Mitt Romney Captures Jerusalem
Speaking to an often-cheering group of about 400 people in Jerusalem, Governor Mitt Romney gave a speech less notable for what he said than for the fact that the audience believed he was sincere in saying it.
At a beautiful outdoor setting with the Old City in the background, Romney declared his strong support for Israel, using phrases often heard from American presidents. He also proclaimed his view that Jerusalem is Israel’s eternal capital. The difference between the two presidential candidates, of course, is that those Israelis listening to both of them are less inclined to think that when President Barack Obama said similar things to AIPAC meetings he was describing what he thinks and intends to do.
Clearly, Romney was restrained by the American principle that partisan politics stops at the water’s edge, the view that no politician should criticize a president or U.S. government while abroad. Thus, Obama’s name—or even his specific policies—was never explicitly mentioned.
What Romney did do, however, was to scatter among the assertions of U.S. support for Israel’s security and a strong belief in a U.S.-Israel alliance some subtle references that many viewers and much of the mass media are likely to miss. Here are the key ones, which give some hints about Romney’s future campaign and possibly his presidency:
–Not allergic to Israel’s center-right. Romney quoted former Prime Minister Menahem Begin twice and referred to “my friend, Bibi Netanyahu.” Obama wouldn’t have cited either man and is known to loathe Netanyahu. Romney and Netanyahu have known each other for years. The Begin quotes were significant: that Israel will never again let its independence be destroyed (a reference perhaps to Israel’s need not to be completely subservient to America’s current president) and that if people say they want to destroy you then believe them (an explicit reference to Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons).
On the other hand, however, Romney should have quoted Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, or someone else to balance things off. Romney should not mirror Obama’s approach of choosing one sector of Israeli politics to cultivate. And since there is a broad Israeli national consensus on “foreign policy” this would not be at all hard to do.
–“The reality of hate.” This phrase used by Romney struck me as very significant. It occurred in the context of speaking about how many Arab and Muslim forces feel about Israel. It shows that he is aware that the desire to destroy and injure Israel goes beyond pragmatic considerations and is not something people will be talked out of trying to do. It is enormously important for an American president to understand that there are those in the Middle East who hate the United States and Israel and that it is impossible to appease or befriend them.
Pablum from the worst Republican candidate I have seen in years.
Go ahead and hate me. We can do better than this.
Spindok
Apparently the Israelis don’t think it’s pablum. You’d speak different?
Like him or not and I really don’t he’s all Republicans, conservatives and libertarians have instead of Obama. Unless, you’d rather Obama?
There’s a lefty operative like this guy who always writes fake letters to my local paper. They always start, “AS A LIFE-LONG REPUBLICAN…”
And if you want to see love for an American candidate, wait ’til Romney gets to Poland. They will add an “-ski” to his name and crown him their king.
I get the distinct impression that Spindok would be complaining just as loudly if Abraham Lincoln were the presumptive nominee. If I recall correctly, Lincoln was by no means a runaway favorite and was nominated only after multiple ballots at the Republican convention.
Romney was by no means my original pick, but he has started strong and continues to pleasantly surprise me. He appears to be an intelligent man, an educated man, a decent man, and a man with character, resolve, hidden steel, and modesty—all of which stand in stark contrast to the posturing, bloviating empty suit currently acting as president.
He is, moreover, what we’ve got. Wishing for some mythical man on horseback will not provide one, nor unseat the incumbent. Unlike McCain, Romney appears to be in it to win. He will make mistakes—mistakes are inevitable in any campaign—and he will be mercilessly sandbagged by a traditional media still tied to running interference for Obama.
We do not need to help them; we should not help them. Romney may not be a conservative’s conservative, but the nation which ran to elect Obama will not elect a conservative’s conservative—at least not this time around. Romney is a man, and a good man; he’s my man this election, and if you want to see the current regime out and America stumbling back to becoming America again, Romney damn well ought to be your man too, despite whatever imperfections he has.
Hey Buzzsaw, I really want to commend you for your great insight..
I would hope everyone here will re read your above comment.
In today’s world of instant this and that it is often easy to initially overlook a person with actual good character traits.
The accepted norm unfortunately becomes the likeness of the classless and clueless current occupant of the White House.
President Romney will change that perception first thing.
