The warnings made to Jewish donors and Jewish voters from the center-right about electing The One fell on deaf ears in 2008.
Comedians like Sarah Silverman made a mini career of trying to get grandma and grandpa to back The One, and the media hyped it to the moon (just like the obedient little lap dogs the Lame Stream Media are) and it worked.
In fact, some senior Jewish staff and Jewish Dem Senators feel that supporting Israel is not important and that the existence of Israel in and of itself is a political problem they could do without.
Really, they think that and they use it to justify backing The One because their liberal ideology has a stronger pull than supporting Israel.
Which brings us to the center-right, who are starting to believe that if the Jewish voters keep backing Obama and funding him, while he undermines Israel, why exactly should the center-right be more pro-Israel than the Jewish voters — especially since they are enabling The One to inflict such harm on the U.S., the global economy, on freedom and on Israel?
So, this is really simple — continued support for The One by Jewish voters will drain the will to help Israel from the center-right, because even now, pro-Obama Jewish voters have noticed what supporters of Israel, who do not support The One, have known since 2008. The One is making things worse for Israel.
Who knows if the Jewish community is even aware of this fact, since they are mostly liberals.
The anti-Israeli stand by The One has some of The One’s fundraisers merely thinking of sitting on their hands, and this is cause for news from Politico, found at http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=CCC173C6-27F6-4CEA-B94F-B0DB75F91846
“David Ainsman really began to get worried about President Barack Obama’s standing with his fellow Jewish Democrats when a recent dinner with his wife and two other couples — all Obama voters in 2008 — nearly turned into a screaming match. Ainsman, a prominent Democratic lawyer and Pittsburgh Jewish community leader, was trying to explain that Obama had just been offering Israel a bit of “tough love” in his May 19 speech on the Arab Spring. His friends disagreed — to say the least.”
“If several dozen interviews with POLITICO are any indication, a similar conversation is taking place in Jewish communities across the country. Obama’s speech last month seems to have crystallized the doubts many pro-Israel Democrats had about Obama in 2008 in a way that could, on the margins, cost the president votes and money in 2012 and will not be easy to repair.”
Gee, what a surprise. Maybe the Jewish political elite don’t want to take advice from Sara Silverman anymore.
Maybe, but I doubt it.