Republican Jews Alarmed at the Prospect of a Void in the House and Senate

[onehandle]

WASHINGTON — Jewish Republicans know they are not many in number. But at a recent gathering at the St. Regis Hotel in downtown Washington, they pondered the meaning of an especially alarming figure: zilch. As in zip, bupkis, zero.

The stinging defeat last month of Eric Cantor, the House majority leader and the highest-ranking Jewish politician in American history, has created the possibility of Republicans having no Jewish representation in the House or Senate for the first time in more than a half-century.

“Sometimes, a Jewish person just wants to be able to go to Congress and speak with a Jewish person,” Beverly Goldstein, a Republican donor from Beachwood, Ohio, explained in the hotel lobby after a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

“And Chuck Schumer is not it for us,” she added, referring to the Democratic senator from New York.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/us/politics/republican-jews-alarmed-at-the-prospect-of-a-void-in-the-house-and-senate-.html

Republican Jews, like Gay Republicans simply make no sense.

[elleng]

1. Posted earlier elsewhere.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12231169

Some history in the article discusses somethings about why 'Republican Jews' make sense, or did sometimes.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. They don't need to worry; Republican Christians are practically Likudnik on Israel issues.

As are a substantial number of Jewish Democrats.

[cali]

4. right because their concerns are limited to Israel.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Did you read the article?

"concern for Israel drives much of the eagerness to elect Jewish Republicans".

I didn't say that; the article said that.

[mucifer]

3. We got plenty of Jewish Dems in congress. I'm gonna count Bernie because I love him!

We got Al Franken, Alan Grayson, Jan Schakowsky and many more. (although some aren't so great).

I found a list of the Jewish dems 10 in the senate and 21 in the house:

https://www.njdc.org/site/page/jewish_members_of_congress

I'm Jewish myself and I have to say it does suck that there aren't more African Americans in the senate. We are far less percent of the population in the USA and have far far more representation in congress. That makes me sad.

I am glad however that there are no more Jewish republicans in congress.

[libodem]

6. Your last sentence clinches it for me

My idea of Jewish people has always been that they were liberal intellects. It is a new phenomenon in my estimation these neocons. Must be a special level of cognitive dissonance to compartmentalize all the pieces and parts of that puzzle.

[Reter]

7. I wouldn't exactly compare a Republican Jew to a gay Republican

One group gets hated on by Republicans daily. The other not nearly as much.