Amen brother
You hit it out of the park.
Wishing for some mythical man on horseback will not provide one …
Not to mention the fact that the mythical “man on horseback” tends not to work out all that well.
That being the case, “an intelligent man, an educated man, a decent man, and a man with character, resolve, hidden steel, and modesty” is far to be preferred.
Eloquent, and on the mark! Great job Buzzsaw
Buzzsaw- Yes, Romney is what we got. Is he perfect? Nope, but I don’t want perfect right now, I want NOT Obama. My Bassett would be a better CiC than the Obungler.
I will work to have Romney and other GoP candidates elected this fall.
THEN I go back to work with The Campaign For Primary Accountability. Leo Linbeck III Super-PAC to get rid of incumbents. Want to change your local, state or Federal government and the conversations around them? Go check this bunch out.
BTW, The CPA was birthed at The Belmont Club where Leo (L3) was a regular commenter. The whole thing is real and working. They helped primary Texas’ own Silvestre Reyes and others in other states. It is a bi-partisan effort to change Congress up from the entrenched incumbent down.
Never let the perfect become the enemy of the good.
Furthermore, if he has the most delegates, he got them because that’s what the rank-and-file in the primaries and caucuses want. Sorry to the conspiricists, but he didn’t buy those delegates. They’re not for sale. You may not like where the center of the Republican party is, but it is where it is. It’s wacky conspiracy stuff to believe that the nominee got there without any support.
This is what the center of the party wants. If you have a problem with that, work on communicating your message, but don’t whine about reality.
Sometimes people just need a simple formula to remember through all the hyperbole and propaganda.
Mormon
_______
Marxist
Easy, right?
Consider that big O’s fans no longer deny that he was Muslim as a child. He even attended a madrassa in Indonesia. Rev. Wright is on tape saying “I told hime that he could learn Christianity without giving up his Muslim beliefs”
Further consider that it is the death penalty to leave the Muslim faith. Do you hear the world of Islam screaming for the traditional punishment of apostates? Do you remember him bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia? If the Saudis believed him apostate, they’d have never allowed that meeting.
Do you remember his interview with George Stephanopolis “In accordance with my Muslim faith” “Uh,,, you mean your CHRISTIAN faith, don’t you?” “Oh, yes.”
No, the line is pretty obviously
Mormon
———–
Muslim
PS, what political groups has he moved heaven and earth to get into power in the middle east. Hint: ______________ Brotherhood.
Remeber, Islam has no “Golden Rule”. The entire concept is foreign and laughable to them. Their god is pretty much the god of the old testament, and I don’t want to live in that theocracy.
Your handle “suicidal idiot” pretty much sums it up. Allah “the same as the god [sic] of the old testament [sic]“? We Jews do not labor under a command to convert the entire world, or any individual, to Judaism on pain of death, unlike Muslims (Qur’an 9:5). Learn before speaking.
I see. So you do not worship the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, or Moses and Aaron? Are you some sort of pagan.
A Christian converting to Judaism in the old days was burned at the stake. So were many, many Jews (just burned alive) whose crime was existing.
No, that was stuff that needed to be said, not pablum. What was it you wanted him to say, Spindok?
Defeatism’s silly, especially now. It would be a pro-Romney landslide if the election were Tuesday. Step back from the news, and quit trying to disspirit others.
Better hope the election is a land slide, I remember when 40,000 dead Chicagoans voted for Kennedy, throwing Illinois, and the election, to the democrats.
It was a great speech. Your comment isn’t pablum. It’s poop.
Romney: “The reality of hate.” Sorry pal, that’s not pablum. More like experience. I shared an office for several years with a fellow who was a guest of Herr Hitler in one of those supposedly apocryphal camps. Many Israelis have living relatives who shared that experience. To those folks and their families, the admonition “if people say they want to destroy you then believe them…” isn’t rhetoric, it’s fact. We all just are hoping that the younger generation in Israel understands this at a gut level. It’s clear that the guy currently in the Oval Office does not. At least there’s hope for Romney.
Believe me, we didn’t think Romney’s speech was ”pablum” as you call it.
Romney may not be the ideal candidate, but ANYONE is better than Obama.
After being treated like shit by Obama, the Leftism moron Muslim Brotherhood stooge, for 4 years, Romney positively shines.
