Consider it another crack in the wall. In this case, the Wailing Wall.
Democrat Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City, is so pissed at President Obama’s anti-Israel policy that he’s endorsing the Republican in the race to replace Anthony Weiner in Congress.
The New York Post has the details:
Koch — a staunch ally of Israel — said he would “vote for Bob Turner” if the Republican-Conservative candidate backs Israel and opposes cutbacks to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
“If Jewish New Yorkers and others who support Israel were to turn away from the Democratic Party in that congressional election and elect the Republican candidate to Congress in 2011, it might very well cause President Obama to change his hostile position on the state of Israel and to re-establish the special relationship presidents before him had supported,” Koch said in his weekly commentary.
Koch likened the situation to Republican Scott Brown winning the Massachusetts Senate seat long occupied by Ted Kennedy.
“I want to put a shot across Obama’s bow,” Koch said in an interview.
He is furious with Obama over the president’s public push to get Israel to use its 1967 borders as a starting point for negotiations over a Palestinian state.
Ed Koch endorses a Republican. Oy veh. In one fell swoop Obama is losing both the Jewish vote and the closeted gay vote.
Source: New York Post
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SAD DAY IN THE USA...Thanks to Ed Koch...A republican Congressional candidate defeated the democratic candidate in a 3 to 1 democratic district in NY. A sign that the NEOCONS will blow the dems away in next years election. Then it's the soup line for all of us middle and low class americans. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME ON ALL OF US! Time to run Ed Koch and his croanies out of the USA.
Translation: If Obama wins in 2012 transformer 4 won't come out.
"Koch — a staunch ally of Israel — said he would “vote for Bob Turner” if the Republican-Conservative candidate backs Israel and opposes cutbacks to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security."
I don't think any conservative, even in NYC, would sign on to opposing cutbacks in entitlements. So probably what Koch will do is go to whatever candidate the Weiner Party puts up and beg "Please, please, please say something nice about Israel so I can endorse you without looking stupid" and they will and that will be it. Politicians' "principles" are about as ephemeral as a fart, and stink just as much. Think Bart Stupak, the staunch anti-abortion "blue dog" Weiner. Blue dog shit is more like it.
I'm always amazed how people get this backward. Israel has had a working nuclear reactor since 1964. Can you imagine for a moment the carnage if we don't stand by them and protect them? Can anyone serious think the middle east won't be a glowing radiated disaster if the Israeli's think they are going to be over run by the Arabs. If only the Arabs understood what awaits them if the do attack.
Hey Ed, if you believe Obama's policies are anti-Israel now all the stops will be out if he's re-elected in 2012. Right now, he needs the Jewish vote so he'll downplay his animosity. But the ideological offspring of Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers will throw Israel to the wolves in 2013.
You (and Hisham) are dead-nuts right on. This is why it is so important, that even if the clowns in the Republican lead House allow the Jerk-off-in-chief to raise taxes, we must stay solid, and get him the hell out of office. Pragmatism over Pride guys. obomie has to be 100% gone. How the hell Nevada re-elected Scary Harry is beyond me. Skanky Pelosi, well, you expected San Francisco to do something truly stupid. Somebody ought to Crazy-glue her nose to a toilet seat somewhere...
Amen, EH!
Why are so many Jews commucrats anyway, don't they know they were sold out decades ago?
Force of habit, like going to the welfare office when you get pregnant or turn 18, because that's what your mom did.
It seems that Mayor Koch has realized exactly what barry is doing to Israel. He should have known all along. All he had to do was listen to the speeches and pay close attention to who barry's friends are. It's not that difficult if you are willing to take the blinders off and look behind the curtain.
Hey Ed. Welcome to the party pal.
As they say, Politics Makes for Strange Bed Fellows. (Pun very much intended).