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Title: 'Jewish' Bachmann is costing Romney
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NY Post
URL Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nation ... UhlZ5tYI?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=
Published: Aug 30, 2011
Author: Josh Margolin
Post Date: 2011-08-30 14:54:51 by TooConservative
Keywords: None
Views: 267
Comments: 8
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing a new challenge: He's having trouble raising money from some Jewish donors who mistakenly believe one of his opponents, Michele Bachmann, is Jewish. Some Jewish donors are telling fund-raisers for Romney, a Mormon, that while they like him, they'd rather open their wallets for the "Jewish candidate," who they don't realize is actually a Lutheran, The Post has learned. "It's a real problem," one Romney fund-raiser said. "We're working very hard in the Jewish community because of Obama's Israel problem. This was surprising." Like other Republicans, Romney is trying to capitalize on President Obama's waning support among Jewish voters, who are upset with his administration's policies toward Israel. Romney moved to quickly position himself as an alternative to Obama among well-heeled Jewish contributors in places like New York, New Jersey, Florida and California -- a group Obama locked down in 2008. Romney has been pushing the message that he is a common-sense, business-minded candidate who is a strong supporter of Israel. The message was among the reasons he was atop the polls until last week, when Texas Gov. Rick Perry bested him in the latest surveys. Now, with this latest hiccup among Jewish donors, some in Romney's camp have been wondering whether Bachmann and her allies are pushing the "Jewish" rumor to help their own fund-raising, sources said. She has enjoyed strong popularity among Jewish voters and often talks about her stay on a kibbutz during the summer of 1974, when she was a teenager. In a speech to the American Israel Political Action Committee last year, Bachmann recalled being guarded by soldiers while working on the kibbutz. "While we were working, the soldiers were walking around looking for land mines," she said. "I really learned a lot in Israel." She went on to say, "I am a Christian, but I consider my heritage Jewish, because it is the foundation, the roots of my faith as a Christian." Bachmann also told an AIPAC gathering earlier this year that she and her family make sure each year to attend at least one Jewish-theme play or movie. Bachmann spent yesterday campaigning in Miami, part of a four-day swing through Florida. The Romney campaign had no official comment on the issue. Bachmann spokesman Doug Sachtleben said he hadn't heard anything about chatter that Bachmann could be Jewish. He said only that his candidate is doing well in that community because of "her strong support of the nation of Israel," not because some think she's Jewish. 'Jewish' Bachmann is costing Romney
Funny, she doesn't look Jewish.
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#1. To: TooConservative (#0)
Geez, I thought Jews would be giving money to Ron Paul.
This one is JEEEEWWWWWYYYYY ! Who can out-jew-who.....LOL
Michele, the Tricky Shiksa. I enjoyed how they suggest her staff is pretending she's Jewish. But they let Hillary! get away with it.
Wow, they're so hard to find, you really gotta go out of your way to do that!
Anti-racist Libertarians are just Marxists who don't want to wait for the state to wither away.
At that level, they get away with massive amounts of shit. At that level there are convenient suicides, accidents and bodies disposed of at remote locations. I don't take Bachmann seriously because she doesn't seem to have near enough skeletons in her closet to be considered presidential timber.
Besides working for the irs, no, she doesn't, but she has the knee-pads. email from friend alerted me that (jew) Kinky Friedman is supporting pointy-boots. Of course, he also wrote that he'd support Charlie Sheen over buckwheat.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson Now, that's kinky!
;-)
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson
#2. To: TooConservative (#0)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#3. To: Rotara (#2)
#4. To: TooConservative (#0)
this year that she and her family make sure each year to attend at least one Jewish-theme play or movie.
#5. To: TooConservative (#3)
(Edited)
But they let Hillary! get away with it.
#6. To: randge (#5)
#7. To: Lod (#6)
Friedman is supporting pointy-boots
#8. To: randge (#7)
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