“We can do better than this.” No, we can’t, not this year4 anyway. So, the question is as always: do you accept a less than perfect candidate in opposition to Obama, or do you help saddle us with four more years of this disaster?
It was hardly pablum. While not mentioning Obama by name, and thus upholding tradition, it was a very effective critique of obamas policies, and a very good statement of his own. I am beginning to see Romney not just as the lesser of 2 evils, although Obama is so incredibly bad that would be enough, but as possibly a real force for good. Sure he is not Reagan reborn, but then who is. on the other hand, I remember that when Reagan was first running, many repubs didn’t think that much of him either. At least he is honest, competant, and is announcing the right policies. As for greatness, we will have to wait and see, but I think the potential is there. At least we finally have a candidate that really beleives in free enterprise, and is not afraid to say so.
Not right now, you can’t.
And have certainly not done for the past four years.
“Romney gave a speech less notable for what he said that for the fact that the audience believed he was sincere in saying it”
That’s modern politics in a nutshell!
I totally disagree. I’m not a big Romney fan (never was), but I found the speech notable for what -was- said. Point by point, it was a refutation of Obama’s policies for the last three-plus years.
I think it (along with his PA speech and Obama’s business bashing speech) will be seen as this election’s turning point.
Spindok:
We do We do
(Hmmm. Wonder why you are called Spindok?)
I want a better Rebublican ticket than what we have so far. So this is what we have into presidential election and there is no turning back now. Better than Obama is not going to win when you are facing an incumbent with pretty good political skill. That is all he might be good at but we need something better to win.
Romney fever is not sweeping the country. He will lose and anyone placing bets would not give him favorable odds. He has not done so well on the fertile ground of UK or Israel either.
Bush, McCain, Romney… Where are the great Republicans? ,
We had Lincoln, Reagan , maybe few others
Honest assessment is the path to success. Preaching to the choir leads nowhere. That is gloomy but I can score points because I bought more ammo (well kinda did bought a big box of .45 reloads to shoot at the range, got a few duds. whatever. Nobody ever posts about fishing here. Stopping now.).
So good news is Republicans can keep congress for the most part. We need Republican majority in both houses if we can get it. That might keep things in balance until next time.
Shalom,
Spindok
(my online name does not derive from politics Gesina).
You’re not saying a thing. This is our reality.
You sound like a UK Tory. He spoke the truth though foolish for the moment. Big deal. Brits who can’t get over it and wish Obama a second term are not worthy as allies, nor friends of Americans concerned about the policies and destruction we face.
From what I read he’s doing much better with Israel than Obama. They make their own judgment who are you to state otherwise.
The race is neck and neck, he might actually win because neither is Obama fever sweeping the nation. You think Obama’s oratory skills make him a better man in office? Vote for him, Spindok.
Hey bub, you should’a worked hard and earned it.
“I want a better Rebublican ticket than what we have so far.”
Who doesn’t? Romney is the best of the people who stepped up and we desperately need someone who actually knows how the economy works.
“Romney fever is not sweeping the country.”
This is a good thing. We don’t want some over-hyped empty headed celebrity like we have now. We need a person of substance which isn’t likely to fill the role Hollywood superstar. Romney doesn’t have young girls screaming at him like he is the Beebs and this is a good thing. We already picked one president because he had great abs and that was a big mistake.
“Nobody ever posts about fishing here.”
It has been a great year for fishing up here in the PNW
Been killing it on drop shots, wacky rigs, and Texas rigs. Stick baits and trick worms been working well for me as long as they are the right colors. Now the weather is warm looking for some top water action.
“So good news is Republicans can keep congress for the most part. We need Republican majority in both houses if we can get it. That might keep things in balance until next time.”
Totally agree. Who knows how the presidential election will go and if Romney can’t pull it off we need both houses of congress to hold Obama in check.
Spindok, the fact of the matter is, you have your choice: vote to get the Democrat out of office, or vote to keep the Republican out of office. There is no third alternative. Period.
The proof will come on the morning the U.S. flag is raised over our new Embassy in Jerusalem.
And, Spindok, go pound Arab sand.
