Vey!” But on the other hand Adelson indicated that he will spend in the future, so the RJC does not need to close its doors just yet.

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[BainsBane]

1. When Democrats agree with Adelson

it's time for them to seriously reconsider their position. If the President wants Hagel, I'm fine with the choice.

[kelliekat44]

2. This is good enough reason to select Hagel for Defense. nt

[still_one]

3. Actually that is bull, most Democrats are quite fine with the choice. There is an excellent article

in Time magazine by Joe Klein discussing this

"This whole anti-Hagel crap was started by william kristol in the weekly standard, where he accused Hagel of being "anti-Israel" and "pro-appeasement of Iran"

kristol's pro-appeasement centers on this Hagel quote: "A military strike against Iran...is not a viable, feasible, responsible option"

However, the position of almost everybody who has looked at this problem including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and much of Israel's defense and intelligence apparatus, is that military action against Iran is a fool's errand."

"Hagel's belief that we should talk to all parties if they're willing to talk to us"

Klein goes on to state:

"The more scurrilous of Kristol's charges is that Hagel is anti-Israel. This is a bullying canard that has been thrown about with increasing frequency, an sloppiness by American supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud government. In Hagel's case, it means that he has opposed the continued illegal expansion of Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands, a position held by every American President since Johnson."

He concludes by saying that AIPAC doesn't speak for the overwhelming majority of American Jews who voted for Obama, "love Israel and want it to survive as a Jewish democracy, but do not favor the military adventurism that has brought so much grief in that region."