01-10-2012, 04:19 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Stuff about the GOP President wannabes
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The news is filled today with the fact that Newt Gingrich's campaign has been revived by ultra-Zionist Sheldon Adelson's $5 million contribution to a Gingrich Super PAC.
National Public Radio says that South Carolina television stations will soon be pouring out ads attacking Romney. NPR reporters gave Adelson's Israel cause just one vague phrase, but the New York Times is more forthcoming: in the jump, it says that Gingrich's recent statement that Palestinians are an invented people paid off for him.
Mr. Adelson echoed Mr. Gingrich’s [invented people] comments within days in an interview with Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper.
“Read the history of those who call themselves Palestinians, and you will hear why Gingrich said recently that the Palestinians are an invented people,” Mr. Adelson said.
The Times also hints at the Jewish sweepstakes element of the campaign, emphasizing big Romney Jews who called Adelson to lobby him against the gift:
Fred Zeidman, a Texas energy executive who is another prominent Jewish political contributor and a supporter of Mr. Romney, said he was among those who called Mr. Adelson, and they talked about why he was still backing Mr. Gingrich.
The Jerusalem Post headline is pretty blunt: "Jewish billionaire made donation to keep Republican candidate competitive in S. Carolina primary, 'Washington Post' reports."
My friend Scott McConnell writes in an email:
I can't think of a recent incident in American politics (Andrew Young's firing?) where the power of the lobby is illustrated in such a direct way, and with the potential to be noticed by so many people. If the Adelson ads do real damage to Romney in South Carolina (as well they should!) thousands of committed Romney supporters, many of them youngish and very high achieving Mormons) will take direct notice of a phenomenon which had before never touched them in any way they were aware of, and to which they had surely never given much thought.
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New order for Republican primary battles: Iowa, Adelson, New Hampshire, South Carolina
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