I love Romney, but I’ll believe it when I see it. This policy did not start with Obama. As Gingrich pointed out, the embassy could be moved tomorrow. All he has to do is declare to Counselate the embassy. There is so much garbage out there – do you know that according to Treasury, Jerusalem has its own currency?
You know what I want from Romney? I want the text, nowe of the executive order he will sign. It should say:
(1) As in the Jerusalem Act passed by Congress (many years ago!), the entire city of Jerusalem, as defined by the Israeli government, is recognized by the US as the capital of Israel.
(2) If Israel wishes to later cede part of their capital as part of a final (!) peace agreement, this is their right.
(3) Effective immediately, the Counselate in Jerusalem is the Embassy of the United States to the State of Israel. The embassy in Tel Aviv is now a counselate.
(4) All departments of the United States, without exception, shall immediately revise all rules, regulations and guidelines to cease differentiating between Jerusalem and Israel.
(5) All American passports and similar documents that list place of birth or residence as “Jerusalem” shall have the word “Israel” added to them free of charge.
I want to see that paper now. I hope half of the foreign service resigns.
Romney’s speech was very nice, and came across as sincere and heartfelt. For someone laboring under the image of being plastic and ungenuine, this was really a nice contrast.
You can’t begin to imagine Obama uttering the words that Romney spoke. The 2 men live in different mental universes on the subject of Israel.
I can imagine Obama uttering absolutely _anything_ that he thinks will help him keep his private jet, paid vacations, groupies and fame.
“What was especially interesting was Romney’s list of five factors that brought together the United States and Israel: democracy, the rule of law, a belief in universal rights granted by our Creator (a reference to the Declaration of Independence and a subtle rebuke to Obama’s frequent omission of that divine attribution), free enterprise, and freedom of expression.”
Pity our own president Obama does not believe in most of these things. Obama’s many executive orders show that he doesn’t have much use for the Constitution or the rule of law, at least not when it stands in the way of his socialist agenda. A belief in universal rights granted by our Creator? Obama would laugh at you over that, stating that the only rights you have are the ones his government allows you to have. Free Enterprise? Are you kidding? You didn’t build that, remember? As for freedom of expression, only Obama and his minions want to silence us through the ill-named “Fairness Doctrine” and in his many attempts to regulate the Internet. No, this president has A LOT of problems with individual liberty and feels more at home with doctrines that come out of Havana rather than from our own Constitution.
Both Israel and America are in the fight for their lives right now. Israel has a very real problem with Syria falling apart, Iran about to get a nuclear weapon, and Egypt about to turn the clock back to 1948. We have a very real problem with the first president of the United States who has nothing but contempt for both our Constitution and the people who are devoted to it, such as the Tea Party members.
It’s time now for the people of Israel and America to stand and be counted. We either stand together, free men and women, or we fall divided, alone and in terrible shame. I KNOW that both the Israeli people and the American people will not let that happen. We’ve all worked too hard to get to where we are today to have it thrown away by some socialist who doesn’t know the meaning of the word freedom. No, this is an urgent appeal to get out there and vote this November. Get your friends to vote, get anybody who will listen to you to vote. We have one last chance to literally alter the course of human history. Let’s not lose it and have to wonder, four years from now, what happened to the countries we held so dear.
My impression from reading the transcript of the speech is that while doing his best to honor the ‘politics stop at the waters edge’ tradition (which The One would will never honor in his lifetime), Romney’s message was clear: “This is what’s wrong with Obama and this is what I’ll do differently”.
Mitt Romney is going to be a great President.
Spinoneone, “The proof will come on the morning the U.S. flag is raised over our new Embassy in Jerusalem.”
That would be nice!
And yet we know that U.S. Jews will vote for Obama 3-1.
Alan Dershowitz will sure be voting for him again:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3216/obama-buyers-remorse
But I don’t think Israel is an issue pertaining only to Jews. In a sense I’m even glad most American Jews don’t give a damn one way or the other. If Republicans support Israel despite not getting the Jewish vote it means Israel has value on its own, independent of electoral benefits to one party or the other.
