Does Coulter hurt GOP?
- Author: Ami Eden
- Filed under: Hate
Oct 15,2007
The response of the National Jewish Democratic Council to the latest Ann Coulter controversy is a campaign calling on news networks to stop inviting her on their shows.
The NJDC may want to rethink that strategy, judging from this article by Richard Baehr, political director of American Thinker and a leader of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
His basic point: Her TV rants may help sell books, but hurt the conservative cause at the same time. …
In my opinion, Coulter has never been a big help to the effort to build a conservative and Republican majority. Her most recent comments on the relationship of Christianity to Judaism, made on the CNBC show “The Big Idea” with Donnie Deutsch on Monday of this week, may prove particularly damaging.
I say this in part based on the number of emails I have received today from Jews, many of whom I have been working with for years to consider switching to the GOP, given President Bush’s very strong record of support for Israel, and the much stronger commitment to national security on the GOP side of the aisle. …
At a time when party affiliation is fraying and a third of Americans consider themselves independent, to build a majority of 50% plus one requires persuasion. Independents will not accept all parts of either party’s platform or approach but will choose a candidate for office based on which issues matter to them, and whether one or the other party connects with them on those issues. It is a skill to disagree at times without being disagreeable. Ronald Reagan had it, and it is one of the reasons he became so popular and patched together a large winning coalition. Coulter has decided there is no economic advantage for her in this approach.
It is clear that not only Jews may be repelled by Coulter’s most recent comments. …
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One Response for "Does Coulter hurt GOP?"
The National “Jewish” “Democratic” Council (double oxymoron, there is very little Jewish or mainstream Democratic about it) might be regarded as the Ann Coulter of the Democratic Party, only even more strident and far less honest.
NJDC is itself an anti-Christian organization, as shown by its “Bubbie versus the GOP” video. This video portrays Christian ministers, Jesus, and the Cross in a “This is the Enemy” context. Its use of the Cross in the blue field of the flag to imply that Christians are taking over America is exactly the same context in which anti-Semites place the Star of David. It also includes a cabal of red-robed Republicans behind a lectern with a cross on it. Obviously, the image of a red-robed cabal behind a Star of David would be anti-Semitic (”Zionist occupied government”), so NJDC’s portrayal of the Cross in this context is anti-Christian.
NJDC has also whitewashed genuine anti-Semitic hate speech from MoveOn.org’s disgraced Action Forum. This is what brought it to my attention in the first place. Ira Forman signed his name to this whitewash, and he stood by it even when NJDC was presented with proof that MoveOn.org exercised editorial control in favor of the anti-Semitic (and anti-Catholic) hate speech.
NJDC also condemned Mitt Romney for appearing at the museum of a long-dead EX-antisemite (Henry Ford, who apologized for and repudiated “The International Jew”) while giving Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama a pass for endorsing and posing arm in arm with a live and unrepentant one: Al Sharpton. (Google on “Freddy’s Fashion Mart” or “Crown Heights” along with Sharpton.)
Maybe someone has the right to criticize Ann Coulter for ill considered remarks, but NJDC lacks the moral standing to criticize anybody for anything until it gets its own house in order. Republicans ought to be able to use NJDC’s actions to win over ten voters for every voter Ann Coulter might alienate from the party. In fact, it should focus on NJDC’s condemnation of Romney as shown above, and use NJDC’s own logic to show why neither Clinton nor Obama is fit for any public office.
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