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