Dershowitz is a great example of an intelligent, well-educated man who just cannot see reality, who cannot ”follow the evidence” so to speak, who deludes himself by ignoring all the evidence clearly before his eyes. C’mon, you’re Israeli, look at our leftists. They departed the real world many years ago, now living in some kind of alternate universe. Dershowitz, a life-long liberal, just cannot bring himself to believe that the Democratic Party is no longer a liberal party but a far-left party, with all that implies (including being anti-Israel to the point of anti-Semitic). So, he retreats into intellectual dishonesty …..
I agree Dershowitz is an interesting example of a very moral and intelligent Jew, who knows right from wrong, and proved it by standing against the lynching of George Zimmerman. Yet out of blind habit he still supports a dem party that is now completely antithetical to the human, and Jewish, values that Romney so elequently stated in Jerusalem.
As a fellow Etz Chaim graduate – Dershowitz was one of our better failures – and “old Boro Parker”, I will say that he is an interesting guy, kind of in the middle. Remember, he refuses to sign condemnations of Israel and wrote a highly influential book in its defense.
In spite of having eventually turned against his religion, one should remember that the only reason he got into practice (instead of staying purely in academics) was to defend some religious Jews who were very unpopular and certainly did not help his cachet with the “in crowd”.
One thing to be careful about if you hear him speak – he tends to play games, inflating his religious background and knowledge.
Romney is wasting his time in Israel as 75% + of American Jews will vote for Obama.
What Israeli think of American politics is irrelevant.
Romney already has Christian Evangelical vote.
Also Romneys attempts at fund-raising in Israel is a Big No No
We do not like foreign countries trying to influence our American election and their are specific Federal laws prohibiting it
Like FARA
Romney sounded Presidential.
And what are your feelings towards obama’s fundraising efforts (or his hollywood stooges) in Europe?
You ever consider the possibility that Romney said what he said, where he said it, because he beleives it, and it is right. I know after 4 yrs of Obama, where everything is weighed on the scale of politics, and any lie or pander that gets him a few votes is good, it is hard to beleive that any candidate will ever speak plain truth, because it is right. I am beginning to not just look at Romney as the lesser of 2 evils, but as a real man of principle.
1. Florida. Ohio. Especially Florida.
2. This may help keep a lot of evanfgelicals from staying home.
It won’t help him in Dearborn, and Michigan may be in play, so I think it took some courage.
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FARA–22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq – United States Code
Title 28 C.F.R. Part 5 – Judicial Administration
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The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was enacted in 1938.
FARA is a disclosure statute that requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities.
Disclosure of the required information facilitates evaluation by the government and the American people of the statements and activities of such persons in light of their function as foreign agents.
The FARA Registration Unit of the Counterespionage Section (CES) in the National Security Division (NSD) is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the Act.”
http://www.fara.gov/
Violation of FARA by domestic and/or foreign agents is a very serious matter.
Unlike Obama, Romney will obey the law.
Anyone can cite statutes. What facts can you present to indicate that a FARA violation has taken place? Romney giving a speech in Jerusalem? Give us a break.
We believe Romney is a law abiding smart candidate-and I hope he wins.
Our concern is that some agents from Israel are violating US election laws.
Rigorous enforcement of the Federal FARA act to Israeli agents, or agents of any other alien nation-China-Russia- etc— solves the problem.
FARA protects fundamental American interests from alien states influence-
FARA needs to be vigorously enforced-on all foreign nations and their agents- whether they have foreign citizenship-dual citizenship-or American citizenship-
-that is what the FARA Federal law states
So where the hell was FARA in 2008 and 2010 when Israeli money was pouring into Obama’s hope chest?
Very good point and a serious question.
The statues of limitations on Federal violations of FARA will be the issue-it should be investigated.
We needs to rigorously enforce FARA to prevent foreign contamination of our American Democracy by alien nations such as China, Israel, Russia, KSA– etc.
Any and all violations of FARA by such alien nations-and their domestic co-conspirators- should be prosecuted to the full extent of the Law-
Whether they are prior-current or future violations of FARA- Foreign Agents Registration Act
http://www.fara.gov/
More importantly, what about all the Arab money?
If Israel bought Obama Israel should demand a refund.
quit making up crap chicken little nothing is happening. is this how you get attention?
“Our concern is that some agents from Israel are violating US election laws”.
There are all sorts of “concern(s)”. Some people are concerned that Jewish bankers operating from the back room of a Brooklyn tailor shop control the FED. Others are concerned that aliens have colonized Antarctica. What evidence do you have that “agents from Israel are violating US election laws”?
Americans will cite the matter of-
Jonathan Jay Pollard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
as one example
Response to Victor – You wrote about a “concern is that some agents from Israel are violating US election laws” … I challenged you to provide some evidence of this … you responded by citing Pollard, who has no connection to election laws … so aside from Jewish conspiracy theories, what is your point?
MarcH, Victor’s point is that anti-Semitism is alive and well. Disgusting.
Where were you when Clinton was collecting huge $$$ from the PLA through his bundlers like Johnny Chung, Charlie Trie and the Riyadi gang? And why weren’t these statutes brought to bear on Dear Leader when he raked in donations from the Saudis, et. al. in 2008?
Do you think Barry isn’t pulling in cash from foreign interests this time around as well? At least Romney is above board with his fund raising and who he’s soliciting. I wonder why his opponent isn’t.
Obama openly had a phone bank manned by hamas and taking donations from the middle east……You were saying?
So often in history someone emerges that not only fits the desperate needs of the time, but fulfills those needs with unanticipated success. George Washington and Abe Lincoln come to mind as does Reagan. Least we forget, Obama has made an administrative nightmare of rules, regulations and executive orders that will be very difficult to sort through and correct. Further, the country faces a host of problems not the least of which are social security, medicare, the deficit, the tax law, Dodd-Frank and of course, Obamacare. It is going to take a person of remarkable executive ability to manage the process of sorting through this mess and solving not only the problems that Obama has created (and nurtured), but also the problems that Obama, in his cowardice has kicked down the road. The one characteristic that we know about Romney is that he has demonstrated excellent executive abilities. It won’t be flashy and it won’t be an endless cascade of soundbites and spin. But I am coming to the view that he may be just what the country needs at this particular juncture. We need to get behind him because the risks threatened by another four years of Obama are vastly more frightening than the risk that Romney will not be able to resolve the majority of these problems.
Disturber
To that short list of Republicans I would add Eisenhower. True, he played what was thought “small ball”, but after the war that was exactly what was needed. As to his skills, the fifties were a time of turbulence throughout the world. Yet, we look back on that time as quiet and somnambulant. A good leader for that time.
Note that every major problem you cite was intentionally put in place through democrat legislation.
I agree. After 4 yrs of Obama I am sick to death of soaring rhetoric, hope and change, charisma, likability, coolness, and other attributes that basically amount to media spin of an empty suit. I am perfectly content with competance, honesty, ability to spend money wisely, and a committment to free enterprise. As to whether Romney will be great, that can only be seen after he wins, but at least he will be competant. After obama that is an immense improvement.
I’m always surprised when people say that they think Romney is weak. He’s endured over a year of intense dislike from the media and even his own party and not only survived but is now the nominee and basically tied with Obama in the polls. He may not be the rabble rouser that the more angry want to see, but he’s a steel-fisted fighter. He’s disciplined and that achieves for more then rabble rousing.
Agreed. The more I learn about him, the more impressed I become.
His speech to the NAACP was gutsy.
Well said, Wendilynn.
Notice that Mr. Romney is focused on the problem: Winning the White House. His competitors during the primaries bloodied him some, hopefully making him stronger. But notice, now that he’s won, he doesn’t lash out at them or denigrate them. In fact, he’s a step away from making his peace with them and coalescing the party into a single powerful organization if he wants to. While he’s out there busily pointing out the many foibles and problems of Mr. Obama, I hope someone is working on knitting the Republican Party back together.
I agree. I had some reservations about Romney, but he is impressing me more and more as time goes on. He’s much tougher than he’s been given credit for, and I’m beginning to think (pray) he will be the right man for the job. I do not envy him. Cleaning up after Obama is going to be the modern equivalent of cleaning the Augean Stables.
I also begin to suspect a lot of the anti-Romney contingent is composed of liberal trolls paid to split our ranks. We cannot let them.
There is a difference in being an American and being a loyal American by serving ones country. There is a difference in simply being a Jew and being a loyal Jew by serving The Almighty. Loyal Americans and Jews loyal to G-d will all be voting Republican in the next Presidential election. There is no other choice.
We’re busted in a way that deadlock simply continues our collapse and one-way ratcheting into socialism and worse. So as important as electing Mr. R. is, it pales against the importance / challenge / near impossibility of delivering a 61 seat majority in the Senate (because we’ll always have at least one Jeffords that turns on the American people). The Senate is now job 1. L3′s decimation of incumbents is job 2. Job 3 is using these guaranteed short-term congressional majorities to severely deconstruct the federal government and its agencies – and tell the states and localities “sorry we spent it all for so little return, please do the best you can for yourselves and your neighbors, we will henceforth and for the next 100 years avoid telling you “we know better.”
Both the senate and romney are critical. I think the repubs will easily hold onto the house, but we will need both the senate and the presidency to undo the enormous damage obama has done.
No interest in hating you.
It’s just disappointing to realize that many people will think that clear affirmations to cleanse an infected US foreign policy are somehow unhealthy.
What is unhealthy is the symptom of a deep confusion put forward by the writer of such comments, shared by many I am sure, an indicator of a moral compass spinning out of control. A navigator’s nightmare.
Truth is NOT what you make it – truth reflects reality and we had better act coherently in our fractured society. If the vectors go in many different directions as has been the norm for the last several years, the sum total of the motion is zero, or a weak and random direction at best.
Time to act in one direction and get things done. The world cannot wait. And Romney nailed it.
Hey “Spindok” and the rest of you haters, malcontents etc. We will get Romney to the Church and 1600 on time and on budget. So Y-all pack it to Pittsburg, or where ever!
“6″
Very sharp contrast w/Prez Obama. Soon after O. took office he sent one of his Jewish White House officials to a suburban D.C. synagogue to explain the score: Obama would continue to help Israel militarily but do absolutely nothing to assist Israel politically – including reducing Jew- and Israel-hatred in the Muslim and Arab World.
Mr. Romney recognizes the inadequacy of such a policy. The response of the P.A. chief negotiator is:
“Romney’s declarations are harmful to American interests in our region, and they harm peace, security and stability…The US election campaign should never be at the expense of the Palestinians” (http://www.timesofisrael.com/chief-palestinian-negotiator-blasts-romney-over-pro-israel-speech-in-jerusalem/)
Let’s hope that Romney won’t meet the same untimely fate as a similarly brave presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy.
This is what it is about democrats that make them stupid and drives me crazy. The first act of terrorism on US soil by an arab was a pal named Sirhan Sirhan who killed Bobby Kennedy. Yet they refuse to acknowledge it.
Ah, Sirhan Sirhan. One of the hundred or so ‘political prisoners’ that Bill Ayers dedicated his book Prairie Fire (the “Political Statement of the Weather Underground”)
Poor Bill Ayers. His name is on the book. He’s denying it now because:
He hoped to be a Professor Emeritus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, but was unanimously voted down by the Board.
The Chairman of the Board of U.I.C. is Charles Kennedy, and he wasn’t impressed by Billy Ayers dedicating a book to his father Robert’s assassin.
Bill now simultaneously denies the dedication, and says it was stupid of to single Sirhan Sirhan out. Contradicts his own lie one sentence later.
Watch his lips moving on video: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/18/bill-ayers-thats-not-the-sirhan-sirhan-dedication-i-knew/
400 people, huh? Quite impressive. What was the attendance of the Obama speech in Berlin, 200,000?
Let’s see…….In Germany they gave out free food, free beer and had a free concert before the event. Yeah – I can see how they would come JUST to hear obama. NOT!
Well back in 2008 Obama was such a media hyped rock star that he could command huge crowds anywhere. But I would love to see him get a similar crowd today. Now Obama hold his campaign rallies in HS gyms because he can no longer fill anything larger. The Obama illusion is now punctured, to reveal the empty suit beneath.
Hey Barry – it seems Bibi just threw your impressive Romney under the bus. Romney has been touting how close he was to Bibi.
Romney said: “We can almost speak in shorthand,” Mr. Romney said in an interview. “We share common experiences and have a perspective and underpinning which is similar.” [...] “Before I made a statement of that nature, I’d get on the phone to my friend Bibi Netanyahu and say: ‘Would it help if I say this? What would you like me to do?’”
Then Bibi said this: ““I remember him for sure, but I don’t think we had any particular connections,” he tells me. “I knew him and he knew me, I suppose.”
So I guess Bibi just called Willard a liar eh?
Bibi might be covering his bets, because he knows how vindictive obama is to anybody that crosses him.
Don’t worry. They’ll be on much better terms next time Bibi visits the White House and is allowed to use the front door.
once you’ve had your picture taken with the old city lit up as the sun goes down, that image makes Romney, hard to get emotional about, emotionally connected for me. But, really…. beyond the photo op,
I don’t love the guy, but i think he does get it more than Obama ever will, and that is the bottom line for me.
Yes, there are ppl who hate us, starting with the IOC and BBC and move on from there, and all the kissing and bowing and PCing and negogiating will never change that, and anyone who can’t acknowledge that as #1 fact of the area is dangerous.
but it looks like we actually have an American candidate who’s on America’s side, our side, for a change.
but I think you got something there. In fact, you’re right! A guy on our side for a change . . . yeah!
Maybe so! Well, whaddya know . . .?
Victor hit it on the head. If Romney gets elected it will be because Americans are out of work, desperate about the economy. It will have nothing to do with Israel. Jews don’t vote Republican. You are in la la if u believe that. Only the richest of the richest of jews may vote for Romney to save on their taxes cause Everyone knows, like Romney, they pay 14 percent instead of 40 percent of their income like the rest of us pay.
Most americans would also like what you Israelis have, national health. Romny is against that. These are our concerns.even if u are a Jew.
Didn’t Obama just sign a bill to give Israel 70 bllion dollars? How is that treating u like shit?
Israelis, American jews will not vote for Romney. We are liberals.
And I hate God being used and rammed down my throat. This is a country of diversity and freedom and that means freedom to be an atheiest. By the way, Mormons make it their lifelong work to convert people. I was told by a Mormon I was the devil because I was a jew. Romney is saying what he thinks u want to hear. He is a robot.
Having spent nearly my entire life among Mormons, and knowing their doctrine far better than most of them, I find your assertion of being called a devil due to your being a Jew EXTREMELY hard to believe.
One of the more ‘out there’ fundamental, bedrock beliefs of the Mormons is that they are all either descendants of, or adopted into, the 10 lost tribes of Israel (mostly the Tribe of Ephriam). The Mormons literally see Jews as long lost relatives. Their ‘Patriarichal Blessings’ are a written private, individual ‘inspired speaking’ specifically for the individual, and every last one of them explicitly states which tribe of Israel the individual is descended from (or adopted into).
There isn’t one tiny speck of Jew hatred in the Mormon teachings.
Your claim doesn’t pass the rudimentary sniff test.
I call shennanigans on you.
BHO has only negative records about the economy, and that’s the main reason why the US voters will swing towards Romney.Concerning Israel ;american jews are the dummiest people , and they still don’ t see the deep hostility BHO holds against Israel.In case ( G.d forbids ) BHO is elected for a second term, he will give a green light for Iran to get the nukes and use them at first occasion on Israel, then he will come with his crocodile tears to soothe the devastated jews.How deep is the stupidity of american jews is still unexplainable to me.
The geopolital analysis that impressed me most of Senor and Singer’s work Start-Up Nation is the arguement that Israel is not just a country, but a comprehensive state of mind. There are lessons and clues in Israel for America.
Chutzpah’s good for you.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 Romney Intends to Steal the Nomination with Fake Delegates
http://www.libertarian-examiner.com/2012/07/romney-intends-to-steal-nomination-with.html
At first I was ambivalent about Mitt Romney, but he’s now hitting his stride and gaining confidence, being himself. He’s saying all the right things: support of Israel, the threat that Iran poses and, now, about Russia’s tactics, reminiscent of the Cold War. He’s speaking in a clear way; who really cares if the “appeasers,” The Leftist haters of western liberal democracy, and their fellow travellers of the mainstream media don’t get it. Most are too ignorant or world history, politics and western literature to understand. (Or perhaps they do and are worried.) I sense that Mitt Romney has the making of a great president. I know it sounds odd, but he truly does. BTW, Romney has been endorsed by Lech Walesa of Poland, who does understand what’s at stake.
Thats great infograph about Facebook. Loved this. Congrats Zuk.